Rod Perry, who starred on the 1970s ABC series S.W.A.T. and appeared opposite Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, died Dec.
17, his family announced. He was 86. Perry also had the leads in the Blaxploitation films The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo (1975).
Perry portrayed Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay opposite Steve Forrest and Robert Urich on S.W.A.T., which was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg and lasted 37 episodes in 1975-76, then returned for the 2003 S.W.A.T.
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