Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorStuntman and actor Tommy Lane, who appeared in films including “Live and Let Die” and “Shaft,” died Monday in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla. He was 83.His daughter Kamala reported that he died after a long bout of COPD.In Richard Roundtree’s “Shaft,” his character Leroy could be seen crashing through Richard Roundtree’s Times Square office window. “That’s some cold shit, throwing my man Leroy out the window.
Just picked my man up and threw him out the goddamn window,” says Willy in the 1971 blaxploitation classic.In the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die,” he played Adam, one of Kananga’s henchmen who chases Roger Moore in a speedboat off the coast of the fictional island of San Monique.
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