Among the cast members were former Stanford University basketball star L. Wolfe Perry, Jr. and a teenage Cindy Herron (who years later would become a founding member of the R&B female quartet En Vogue).
Additionally, he appeared in the controversial 1986 film Soul Man, which starred C. Thomas Howell as a Caucasian student who uses medication to disguise himself as an African American and obtain a Harvard Law School scholarship intended for African American students.
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He then put his Stanford drama experience to work and landed the role of Rutherford on The White Shadow in 1980.
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Wolfe Perry (born Lieutenant Wolfe Perry, Jr. on 22 January 1957, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an African American actor and former college basketball player at Stanford University.
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As an actor, Perry is primarily known for his role as Teddy Rutherford, one of Coach Ken Reeves' new players in the third season of the CBS TV series The White Shadow.
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