Actor Max Julien, star of ‘The Mack,’ dead at 88

Max Julien, who played a pimp in the 1973 blaxploitation movie “The Mack,” died Saturday, his wife said. He was 88.

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Arabella Julien confirmed the actor’s death to The Hollywood Reporter. Max Julien died at Sherman Oaks Hospital in California, the website reported. No cause of death was given.

The actor’s death was also confirmed by TMZ.

In “The Mack,” which also starred a young Richard Pryor, Max Julien played Goldie, who gets out of prison after a five-year term and winds up “king of the pimping game,” according to IMDb.com. Pryor played Julien’s sidekick, Slim.

Max Julien’s public relations team paid tribute to him in a statement to TMZ, saying that “During Julien’s decades-long career, he was known for being bold, honest and straightforward. He would live and speak his own truth both professionally and privately. He was thought of as a rare ‘man among men.’”

Max Julien was born Jan. 1, 1933, in Washington, D.C., according to his IMDb.com biography.

His acting credits also include co-starring roles with Jack Nicholson in the 1968 film, “Psych-Out,” and with Candice Bergen and Elliott Gould in the 1970 movie, “Getting Straight.”

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