The 6'10" Nigerian that played "the Alien" from Alien (1979)

[Hannibal Fox]

It’s actually crazy how many black folks are the faces behind some of favorite pop culture sci fi characters.


A few others off top:

Black stuntman was the original red ranger and green ranger


Black man was the predator(the Lakers roster was the LA hunting party at the end of Predator 2)


Black man was Barney the purple dinosaur


Of course the voice of Darth Vader was James Earl Jones

Knew all of these except the power ranger one.

Always thought they reused the fight scenes from super sentai up until the later ones?

 

[newworldafro]

It’s actually crazy how many black folks are the faces behind some of favorite pop culture sci fi characters.


A few others off top:

Black stuntman was the original red ranger and green ranger


Black man was the predator(the Lakers roster was the LA hunting party at the end of Predator 2)


Black man was Barney the purple dinosaur


Of course the voice of Darth Vader was James Earl Jones

Yep.

 

[Hellmont]

I didn't know Alien was a person in a suit I thought was a robot.

A robot from 1979 that can move around like a human breh

 

[SheWantTheD]

Damn.. sad to a see a fellow young Nigerian brother lose his life to sickle cell.. smh.

 

[YouMadd?]

Knew all of these except the power ranger one.

Always thought they reused the fight scenes from super sentai up until the later ones?

Erik Betts
Erik Betts - IMDb

 

[Afrodroid]

I misread, thought breh was 6.1:mjlaughrmx:

 

[kingofnyc]

predator >>>

 

[GASign]

 

[GASign]

Some of these pics is wassup. I always knew about the Predator, but never thought about who was in the Alien suit. Here goes a familiar voice you may have heard, but didn't know who the dude was behind it.