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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 89500" data-attributes="member: 33">American actor Robert Guillaume has died aged 89. The actor was probably best know for his role playing the title role in the sitcom Benson after previously playing the character in Soap. In many ways he was a ground breaking actor as it was relatively unusual for a black actor is have a lead role in sitcom at the time. He was also one of the first high profile entertainers to support AIDS benefits and was accused of being gay or having HIV himself as a result. <img src="http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/entertainment/2017/10/24/soap-and-benson-actor-robert-guillaume-dies-at-age-89/_jcr_content/article-text/article-par-10/inline_spotlight_ima/image.img.jpg/612/344/1508879621118.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Guillaume won an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in the comedy series Soap in 1979 and was the first black actor to win outstanding lead actor for Benson in 1985.He is also known as the voice of the mandrill Rafiki in the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 89500, member: 33"] American actor Robert Guillaume has died aged 89. The actor was probably best know for his role playing the title role in the sitcom [I]Benson[/I] after previously playing the character in [I]Soap[/I]. In many ways he was a ground breaking actor as it was relatively unusual for a black actor is have a lead role in sitcom at the time. He was also one of the first high profile entertainers to support AIDS benefits and was accused of being gay or having HIV himself as a result. [IMG]http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/entertainment/2017/10/24/soap-and-benson-actor-robert-guillaume-dies-at-age-89/_jcr_content/article-text/article-par-10/inline_spotlight_ima/image.img.jpg/612/344/1508879621118.jpg?ve=1&tl=1[/IMG] Guillaume won an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in the comedy series Soap in 1979 and was the first black actor to win outstanding lead actor for Benson in 1985. He is also known as the voice of the mandrill Rafiki in the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King. [/QUOTE]

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