{"id":48450,"date":"2023-10-25T02:07:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-family-reunion-star-dies-at-81\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T02:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:07:05","slug":"richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-family-reunion-star-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-family-reunion-star-dies-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Roundtree Dead: \u2018Shaft\u2019 &#038; \u2018Family Reunion\u2019 Star Dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/richard-roundtree\/\" title=\"Richard Roundtree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Richard Roundtree<\/strong><\/a> has sadly passed away.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Shaft<\/em> and <em>Family Reunion<\/em> star died at the age of 81 on Tuesday afternoon (October 24), his longtime manager <strong>Patrick McMinn<\/strong> confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/obituaries-people-news\/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-1235767495\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/obituaries-people-news\/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-1235767495\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> <\/em>reports that the Golden Globe-nominated actor passed after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-1962469\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Richard<\/strong>\u2019s work and career served as a turning point for African American leading men in film,\u201d <strong>Patrick<\/strong> shared in a statement. \u201cThe impact he had on the industry cannot be overstated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard<\/strong> entered the industry as a model, and booked his feature film debut as the leading man John Shaft in the movie <em>Shaft<\/em>. He then went on to star in many TV shows and movies.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, <strong>Richard<\/strong> has starred as grandpa Jebidiah McKellan on the Netflix series <em>Family Reunion<\/em>, as well as on the series <em>Cherish the Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard<\/strong> is survived by four daughters, <strong>Nicole<\/strong>, <strong>Tayler<\/strong>, <strong>Morgan<\/strong> and <strong>Kelli Roundtree<\/strong>, and his son, <strong>James<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts go out to <strong>Richard Roundtree<\/strong>\u2018s family and loved ones during this time.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/10\/24\/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-family-reunion-star-dies-at-81\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Roundtree has sadly passed away. The Shaft and Family Reunion star died at the age of 81 on Tuesday afternoon (October 24), his longtime manager Patrick McMinn confirmed. Variety reports that the Golden Globe-nominated actor passed after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Keep reading to find out more\u2026 \u201cRichard\u2019s work and career served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}