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Thomas Jefferson Byrd (1950 – 2020), actor known for Spike Lee films

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Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an actor known for roles in Spike Lee films including “Clockers” and “Get on the Bus.”Byrd worked with Lee in a number of the acclaimed director’s films, beginning with 1995’s “Clockers,” in which he played a drug lord’s enforcer.

Byrd would return to the big screen in Lee’s “Girl 6” (1996), “Get on the Bus” (1996), “He Got Game” (1998), “Bamboozled” (2000), “Red Hook Summer” (2012), “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” (2014) and “Chi-Raq” (2015).

He also had a recurring role as Stokely in Lee’s 2017 Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It.” Byrd appeared in movies for other directors including “Set it Off” (1996), “Ray” (2004), and “Freedom’s Path” (2020), which will be released posthumously.

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