ABOUT RICHARD ROUNDTREE
Blaxploitation actor who played John Shaft in the original Shaft film. He also starred in its sequels, Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa. He also played a role in the film Haunting of the Mary Celeste released in 2020.
He played for a nationally ranked and undefeated championship football team in high school.
He is a former model and played a role in the 2008 film Speed Racer . He was was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993.
After divorcing his first wife, he married Karen Roundtree in 1980.
He was in Brick with Joseph Gordon Levitt .
