All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
I like doing business in a black city.
I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
Yaphet wrote, directed, and acted in Speed Limit 65 (1972), in which he played a motorcycle cop.
Yaphet is 6 feet 6 inches tall.
Yaphet was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special in 1977 for his portrayal of General Idi Amin Dada in Raid on Entebbe.
Yaphet's most famous science-fiction role was in Alien (1979) as Parker.
Yaphet portrayed President Idi Amin Dada in the 1977 teleivsion movie Raid On Entebbe.
Yaphet moved from Littleton, Colorado to Canada in 1997, feeling that it would be safer to raise his children there. 2 years later, he saw news coverage of the Columbine High School massacre and recognized some of the children fleeing the school.
Yaphet has written two books: "Royalty" (1997), and "The Second Coming of Christ" (1999).
Yaphet has a San Fransisco Bay area punk band named after him.
Yaphet's son, Steve, is a police officer in San Jose, CA.
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