Knowles met Mosley while training Ch-a Mosley at John Muir High School in Pasadena before he and Mosley became longtime friends and coaching partners. … He was an encyclopedia of knowledge on different things.” “If you asked him something, you would get the complete answer, not just a part-answer. “He was always giving knowledge,” Monrovia High track Mike Knowles told The Times. Mosley also coached a variety of other sports, including swimming and basketball. … He made sure that I had a work ethic and he instilled in me a strong moral compass to stand on my own two feet and to get a good education and have all the tools I needed to be successful in life.” Under his coaching, I learned what it meant to win. I was his first hurdler that he trained to run the 400-meter hurdles, and he made me into a champion. “Even while famous and having this successful career in Hollywood, he continued to work with youth. “My dad was always a man of the community,” Ch-a Mosley told The Times. He was an assistant coach at Monrovia High School at the time of his death. Mosley was also a longtime high school track and field coach. Mosley also portrayed heavyweight champion Sonny Liston in the 1977 Muhammad Ali biopic, “The Greatest.” Mosley was born in Los Angeles and attended Jordan High School. He came out of retirement to play Booky, T.C.’s barber, on a “Magnum” reboot episode in 2019. Mosley played helicopter pilot Theodore “T.C.” Calvin on “Magnum, P.I.,” which was a smash hit for CBS from 1980-88. Mosley, left, Tom Selleck, and Larry Manetti are seen backstage at the TV Land Awards on Sunday, Apin Universal City. His death was first reported by Rich Gonzalez of PrepCalTrack, a website which covers high school track and field in California. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and then transferred to Cedars-Sinai, according to The Times. Mosley died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from injuries he sustained in a car crash Thursday in Lynwood, Ch-a Mosley told the Los Angeles Times.Īfter the crash, which left him paralyzed from the shoulders down, Mosley was taken to St. You raised me well and she is in good hands. I will care for mommy, your love of almost 60 years. It is time to celebrate the legacy he left for us all. He would HATE any crying done in his name. We could never mourn such an amazing man. “He was surrounded by family as he transcended peacefully. Mosley, my father, your friend, your ‘coach Mosley’ your ‘TC’ from Magnum P.I., passed away at 1:17am,” Ch-a Mosley posted on Facebook. whenever I get the chance.LOS ANGELES - Character actor Roger Mosley, who appeared in a slew of television shows and films in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s but was best known for his regular appearances on “Magnum, P.I.,” died Sunday at the age of 83, his daughter announced. Yes, Tom Selleck's performance is what makes me watch Magnum P.I. He makes me believe that Magnum can look at a video of T.C.'s kidnapped daughter and figure out where she is being held from the reflection of an apartment building in the glass behind her. But this would have meant nothing if the main star wasn't any good. As for the regular cast: all good, although Larry Manetti sometimes came across a little amateurish. Candy Clark's Leslie should get special mention as the best of all the guest stars as the hooker that means well but doesn't listen to anyone. That last episode was particularly good as a lot of the more fun guest stars of the past participated. award that didn't matter to him because he wanted to solve the murder of the French detective that he didn't even like, were great stories. Magnum's trip to L.A., the treasure hunt, Higgins and Magnum's feud, Magnum as a hotel detective, the P.I. ![]() Yeah, the episodes that were marked serious were pretty bad but the light-hearted ones more than made up the difference. Ugh, for years just saying "cookie" with a Russian accent would make me laugh. How could one forget Magnum's psychic link when he went to England or when he gets stranded on the island that doesn't welcome visitors or the all time worst one: the Ivan and Cookie episode.
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