Actor Tommy Lane who appeared in Shaft and Live and Let Die has died at 83 in Florida after battle with COPD
Actor and stuntman Tommy Lane died Monday at the age of 83 in Florida after battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Lane's daughter Kamala confirmed her father's passing at Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale to Variety Tuesday.
The Miami native was best known for playing hitman Leroy in the 1971 film Shaft, who John Shaft (played by Richard Roundtree) tossed through the window of his Times Square office.
The latest: Actor and stuntman Tommy Lane died Monday at the age of 83 in Florida after battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
He went on to play the role of gang enforcer Adam in the 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die.
In an exchange on a speedboat with Roger Moore's Bond, Lane had the line, 'You made one mistake back on that island, Bond. You took something that didn’t belong to you. And you took it from a friend of Mr. Big’s. That kind of mistake is tough to bounce back from.'
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Lane's first credits came on the NBC show Flipper in 1964, and he went on to appear in films including 1970's Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1973's Shamus, 1973's Ganja & Hess, 1980's The Pilot, 1983's Blue Skies Again, 1983's Eureka and 1997's Virtual Weapon.
Lane also appeared on two episodes of the TV show Simon & Simon in 1983.
Lane played the role of gang enforcer Adam in the 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die opposite Roger Moore
He had a famed exchange on a speedboat with Roger Moore's Bond in the 1973 film
His last project was the 2007 movie Sweat, in which he played the role of Billy.
Lane also had a background in music, as he was an experienced jazz musician and played trumpet at the Blue Note in New York City, according to Variety.
The actor is survived by wife Raquel Bastias-Lane, seven children, a stepson and multiple grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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