Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Actor Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is best known for his roles as Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington of ABC-TV's '70s hit sitcom Welcome Back Kotter; Diahann Carroll's son in the 1974 movie Claudine; Richard "Cochise" Morris, the high school basketball star of the classic 1975 American International Pictures movie Cooley High; the 1978 AIP gang flick Youngblood; and as Joe Jackson in the top-rated 1992 ABC-TV miniseries The Jacksons: The American Dream. At the height of Kotter's success, Jacobs let it be known through interviews in such magazines as Right On! and Black Stars that he h...