Robert Guillaume (1927-2017)

[DecaTilde]

Robert Guillaume, the African-American actor whose fame included Soap (and it’s spin-off Benson), The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, and Disney’s The Lion King franchise, has passed away to prostate cancer, one month shy of his 90th birthday. He was 89.

 

[Rick Jones]

Rest in Peace. I was just rewatching some of Lean on Me last week, thinking about how I liked seeing him and Morgan Freeman played off of each other in that. When I think back to my super young years, watching way more TV than I should have at that age, he was one of the few actors of color I remember constantly seeing on TV. He'd probably come in behind Bill Cosby and Sherman Helmsley.

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[jaylop97]

That's too bad, he was not that far from his birthday and he was an iconic voice in The Lion King, I really liked that voice of Rafiki. RIP

 

[Jean74]

He was a trail blazer and really loved him in Lion King and Benson. Little too young for Soap. May he RIP. Great underrated actor. Also remembered him in Lean on Me!