Louis Gossett Jr. — Actor (34)
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Carolina Skeletons (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Carolina Skeletons
director: John Erman actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Bruce Dern …
other title: Un Coupable Idéal / Sentencia olvidada
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past...
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El Diablo (1990) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
El Diablo
director: Peter Markle actor: Anthony Edwards / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: El Diablo - Der mit dem Teufel tanzt / El Diablo – Der mit dem Teufel tanzt
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger and a no-nonsense cowboy to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo.
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Cover-Up (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cover-Up
director: Manny Coto actor: Dolph Lundgren / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: Envoyé spécial / Rescate …
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of political intrigue that threatens the lives of thousands. Dispatched to investigate a mysterious and fatal attack on an overseas US naval base, Anderson, a leading investigative journalist and ex-US marine, finds himself back on familiar ground. Instinct makes him question the official CIA explanation that cites an unknown terrorist group called Black October. Alone, and armed only with his combat training and determination to uncover the truth, he sets out to expose a complex and dangerous political web.
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Skin Game (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Skin Game
director: Paul Bogart actor: James Garner / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: Il magliaro a cavallo / Sheriffens skræk …
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
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Iron Eagle on the Attack (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Iron Eagle IV
director: Sidney J. Furie actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Jason Cadieux …
other title: Aquile d'acciaio 4 / Der stählerne Adler IV …
While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.
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The River Niger (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The River Niger
director: Krishna Shah actor: James Earl Jones / Cicely Tyson …
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
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The Guardian (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Guardian
director: David Greene actor: Martin Sheen / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: L'amico silenzioso
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work.
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Strange Justice (1999) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Strange Justice
director: Ernest R. Dickerson actor: Regina Taylor / Delroy Lindo …
In this historical drama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement. The White House nominates Clarence Thomas as Marshall's replacement. But Thomas's confirmation hearings are rocked by charges that he sexually harassed Anita Hill, a former assistant. As their conflict plays out in public, a White House aide runs a behind-the-scenes campaign to discredit Hill.
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Iron Eagle II (1988) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Iron Eagle II
director: Sidney J. Furie actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Mark Humphrey …
other title: Aquile d'attacco / Jernørnen 2 …
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.
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Finders Keepers (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Finders Keepers
director: Richard Lester actor: Michael O'Keefe / Beverly D'Angelo …
other title: Il treno più pazzo del mondo / Penge på kistebunden …
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the train and the coffin.
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The Josephine Baker Story (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Josephine Baker Story
director: Brian Gibson actor: Lynn Whitfield / Rubén Blades …
other title: Die Josephine Baker Story
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
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Iron Eagle III (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Iron Eagle III
director: John Glen actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Rachel McLish …
other title: Air Force - Aquile d'acciaio 3 / Jernørnen 3 …
Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
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Iron Eagle (1986) [Movie] IMDb Skybridge WikiData TMDB
Iron Eagle
director: Sidney J. Furie actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Jason Gedrick …
other title: L'aquila d'acciaio / Jernørnen …
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base.
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The Principal (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
The Principal
director: Christopher Cain actor: Jim Belushi / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: The Principal - Una classe violenta / Årgang '88 …
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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The White Dawn (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The White Dawn
director: Philip Kaufman actor: Warren Oates / Timothy Bottoms …
other title: Die weiße Dämmerung / Alba di ghiaccio
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.