Austin Stoker (b. October 7, 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a West-Indian born, African-American actor best known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the beseiged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired, 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the first heroic, starring roles for an African-American actor in an action film outside of the blaxploitation genre. October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... Port of Spain, population 49,000 (2000), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the countrys second largest city by population, after San Fernando. ... An African American (also Afro-American or Black American, or black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Precinct 13, or more correctly Precinct 9, Division 13, is the fictional police station in the 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13. ... John Carpenter John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer. ... Howard Hawks Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era. ... Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 action/thriller movie, directed by John Carpenter. ... Action movies usually involve a fairly straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using physical force. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in the blaxploitation film Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in the 1973 science fiction film Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the 1974 disaster film Airport 1975, and the 1977 television mini-series Roots. The action movie Sheba, Baby, starring Pam Grier as Sheba Shayne, was released in 1975. ... Foxy Brown DVD cover Pamela Suzette Grier (born 26 May 1949 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American actress. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Battle For the Planet of the Apes (1973) is the fifth and final entry in the Planet of the Apes series. ... A disaster movie is a movie that has an impending disaster (e. ... Roots is: The plural of Root Roots (album) Roots (TV miniseries), a mini-series based on a novel by Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley Roots Canada Ltd. ...

Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Being from Another Planet, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. Movie theater view, featuring the short film Hired!. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is a cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch particularly bad movies. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... Being from Another Planet (originally released as Time Walker) is a 1982 B-movie. ... F. Darwin Solomon (December 9, 1937- June 1, 1998) was an American actor known professionally as Darwin Joston (sometimes credited as Darwin Jostin during the early years of his career ). A North Carolina native, Joston was born in Winston-Salem and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

External links

• Austin Stoker at The Internet Movie Database