Biography
Commanding African American actor Thalmus Rasulala launched his film career in such blaxploitationers of the 1960s and 1970s as
Cool Breeze,
Blacula,
Bucktown and
Friday Foster. He was prominently cast in the Emmy-winning made-for-TV feature
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, played Omro in the 1977 miniseries
Roots, and was one of the nine stars of the 1981 multipart drama
The Sophisticated Gents. Rasulala's series-TV manifest included the occasional role of
Mabel King's ex-husband on What's Happening!! (1976-79), and a substantial run on the daytime drama
One Life to Live. In the 1991 TV movie
Above the Law, Rasulala played a character named Crowder, which happened to be his given name. Thalmus Rasulala died of heart failure and leukemia at the age of 51; his last film,
Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), was released posthumously. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide