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NEW YORK | Robert Guillaume, who rose from abominable ancestry in St. Louis barrio to become a brilliant in date musicals and win Emmy Awards for his assuming of the calumniating butler in the TV sitcoms “Soap” and “Benson,” has died at age 89.

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Guillaume died at home Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to his widow, Donna Brown Guillaume. He had been aggressive prostate cancer, she told The Associated Press.

Among Guillaume’s achievements was arena Nathan Detroit in the aboriginal all-black adaptation of “Guys and Dolls,” earning a Tony choice in 1977. He became the aboriginal African-American to sing the appellation role of “Phantom of the Opera,” actualization with an all-white casting in Los Angeles.

While arena in “Guys and Dolls, he was asked to analysis for the role of an acerbic butler of a governor’s abode in “Soap,” a primetime TV ball that satirized soap operas.

“The minute I saw the script, I knew I had a alive one,” he recalled in 2001. “Every role was accounting adjoin type, abnormally Benson, who wasn’t abject to anyone. To me, Benson was the animus for all those banal guys who looked like Benson in the ’40s and ’50s (movies) and had to accumulate their mouths shut.”

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The actualization became so accepted that ABC was abiding to barrage a spinoff, artlessly alleged “Benson,” which lasted from 1979 to 1986. The alternation fabricated Guillaume affluent and famous, but he regretted that Benson’s wit had to be bass bottomward to accomplish him added ambrosial as the advance star.

The career of Robert Guillaume (pronounced with a adamantine “g”: gee-yome) about concluded in January 1999 at Walt Disney Studio. He was actualization in the TV alternation “Sports Night” as Isaac Jaffee, controlling ambassador of a sports highlight show. Returning to his bathrobe allowance afterwards a meal abroad from the studio, he aback collapsed.

“I fell on the floor, and I couldn’t get up,” he told an accuser in 2001. “I kept floundering about on the attic and I didn’t apperceive why I couldn’t do it. I didn’t apperceive it was it was acquired by my larboard ancillary actuality weaker than the other.”

Fortunately, St. Joseph Hospital was anon beyond from the studio. The 71-year-old amateur was taken there and advised for a stroke— the aftereffect of a claret array that blocked apportionment of claret to the brain. They are baleful in 15 percent of the cases.

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Guillaume’s achievement was minor, causing almost slight accident and little aftereffect on his speech. Afterwards six weeks in the hospital, he underwent a analysis of walks and sessions in the gym. He alternate to the additional division of “Sports Talk,” and it was accounting into the calligraphy that Isaac Jaffee was convalescent from a stroke. Because of abbreviate ratings, the additional division accepted to be the aftermost for the much-praised show.

Guillaume resumed his career and catholic as a new agent for the American Achievement Association. He additionally fabricated actualization for the American Heart Association.

“I’m a bastard, a Catholic, the son of a prostitute, and a artefact of the atomic barrio of St. Louis.”

This was the aperture of “Guillaume: A Life,” his 2002 adventures in which he laid bald his afflicted life. He was built-in adulterated on Nov. 30, 1927, in St. Louis, one of four children. His mother called him Robert Peter Williams; back he became a aerialist he adopted Guillaume, a French adaptation of Williams, assertive the change would accord him distinction.

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His aboriginal years were spent in a back-alley accommodation after accouterments or electricity; an outhouse was aggregate with two dozen people. His alcoholic mother hated him because of his aphotic skin, and his grandmother rescued him, accomplished him to apprehend and enrolled him in a Catholic school.

Seeking but denied his mother’s adulation and abominable by nuns and acceptance because of his aphotic skin, the boy became a rebel, and that agitated into his developed life. He was expelled from academy and again the Army, admitting he was accepted an atonement discharge. He fathered a babe and alone the adolescent and her mother. He did the aforementioned to his aboriginal wife and two sons and to addition woman and a daughter.

He formed in a administration store, the column appointment and as St. Louis’s aboriginal atramentous streetcar motorman. Seeking article better, he enrolled at St. Louis University, absolute in aesthetics and Shakespeare, and again at Washington University (St. Louis) area a music assistant accomplished the adolescent man’s superb tenor singing voice.

After confined as an amateur at theaters in Aspen, Colo., and Cleveland, the anew called Guillaume toured with Broadway shows “Finian’s Rainbow,” ”Golden Boy,” ”Porgy and Bess” and “Purlie,” and began actualization on sitcoms such as “The Jeffersons” and “Sanford and Son.” Again came “Soap” and “Benson.” His aeon of greatest success was bedridden by tragedy back his 33-year-old son Jacques died of AIDS.

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Guillaume’s aboriginal abiding accord came back he affiliated TV ambassador Donna Brown in the mid-1980s and fathered a daughter, Rachel. At aftermost he was able to absolve off the acerbity he had acquainted throughout his life.

“To allay acerbity requires added than animal effort,” he wrote at the end of his autobiography. “Relief comes from a antecedent we cannot see but can alone feel. I am agreeable to alarm that antecedent love.”

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