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Adolph Caesar

Adolph Caesar
Adolph Caesar
Born: 1934 in New York City, New York
Died: Mar 06, 1986 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '70s-'80s
Major Genres: Adventure, Drama
Career Highlights: A Soldier's Story, Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, Getting Even: A Wimp's Revenge
First Major Screen Credit: Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1977)
4 Videos for Adolph Caesar
Club Paradise (1986) The Color Purple (1985) A Soldier's Story (1984)
Fortune Dane (1986)
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Biography:

Dynamic African American actor Adolph Caesar studied drama at NYU after a hitch in the navy. He worked as an announcer on ethnically oriented radio stations, then joined the Negro Ensemble Company, the first of many specialized repertory groups to be graced by his talents. In between his stage and TV assignments, Caesar made a good living as a commercial spokesman and cartoon voice-over artist.

Though in films since 1969's Che, Caesar did not achieve movie prominence until he repeated his blistering stage performance as a vicious, self-hating Army sergeant in A Soldier's Story (1985), a role which won him an Oscar nomination. Adolph Caesar died of a heart attack suffered on the set of the Kirk Douglas-Burt Lancaster vehicle Tough Guys (1986).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.