Michael Clarke Duncan

American actor, known for the films "Armageddon", "Green Mile", the TV series "The Seeker". In his younger years he was a professional basketball player. He died in 2012 due to heart problems.

Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, USA. The family of the future actor was incomplete. A single mother raised Michael and his sister on her own. The future actor entered the Alcorn University in Mississippi, the first university in the history of the United States for African Americans (nowadays, an ordinary provincial university). For one season, Duncan played for the basketball club of the University of Alcorn but left the sport.

The future actor had to interrupt his education after his mother fell ill. Caring for the family fell on Michael's shoulders, and he began working as a security guard in clubs in Chicago. Michael's powerful physique and enormous stature predetermined the choice of a profession. Later, the future actor moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a bodyguard.

One of the first in Michael's acting career was the role of Boogey in the science fiction disaster film Armageddon with Bruce Willis. Duncan's hero is a member of the crew of the space shuttle Independence, which flies towards an asteroid heading towards Earth. The team must drill an asteroid and plant an atomic bomb inside to crack this huge rock, a collision with which threatens the planet with disaster.

Having flown around the moon, the shuttle finds itself in a cloud of space debris rushing after the asteroid. The ship crashes, and almost all people on board die, only Bugai and two more survive. One of these two, A.J. Frost, is played by Ben Affleck. The survivors are sent to meet the team of the second shuttle flying to the asteroid, which is also not doing as it should.

In 1999, the mystical drama The Green Mile, based on the novel by Stephen King, was released, where the actor plays the role of John Coffey. Michael got into this project thanks to his acquaintance with Bruce Willis, his colleague on the set of "Armageddon".

The hero Duncan in The Green Mile is sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two girls, and Coffey ends up in prison on death row. Paul, one of the guards, questions Coffey's guilt.

John's behavior bears little resemblance to that of a killer and sociopath. In addition, Coffey shows the abilities of a healer - by the laying on of hands, the hero relieves Paul from infection and brings back to life a tame mouse of one prisoner, who was trampled by another prisoner in revenge.

The warden's wife is also ill, and medicine is powerless to help her. The prison guards secretly take Coffey to the chief's house to help the unfortunate woman, and it succeeds. Later, Coffey uses his amazing powers to point Paul to the real girl killer. Convinced of Coffey's innocence, Paul tries to help him escape from prison, but Coffey refuses to help and eventually dies.

For his role as John Coffey, Duncan was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but never received an award.

Collaboration with Willis continued on the Nine Yards Project. This comedy came out a year after The Green Mile. Bruce Willis plays here the role of hitman Jimmy Thadeski, nicknamed Tulip, and Michael Duncan plays Franklin Figuero, nicknamed Frankie, a gang member who works for Jimmy.

After that, the adventure film "The King of Scorpions" was released. Here Michael played the role of Balthazar, the leader of the Nubian rebels, who takes prisoner the main character Metaes, an Akkadian mercenary played by Dwayne Johnson. A short fight takes place between the heroes, after which they unite and decide to unite against Memnon, the tyrant king.

The actor once again co-starred with Bruce Willis in the 2005 film Sin City. This is a noir-style crime thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez, based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller. The film consists of separate finished episodes - a prologue, an epilogue and three short stories. Duncan played here the role of Manut in the novel "The Great Tasty Massacre", where a conflict between the prostitutes of the Old City, the police and the Mafia Syndicate is unfolding.

In 2011, the superhero movie Green Lantern was released based on the DC comics of the same name. Michael Clarke Duncan voices here a character named Keelowog. He is a member of the Green Lantern Corps, a gifted technician and recruit trainer. In the film, Keelowog and another veteran of the corps, Tomar-Re, train test pilot Hal Jordan, the film's protagonist. In the finale, Keelowog saves Jordan from death when, after a fierce battle in space, he falls into the Sun, losing consciousness.

A few years earlier, the actor starred in the comedy School for Scoundrels, where he played a character named Lesher. This is the assistant to Dr. Pi, the leader of the self-esteem courses. The main character of the film, a young loser Roger, signed up for these courses. Dr. Pi helps the hero get rid of his complexes, but after that he begins to ruin Roger's life and seek the attention of a girl for whom Roger himself has plans.

One of the last projects in which Duncan took part is the comedy-drama series The Seeker. The main character of the series, retired Major Walter Sherman, has an extraordinary gift for finding anything.

Having received a serious wound in the head in the war in Iraq, the major became an eccentric and paranoid, but it is precisely the heightened suspicion that helps him in his search. Michael Duncan plays in the series the role of the widower and former lawyer Leo Knox, a friend of the protagonist.

The Seeker is a spin-off of the detective series Bones, where the plot revolves around the adventures of forensic anthropologists assisted by the FBI. To introduce the new character to the public, Leo Knox was introduced to the plot of Bones before the launch of The Seeker. There, the hero appeared in episode 19 of the sixth season, which was also called "The Seeker".

The friend of the actor, TV presenter Omaros Manigo-Stolworth, did not manage to become his wife. The couple was preparing for their wedding, which was scheduled for January 2013. The actor was going to start a family, but the heart attack that struck him did not give the plans to come true.

Prior to that, Michael Duncan met with Vanessa Bosele, and even earlier - with Irene Marquez. During the filming of the movie "Armageddon" Duncan met Alicia Harrison, and the young people were in a relationship for some time. Michael Duncan has no children.

On the night of July 13, 2012, the friend of the actor Omaros found him unconscious at home. Michael Duncan had a heart attack, and Omarosa helped him hold out until the ambulance arrived by doing chest compressions. The actor's life was saved, but not for long. Michael was hospitalized and died on September 3 of the same year. The cause of death was a serious heart disease.

Michael Duncan's funeral took place on September 10 in Los Angeles. His friends and colleagues came to see the actor on his last journey, among whom Tom Hanks was noticed. Duncan's grave is located in Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

1998 - "Armageddon" 1998 - "Night at Roxbury" 1999 - "Breakfast for Champions" 1999 - "Green Mile" 1999 - "Family Guy" 2000 - "Nine Yards" 2001 - "Cats Against Dogs" 2001 - "Planet of the Apes" 2002 - "The Scorpion King" 2003 - "Daredevil" 2005 - "Sin City" 2007 - "Whirlwind" 2009 - "Streetfighter" 2011 - "Green Lantern" 2012 - "Seeker"

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