{"id":32758,"date":"2026-03-29T20:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=32758"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:49:49","slug":"the-oscar-winning-actor-and-lead-from-an-officer-and-a-gentleman-has-passed-away-at-87-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=32758","title":{"rendered":"The Oscar-winning actor and lead from \u2018An Officer and a Gentleman\u2019 has passed away at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is best known for roles in films such as \u201cAn Officer and a Gentleman\u201d and the TV mini series \u201cRoots.\u201d He also well known as the first Black man to win an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category at the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001283\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IMDB<\/a>, Gossett acted in an impressive 200 projects during his long career in Hollywood, and he has 12 upcoming projects! Sadly, he will not get to see those projects once they are completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/03\/29\/1241598137\/louis-gossett-jr-first-black-man-to-win-best-support-actor-oscar-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR<\/a>&nbsp;reports that Gossett has died at the age of 87 years old. He was in Santa Monica, California at the time of his death on March 28, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ob-readmore-th-position\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/04\/19\/louis-gossett-jr-cause-death-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TMZ<\/a>&nbsp;obtained a death certificate copy which lists chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as the primary cause of death. Also, noted as contributing conditions are&nbsp; heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Apparently, he has been battling COPD for many years. The death certificate states his body will be cremated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gossett began his career on stage. Before staring on TV and in movies, he was a star on Broadway. He acted alongside stars including Marilyn Monroe and Sidney Poitier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is best known for roles in films such as \u201cAn Officer and a Gentleman\u201d and the TV mini series \u201cRoots.\u201d He also well&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32759,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758\/revisions\/32759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}