Lamont Bentley

Artimus Lamont Bentley
Born	Artimus Lamont Bentley (1973-10-25)October 25, 1973 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	January 19, 2005(2005-01-19) (aged 31) Ventura County, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Road accident
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Actor, rapper
Years active	1989–2005
Children	2

Artimus Lamont Bentley (October 25, 1973 – January 19, 2005), better known professionally as Lamont Bentley, was an American actor and rapper best known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on the UPN sitcom Moesha and the spin-off The Parkers.

Career

Artimus Lamont Bentley was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moved to Los Angeles with his mother, Loyce, who wished to pursue a career as a professional singer. He began his career as a child actor appearing in television commercials and guest spots on various television series before landing a role on the short-lived but critically acclaimed television series South Central in 1994. In 1995, South Central creator Ralph Farquhar cast Bentley in the series Moesha, which ran for six seasons on UPN.

After Moesha ended, Bentley continued acting while pursuing a career as a rapper. In 2001, he appeared as C-Money in The Wash opposite Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. That same year, he portrayed Tupac Shakur in the television biopic Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story. Bentley made one of his last onscreen appearances in Spike Lee's crime drama Sucker Free City.

Death

Shortly after midnight on January 19, 2005, Bentley was driving alone when he was killed in a single-car accident in southern California's Ventura County. He was driving on Highway 118 near Simi Valley (30 miles northwest of Los Angeles). Witnesses to the accident stated that Bentley's vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed towards the Rocky Peak Fire Road off ramp. After running through a stop sign, the vehicle went through a chain-link fence situated across the street and rolled down an embankment. Bentley was ejected from the vehicle into traffic where five cars struck him before help could arrive.

He sustained multiple blunt force injuries and was pronounced dead at 12:23 a.m. Bentley left behind two daughters and his mother with whom he lived in Granada Hills, Los Angeles.

A memorial service for Bentley was held at the Serenity Funeral Home in his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 24, 2005. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Duet	Snake	Episode: "Brother from Another Zip Code"
1990	Gabriel's Fire	Teen	Episode: "Windows"
1991	Equal Justice	Childs	Episode: "Courting Disaster"
1994	South Central	Rashad	5 episodes
1995	Family Matters	Andre	Episode: "An Unlikely Match"
1995	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Dom	Episode: "What About Your Friends"
1995	Tales from the Hood	Crazy K
1995	The Parent 'Hood	Damon	Episode: "Robert in the 'Hood"
1995	Courthouse	Raymond	Episode: "One Flew Over the Courthouse"
1996	The Client	K-Boy-Kool	Episode: "Motherless Child"
1996–2001	Moesha	Hakeem Campbell	127 episodes
1997	A Day in the Life of Mia
1997	The Sentinel	Marcus Watson	Episode: "Pennies from Heaven"
1997	Buffalo Soldiers	Corporal Sea	Television movie
1998	NYPD Blue	Arnell	Episode: "Honeymoon at Viagra Falls"
1999	The Breaks	Darryl
1999	Clueless	Hakeem	Episode: "Prom Misses, Prom Misses"
1999–2002	The Parkers	Hakeem Campbell	3 episodes
2000	Soul Food	Pruitt	Episode: "Bad Luck"
2001	Gabriela	Nick
2001	The Wash	C-Money
2001	Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story	Tupac Shakur	Television movie
2002	The Proud Family	Gary (Voice)	Episode: "Hip-Hop Helicopter"
2004	Shards	Thomas
2004	Sucker Free City	Ahmir	Television movie
2005	The Tenants	Male Partygoer
2005	"Wifey"		Movie
2009	A Day in the Life	L Mob	Released posthumously

External links

• Lamont Bentley at IMDb
• Template:AllRovi name
• Lamont Bentley at Find a Grave