Posted on 12/11/2020 4:27:02 PM PST by Eddie01
Tommy “Tiny” Lister, a longtime character actor best known for playing the menacing neighborhood bully in Ice Cube and Chris Tucker’s comedy “Friday,” has died at 62.
Law enforcement was called to Lister’s Marina Del Rey apartment shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, according to TMZ, which first reported the news. According to the outlet, Lister was pronounced dead at the scene. Lister’s manager, Cindy Cowan, told Variety that he had displayed coronavirus-like symptoms in recent days; the actor also had Type 2 diabetes.
The 6-foot-5-inch Lister was born blind with a detached and deformed retina in his right eye, which became something of a trademark for him. He was frequently cast as a villain, like in “Friday” and opposite Hulk Hogan in 1989’s “No Holds Barred.” (Hogan accidentally broke Lister’s nose in one of their scenes.)
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One of those actors that you say “Who?” until you see their picture, and then you’re sad.
Oh, HIM! I remember seeing him, he was great!
“I find people, its what I do”
My memory of him will be the scene in The Dark Knight where he picks the remote detonator and ‘does the right thing.’
A powerful scene.
1972 , “The Man” James Earl Jones - back when he had hair.
How not to be a Richard Head, follow these posters lead
“I mean seriously”
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