The character played by LeVar Burton in "Roots" died in what year?
Kunta Kinte Kunta Kinte ( 1750 – 1822; ) is a character in the novel "" by American author Alex Haley. Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and who died in 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in "Roots" was a mixture of fact and fiction. The extent to which Kunta Kinte is based on fact is disputed.
Carl Reindel Carl Warren Reindel (January 20, 1935   September 4, 2009) was an American actor, known for portraying Lieutenant Kenneth M. Taylor in the epic war film "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Reindel also played "Stanton" in Steve McQueen's hit film "Bullitt" and "Lt. Comroe" in classic science fiction film "The Andromeda Strain". Reindel also made several appearances on popular TV series. In 1964 he appeared on "Perry Mason" as defendant and title character Barry Davis in "The Case of the Drifting Dropout," and in 1966 he played golf caddy and murderer Danny Bright in "The Case of the Golfer's Gambit." He also appeared on "Gunsmoke", "The F.B.I.", "Bonanza", "The Virginian" (as Carl Reindell), and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", and also played the son of a man bent on vengeance on the western series Wagon Train before leaving show business in the early 1980s. Reindel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died of a heart attack at the age of 74, on September 4, 2009 in Valley Village, California.