American actor was found shot dead

After the tragic end, stars mourn Thomas Baird

Jefferson didn't get his chance at the cinema until he was 45 late.

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Last weekend, the American actor, Thomas Jefferson Bird, was found shot dead in Atlanta (Georgia), and his colleagues and friends mourned him, including director Spike Lee, who used him in a number of his films.

Yesterday, a spokesman for the Atlanta police told «Agence France-Presse» that the police found the 70-year-old actor, shot in the back, early Saturday morning, in the southwest of the city.

Upon arrival on the scene, the medical team verified Jefferson's death.

The police have opened an investigation, but have not stopped anyone yet.

Jefferson had a lot of experience as a theater actor, but he did not get his chance in the cinema until late at the age of 45, when director Spike Lee offered him a minor role in his movie "The Cluckers".

Then he took a role, too, in another film for him, "Get on the Bus," before he was hired by other directors.

And with Spike Lee's management, he also participated in other projects, the most recent of which was the series "Cheese Got to Have It" (2017-2019) and the movie "Chai-Rak" (2015).

Spike described Lee Jefferson as his friend, in his obituary, the day before yesterday, on "Instagram", expressing his grief over his death.

As for the actor Wendell Pearce, who appeared with him on "Get on the Bus", he wrote that "Bird was courageous, funny, calm, creative, and expressive."

Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis wrote in a tweet: “It's been so much love working with you, Bird.

How much you were an excellent actor.

I am sorry that your life ended like this ».

Jefferson's journey with the cinema began at the age of 45, when Spike Lee offered him a minor role in the movie "Lockers".

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