We ask that you keep Max Julien’s family, friends, fans and fraternity brothers in your thoughts. Julien also appeared in Def Jam’s How to Be a Player and has guest starred on TV shows such as The Mod Squad and One on One. He also wrote the screenplay for and co-produced, Warner Brothers’s blaxplotation classic Cleopatra Jones. The movie has since become a cult hit and Julien has been referenced across music genres for decades. Stevie Wonder included Max in the dedications on his classic album Songs In The Key of Life and Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have done Max Julien impersonations and referenced the actor. Goldie’s criminal ways juxtapose his brother Olinga’s Black Nationalist efforts to save the Black community from drugs and violence. The film is about the rise and fall of John “Goldie” Mickens, a man who returns to Oakland, California after a five-year prison sentence, and has a plan to achieve money and power by becoming a pimp. Moving westward he landed co-starring roles with Jack Nicholson in Psych-Out and Candace Bergen in Columbia’s box-office hit Getting Straight,” Julien’s IMdB page states. On the film The Mack was released staring Max Julien and Richard Pryor and directed by Michael Campus. “A classically trained actor, Max began his career in New York’s Off-Broadway circuit including Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare-In-The-Park. Julien crossed through the Xi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi at Howard University on the December 4th, 1954 and is famous for his role as Goldie in The Mack which came in 1973. Other films Julien appeared in include “The Black Klansman” (1966), “Psych Out (1966) “The Savage Seven” (1968), “Up Tight!” (1968) and “Getting Straight” (1970).According to his wife , he died early Saturday morning at the age of 88. The actor also wrote and produced iconic film series Cleopatra Jones in the 1970s. Julien’s performance in the film is embedded in hip hop culture, and scores of rappers have sampled Goldie’s lines or scenes from the movie, including Snoop Dogg, Raekwon, Mobb Deep, LL Cool J and Public Enemy. Max Julien starred in the 1973 film “The Mack” as John “Goldie” Mickens. A young Richard Pryor plays Goldie’s sidekick, Slim, in one of his early film roles before the comedian became a major Hollywood star. His largest role, Goldie in “The Mack,” was an ambitious pimp who had just served a five-year sentence in prison. Julien was a classically trained actor, according to IMDB, and began his career performing in off-Broadway productions around New York City before moving on to acting, writing and producing films. “He was thought of as a rare ‘man among men.'” He would live and speak his own truth both professionally and privately,” his team said in their statement. “During Julien’s decades-long career, he was known for being bold, honest and straightforward. Julien died on New Year’s Day after he was found by his wife, Arabella, representatives told TMZ. TikTok star Britney Joy, 35, her mom dead in car crash: ‘They were my best friends’Īctor Max Julien, best known for his iconic role as Goldie in the 1973 blaxploitation film “The Mack,” died on Saturday at the age of 88, representatives confirmed. K-pop star busted for notorious cancer scam found dead at 33 John Waddington, post-punk The Pop Group guitarist, dead at 63 ‘And Just Like That’ sweetly honors Willie Garson in Season 2 premiere
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