Yaphet Kotto Screen Debut
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Yaphet Kotto Screen Debut In 1964 he made his screen debut in Nothing But A Man (1964) and later caught the eye in the Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway vehicle The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) playing a professional bank robber. On 8 September 1950, while living with his grandmother Leontyne Joseph in the Bronx, a small county north of Manhattan and Queens , and south of Westchester County , Sonny was apparently hit by a broom stick swung by his uncle in a stickball game. He lost consciousness for several hours but in the next few days there was a noticeable change in Sonny’s behavior. There were "symptoms of laughing and weeping, eloquence and silence."[“He began to sing Aramaic verses, a language of which he had no prior knowledge." Doctors believed his behavior to be hysteria . His grandparents brought ‘Sonny’ back home to the Bronx. Concerned, they took him to many "doctors" faith healers and psychics. One of the psychics in Harlem went to the ext