Leon in ‘American Gigolo’ ‘Memba Him?!

American star and filmmaker Bill Duke was 37 years of ages when he was cast as Leon James — the pimp of Julian Kaye who was a suspect in framing Kaye of murder — in the traditional “American Gigolo” back in 1980.

Bill was cast along with the fantastic Richard Gere as the costly escort who is being implicated of killing among his customers, Julian Kaye, Lauren Hutton as Julian’s like interest and the state senator’s partner, Michelle Stratton, Héctor Elizondo as an investigator who is persuaded Julian is guilty of murder, Detective Joe Sunday.

Duke went on to play the maker gun-toting Mac Eliot in the explosive 1987 movie “Predator.”