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Actor Louis Gossett Jr. Dies at 87: First Black Man to Win Supporting Oscar

©An Officer and a Gentleman/Courtesy of Paramount Pictures  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win an Oscar for best supporting actor, died in Santa Monica, California on Friday morning. He was 87. No cause of death was revealed, but it is known that Gossett had been suffering from prostate cancer. He had also…