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Austin Stoker

Acting

Born October 7, 1943 · Trinidad, West Indies

Died October 7, 2022

Biography

Austin Stoker 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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