Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Actor Richard Roundtree, who played the cool New York private detective John Shaft in the iconic "Shaft" movie franchise, has died ...

“Shaft,” starring Richard Roundtree, created a template for Black action protagonists onscreen. By Elena Bergeron As unthinkable as it now seems, the role of John Shaft, paragon of movie star Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samuel L. Jackson took over the Shaft movie franchise in 2000 from its original lead Richard Roundtree. In the sequel to the 1971 ...

Actor Richard Roundtree, best remembered for playing detective John Shaft, has died. Roundtree was 81 and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. Co-stars and those influenced by him have paid ...

It is so all there, in the first two minutes. Manhattan, 1971. Noise. Grime. The mean streets two years before Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets.” Isaac Hayes’ “Theme from Shaft” — still the ...

A Film Forum series pays tribute to the 1970s genre that birthed “Superfly” and “Foxy Brown,” but also features lesser-known films that show the genre’s range. By Robert Daniels John Shaft emerges ...

An unofficial count of the audience at a “Shaft” press preview found 14 white people in the (full) theater, all of whom were in rows reserved for press. In fact, most of the people in the press rows ...

A behind the scenes look at the filming of the movie Shaft (1971). The movie's director, Gordon Parks is seen directing a couple of fight scenes which he wants to get in as few takes as possible due ...

The Shaft franchise is to be rebooted by New Line Cinema. The studio has acquired the rights to the detective series and brought producer John Davis on board, TheWrap reports. Shaft began as a novel, ...

Richard Roundtree had a long and storied career, with over 150 credits and dozens of characters. But sometimes an actor needs but one role to make history. Roundtree had John Shaft. He played the ...

Richard Roundtree, who broke ground with his signature role in the Shaft movie franchise, died October 24 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer with his family at his bedside. He was 81.