(TriceEdneyWire.com)—It was my last year as national president of the NAACP, at the end of 2013 Image Awards. I was with my ...

Louis Gossett Jr., who won a supporting actor Oscar for playing the hard-as-nails drill instructor in 1982's "An Officer and a Gentleman" a few years after winning an Emmy for his role as the ...

Louis Gossett Jr won an Academy Award for An Officer And A Gentleman which he appeared in with Richard Gere and was the first black man to win a supporting actor Oscar. On Friday, the Hollywood ...

Louis Gossett Jr, the first black man ... in 1982 for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman. Gossett also won an Emmy in 1978 for his role in Roots, the ground ...

20. Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman and Fiddler in the 1970's ...