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Isiah Whitlock Jr. was 71

Whitlock was best known as smooth-talking, crooked state senator Clay Davis on HBO's The Wire, a character he played across all five seasons of the acclaimed drama. The role cemented his now-iconic "Sheeeeeit" delivery, a stretched-out spin on an expletive that he first tried in Spike Lee's 25th Hour, then repeated in Lee's She Hate Me before the Wire writers began scripting it in. "I saw a couple of opportunities where I could do it, and I did," he recalled in a 2008 interview, later noting he'd hear strangers call it out to him in public. He once said he picked up the drawn-out pronunciation from his uncle, USA Today reports.