ROBERT GUILLAUME, VOICE OF RAFIKI FROM THE LION KING, DEAD AT 89

Robert Guillaume, the two-time Emmy-winning star of Benson, died Tuesday at the age of 89 in his Los Angeles home of complications from prostate cancer, according to Variety. He is best known for playing Benson DuBois in the sitcom Soap, as well as in its spinoff,Benson—performances that earned him two Emmys, for supporting actor and lead actor in a comedy—and also for voicing the character Rafiki in Disney’s The Lion King.

His ineffably charming performance as the mischievous mandrill earned Guillaume a spoken-word Grammy, as well as the adoration of children across the globe.

Source: Vanity Fair

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