Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American actor.
He is most famous for portraying Private Detective John Shaft in the blaxploitation movie Shaft (1971) and its sequels, Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Shaft in Africa (1973).
He reprised the role in the 2000 movie alongside Samuel L. Jackson, who plays his nephew, John Shaft II, and reprised it again in 2019.
