Louis Gossett Jr's 原因（となる） of death 明らかにする／漏らすd: Oscar-winning actor died from chronic 肺 病気 老年の 87 まっただ中に years-long health 戦う／戦い

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Louis Gossett Jr died from a chronic 肺 条件 老年の 87 last month.?

Oscar-勝利者 Gossett Jr., known for his 業績／成果s in An Officer And A Gentleman and Jaws III, died in Santa Monica, California?on March 29.?

No 原因（となる） of death was given at the time. however, he had 以前 発表するd in 2010 that he was 診断するd with prostate?癌.?

His death 証明書 得るd by TMZ?特記する／引用するs chronic obstructive pulmonary 病気 (COPD) as the main 原因（となる） of death.?

It also 公式文書，認めるs heart 失敗 and atrial fibrillation as 与える／捧げるing 条件s. The 証明書 その上の 公式文書，認めるs the actor had been 戦う／戦いing COPD for years.?

Chronic obstructive pulmonary 病気 (COPD) 述べるs a group of 肺 条件s that 原因（となる） the 航空路s to 狭くする and become inflamed.

Louis Gossett Jr died from a chronic 肺 条件 老年の 87 last month (pictured 2016)

Gossett Jr., 提起する／ポーズをとるs with the Oscar for best supporting actor for his 役割 in An Officer And a Gentleman, in 1983. He became the first 黒人／ボイコット man to 勝利，勝つ the supporting actor gong?

Examples 含む bronchitis, which 影響する／感情s the 航空路s, and emphysema, which 衝撃s the 空気／公表する sacs.

This makes it harder to move 空気／公表する in and out as you breathe.

In a January interview with People, Gossett Jr. 反映するd on his mortality, 説: 'I’m not afraid to die and the fact of going to heaven. I know they are having some 広大な／多数の／重要な concerts up there."

'I know that and my heroes and ヘロインs are up there and I think it's different from what we think it is and the old days," he 追加するd. "I think after we make that 移行, I think it's going to be a 広大な／多数の／重要な time.'

Known for his １０年間s-long career with その上の 外見s in The Color Purple and Roots, Gossett 明らかにする／漏らすd this past year that he gave up a 可能性のある professional basketball career with the New York Knicks when he decided to 長，率いる to Hollywood.???

He earned his first 事実上の／代理 credit in his Brooklyn high school's 生産／産物 of You Can't Take It with You while he was sidelined from the basketball team with an 傷害.

'I was 麻薬中毒の ― and so was my audience,' he wrote in his 2010 memoir An Actor And A Gentleman.

Known for his 運動競技の build and 支配するing presence on 行う／開催する／段階 and 審査する, Gossett Jr starred in a number of 需要・要求するing 役割s 含むing his Oscar-winning turn as 演習 sergeant Emil Foley in Officer And A Gentleman in 1982.??

The hard-man image he 達成するd in that 役割 catapulted him to Hollywood fame, emulating the 演習 sergeant patois in 1989's The Punisher and repeat 外見s in the アイロンをかける Eagle franchise.?

After his 早期に Broadway success, he?broke through on the small 審査する as Fiddler in the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, which 描写するd the 残虐（行為）s of slavery on TV. The sprawling cast 含むd Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton and John Amos.

He won an Emmy for the 役割, which earned the young actor 国家の fame as a staggering 100million テレビ視聴者s tuned in for the final episode.?

Gossett once said of 上陸 the 役割: 'All the 最高の，を越す African-American actors were asked, and I begged to be in there. I got the best 役割, I think. It was wonderful.'??

His final on-審査する 外見 （機の）カム in the 2023 Oscar-指名するd film The Color Purple. によれば his IMDB, the actor had 12 近づいている 事業／計画（する）s in the 作品 at the time of his death, 含むing Ryan Reynolds' 近づいている 活気／アニメーション IF.?

Gossett Jr's １０年間s-long 事実上の／代理 career quickly took off after his first 業績／成果 in high school, as an English teacher 勧めるd him to go into Manhattan to try out for the 生産／産物 of Take a 巨大（な） Step.?

He got the part and debuted on Broadway in 1953 老年の 16.?

'I knew too little to be nervous,' Gossett wrote of his 事実上の／代理 break. 'In retrospect, I should have been 脅すd to death as I walked の上に that 行う／開催する／段階, but I wasn't.'

In a January interview with People , Gossett Jr. 反映するd on his mortality, 説: 'I’m not afraid to die and the fact of going to heaven. I know they are having some 広大な／多数の／重要な concerts up there. pictured here in 2016

Gossett Jr starred in a number of 需要・要求するing 役割s 含むing his Oscar-winning turn as 演習 sergeant Emil Foley in Officer And A Gentleman opposite Richard Gere?

Gossett Jr pictured during the filming of the 1986 movie アイロンをかける Eagle. He also went on to 星／主役にする in the franchise's three sequels?

Gossett Jr celebrates his 1982 Oscar 勝利，勝つ with actress Susan Sarandon (left) and Superman 星／主役にする Christopher Reeve?

The actor's final on-審査する 外見 （機の）カム in the 2023 Oscar-指名するd film The Color Purple

Gossett Jr seen in December last year. At the time of his death, the actor still had 12 近づいている 外見s, many of which are already 完全にするd or in 地位，任命する-生産／産物?

Gossett …に出席するd New York University on a basketball and 演劇 scholarship. He was soon 事実上の／代理 and singing on TV shows hosted by 星／主役にするs 含むing David Susskind, Ed Sullivan, Red Buttons, Merv Griffin, Jack Paar and Steve Allen.

Before he became a 会社／堅い favorite in Hollywood circles, he was known to be friendly with James Dean and 熟考する／考慮するd 事実上の／代理 with Marilyn Monroe, ツバメ Landau and Steve McQueen at an offshoot of the Actors Studio taught by Frank Silvera.

He made his first on-審査する 外見 in 1957 on the NBC anthology series The Big Show.

In 1959, Gossett received 批判的な acclaim for his 役割 in the Broadway 生産／産物 of A Raisin in the Sun along with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands.

He went on to become a 星／主役にする on Broadway, 取って代わるing Billy Daniels in Golden Boy with Sammy Davis Jr. in 1964.

Gossett went to Hollywood for the first time in 1961 to make the film 見解／翻訳／版 of A Raisin In The Sun. He had bitter memories of that trip, staying in a cockroach-infested motel that was one of the few places to 許す 黒人／ボイコット people.?

In 1968, he returned to Hollywood for a major 役割 in Companions in Nightmare, NBC's first made-for-TV movie that starred Melvyn Douglas, Anne Baxter and Patrick O'Neal.

In this turn, the young actor had several 衝突／不一致s with 差別 and 人種差別主義 that he took with him the 残り／休憩（する） of his career. と一緒に his 事実上の／代理, he also 設立するd the anti-人種差別主義 organization, the Eracism 創立／基礎.?

After arriving in Hollywood for the NBC flick, Gossett was 調書をとる／予約するd into the Beverly Hills Hotel and 全世界の／万国共通の Studios had rented him a 転換できる.?

Gossett is 栄誉（を受ける）d at the?Hollywood 遺産／遺物 Award American 黒人／ボイコット Film Festival in February 2020

The 事実上の／代理 星／主役にする, pictured 老年の 79 at a Golden Globes pre-party 祝賀 in 2016, was also known for his anti-人種差別主義 activism?

Gossett Jr was known for his 運動競技の build and domineering 審査する presence, which landed h im a number of hard-man 役割s such as his turn as boxer Honey Roy Palmer in Diggstown (pictured)

運動ing 支援する to the hotel after 選ぶing up the car, he was stopped by a Los Angeles 郡 郡保安官's officer who ordered him to turn 負かす／撃墜する the 無線で通信する and put up the car's roof before letting him go.

Within minutes, he was stopped by eight 郡保安官's officers, who had him lean against the car and made him open the trunk while they called the car 賃貸しの 機関 before letting him go.

'Though I understood that I had no choice but to put up with this 乱用, it was a terrible way to be 扱う／治療するd, a humiliating way to feel,' Gossett wrote in his memoir. 'I realized this was happening because I was 黒人／ボイコット and had been showing off with a fancy car ― which, in their 見解（をとる）, I had no 権利 to be 運動ing.'

After dinner at the hotel, he went for a walk and was stopped a 封鎖する away by a police officer, who told him he broke a 法律 禁じるing walking around 居住の Beverly Hills after 9 p.m.?

Two other officers arrived and Gossett said he was chained to a tree and 手錠d for three hours. He was 結局 解放する／自由なd when the 初めの police car returned.

'Now I had come 直面する-to-直面する with 人種差別主義, and it was an ugly sight,' he wrote. 'But it was not going to destroy me.'

In the late 1990s, Gossett said he was pulled over by police on 太平洋の Coast 主要道路 while 運動ing his 回復するd 1986 Rolls Royce Corniche II.?

The officer told him he looked like someone they were searching for, but the officer 認めるd Gossett and left.

Gossett made a 一連の guest 外見s on such shows as 大当り, The Rockford とじ込み／提出するs, The Mod Squad, McCloud and a memorable turn with Richard Pryor on The Partridge Family.

Gossett made a 一連の guest 外見s on such shows as 大当り, The Rockford とじ込み／提出するs, The Mod Squad, McCloud and a memorable turn with Richard Pryor on The Partridge Family

Louis Cameron Gossett was born on May 27, 1936, in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, to Louis Sr., a porter, and Hellen, a nurse. He later 追加するd Jr. to his 指名する to 栄誉（を受ける） his father

In August 1969, Gossett had a bizarre 近づく-小衝突 with 罪人／有罪を宣告するd 殺し屋 and 教団-leader Charles Manson, after he was 招待するd to actress Sharon Tate's home while partying?with members of the 禁止（する）d Mamas and the Papas.?

He 長，率いるd home first to にわか雨 and change 着せる／賦与するs. As he was getting ready to leave, he caught a news flash on TV about Tate's 殺人. She and others were killed by Charles Manson's associates that night.

'There had to be a 推論する／理由 for my escaping this 弾丸,' he wrote.

Born on May 27, 1936, in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, his father Louis Sr., was a porter, and mother Hellen, a nurse. He later 追加するd Jr. to his 指名する to 栄誉（を受ける） his father.?

Gossett became the third 黒人／ボイコット Oscar 指名された人 in the supporting actor 部類 in 1983. He won for his 業績／成果 as the 脅迫してさせるing 海洋 演習 指導者 in An Officer And A Gentleman opposite Richard Gere and Debra Winger. He also won a Golden Globe for the same 役割.

'More than anything, it was a 抱擁する affirmation of my position as a 黒人／ボイコット actor,' he wrote in his memoir.

Gossett Jr's breakout on the small 審査する （機の）カム in his 役割 on TV 演劇 Roots, which won him an Emmy in 1977 (Pictured at the awards 儀式)?

'The Oscar gave me the ability of 存在 able to choose good parts in movies like Enemy 地雷, Sadat and アイロンをかける Eagle, Gossett said in Dave Karger's 2024 調書をとる／予約する 50 Oscar Nights.'

He said his statue was in 貯蔵.

'I'm going to 寄付する it to a library so I don't have to keep an 注目する，もくろむ on it,' he said in the 調書をとる／予約する. 'I need to be 解放する／自由な of it.'

Gossett appeared in such TV movies as The Story of Satchel Paige, Backstairs at the White House, The Josephine パン職人 Story, for which he won another Golden Globe, and Roots Revisited.

But he said winning an Oscar didn't change the fact that all his 役割s were supporting ones.

He played an obstinate patriarch in the 2023 remake of The Color Purple.

Gossett struggled with alcohol and コカイン 中毒 for years after his Oscar 勝利，勝つ. He went to rehab, where he was 診断するd with 有毒な mold syndrome, which he せいにするd to his house in Malibu.

In 2010, Gossett 発表するd he had prostate 癌, which he said was caught in the 早期に 行う／開催する／段階s. In 2020, he was 入院させるd with Covid-19.

He is 生き残るd by sons Satie, a 生産者-director from his second marriage, and Sharron, a chef whom he 可決する・採択するd after seeing the seven-year-old in a TV segment on children in desperate 状況／情勢s. His first cousin is actor Robert Gossett.

Gossett's first marriage to Hattie Glascoe was annulled. His second, to Christina Mangosing, ended in 離婚 in 1975 as did his third to actor Cyndi James-Reese in 1992.