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‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots’ star Louis Gossett Jr. dead at 87

 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.

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