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"Got a smoke?" Darwin Joston secured himself a permanent place in cult movie history with that particular laconically witty line as laid-back Death Row-bound convict Napoleon Wilson in John Carpenter's outstanding urban action thriller classic Assault - Anschlag bei Nacht (1976). Wilson was undoubtedly Joston's best role, and he played it with exceptional skill: mellow, low-key and disarmingly casual with a cool sense of dry ironic humor and a wickedly funny way with a sardonic wisecrack. Joston's terrific portrayal of the acidic and fatalistic Wilson should have led to bigger and better things. Alas, it did not.He was born as Francis Darwin Solomon on December 9, 1937, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His parents were Mary Elizabeth Smith and Buford Odell Solomon. Joston attended Glenn High School in Kernersville, North Carolina, where he was considered a talented athlete. Following graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1960, Darwin moved to New York and began acting in stage plays and summer stock productions for about five years in the early to mid 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles to continue his acting career.Compared to his substantial starring role in "Assault on Precinct 13," most of Joston's other film parts were relatively small: he's an ill-fated soldier in the dreadful killer snake dud Unternehmen Klapperschlange (1976), a beleaguered pencil-factory clerk in Eraserhead (1977), a drunken truck driver in Von Küste zu Küste (1980), a coroner in the splendidly spooky The Fog - Nebel des Grauens (1980) and a typically relaxed FBI agent in the entertainingly crummy science-fiction/horror hoot Time Walker (1982) (Joston was reunited with his fellow "Assault on Precinct 13" cast member Austin Stoker in this latter picture).Joston also did guest spots on such TV shows as ALF (1986), Polizeirevier Hill Street (1981), Remington Steele (1982), Spenser (1985), Die Rookies (1972), Ein Sheriff in New York (1970), Ghost Story (1972), Der Chef (1967), The Rat Patrol (1966), Lassie (1954) (in which he had a recurring role) and Die Leute von der Shiloh Ranch (1962). In addition to his acting credits, Joston worked behind-the-scenes as either a driver or a transportation captain on such features as Hallo, Mr. President (1995), Wild at Heart - Die Geschichte von Sailor und Lula (1990), La Bamba (1987), High-Life am Strand (1987), Zeit der Rache (1986), Zoff in Beverly Hills (1986) and Die Buddy Holly Story (1978).Darwin Joston died of leukemia on June 1, 1998. Although he's no longer with us, Joston nonetheless will forever live on in our hearts and memories as the supremely amiable, if notorious, killer criminal Napoleon Wilson. "Got a light?" - IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)

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