Roots, Part VI

Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is an English actor. Although he has appeared in numerous films, it is by his television roles that he is generally known, starting with the BBC's Lovejoy (1986-94) and particularly in the HBO Western drama Deadwood (2004-06). He starred as King Silas Benjamin in NBC series Kings, the evil Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda (for which he received an Annie Award nomination)and as Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides...(Wikipedia)

Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942) is an American actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and in its two sequels, Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Shaft in Africa (1973)...(Wikipedia)

Credits include: The Godfather: Part III, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Hollywood Ending, Doc Hollywood and Double Dragon

Credits include: The Fox and the Hound, Rock-A-Doodle, The Cat from Outer Space, The Million Dollar Duck and Never Again

Credits include: All That Jazz, Roots, Idlewild, Once Upon a Forest and Funny Lady

Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers in Terre Haute, Indiana. Songwriter, actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in nightclubs, hotels, films and on television. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good", "Nobody Knows Why", "I Was There", "A Man's Gotta Eat" and "When, Oh When". Scatman Crothers died at age 76 of pneumonia and lung cancer at his home in Van Nuys, California on November 22, 1986.

Credits include: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Big Heat, The Seven Year Itch, The War of the Worlds and House of Wax

Credits include: Shadow of a Doubt, These Are the Damned, It's Alive III: Island of the Alive, Wake Island and The Great Gatsby

Credits include: Some Kind of Hero, Heroes, Big Shots, Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Women of Brewster Place

Credits include: It's a Wonderful Life, Magic, Bend of the River, Phantom Lady and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Credits include: Deadpool, Deadpool & Wolverine, American Fiction, Fallout and Two Weeks in Another Town

Credits include: Soylent Green, Airplane II: The Sequel, Old Yeller, The Big Country and Tourist Trap