Where much of Sorkin's other work has addressed itself to the patently lofty matters of politics and (in the case of The Newsroom) news about politics, Sports Night was about sports and the telling of sports stories.
Set behind the scenes at a sports news show indistinguishable from ESPN's SportsCenter, Sports Night featured two anchors, Dan and Casey (Josh Charles and Peter Krause), executive producer Dana (Felicity Huffman), producers Natalie and Jeremy (Sabrina Lloyd and Joshua Malina), and Isaac at the helm. In some ways, Sports Night was a lighter, more grounded West Wing, and Isaac Jaffe was its Jed Bartlet. The one he launched a year before The West Wing. Guillaume also voiced Rafiki in The Lion King and appeared onstage in Porgy and Bess, The Phantom Of The Opera and Guys and Dolls (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award).Īnd from 1998 to 2000, he played Isaac Jaffe on ABC's Sports Night - Aaron Sorkin's first TV show. Guillaume won an Emmy for playing Benson back in 1979 when he was still on Soap and then an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series in 1985 - the last black actor to win in the category before Donald Glover for Atlanta earlier this year. On both, he played Benson DuBois, who was the butler on Soap but rose on Benson from head of household affairs for a governor to his own political career as lieutenant governor. Robert Guillaume, who died Tuesday morning at 89, became familiar on TV largely via Soap and Benson.
Robert Guillaume played Isaac Jaffe on ABC's Sports Night - Aaron Sorkin's first TV show - from 1998 to 2000.
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