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His professional life spanned stage, film, and television, and his credits extended beyond performance to include work as a writer, voice actor, film producer, television producer, and television director.\n\nGossett accumulated a substantial record of formal recognition over the course of his career. He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, making him one of the relatively few performers to achieve such parallel honors from both bodies for film work. He also received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, NAACP Image Awards, and the Mary Pickford Award. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame further marked his standing in the industry.\n\nGossett died on March 29, 2024, in Santa Monica, California. Among the concrete markers of his career, his receipt of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor stands as a documented milestone in his work as a film actor, one anchored in a decades-long professional record that moved between the stage where he began, the television productions where he also served behind the camera, and the film roles for which he received the industry's most formal recognition.","In 1977, Louis Gossett Jr. delivered a notable performance in the television miniseries Roots, a role that brought him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film and helped establish him as a significant presence across multiple entertainment mediums.","louis-gossett-jr",null,[],{"quotes":15,"pagination":78},[16,24,30,36,42,48,54,60,66,72],{"id":17,"quote_text":18,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":21,"source":22,"quote_tag":23,"commentary":12},3800690,"I was down in Wilmington, Delaware, doing 'The Desk Set' with Shirley Booth. I was at the DuPont Hotel. I walked out, and there was this grill next door called the New England Grill. I loved seafood. They said very nicely, 'We don't serve colored people.'",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":25,"quote_text":26,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":27,"source":28,"quote_tag":29,"commentary":12},3800689,"When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":31,"quote_text":32,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":33,"source":34,"quote_tag":35,"commentary":12},3800688,"We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no one could tell me that you can't do something because you're black.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":37,"quote_text":38,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":39,"source":40,"quote_tag":41,"commentary":12},3800687,"I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":43,"quote_text":44,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":45,"source":46,"quote_tag":47,"commentary":12},3800686,"After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. 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People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":61,"quote_text":62,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":63,"source":64,"quote_tag":65,"commentary":12},3800683,"I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":67,"quote_text":68,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":12},3800682,"There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":73,"quote_text":74,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":75,"source":76,"quote_tag":77,"commentary":12},3800681,"You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":79,"totalPages":80,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":81},1,5,10]