# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaphet-kotto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:36:59.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaphet-kotto"
name: "Yaphet Kotto"
slug: "yaphet-kotto"
description: "Yaphet Frederick Kotto was an American actor for film and television. His films include the neo-noir action thriller Across 110th Street (1972), the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973), the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), the science-fiction action film The Running Man (1987), and the action comedy Midnight Run (1988). He also starred in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) as Lieutenant Al Giardello."
tagline: "American actor (1939–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yaphet_Koto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-11-15"
deathDate: "2021-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.030537830446673
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump