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Don Pedro Colley

Actor

Born - 30 August 1938, Kiamath Falls, Oregon, USA
Died - 10 October 2017

Very tall, moustachioed, shaven-headed Afro-American actor. The son of a pianist, he was an Olympic-class discus thrower before turning to acting in his late twenties. On TV from the mid 1960s, he began a movie career a few years later: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1969), THX 1138 (1971), The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972), The World's Greatest Athlete (1973), Herbie Rides Again (1974), Casino (1980), The Blue Iguana (1988), Piranha (1995), Midnight Massacre (2016) and Dead End (2017), his last. He died from cancer.