Austin Stoker

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots. Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Stoker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For: Acting

Born: Trinidad, West Indies, 1943-10-07

Died: 2022-10-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	The Aquarians	Bogan	60
2	1973	Battle for the Planet of the Apes	MacDonald	57
3	1973	Horror High	Lieutenant Bozeman	55
4	1974	The Zebra Killer	Lt. Frank Savage	48
5	1974	Airport 1975	Air Force Sergeant	57
6	1974	Abby	Det. Cass Potter	56
7	1975	Sheba, Baby	Brick Williams	57
8	1976	Riding with Death	Dive Officer	26
9	1976	Assault on Precinct 13	Ethan Bishop	73
10	1976	Victory at Entebbe	Dr. Ghota	51
11	1977	The Man With the Power	Carter	60
12	1981	Terror Among Us	D.A. Rick Clayburn	48
13	1982	Time Walker	Dr. Ken Melrose	40
14	1988	Uninvited	Carribean Officer	49
15	1989	Another Time, Another Place	Luther	100
16	1999	Two Shades of Blue	Security Guard	28
17	2001	Mach 2	Edwards	41
18	2006	Big John	Self	78
19	2008	End of an Epic: The Final Battle	Self	0
20	2010	Machete Joe	Raymond Sinclair	15
21		Descention	Brother Malcolm	0
22	2014	Shhhh	Dave	35
23	2019	3 from Hell	Newscaster Gibson	58
24	2020	Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness	Self	68

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	Love, American Style	Henry	61
2	1971	Monty Nash	Cole Walker	55
3	1973	Kojak	Det. Douglas	70
4	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Charles Quinten	73
5	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Captain	73
6	1975	S.W.A.T.		70
7	1975	Return to the Planet of the Apes	Jeff Allen (voice)	67
8	1977	The Incredible Hulk	Rev. Jack Williams	73
9	1981	Falcon Crest	Bailiff	55
10	1984	Airwolf	Investigator	76
11	1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Poacher #2 (voice)	69

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