

He also appeared in season 7 episode 9 of "In the Heat of the Night".

He co-starred in a two-part episode of the courtroom series Matlock as Mr. Lister had numerous guest appearances on TV series, including playing Klaang, the first Klingon ever to make contact with humans, in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.

He also played the role of Obodo in Mario Van Peebles' Posse (1993), along with Tone Loc.

He did, however, appear in Cube's director debut The Players Club. He reprised the role in the film's sequel, Next Friday (2000), but did not appear in the third film of the series, Friday After Next (2002). Deebo was the neighborhood's dog-eat-dog thug and bruiser to every character, including Ice Cube's main character Craig Jones. Lister was mostly recognized as the antagonist known as Deebo from 1995's Friday. He was cut after two exhibition games and opted to pursue acting instead. Īfter college, Lister competed for the Converse Track Club, eventually raising his shot put mark to Script error: No such module "convert"., before trying out with the New Orleans Breakers of the United States Football League. Lister was the 1982 NCAA Division II National Shot Put Champion. In his senior year, he won the national shot put title with a mark of over Script error: No such module "convert". shot put throw, which helped to earn him a scholarship to California State University, Los Angeles. While at Long Beach, he recorded a Script error: No such module "convert". Lister attended Palomar Junior College before transferring to Long Beach City College for his sophomore year. Ever since his birth, he had a deformed and detached retina in his right eye, causing permanent blindness. Lister was born on June 24, 1958, in Compton, California, to Thomas Duane Lister and Mildred (Edwards) Lister. 3.3 World Championship Wrestling (1996).He also had a distinguished track and field experience while in college. He played in both comedies and dramas, usually cast as 'the heavy/big bully'. He was blind in his right eye which drooped, and the look in film is a product created by film crews. He had two short professional wrestling stints, with Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) after appearing as Zeus in the 1989 film No Holds Barred and resuming the feud as Z-Gangsta in 1996 for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Tommy " Tiny" Debo Lister (born Thomas Duane Lister Jr., J– December 10, 2020) was an American character actor and occasional professional wrestler known for his roles as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the 1995 film Friday and its 2000 sequel and as President Lindberg in The Fifth Element. | id="infoboxend" class="plainlinks" style="text-align:right -moz-border-radius:15px " |
