The Best Yaphet Kotto Movies

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List of the best Yaphet Kotto movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Yaphet Kotto's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Yaphet Kotto movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Yaphet Kotto movies will be at the top of the list. Yaphet Kotto has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Yaphet Kotto movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Yaphet Kotto films to end the squabble once and for all.

If you think the best Yaphet Kotto role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Yaphet Kotto performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.

List is made up of films like The Running Man and Eye of the Tiger.

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Alien
Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Released: 1979
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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Live and Let Die
Jane Seymour, Roger Moore
Released: 1973
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
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Brubaker
Nicolas Cage, Morgan Freeman
Released: 1980
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film starring Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto and David... more on Wikipedia
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper
Released: 1991
Directed by: Rachel Talalay
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The Running Man
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Brown
Released: 1987
Directed by: Paul Michael Glaser
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Faye Dunaway, Steve McQueen
Released: 1968
Directed by: Norman Jewison
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5 Card Stud
Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum
Released: 1968
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
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Raid on Entebbe
James Woods, Charles Bronson
Released: 1977
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
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Blue Collar
Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel
Released: 1978
Directed by: Paul Schrader
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The Star Chamber
Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook
Released: 1983
Directed by: Peter Hyams
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Midnight Run
Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin
Released: 1988
Directed by: Martin Brest
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Across 110th Street
Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto
Released: 1972
Directed by: Barry Shear
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Friday Foster
Pam Grier, Eartha Kitt
Released: 1975
Directed by: Arthur Marks
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Terror in the Aisles
Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda
Released: 1984
Directed by: Andrew J. Kuehn
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Bone
Yaphet Kotto, Brett Somers
Released: 1972
Directed by: Larry Cohen
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Truck Turner
Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto
Released: 1974
Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan
Truck Turner is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and... more on Wikipedia
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Extreme Justice
Lou Diamond Phillips, Yaphet Kotto
Released: 1993
Directed by: Mark L. Lester
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The Puppet Masters
Donald Sutherland, Keith David
Released: 1994
Directed by: Stuart Orme
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Witless Protection
Jenny McCarthy, Larry the Cable Guy
Released: 2008
Directed by: Charles Robert Carner
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Tripwire
Viggo Mortensen, Tommy Chong
Released: 1990
Directed by: James Lemmo
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Dream a Little Dream 2
Corey Feldman, Corey Haim
Released: 1995
Directed by: James Lemmo
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Warning Sign
Sam Waterston, Yaphet Kotto
Released: 1985
Directed by: Hal Barwood
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Nothing But a Man
Yaphet Kotto, Abbey Lincoln
Released: 1964
Directed by: Michael Roemer
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Two If by Sea
Sandra Bullock, Denis Leary
Released: 1996
Directed by: Bill Bennett
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Drum
Pam Grier, Ken Norton
Released: 1976
Directed by: Steve Carver
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