Austin Stoker
Born: 1943-10-07 in Trinidad, West Indies
Died: 2022-10-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
Filmography
2020
2019
- 3 from Hell as Newscaster Gibson
2014
- Shhhh as Dave
2010
- Machete Joe as Raymond Sinclair
2008
- End of an Epic: The Final Battle as Self
2006
- Big John as Self
2001
- Mach 2 as Edwards
1999
- Two Shades of Blue as Security Guard
1998
- The Wild Thornberrys as Poacher #2 (voice)
1989
- Another Time, Another Place as Luther
1988
- Uninvited as Carribean Officer
1984
- Airwolf as Investigator
1982
- Time Walker as Dr. Ken Melrose
1981
- Falcon Crest as Bailiff
- Terror Among Us as D.A. Rick Clayburn
1977
- The Incredible Hulk as Rev. Jack Williams
- Roots as Virgil Harvey
- The Man with the Power as Carter
1976
- Victory at Entebbe as Dr. Ghota
- Assault on Precinct 13 as Ethan Bishop
- Riding with Death as Dive Officer
1975
- Sheba, Baby as Brick Williams
- S.W.A.T.
- Return to the Planet of the Apes as Jeff Allen (voice)
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Charles Quinten
- Abby as Det. Cass Potter
- Airport 1975 as Air Force Sergeant
- The Zebra Killer as Lt. Frank Savage
1973
- Kojak as Det. Douglas
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes as MacDonald
- Horror High as Lieutenant Bozeman
1971
- Monty Nash as Cole Walker
1970
- The Aquarians as Bogan
1969
- Love, American Style as Henry