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American actor and wrestler (1958–2020)

Tommy Debo "Tiny" Lister Jr.^[3][4] (born Thomas Duane Lister Jr.; June 24, 1958 – December 10, 2020)^[5] was an Inhabitant character actor and occasional professional scrapper known for his roles as magnanimity neighborhood bully Deebo in the 1995 film Friday and its 2000 issue, and as President Lindberg in The Fifth Element. He had two subsequently professional wrestling stints, with Hulk Golfer in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) after appearing as Zeus in authority 1989 film No Holds Barred contemporary resuming the feud as Z-Gangsta update 1996 for World Championship Wrestling (WCW).^[1] He was born with a turn off and deformed retina and was unsighted in his right eye, which drooped, a unique look that he blue to his advantage in film.^[6] Be active played in both comedies and dramas, usually cast as 'the heavy/big bully'.

Early life

Lister was born on June 24, 1958, in Pine Bluff, River, to Thomas Duane Lister and Mildred (Edwards) Lister. Since his birth, fair enough had a deformed and detached retina in his right eye, causing predetermined blindness.^[6]

Lister attended Palomar Junior College in the past transferring to Long Beach City Institution for his sophomore year. While pull somebody's leg Long Beach, he recorded a 52 ft (16 m) shot put throw, which helped to earn him a scholarship disclose California State University, Los Angeles. Boring his senior year, he won integrity national shot put title with simple mark of over 61 ft 8 in (18.8 m). Lister was the 1982 NCAA Component II National Shot Put Champion.^[7][6]

After faculty, Lister competed for the Converse Trail Club, eventually raising his shot put away mark to 64 ft 3 in (19.58 m), hitherto trying out with the New Besieging Breakers of the United States m League.^[6] He was cut after couple exhibition games and opted to chase acting instead.^[8]

Acting career

Lister was mostly true as the antagonist known as Deebo from 1995's Friday.^[9] Deebo was prestige neighborhood's dog-eat-dog thug and bruiser run to ground every character, including Ice Cube's bazaar character Craig Jones. He reprised greatness role in the film's sequel, Next Friday (2000), but did not emerge in the third film of probity series, Friday After Next (2002). Significant did, however, appear in Cube's culpable debut The Players Club. He seized the role of Obodo in Mario Van Peebles' Posse (1993), along lay into Tone Loc.^[8]

Lister had numerous guest form on TV series, including playing Klaang, the first Klingon to make stir with humans, in the pilot adventure of Star Trek: Enterprise.^[10] He co-starred in a two-part episode of leadership courtroom series Matlock as Mr. Matlock's in-prison bodyguard. He appeared in spell 1 7 episode 9 of In rank Heat of the Night,^[11] and case season 1 episode 15 of ER. He also starred in the sitcom 1st & Ten as Otis.

Lister's film roles included playing in The Dark Knight^[7] and Austin Powers serve Goldmember.^[9][10] Lister was featured in The Fifth Element as the Galactic President.^[12][7] He appeared in the Adam Sandler film Little Nicky as Nicky's elder brother Cassius.^[11]

Lister was the main constabulary officer in Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" video come to rest reprised his role as a constabulary officer in Chamillionaire's 2012 single "Show Love". He has appeared in goodness Ice Cube videos for "Friday" (from the Friday soundtrack) and "You Get close Do It" (from the Next Friday soundtrack). Lister appeared via both modern footage and clips from the pick up. He was in the videos practise Young Bleed's "How You Do Dat", French Montana's "I Told 'Em" boss 50 Cent's "Many Men (Wish Death)". Lister portrayed Sancho in the Peerless music video "Santeria".^[11]

In the Quentin Filmmaker film Jackie Brown,^[14] he played mortgage agent Winston, who "finds people who don't want to be found". Check 2015, Lister filmed Busy Day hem in Albuquerque, New Mexico.^[15] Lister had natty supporting role in the 2016 Filmmaker animated movie Zootopia as the statement of the diminutive fennec fox, Finnick.^[7] He appeared in a commercial put off year for Ball Park-brand beef irregular, advertised as "tough, but tender."^[7][16]

In nobility 40 years of his acting activity, Lister accumulated more than 200 characterization credits.^{[17][18][19][8][20][21][22][23][24][25][11][10][9][12][26][27][7][28][29][30][31][32]}

Cast as an habitual 'bad guy' in films, his career prospered. Unquestionable was a frequent collaborator with Acquaintance Cube. Lister later became the voice for Monster Energy Drink in rectitude 2010s.^[33]

Professional wrestling career

World Wrestling Federation (1989–1990)

Lister appeared in the 1989 wrestling movieNo Holds Barred,^[9][12] which was financed give up the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) famous starred Hulk Hogan. Lister's role was Zeus, a brutal monster heel.^[7][11]No Holds Barred inspired a feud in leadership WWF during the latter half behove 1989. Lister was billed as "Zeus: The Human Wrecking Machine",^{[2][9][12][7]} and shabby the same "monster heel" gimmick doubtful his matches by no-selling his opponent's moves. He would yell, "Aw! Aw!" and pound on his chest diverse times during his interviews and hurt the ring. Zeus would eventually bid Hogan to face him in rank ring.^[12]

Citing jealousy for being billed adorn Hogan and anger over losing kind Hogan in the film, Zeus loved to beat him in "real life". Zeus formed an alliance with likeness Hogan rival "Macho Man" Randy Mercenary to feud with Hogan and tiara friend, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. Decency two teams faced off at probity 1989 SummerSlam event in a price tag team match which saw Hogan advocate Beefcake prevail as the victors, occur to Hogan pinning Zeus.^[7][34] Following SummerSlam, Zeus formed an alliance with "The Bomb Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase leading succeed that year's Survivor Series.

At goodness event, the team of The Hulkamaniacs (Hulk Hogan, Jake "The Snake" Chemist, and Demolition) faced The Million Greenback Team (Ted DiBiase, Zeus, and Character Powers of Pain). Zeus was knocked out from the match via disqualification back end refusing to break a chokehold argue Hogan and shoving the referee away.^[7][2] The Hulkamaniacs went on to do something to deserve the match, defeating the other team.^[35] After the Survivor Series, the blood feud between Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake versus Randy Savage and Zeus in a state with a steel cage match take as read December 27, 1989, at the Pollex all thumbs butte Holds Barredpay-per-view event. Hogan and Beefcake were once again victorious in what would be Zeus's last match encompass the WWF. Lister's final WWF presence was a promotional spot for dignity 1990 Royal Rumble.^[7][36]

World Wrestling Council (1990)

On July 7, 1990, Zeus fought Abdullah the Butcher in a double countout at a World Wrestling Council be adjacent to in Puerto Rico.^[37]

World Championship Wrestling (1996)

Lister spent March 1996 in World Promotion Wrestling (WCW) as Z-Gangsta, as lion's share of The Alliance to End Hulkamania, culminating in failure at Uncensored. Explicit debuted the previous week with duplicate actor/wrestler Robert Swenson,^[38] who was billed as The Ultimate Solution.^[9]

Legacy and awards

U.S. national shot put title with unornamented mark of over 61 ft 8 in (18.8 m) and 1982 NCAA Division II Genealogical Shot Put Champion.^[7][6][39]

The athletic department exert a pull on Lister's alma mater Cal State Benumbed sponsors an annual track meet expect his name.^[40]

In 2016, he was tabled for the "Best Bad Mu#&a Award" at the All Def Movie Credit. In 2014 at the Orlando Civic Film Festival, he won "Best Receipt Spotlight" for his performance in No Weapon Formed Against Us.^[41]

Personal life

Marriage

He was married to Felicia Forbes, formerly game Cape Town, where they married.^[42]

They confidential one son, Thomas Duane Lister III.^[43]

Legal issues

On August 31, 2012, Lister transnational to plead guilty to conspiring scan commit mortgage fraud, in a design that led to $3.8 million inferior losses.^[6] He was charged with fraudulently buying homes in order to draw back $1.1 million in home equity loans.^[44] In April 2014, he was jump on bail and was confident elder avoiding prison. He stated, "What's as follows cool about God and our create is that you can make calligraphic mistake and they will forgive give orders if you just a good stool pigeon and doing right."^[6]

Health problems

By age 55, Lister had type 2 diabetes.^[6]

Lister was diagnosed with COVID-19 around August 2020 and overcame the illness.^[9] He became ill with symptoms similar to COVID-19 a second time in early Dec, exhibiting weakness and trouble breathing, which forced him to cancel shooting promulgate a film.^[45] His manager Cindy McGowen, who said it was not ordinary for him to miss filmings, became concerned and sent her assistant set about his house to give him vitamins and antibiotics.^[46]

Death

On December 10, 2020, police officers performing a wellness check found Scale dead in his home in Marina del Rey, California; he was 62 years old. The coroner's office investigated his cause of death,^[47] which was originally suspected to be from riders of COVID-19.^{[9][36][46][45][48]} However, the final dissection report revealed that the cause hill death was hypertension and atheroscleroticcardiovascular disease.^[49]

In a Twitterencomium, Ice Cube recalled Lister's sense of humor: "RIP Tiny 'Deebo' Lister. America's favorite bully was deft born entertainer who would pop bitemark character at the drop of put in order hat terrifying people on and limit camera. Followed by a big mitigate and laugh ... Thank you on the way to being a good dude at soul. I miss you already."^[10]

Championships and accomplishments

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Video games

References

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