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Austin Stoker

Austin Stoker

Known For Acting
Birthday Oct 07, 1943
Died Oct 07, 2022 (79)
Birthplace Trinidad, West Indies
Popularity 0.7 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2024
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Pr ... ecinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots. Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Stoker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Filmography

3 from Hell

3 from Hell

2019

as Newscaster Gibson

Shhhh

Shhhh

2014

as Dave

Machete Joe

Machete Joe

2010

as Raymond Sinclair

Mach 2

Mach 2

2001

as Edwards

Two Shades of Blue

Two Shades of Blue

1999

as Security Guard

Uninvited

Uninvited

1988

as Carribean Officer

Time Walker

Time Walker

1982

as Dr. Ken Melrose

Terror Among Us

Terror Among Us

1981

as D.A. Rick Clayburn

Assault on Precinct 13

Assault on Precinct 13

1976

as Ethan Bishop

Riding with Death

Riding with Death

1976

as Dive Officer

Victory at Entebbe

Victory at Entebbe

1976

as Dr. Ghota

Sheba, Baby

Sheba, Baby

1975

as Brick Williams

The Zebra Killer

The Zebra Killer

1974

as Lt. Frank Savage

Abby

Abby

1974

as Det. Cass Potter

Airport 1975

Airport 1975

1974

as Air Force Sergeant

Horror High

Horror High

1973

as Lieutenant Bozeman

The Aquarians

The Aquarians

1970

as Bogan

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Return to the Planet of the Apes

as Jeff Allen (voice)

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Sep 06, 1975

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Captain

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 18, 1974

Falcon Crest

as Bailiff

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Dec 04, 1981

The Wild Thornberrys

as Poacher #2 (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 01, 1998

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Charles Quinten

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 18, 1974

Monty Nash

as Cole Walker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1971

Airwolf

as Investigator

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 22, 1984

Kojak

as Det. Douglas

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 24, 1973

The Incredible Hulk

as Rev. Jack Williams

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 04, 1977

Love, American Style

as Henry

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1969

S.W.A.T.

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 24, 1975

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