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Tommy Lane, star of ‘Shaft’ and ‘Live and Let Die,’ dead at 83

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according to Variety.Lane shot to prominence after appearing in Richard Roundtree’s classic crime film “Shaft” — widely perceived as one of the most important films of the 1970s.

Indiewire declared the movie “changed history” as it proved “a black film made by a black director for a black audience could be a huge hit.”Lane had a small part in the film, playing Leroy, a character who crashed through protagonist and private eye John Shaft’s office window.

He scored an even bigger role just two years later, cast as a henchman named Adam in the James Bond blockbuster “Live and Let Die.”The actor was seen trailing Roger Moore in a speedboat before he utters the famous line: “You made one mistake back on that island, Bond.

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