Roger E. Mosley, who portrayed Theodore “T.C.” Calvin on 'Magnum, P.I.' and blues and folk singer Huddie Ledbetter in 'Leadbelly,' has died
it, his agent told him: “It’s starring this guy Tom Selleck. Tom Selleck has made about five pilot shows … and none of them has sold. So here’s what you do, Roger: Sign up for the show, go over to Hawaii, they’ll treat you good for the 20 days it will take to shoot the [pilot], you’ll get a lot of money, and then you come home. A show with Tom Selleck always fails, and you’ll be fine.”Mosley in real life was a licensed private helicopter pilot but not allowed to fly on the series.
At the start, the writers had T.C. as the owner of a struggling helicopter business, but Mosley refused to “be the only Black person in Hawaii and be broke,” he said. “And they reversed. They decided Tom would be broke, and I would be financially well off — except I was always bailing him out.” Mosley also made his character a graduate of Grambling State University, a lover of books and poetry and a guy who didn’t party.writers] keep writing for me to smoke and drink, but I won’t do it,” he said in a 1982 interview in “I never get high, smoke or drink on the show or in real life. That’s not what I want Black kids to see.”
Born on Dec. 18, 1938, Roger Earl Mosley was raised by his mother, Eloise, in the Imperial Courts project in Watts. He was a wrestler in high school and a swimming coach in the neighborhood., Mosley was studying acting under Raymond St. Jacques at the Mafundi Institute, a community arts school in Watts, when a director from Universal came to lecture the students on self-sacrifice and said, “I know actors who had to eat ketchup sandwiches.
Mosley got up and shouted: “You have the audacity to tell us to eat ketchup sandwiches for our art. I know people who are eating ketchup sandwiches to survive. We need somebody to give us a break.”Mosley made one of his first onscreen appearances in 1971 on an episode of CBS’
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