Carol Speed was an actress known for roles in films of the blaxploitation era, including “Abby” and “The Mack.”Speed had early TV success with guest roles on “Julia” and “Sanford and Son,” as well as a recurring role on “Days of Our Lives,” before making her way into movies.
She had small roles in “The New Centurions” and “The Big Bird Cage,” then landed a prominent part in 1973’s “The Mack,” starring opposite Max Julien (1933–2022).
The following year, Speed starred in “Abby,” playing a woman possessed by a demon. She also had roles in the blaxploitation films “Savage” “The Dynamite Brothers” and “Black Samson.” She largely retired from movies after the mid-1970s but had roles in “Disco Godfather” (1979) and “Village Vengeance” (2006).
Speed also wrote books including the novel “Inside Black Hollywood,” and she was a singer and songwriter who performed an original composition in “Abby.”“My first Hollywood job (1970) was with Bobby Gentry as a backup singer at Harrahs in Reno, Nevada.
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