EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.
By Abbie Bernstein

PBS explores different genres and honors different luminaries in each episode of its PIONEERS OF TELEVISION series. The last episode of the current season, “Miniseries,” airs Tuesday, February 5. Actor Louis Gossett, Jr. is a part of the “Miniseries” segment, not only because of his role as Fiddler in the groundbreaking ROOTS miniseries, but also because of his long, storied career.

Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Gossett did his first Broadway play, TAKE A GIANT STEP, in 1953. His first onscreen work in the 1957-58 TV series THE BIG STORY. He then played George Murchison in the 1961 film version of A RAISIN IN THE SUN, reprising the role he’d created on Broadway.
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