Yaphet Kotto, best known to TV audiences as police lieutenant Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street, has died at the age of 81.
Kotto co-starred on Homicide: Life on the Street for its entire seven-season run from 1993-99, then played Al Giardello again in the 2000 TV movie Homicide: The Movie.
“I’m saddened and still in shock of the passing of my husband Yaphet of 24 years.
A good man, a good father, a good husband and a decent human being, very rare to find.