Louis Gossett Jr., who was the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the 1982 romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman, has died. He was 87. The actor died Thursday night ...

Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Emmy for his role in the groundbreaking TV miniseries Roots and an Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman, died Thursday night in Santa Monica. He was 87. His death was ...

The Oscar-winning ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ actor died March 29 Taylor Hill/Getty Louis Gossett Jr.’s cause of death has been revealed. The Oscar-winning An Officer and a Gentleman star died at age ...

"I put the basketball down, and the rest is history," Gossett, who died Thursday at age 87, told PEOPLE in January of his pivot to acting in the 1950s “They said the part comes with a $700 per diem, ...

Louis Gossett Jr. was the first Black man to win a Supporting Actor Oscar. Louis Gossett Jr., the esteemed actor who was the first Black man to win a Supporting Actor Oscar whose career spanned over ...

*The cause of Louis Gossett Jr.’s passing has been disclosed. The Hollywood icon, who passed away at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, Calif., on March 29, succumbed to chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Louis Gossett Jr., who became the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and also won an Emmy for his role in the TV miniseries “Roots,” died early Friday morning The sad news was confirmed ...

The world is mourning the loss of a legendary actor whose talent and charisma graced both the big and small screens for decades. Louis Gossett Jr., an icon of stage and screen, died March 29 at the ...

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries "Roots," has died. He was 87. Gossett's nephew told The Associated ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Louis Gossett Jr, best known for his Oscar-winning role as the tough drill instructor in "An Officer and a Gentleman," said on Tuesday he was fighting prostate cancer.

The Oscar-winning actor died at the age of 87 on Mar. 29 in Santa Monica, California due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, known as COPD, according to multiple media reports. His death ...