Kaycee Moore, who starred in landmark Black independent films, dies at 77

While performing in student plays and movies, she met Burnett, a UCLA graduate student who cast her in his thesis project, “Killer of Sheep,” a low-budget meditation on Black life in the Watts section of Los Angeles, where he had grown up. Shot in black-and-white for $10,000, the film starred Henry G. Sanders as Stan, a slaughterhouse worker and father of two, and Ms. Moore as the unnamed matriarch struggling to keep their family together.