The character played by LeVar Burton in "Roots" died in what year?
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LeVar Burton Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author. He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children's series "Reading Rainbow", Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in "" and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries "Roots". He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of "Star Trek", among other programs.
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Kunta Kinte Kunta Kinte ( 1750 – 1822; ) is a character in the novel "" by American author Alex Haley. Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and who died in 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in "Roots" was a mixture of fact and fiction. The extent to which Kunta Kinte is based on fact is disputed.
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Alan Hale Jr. Alan Hale Jr. (born Alan Hale MacKahan, March 8, 1921 – January 2, 1990) was an American film, stage, character and television actor and restaurateur. Hale Jr. was the son of character actor Alan Hale Sr. Hale Jr.'s television career, which spanned four decades, was most noted for his co-starring role on the 1960s series "Gilligan's Island". He also appeared on several talk and variety shows.
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Leslie Uggams Leslie Marian Uggams (born May 25, 1943) is an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, Uggams is recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries "Roots" (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She had earlier been highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical "Hallelujah, Baby!", winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968. Later in her career, Uggams received renewed notice with appearances alongside Ryan Reynolds in "Deadpool" (2016) and in a recurring role on "Empire".
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Jeremiah Burton Jeremiah Burton (1814 – January 9, 1902) was a farmer. He was born about 1814 in South Carolina before moving to Rabun County, Georgia and first settled at Jones Ford on the Tallulah River. The town of Burton, Georgia was named after its Postmaster Jacob Silas Burton, Jeremiah's son. Jeremiah Burton was a popular area citizen who occasionally served as a bailiff for the local superior court. According to family legend, he was buried with his hat on.
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Neil Travis Herbert Neil Travis (October 12, 1936 – March 28, 2012) was an American film and television editor with about 28 feature film credits from 1970–2007. He is likely best known for editing the television miniseries "Roots" (1977) and the feature film "Dances with Wolves" (1990).
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Robert Trebor Robert Trebor (born June 7, 1953) is an American character actor, perhaps best known for starring as on the cult hits "" and "". His stage name is a palindrome (meaning it is spelled the same way backwards as it is forwards).
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Ellis Burton Ellis Narrington Burton (August 12, 1936 – October 1, 2013) was an American professional baseball center fielder who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs over parts of five Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons. A switch-hitter who threw right-handed, Burton stood 5 ft tall and weighed 160 lb . He was born in Los Angeles, California.
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Miller Barber Miller Westford Barber, Jr. (March 31, 1931 – June 11, 2013) was an American professional golfer who enjoyed significant success on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, and a greater degree of success on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) in the 1980s.
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John Burton (New Zealand cricketer) John Edward Ledgard Burton (15 February 1925 – 11 May 2010) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played one first-class match for Wellington in 1946-47 and three for Ceylon on their tour of Pakistan in 1949-50.
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Alexander Keith McClung Alexander Keith McClung (14 June 1811 – 23 March 1855) briefly served as US chargé d'affaires to Bolivia in President Zachary Taylor's administration. An "inveterate Southern duelist" nicknamed "The Black Knight of the South", he was also a poet. James H. Street used him as the model for the character Keith Alexander in his novel "Tap Roots" (1942).
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Curley Bridges Curley Wilson Bridges (February 7, 1934 – November 27, 2014) was an American electric blues, rock-and-roll, and rhythm-and-blues singer, pianist and songwriter.
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Burton Berinsky Burton Berinsky (born Boston, Massachusetts, April 5, 1931, died New York City, September 29, 1991) was an American writer, photographer, and designer.
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Carl Reindel Carl Warren Reindel (January 20, 1935   September 4, 2009) was an American actor, known for portraying Lieutenant Kenneth M. Taylor in the epic war film "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Reindel also played "Stanton" in Steve McQueen's hit film "Bullitt" and "Lt. Comroe" in classic science fiction film "The Andromeda Strain". Reindel also made several appearances on popular TV series. In 1964 he appeared on "Perry Mason" as defendant and title character Barry Davis in "The Case of the Drifting Dropout," and in 1966 he played golf caddy and murderer Danny Bright in "The Case of the Golfer's Gambit." He also appeared on "Gunsmoke", "The F.B.I.", "Bonanza", "The Virginian" (as Carl Reindell), and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", and also played the son of a man bent on vengeance on the western series Wagon Train before leaving show business in the early 1980s. Reindel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died of a heart attack at the age of 74, on September 4, 2009 in Valley Village, California.
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Ralph Richeson Ralph Richeson (July 6, 1952 – October 27, 2015) was an American actor and painter best known for his role of Richardson, the fictional Grand Central Hotel's disheveled, eccentric cook on the HBO television series, "Deadwood". Richeson was originally an extra on "Deadwood", before the show's producer, David Milch, noticed him and gave him one line, which became Richeson's first onscreen credit. This led to Richeson's recurring role as the cook in 20 episodes of "Deadwood". The series aired on HBO for three seasons from 2004 to 2006.
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Roots: The Next Generations Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. (Henning is about 48 miles north of Memphis, which is on the Mississippi River and in the southwest corner of the state, and which was then the largest city in it.) This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled "" plus additional material by Haley.
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Don Wilbanks Don Wilbanks (born Thomas Donald Wilbanks on October 4, 1926; died July 26, 2013) was an American actor who appeared in such television series as "Rawhide", "Tate", "Twilight Zone", "Tales of Wells Fargo", "Laramie", "Bat Masterson", " The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp", "Bonanza", "Cheyenne", "Convoy", "Mayberry R.F.D.", "The Guns of Will Sonnett ", "77 Sunset Strip", "Ironside", "Mod Squad", "Lancer", "The Virginian", "Charlie's Angels" and "Lawman", among others.
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Brian Keith Brian Keith (born Robert Alba Keith, November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the Disney family film "The Parent Trap" (1961), the comedy "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" (1966), and the adventure saga "The Wind and the Lion" (1975), in which he portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Elton Rule Elton H. Rule (June 13, 1917-May 5, 1990) was an American television executive and former president of the American Broadcasting Company. Assuming the presidency at a time when ABC was a distant third in the Nielsen ratings, Rule is credited with greatly expanding network revenue, ratings, affiliates and profits. He is also credited with developing the miniseries, beginning with an adaptation of "QB VII" in 1974 and including the landmark "Roots" in 1977. Rule served as network president from 1972 to 1983.
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Cliff Burton Clifford Lee "Cliff" Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician and songwriter, best known as the second bass guitarist for the American band Metallica from December 1982 until his death in September 1986.
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O. L. Burton Otho Liston Burton (December 19, 1906 – September 18, 1971) was an American politician in the state of Florida.
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Roots (Slide Hampton album) Roots is an album by American trombonist, composer and arranger Slide Hampton recorded in 1985 and released on the Dutch Criss Cross Jazz label.