Actor
Austin Stoker
October 7, 1943 · Trinidad, West Indies
Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives.
Notable work
7.3Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
as Ethan Bishop
5.7Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
as MacDonald
5.83 from Hell (2019)
as Newscaster Gibson
7.2The Incredible Hulk (1977)
as Rev. Jack Williams
7.6Airwolf (1984)
as Investigator
7.3The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)
as Charles Quinten and as Captain
7The Wild Thornberrys (1998)
as Poacher #2 (voice)
5.8Airport 1975 (1974)
as Air Force Sergeant
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