YaphetKotto is best remembered for for his performance in the 1973 James Bond entry LIVE AND LET DIE.
YaphetKotto is a regular on TV's HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS playing the role of Lt. Al Giardello and being Kotto was a writer for the series, he also played the same character in the TV movie HOMICIDE: THE MOVIE in 2000.
Kotto also wrote a 1997 episode of Homicide, where an armed suspect took refuge in a house that was headquarters for the African Revival Movement.
Kotto had more success as Lt Al Giardello, the gruff, pasta-loving commanding officer in the long-running Homicide: Life on the Street with Richard Belzer and Andre Braugher.
For his autobiography, Royalty, Kotto researched his ancestry and determined that he is a Crown Prince of the family that ruled Cameroon's Douala region in the late 19th century.
African American actorYaphetKotto was one of the most prominent beneficiaries of the upsurge in fl-oriented theatrical pieces of the late 1950s; he appeared in many prestigious Broadway and
Kotto's first film was Nothing But a Man (1964), an independently produced study of fl pride in the face of white indifference.
On television, YaphetKotto was a regular on the TV series For Love and Honor (1983) and Homicide: Life on the Streets (1992), and was seen as Ugandan president Idi Amin in the 1977 TV movie Raid on Entebbe.
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YaphetKotto contributes "Critical Response," which has a very dark and thickly textured sound with an emphasis on the guitars.
This is why I love YaphetKotto so much, for their ability to go from all-out rock and screaming to quieter and more contemplative.
YaphetKotto have renewed my faith in them, continuing to play some powerful and amazingly thick and talented hardcore with moments of slower and more melodic beauty.
Yaphet was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special in 1977
Yaphet was nominated for the Image Award 4 years in a row for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Homicide: Life on the Street, from 1996-1999.
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Kotto earned an Emmy Award nomination for his superb performance as Idi Amin in the TV docudrama "Raid on Entebbe" (NBC, 1977) and has appeared in numerous other TV-movies, including "Badge of the Assassin" (CBS, 1985), "Desperado" (NBC, 1987) and "Prime Target" (1989).
Kotto made his feature directorial debut with "The Limit" (1972), also producing and starring in the film written from his story.
According to Kotto, the queen's son Prince Albert Edward VII had an illicit affair with Princess Nakande, daughter of King Doualla Manga Bell, producing the light-skinned Alexander Bell, Kotto'sgreat-grandfather, but the deputy press secretary to Queen Elizabeth categorically refuted the story claiming, ".
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YaphetKotto is now based in San Francisco, California.
For seven years YaphetKotto has been unleashing a torrent of melodic power fashioned from a dual guitar attack, hammering drumming, and a passionate duel vocal approach.
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YaphetKotto was born in early 1997 following the demise of band called Staple that Mag and I were playing in at the time.
All the songs were later rerecorded for our first LP, but it would be nice to put them on a CD one day.
After the hearing those four songs, Kent expressed interest in releasing the YaphetKotto LP and we immediately began to work on it.
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More than 30 years ago, YaphetKotto worked in the kitchen of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
Kotto was honored by the South Bronx's St. Augustine School for the Arts at a fund-raising luncheon at the Waldorf's Starlight Roof.
Kotto recalled the days when he earned about $65 a week at the elegant hotel and was sometimes allowed to take food home.
Starring Robert Redford, YaphetKotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Val Avery, M Emmet Walsh.
Starring Gary Busey, YaphetKotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen, William Smith, Kimberlin Brown, Denise Galik-Furey.
Tim's cousin shoots an exchange student and the partnership is in jeopardy; Lewis hires his grandmother as the cook at the bar.
"Two of the best bands you probably haven't listened to yet - Council Records' YaphetKotto and Calvary - are set to tour early in 2003 and I'm sure if you click read more you can see the dates and all that lovely info.
Their singer is huge and they dance more than Thursday and really doesn't sound like them.
not to nitpick but yaphet are on ebullition the best hardcore label you've never heard of.
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But what makes YaphetKotto best is their breakdowns and their incorporation of melodic moments.
Their songs slip into quieter, moody interludes of guitar and bass and occasional vocal samples, before exploding again into sound that's all the more intense after the quiet.
The best sort of old-school emo sound comes in on the moody "The Weight of Remorse," with great spoken word vocals over bass-intensive rock, and after another fast part, it breaks down again, proving this one of the most intense and stellar songs the band has recorded.
Charismatic African-American performer with stage experience, in both supporting and occasional lead roles.
Best known in feature films for "Live and Let Die" (1973) and "Alien" (1979), Kotto was later part of the sterling ensemble of the acclaimed crime drama series "Homicide: Life on the Streets" (1993-99).
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