While still in high school he won the Donaldson Award as Broadway's most promising newcomer for a supporting role in A Raisin in the Sun.  
Hewrote the antiwar song "Handsome Johnny" which Richie Havens performed at Woodstock.  While still in high school he won the Donaldson Award as Broadway's most promising newcomer for a supporting role in A Raisin in the Sun.  His films include The Landlord, Travels With My Aunt, The Skin Game, Firewalker, Enemy Mine, and Iron Eagle.  FTP name this man, winner of the 1982 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman.
Hewrote the antiwar song "Handsome Johnny" which Richie Havens performed at Woodstock.  
Louis Gossett, Jr.