I’m only just learning that 70s starlet Vonetta McGee has died at 65 years old; she suffered cardiac arrest at a hospital in Berkeley, and was on life support for two days before passing. This happened last week Friday actually, the 9th of July.
During McGee’s prime, she co-starred in a handful of 1970s blaxploitation films, including roles in Blacula, Hammer and Shaft in Africa.
Her career began in the late 60s, when she played parts in films alongside the likes of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence (1968), & Sidney Poitier in The Lost Man (1969). She can also be found in John Huston’s 1970 noir thriller The Kremlin Letter.
Post her blaxploitation run, she later appeared with Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction. In the ’80s, she had numerous TV credits, including parts in Cagney & Lacey, Bustin’ Loose, and L.A. Law.
Her resume thinned out in the 1990s,...
During McGee’s prime, she co-starred in a handful of 1970s blaxploitation films, including roles in Blacula, Hammer and Shaft in Africa.
Her career began in the late 60s, when she played parts in films alongside the likes of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence (1968), & Sidney Poitier in The Lost Man (1969). She can also be found in John Huston’s 1970 noir thriller The Kremlin Letter.
Post her blaxploitation run, she later appeared with Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction. In the ’80s, she had numerous TV credits, including parts in Cagney & Lacey, Bustin’ Loose, and L.A. Law.
Her resume thinned out in the 1990s,...
- 7/15/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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