Louis Gossett Jr.
1936 - 2024Louis Gossett Jr. was married three times. His first marriage to Hattie Glascoe (1967–1968) was annulled. In his second marriage (1973–1975) to Christina Mangosing, they had a son named Satie. In his third marriage (1987–1992) to Cyndi James-Reese, the couple adopted a boy named Sharron.
He is the cousin of actor Robert Gossett (born 1954).
Louis Gossett Jr. passed away in a rehabilitation center in Santa Monica, California, on March 29, 2024, at the age of 87.
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Tracy Heather Strain
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
A Raisin in the Sun
Daniel Petrie
Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
A Raisin in the Sun
Freeman
Lloyd Richards
Chip Fields, Louis Gossett Jr.
This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who is not understood by those closest to him and who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes.
Freeman
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules
Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing
Bud Greenspan
Bert Sugar, Sugar Ray Robinson
This comprehensive HBO presentation documents the history of heavyweight boxing through the 20th century, beginning with Jess Willard's victory over Jack Johnson in the early 1900s and running through the reign of the controversial Mike Tyson.
Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Chuck Workman
Peter Coyote, Robert Altman
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
A Love Story of Today
Greg Carson
Martin Baum, Louis Gossett Jr.
A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, featuring interview from people like Katharine Houghton, Martin Baum, Louis Gossett, Jr., Norman Jewison, Garry Marshall, Karen Sharpe and Salome Thomas-El.
A Love Story of Today
The Black List: Volume One
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Colin Powell, Toni Morrison
As a new chapter begins in this country, THE BLACK LIST offers a dynamic and never-before-heard perspective from achievers of color. This series of inspired - and inspiring - observations on African-American life in the 21st century forms a roll call of some of the most compelling politicians, writers, thinkers and performers ever to tackle their fields of endeavor. Watch the interview-portraits and get a sharper snapshot of where this country has been and where it's headed.
The Black List: Volume One
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Bruce Pittman
Louis Gossett Jr., Kate Nelligan
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Hal
Amy Scott
Hal Ashby, Jane Fonda
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
Hal
