Tall, stage-trained actor with a resonant baritone voice who emerged as one of America's premier black performers of the mid-1960s. St. Jacques, who effectively portrayed heroic characters as well as villains, appeared in "The Pawnbroker" (1965) and "The Comedians" (1967) and starred as the cop Coffin Ed Johnson in the action-comedy "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970). He originated the first…
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