Nelsan Ellis (November 30, 1977 – July 8, 2017) was an American actor. He achieved critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO television series True Blood (2008–2014), for which he won a Satellite Award from the International Press Academy, among other accolades. He also starred as Shinwell Johnson in Elementary from 2016 to 2017, and played a variety of guest roles on television.
In addition to his television work, Ellis appeared in several feature films throughout his career. He portrayed Eddie Sweat in the Disney sports drama Secretariat (2010), was Martin Luther King Jr. in Lee Daniels's The Butler (2013), and was Bobby Byrd in the 2014 James Brown biopic Get on Up. His final acting role was in True to the Game, which was released posthumously.
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Date: 01 December 1977
New Yorker magazine correspondent Robert Shaplen denies published allegation that he and other newsmen covering Vietnam war had their reporting 'shaped' or in other ways manipulated by CIA and Amer Embassy in Saigon; allegation was made on TV news program by Snepp (S)
Date: 01 December 1977
By STEVEN V. ROBERTS Special to The New York Times
Steven ROBERTS
Pol activists and journalists are amazed at material they are finding in dossiers FBI has kept on them; files, recently released under Freedom of Information Act, contain much trivial or ridiculous information; illus of Repr Robert F Drinan reading his file (M)
Date: 01 December 1977
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
A Lewis comment on case before Sup Ct concerning press access to Alameda County Jail in Calif; notes that right of TV station KQED to see and film jail was upheld on appeal; notes hostile feelings aroused by press
Date: 01 December 1977
Sevareid delivers final commentary on CBS Evening News; por (M)
Date: 30 November 1977
By RICHARD HALLORAN Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
HR Subcom on Internatl Orgns cites NY Times as a news orgn KCIA attempted to manipulate in '76; natl ed David R Jones says there apparently was Korean plan to influence press and others, but it is not clear to what extent that plan was ever carried out; adds that NY Times does not have evidence that staff was improperly influenced by Koreans (S)
Date: 30 November 1977
By MORRIS KAPLAN
Morris KAPLAN
US Civil Rights Comm acting dir Louis Nunez says news media, especially newspapers, foster 'commonly held notions' about 'undocumented workers' through inaccurate repts of their econ impact, their abuse of Govt aid and their criminal activities, speech, Amer Immigration and Citizenship Conf, NYC (M)