Most Recent Role: Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street
Alias Name(s): Yephet Kotto, Yaphett Kotto, Yaphet Cotto
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, New York
Birthday: 11-15-1937
Birth Name: Yaphet Frederick Kotto
Alias Name(s): Yephet Kotto, Yaphett Kotto, Yaphet Cotto
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, New York
Birthday: 11-15-1937
Birth Name: Yaphet Frederick Kotto
Most Recent Appearance
Homicide: The Movie
Sunday 13 February 2000 on NBC
Gee is running for mayor and one part of his platform is a plan is the legalization of drugs. As he is making an appearance at the Inner Harbor, he is shot multiple times. Current and former members of the Homicide unit receive the news and begin to converge on the hospital and the unit. Bayliss...
(2008) Yaphet is currently co-starring in the comedy Witless Protection.
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Yaphet co-starred with soul music pioneer Isaac Hayes in Truck Turner (1974).
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Yaphet claims to have proof that he is the great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria. According to Kotto, the Queen's son Albert (later King Edward VII) had an illicit affair with Princess Nakande, daughter of King Doualla Manga Bell, which produced Alexander Bell, Kotto's great-grandfather.
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Yaphet wrote, directed, and acted in Speed Limit 65 (1972), in which he played a motorcycle cop.
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Yaphet has been married three times, first to Rita Dittman from 1960 to 1975, then to Antoinette Pettyjohn in 1975 to 1988, and now to Tessie Sinahon, since 1998.
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Yaphet Kotto: I do have a favorite kind of director, which is the kind who allows me to create. Some haven't allowed me to create and I think by doing that they don't need an actor. They need a puppet.
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Yaphet Kotto: I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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Yaphet Kotto: All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
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Other Appearances
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For Love and Honor
James "China" Bell |
Homicide: Life on the Street
Al Giardello |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Prisoners Convict |
Bonanza
Child Child Barnett |
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Cowboy in Africa
Incident at Derati Wells Musa |
Daniel Boone
Big, Black and Out There Luke |
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Daniel Boone
Jonah Jonah |
Death Valley Days
A Man Called Abraham |
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Homicide: Life on the Street
Narcissus |
Homicide: Life on the Street
Secrets |
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Homicide: Life on the Street
Self Defense |
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"Should have been a bigger star"Poor In the late 80s Yaphet made his own movie . The last title was Juliet The Final Warning . I was the head of Security and Driver for this Production . Continue » Posted Jan 30, 2006 12:03 am PST |
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For Love and Honor
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Homicide: Life on the Street
This series was the most reality-based police drama that has ever aired on television. It was shot entirely with handheld cameras on location in the Fells Point Community of Baltimore, MD. One of... more
This drama takes places in an airborne field artillery unit in California and was based on the hit movie An Officer and a Gentleman. The two main drill instructors clash over their training... more
Homicide: Life on the StreetThis series was the most reality-based police drama that has ever aired on television. It was shot entirely with handheld cameras on location in the Fells Point Community of Baltimore, MD. One of... more
