
Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre.
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Alphonso Marshall 7 October 1930 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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| Died |
7 October 2022 (aged 92) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Zodiac | Libra |
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