Vonetta Mcgee

Vonetta Lawrence McGee was an American actress who worked in film and television. She first appeared in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence (1968) and then became known through blaxploitation films. Vonetta McGee nude scenes appear in The Great Silence (1968) and later in Shaft in Africa (1973). She was born on January 14, 1945, in San Francisco, California, and died on July 9, 2010. Her blaxploitation work included Hammer, Melinda, Blacula and Detroit 9000, along with Thomasine & Bushrod in 1974. She made Thomasine & Bushrod with Max Julien, who was her boyfriend at the time. In 1975 she starred opposite Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction. She was a regular as Mimi Shaw on the 1987 sitcom Bustin' Loose, which lasted only one season.