Tommy Lane, an actor and stuntman who appeared in such classic films as Shaft and Live and Let Die, died on Monday at Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, following a long battle with COPD.
He was 83.Confirming his passing to Deadline was his daughter, Kamala Lane.Born on Dec. 17, 1937 in Liberty City, Miami, FL, Lane was primarily active as an actor from the 1960s through the 1990s.
In Gordon Parks’ classic private eye thriller Shaft, he played gangster Bumpy Jonas’ (Moses Gun) hitman, Leroy, who is memorably dragged up steps and thrown out of a window by Richard Roundtree’s detective John Shaft.
In Guy Hamilton’s 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore, he portrayed Adam, a gangster and enforcer reporting to Yaphet
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