Austin Stoker

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-10-07 (79 years old)

Deathday

2022-10-07

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 ...

Acting

1982

Time Walker

as Dr. Ken Melrose

1976

Victory at Entebbe

as Dr. Ghota

1975

Sheba, Baby

as Brick Williams

1973

Horror High

as Lieutenant Bozeman

1988

Uninvited

as Carribean Officer

1976

Assault on Precinct 13

as Ethan Bishop

1974

Abby

as Det. Cass Potter

1974

The Zebra Killer

as Lt. Frank Savage

1974

Airport 1975

as Air Force Sergeant

2010

Machete Joe

as Raymond Sinclair

1976

Riding with Death

as Dive Officer

2006

Big John

as Self

2001

Mach 2

as Edwards

1970

1981

Terror Among Us

as D.A. Rick Clayburn

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Descention

as Brother Malcolm

2019

3 from Hell

as Newscaster Gibson

2014

Shhhh

as Dave

1999

Two Shades of Blue

as Security Guard

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