Austin Stoker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

35

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-10-07

Day of death

2022-10-07 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Trinidad, West Indies

Austin Stoker

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots. Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Stoker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

  • Love, American Style

    Love, American Style

  • Falcon Crest

    Falcon Crest

  • Airwolf

    Airwolf

  • The Six Million Dollar Man

    The Six Million Dollar Man

  • The Six Million Dollar Man

    The Six Million Dollar Man

  • The Incredible Hulk

    The Incredible Hulk

  • The Wild Thornberrys

    The Wild Thornberrys

  • Kojak

    Kojak

  • Airport 1975

    Airport 1975

  • Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    Battle for the Planet of the Apes

  • S.W.A.T.

    S.W.A.T.

  • Assault on Precinct 13

    Assault on Precinct 13

  • Uninvited

    Uninvited

  • The Aquarians

    The Aquarians

  • Two Shades of Blue

    Two Shades of Blue

  • Monty Nash

    Monty Nash

  • 3 from Hell

    3 from Hell

  • Victory at Entebbe

    Victory at Entebbe

  • Riding with Death

    Riding with Death

  • Abby

    Abby

  • Sheba, Baby

    Sheba, Baby

  • End of an Epic: The Final Battle

    End of an Epic: The Final Battle

  • Horror High

    Horror High

  • Mach 2

    Mach 2

  • Descention

    Descention

  • Terror Among Us

    Terror Among Us

  • Return to the Planet of the Apes

    Return to the Planet of the Apes

  • Big John

    Big John

  • Shhhh

    Shhhh

  • The Man with the Power

    The Man with the Power

  • Time Walker

    Time Walker

  • The Zebra Killer

    The Zebra Killer

  • Machete Joe

    Machete Joe

  • Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

    Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

  • Another Time, Another Place

    Another Time, Another Place