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Lawrence Cook

1930–2003

United States

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Lawrence Cook (May 7, 1930 – December 27, 2003) was an American actor. Cook starred in The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973). In that film, which was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee, Cook portrayed Dan Freeman, a secret black nationalist who is trained by the CIA and later trains and leads black freedom fighters in an uprising against the U.S. government.

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