Raymond St. Jacques was an American

United States

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 actor.

Career

St. Jacques was born James Arthur Johnson in Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

, the son of Vivienne Johnson, a medical technician. He was known for playing the roles of Coffin Ed in the 1970 blaxploitation

Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is a film genre which emerged in the United States circa 1970. It is considered an ethnic sub-genre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, although the genre's audience...

 classic Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Green Berets

The Green Berets (film)

The Green Berets is a 1968 war film featuring John Wayne, George Takei, David Janssen, Jim Hutton and Aldo Ray, nominally based on the eponymous 1965 book by Robin Moore, though the screenplay has little relation to the book....

, Rawhide

Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...

, he had an early role in The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker (film)

The Pawnbroker is a 1964 drama film, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters and Jaime Sánchez and directed by Sidney Lumet. It was adapted by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant....

, the street preacher in They Live

They Live

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, the investigator Baxter in The Invaders

The Invaders

The Invaders, a Quinn Martin Production , is an ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968...

episode The Vise (1968), and a two year stint as Judge Clayton C. Thomas on the syndicated

Television syndication

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 TV show Superior Court

Superior Court (TV series)

Superior Court is a television courtroom drama airing in syndication from 1986 to 1989, and featuring fictionalized re-enactments of actual court cases.Raymond St...

from 1988 to 1989.

St. Jacques died from lymphoma

Lymphoma

Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...

 in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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 in 1990.

External links

• " 'Blast from the Past' with Raymond St. Jacques" for the WGBH series, Say Brother