Stuntman and actor Tommy Lane, who appeared in movies together with Stay And Let Die and Shaft, died Monday (Nov 29) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. He was 83.
His daughter Kamala reported that he died after a protracted bout of COPD (persistent obstructive pulmonary illness).
In Richard Roundtree’s Shaft, his character Leroy could possibly be seen crashing by Richard Roundtree’s Occasions Sq. workplace window.
“That is some chilly s—, throwing my man Leroy out the window. Simply picked my man up and threw him out the goddamn window,” says Willy within the 1971 blaxploitation traditional.
Within the 1973 James Bond movie Stay And Let Die, he performed Adam, one in all Kananga’s henchmen who chases Roger Moore in a speedboat off the coast of the fictional island of San Monique.
His character threatens: “You made one mistake again on that island, Bond. You took one thing that did not belong to you. And also you took it from a pal of Mr Massive’s. That sort of mistake is hard to bounce again from.”
Earlier than the speedboat scene, he may be heard to say “Bond ripped off one in all our boats. He is headed for the Irish Bayou. The person that will get him stays alive! Now, transfer you moms!”
He additionally appeared in Cotton Comes To Harlem, Ganja & Hess, Burt Reynolds-starrer Shamus and TV reveals together with Simon & Simon and Flipper.
Born Tommy Lee Jones in Miami, Lane was additionally a jazz musician, and performed trumpet and flugelhorn at New York Metropolis’s Blue Notice all through the Eighties.
He’s survived by spouse Raquel Bastias-Lane, seven kids; a stepson and a number of other grandchildren and great-grandchildren. – Reuters
