Ossie Davis — Actor (26)
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The Android Affair (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Android Affair
director: Richard Kletter actor: Harley Jane Kozak / Griffin Dunne …
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that Teach is much more than an assignment, and is drawn to his desire for a very human life. When Karen takes Teach into the outside world, they soon discover that there is something far more mysterious and dangerous than a medical experiment planned for them.
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Harry & Son (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Harry & Son
director: Paul Newman actor: Paul Newman / Robby Benson …
other title: Harry & Sohn / L'affrontement …
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.
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Sam Whiskey (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sam Whiskey
director: Arnold Laven actor: Burt Reynolds / Angie Dickinson …
other title: Sam Whiskey, o Proscrito / Sam Whiskey, le dur
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
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The Outsider (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Outsider
director: Michael Ritchie actor: Darren McGavin / Sean Garrison …
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
director: Valerie A. Robins actor: Otto Preminger / Burgess Meredith …
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Baadasssss! (2004) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Baadasssss!
director: Mario Van Peebles actor: Mario Van Peebles / Joy Bryant …
other title: O Retorno de Sweetback / La venganza de Sweetback …
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
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No Way Out (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
No Way Out
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Richard Widmark / Linda Darnell …
other title: Uomo bianco tu vivrai! / Der Hass ist blind …
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
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The Fall (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fall
director: Peter Whitehead actor: Peter Whitehead / Alberta Tiburzi …
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.
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Fourteen Hours (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fourteen Hours
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Paul Douglas / Richard Basehart …
other title: La 14ª ora / Vierzehn Stunden …
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
director: William Greaves actor: Ossie Davis / Dr. Percy Julian …
other title: Still a Brother
The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Journal documentary.
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Avenging Angel (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Avenging Angel
director: Robert Vincent O'Neil actor: Betsy Russell / Rory Calhoun …
other title: Angel Killer 2 - La vendetta / Angels hævn …
Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she quickly finds herself pitted against an underworld of mob figures who might be more than she's bargained for...
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The Hill (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Hill
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Sean Connery / Harry Andrews …
other title: La collina del disonore / Højen …
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Joe Versus the Volcano
director: John Patrick Shanley actor: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks / Meg Ryan …
other title: Joe contro il vulcano / Joe og vulkanen …
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
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The Client (1994) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
The Client
director: Joel Schumacher actor: Brad Renfro / Susan Sarandon …
other title: Il cliente / Klienten …
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
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Malcolm X (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Malcolm X
8.5 (6 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Angela Bassett …
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Jungle Fever (1991) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Jungle Fever
director: Spike Lee actor: Wesley Snipes / Annabella Sciorra …
other title: A Febre da Selva / Fiebre salvaje …
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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Bubba Ho-tep (2002) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Skybridge IMDb WikiData
Bubba Ho-tep
director: Don Coscarelli actor: Bruce Campbell / Ossie Davis …
other title: Bubba Ho-tep - Il re è qui
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.