Yaphet Kotto died on March 15, 2021 at the age of 81. A perennial supporting actor, Kotto had multiple prominent sci-fi/genre roles, including Parker in Alien and the video game spin-off Alien: Isolation, William Laughlin in The Running Man, Doc in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, and Mr. Big in the James Bond film Live and Let Die. An actor who always brought some esteem the films he was in, his presence in the sci-fi community will be missed.
