Shaft' star Richard Roundtree dead at 81
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Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several "Shaft" films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81.
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Actor, Richard Roundtree Shaft dead 81 from pancreatic cancer
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