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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Yaphet Kotto</title>
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		<title>Cult Actors #4: Yaphet Kotto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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When Yaphet Kotto walks onscreen you take notice. His broad 6’6” figure towers over his fellow actors and he delivers lines with vocal cords that sound like they’ve been massaged with sandpaper. In films like Alien (1979), Blue Collar (1978) and Across 110th Street (1972) he dominates the frame and gives the impression of an immovable man mountain impossible to scale. But there is more to him that just his imposing physicality. Kotto has a presence that is regal, graceful and ferociously dignified. He is after all, the descendant of kings.

His father, Njoki Manga Bell, was a Cameroonian Crown Prince who immigrated to New York in the 1920s. It was in this city that Kotto was born and that mix of street kid and son of a prince would inform his movie personality in the years to come. He is happy as both a regular Joe (like his role as the disgruntled worker in Blue Collar) or as a powerful blue-blooded leader (he has played Othello more than once). Growing up in New York City was tough. If being black wasn’t enough of a reason for people to discriminate against him, Kotto was, and is, a practising Jew. It was ...]]></description>
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