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Sonny Landham , a veteran actor whose study include famed roles in such films asPredatorand48 Hrs . ,has croak away at age 76 . The worker ’s calling began in the former 1970s , and had more than 50 credits throughout the old age . He started with roles earlier in his calling in such pic asThe Warriorsand the originalPoltergeist , before his breakthrough part as Billy Bear , a crook on the run opposite Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in48 Hrs.in 1982 .
The player was acquit William Landham on February 11 , 1941 , in Canton , Georgia . According toVariety , Landham passed away from congestive heart failure Thursday in Lexington , Kentucky .
The publication says that Landham acted in several X - rated films in the former 1970s before he started working in mainstream pic . Landham ’s handsome break come when director Walter Hill cast him as a constabulary policeman in the gang thrillerThe Warriors , which led to his work under the guidance of Hill again in48 Hrs . The film buzz off Landman notice , leading to node use on TV’sThe A - Team , Hardcastleand McCormick , The Fall GuyandMiami Vice , as well as a film role opposite Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr. in the action / escapade comedyFirewalkerin 1986 .
Landham is perhaps best known for his role as aboriginal American tracker Billy Sole opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers in managing director John McTiernan’sPredatorin 1987 . Landham had a powerful but unagitated presence in the film , although in one scene featuring Billy and Hawkins ( played by Shane Black , who isdirecting the upcomingPredatorreboot ) , Hawkins managed to get Landham ’s Harlan Stone - faced grapheme to crack - up laughing after a foul joke .
Landham move on to star in several other action films afterPredator , includingAction Jacksonopposite Weathers andLock Upopposite Sylvester Stallone . The actor work steadily in Hollywood throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s , and had a 10 - year interruption in his career from 1997 to 2007 , when he returned to for the low - budget revulsion thrillerDisintegration . He only had one more playing credit , in the indie revulsion filmMental scar , in 2009 .
Landham , is endure by two kid : a son , William , and a daughter , Priscilla .
R.I.P. Sonny Landham: February 11, 1941 - August 17, 2017
seed : Variety
