What American actor plays an East side drug lord who prefers peaceful solutions to business disputes when possible?
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Robert F. Chew Robert Frederick Chew (December 28, 1960 – January 17, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for portraying drug kingpin Proposition Joe on the HBO drama series "The Wire".
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Proposition Joe Joseph Stewart, better known as "Proposition Joe" or "Prop Joe", is a fictional character on the HBO drama "The Wire", played by actor Robert F. Chew. Joe was an Eastside drug lord who preferred a peaceful solution to business disputes when possible. He was responsible for creating the lucrative New Day Co-Op with Stringer Bell, supplying much of Baltimore with heroin brought into the city by "The Greeks". Joe was a portly and amiable presence, but was often a match in wits for rival drug lords Avon Barksdale and Marlo Stanfield, and was able to manipulate most situations to his advantage. His nickname stemmed from his trademark phrase "I've got a proposition for you", going back to his days selling test answers on the school yard. Along with Poot Carr, Wee-Bey Brice, Omar Little, and Bubbles, he is one of the few characters from the drug trade to appear in every season.
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Adam Streisand Adam F. Streisand is an American trial attorney notable for his involvement in litigation with regard to trusts and estates, including representation of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in disputes with Donald Sterling's trust, Jeanie Buss in litigation over control of the Los Angeles Lakers and celebrity estates, such as Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, Barry White, Dennis Hopper, Michael Crichton, Anna Nicole Smith, Rodney Dangerfield, Joey Bishop, Bing Crosby, Carroll Shelby, Alan Thicke and others.
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Coleman Francis Coleman C. Francis (January 24, 1919 – January 15, 1973) was an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He was best known for his film trilogy consisting of "The Beast of Yucca Flats" (1961), "The Skydivers" (1963), "Red Zone Cuba" (1966), all three of which were filmed in the general Santa Clarita, California area and used preoccupation with light aircraft and parachuting, coffee or cigarettes serving as a prop or a center of conversation, and a vigilante-style gunning down of suspects without a trial to conclude the film as frequent motifs.
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Richard Gant Richard Gant (born March 10, 1944) is an American actor. His credits include the films "Rocky V" (as the Don King-esque George Washington Duke), for which he received widespread critical acclaim, "Miami Vice" season 5 episode 13 (1989), a possessed coroner in "" (1993), "Deadwood", "The Big Lebowski", "Babylon 5", "Special Unit 2", "L.A. Law", "NYPD Blue", "Living Single", "Posse", "How I Met Your Mother", "Men Don't Tell", and "Charmed". He appeared in one episode of "" and had a recurring role as the high school principal in "Smallville". He also appeared in "" and "" as well as reporter Charles Parker in the cult classic adaptation of Colin Bateman's "Divorcing Jack". He had a minor role as a senior naval officer in Roland Emmerich's "Godzilla". Gant was also in the 2007 comedy film, "Daddy Day Camp", as Col. Buck Hinton.
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Benjamin Melendez Benjamin Melendez (1952 – May 28, 2017) was best known for brokering the gang truce in the Bronx and Harlem (New York City) in 1971. At that time, he was President of the Ghetto Brothers, a mainly ethnically Puerto Rican South Bronx gang, and lead vocalist of a musical group also known as the Ghetto Brothers.
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Ron Dean Ron Dean is an American film and television actor. He appeared in such movies as "Risky Business", "The Breakfast Club", "Cocktail", "The Babe", "The Fugitive", "The Client", and "The Dark Knight".
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Bodie Broadus Preston "Bodie" Broadus is a fictional character on the HBO drama series "The Wire", played by actor J. D. Williams. Bodie is initially a rough, low-level drug dealer, but matures throughout the series and slowly rises through the ranks. Bodie is an intelligent and disciplined lieutenant, showing strong loyalty to the Barksdale Organization even after most of its members get imprisoned or killed. Bodie is a relatively goodhearted character who sticks to his principles, but at times he can be violent, such as when he takes part in the murder of a friend and fellow dealer on orders from Stringer Bell. His relationship with the police is also dynamic. He is initially hostile towards all police, but eventually earns the respect of Officer Jimmy McNulty. He is also the only character to move his crew from the Barksdale Organization to the Marlo Stanfield crew.
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Robert Ryan Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909July 11, 1973) was an American actor who most often portrayed hardened cops and ruthless villains.
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East Side, West Side (1949 film) East Side, West Side is a 1949 melodramatic crime film, starring Barbara Stanwyck as a wronged wife and Ava Gardner in one of her earliest roles, along with James Mason and Van Heflin. Based on a novel by Marcia Davenport and a screenplay by Isobel Lennart, the film was produced by Voldemar Vetluguin, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Rocky Carroll Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll (born July 8, 1963) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the FOX comedy-drama "Roc" (1991–94) as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the CBS medical drama "Chicago Hope", and as NCIS Director Leon Vance on the CBS drama "NCIS" and its spinoffs "" and "". He also played a supporting role in the 1995 thriller film "Crimson Tide".
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Gabriel Dell Gabriel Dell (October 8, 1919 – July 3, 1988) was an American actor and one of the members of what came to be known as the Dead End Kids, then later the East Side Kids and finally The Bowery Boys.
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Drummond Erskine James Drummond Erskine III (April 7, 1919 – March 21, 2009) was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 75 films during his decades long acting career, which spanned over 50 years.
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Richard Eastham Richard Eastham, born as Dickinson Swift Eastham (June 22, 1916 – July 10, 2005), was an American actor of stage, film, and television and a concert singer known for his deep baritone voice.
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Rod Steiger Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Cited as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars", he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charlie in "On the Waterfront" (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in "The Pawnbroker" (1964), and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). His performance in that film won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Kelvin Han Yee Kelvin Han Yee is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as "Milk" (as Gordon Lau), "" (as Vietnamese Crime Boss), "Lucky You" (as Chico Banh), "The Island" (as a Censor), "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (as Master Cho), "Answers to Nothing" (as an EMT), "Sweet November" (as Burly Man), "Patch Adams", "Life Tastes Good" (as Max), Clint Eastwood's "True Crime" (as Zachary Platt), "A Great Wall" (as Paul Fang, the film was also the first American Feature Film to be shot in the People's Republic of China by MGM).
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King Tone Antonio Fernandez, also known as King Tone, is the former head of the Latin Kings (the largest Hispanic street gang in the US). In 1999, Fernandez was sentenced to 12 to 15 years for conspiring to sell narcotics. He is the main figure in the HBO documentary, "Latin Kings: A Street Gang story", which was released in 2007. He is also featured in the book, "The Misfit Economy," by Alexa Clay, which was published in 2015. Upon his release, Fernandez has shared his insights as a former gang leader and political activist, and how that relates to the "legitimate world".
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Lenny Montana Lenny Montana (born Leonardo Passafaro; March 13, 1926 – May 12, 1992) was an American actor who played the role of feared hitman Luca Brasi in "The Godfather". Prior to becoming an actor, he had a successful career as a professional wrestler as well as an enforcer for the Colombo family.
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Stephen Peace James Stephen Peace (born March 30, 1953) is an American film writer, producer, and Democratic politician.
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Broderick Crawford William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and TV actor, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his portrayal of Willie Stark in "All the King's Men" and for his starring role as Chief Dan Mathews in the television series "Highway Patrol" (1955–1959).
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Samuel L. Jackson filmography Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and film producer. In 2009, the collective total of all box office receipts for films that Jackson has starred in (including minor roles and cameos) is the highest of any on-screen actor. As of December 2015, Jackson appeared in over one hundred films with a worldwide box office gross of approximately $16 billion to date. Jackson's film career started in 1972 with a role in the film "Together for Days". Over the next nineteen years Jackson was cast in multiple films as minor characters up until his breakthrough role as Gator, a crack addict, in the 1991 Spike Lee film "Jungle Fever", for which he won a special jury prize for best supporting actor at the Cannes International Film Festival.
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Terrence Howard Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor and singer. Having his first major roles in the 1995 films "Dead Presidents" and "Mr. Holland's Opus", Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and cinema roles between 2004 and 2006. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Hustle & Flow". Howard has had prominent roles in many other movies including "Winnie", "Ray", "Lackawanna Blues", "Crash", " Four Brothers", "Get Rich or Die Tryin'", "Idlewild", "August Rush", "The Brave One" and "Prisoners". Howard played James Rhodes in the first "Iron Man" and its video game adaptation, but he was replaced by Don Cheadle for the future films. He currently stars as the lead character Lucious Lyon in the television series "Empire". His debut album, "Shine Through It", was released in September 2008.