Austin Stoker
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-10-07
Day of Death
2022-10-07 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Trinidad, West Indies
Austin Stoker
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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.
Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots.
Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13.
Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday.
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Known For
Acting
Descention
as Brother Malcolm
(2020)
(2019)
3 from Hell
as Newscaster Gibson
(2014)
Shhhh
as Dave
(2010)
Machete Joe
as Raymond Sinclair
(2008)
(2006)
Big John
as Self
(2001)
Mach 2
as Edwards
(1999)
Two Shades of Blue
as Security Guard
(1989)
Another Time, Another Place
as Luther
(1988)
Uninvited
as Carribean Officer
(1982)
Time Walker
as Dr. Ken Melrose
(1981)
Terror Among Us
as D.A. Rick Clayburn
(1977)
The Man With the Power
as Carter
(1976)
Assault on Precinct 13
as Ethan Bishop
(1976)
Victory at Entebbe
as Dr. Ghota
(1976)
Riding with Death
as Dive Officer
(1975)
Sheba, Baby
as Brick Williams
(1974)
Airport 1975
as Air Force Sergeant
(1974)
Abby
as Det. Cass Potter
(1974)
The Zebra Killer
as Lt. Frank Savage
(1973)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
as MacDonald
(1973)
Horror High
as Lieutenant Bozeman
(1970)
The Aquarians
as Bogan