Emmy Award-winning actor LeVar Burton shares fond memories of performing scenes from “Roots” with the late Louis Gossett Jr., who died at the age of 87, according to a statement from his family.
After he was in the running to host Jeopardy!, LeVar Burton has found a new gig. The Emmy Award winner, 67, has officially signed on to host and executive produce The CW's upcoming revival of the ...
LeVar Burton is about to get his trivia on! A new report from TMZ citing “network sources” reveals that the beloved Reading Rainbow host has secured his next project: hosting Trivial Pursuit ...
LOS ANGELES — Actor Louis Gossett Jr.'s cause of death has been revealed. The Oscar-winning actor died at the age of 87 on ...
most acclaimed, earning over 200 awards including multiple Emmys and a Peabody. As a lifelong literacy advocate, Burton has dedicated decades to encouraging children to read. In 2017, long ...
The actor was the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, following Sidney Poitier in 1964. By Lexy Perez Associate Editor Hollywood is paying tribute to Louis Gossett Jr. On Friday, Gossett ...
LeVar Burton celebrates his television series Reading Rainbow in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary feature ...
Following an introduction by DGA Board Member LeVar Burton and a screening of all the nominated works, 2008 DGA Commercial Award Nominees Peter Thwaites and Fredrik Bond joined moderator Robert ...
The award-winning documentary “Butterfly in the Sky,” spotlighting the beloved, Emmy Award-winning PBS children’s show “Reading Rainbow,” will be screened Sunday, April 28 at The Neon in downtown ...
Louis Gossett Jr., left, as Fiddler and LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte in the TV drama “Roots” in 1977. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images) Louis Gossett Jr ...
Colman Domingo, LeVar Burton, ... (1982) as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley which he won an Academy Award for in the best supporting actor category. He was the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, ...