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Actors on ''Roots''
This dramatic miniseries aired in January 1977 and September 1978. It was based on Alex Haley's enormously popular story of his family's history.
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Orenthal James ''O.J.'' Simpson
American football player and actor. His trial and acquittal on a double murder charge, and subsequent civil trial in which he was found liable for those murders, captured the world's attention in the mid-1990s.
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Doug McClure (born 1938, died 1995)
American actor.
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(Edward) Macdonald Carey (born 1914)
American actor.
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Gary Collins (born 1938)
American actor.
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Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936)
American actor and producer.
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Lloyd Bridges (born 1913, died 1998)
American actor.
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Ben Vereen (born 1946)
American actor and entertainer.
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Burl Ives (born 1909, died 1995)
American actor and singer.
- Portrayed Sen. Arthur Johnson
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LeVar Burton (born 1957)
American actor.
- Portrayed Kunta Kinte as a youth
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John Amos (born 1939)
American actor.
- Portrayed Toby/Kunta Kinte as an adult
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Edward Asner (born 1929)
American actor.
- Portrayed Capt. Thomas Davies
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Todd Bridges (born 1965)
American actor.
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George Stanford Brown (born 1943)
Cuban-American actor and director.
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Ji-Tu Cumbuka
American actor.
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Charles Cyphers
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Thayer David (born 1927, died 1978)
American actor.
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Brad Davis (born 1949, died 1991)
American actor.
- Portrayed Ol'' George Johnson
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Moses Gunn (born 1929)
American actor.
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George Hamilton (born 1939)
American actor.
- Portrayed Stephen Bennett
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Richard McKenzie
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Ian McShane (born 1942)
English actor and director.
- Portrayed Sir Eric Russell
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Vic Morrow (born 1932, died 1982)
American actor and director.
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John Quade
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Thalmus Rasulala (born 1939, died 1991)
American actor.
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Robert Reed (born 1932, died 1992)
American actor.
- Portrayed William Reynolds
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Richard Roundtree (born 1937)
American actor.
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John Schuck (born 1940)
American actor.
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Raymond St. Jacques (born 1930, died 1990)
American actor and director.
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Austin Stoker
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Wally Taylor
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Ralph Waite (born 1929)
American actor and director.
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Lorne Greene (born 1915, died 1987)
Canadian actor.
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Lawrence Hilton Jacobs (born 1953)
American actor and director.
Actors on ''Roots''
This dramatic miniseries aired in January 1977 and September 1978. It was based on Alex Haley's enormously popular story of his family's history.
