Happy Birthday: Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto

Born: November 15, 1939 in New York City, New York, USA

(On filming Midnight Run) That was another difficult shoot. DeNiro is very spontaneous and it always helps to work with an artist like that. But Marty Brest! He shot so many takes of the scenes that I lost all joy in doing the film. It became hard and tedious work. Then he stopped eating during the shoot and became thinner and thinner each day, until he looked like a ghost behind the camera. When I met Marty at the Universal Studios with DeNiro, he looked healthy and strong, but as filming went on, he began to turn into someone you’d see in Dachau (Concentration Camp). It was weird. I got sick and for the whole of the film I had a fever and was under the weather for most of it. I was shocked when it came off so funny. It sure wasn’t funny making it.

Live and Let Die 1973 dir. Guy Hamilton Starring Roger Moore Kotto

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 6 1991 dir. Rachel Talalay Starring Robert Englund Yaphet Kotto

Alien 1979 dir. Ridley Scott starring Tom Skerritt Sigourney Weaver

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 1998 dir. Norman Jewison Starring Steve McQueen Faye Dunaway

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