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Skeezer (1982)
Character: Sam Johnson
A nurse-therapist uses her dog to reach emotionally disturbed children where she works.
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Directors on Directing (2009)
Character: Self
A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.
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Two of a Kind (1982)
Character: Phelps
Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It's a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.
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The Choice (1981)
Character: Robert
A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the same 20 years prior.
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It's a Mile from Here to Glory (1978)
Character: Billy Patnell
A high school track star is involved in a life-threatening accident and now must learn to depend on others for his day-to-day living.
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U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart (1987)
Character: Special Agent Shawcross
Two unorthodox, anything-goes law enforcement partners, unencumbered by regulations and the law, search for the killer of a fellow U.S. Marshal in this lighthearted, busted pilot film.
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The Fighter (1983)
Character: Willie
Vietnam war veteran Merle is working as concierge. His small salary and the one of his wife Rindy are just enough to survive. Thus when Merle hears that there will be an amateur boxing fight he decides to participate.
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Gone Are the Dayes (1984)
Character: Don
After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how shall he keep two nervous adults and their two teenage kids under control?
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To Kill a Cop (1978)
Character: (uncredited)
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
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Down in the Delta (1998)
Character: Dr. Rainey
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
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Flashpoint (1984)
Character: Army Private
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
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Stewardess School (1986)
Character: Co-Pilot
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
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Little Mo (1978)
Character: Maxwell
Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of Tennis, became world-renowned as "Little Mo," and died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 34.
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Final Mission (1994)
Character: Technician
Captain Tom "Outlaw" Waters is one of four Air Force pilots taking part in a "black" Defense project involving virtual reality. The project is managed by a secretive Colonel Anderson and overseen by General Breslaw. When two of his colleagues die during test runs after some erratic behaviour in the flight simulator, Waters begins to believe that there is a conspiracy among his superiors. He even begins to suspect his new lover, Caitlin Cole. Written by D.W. Prosser
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Fall From Grace (1990)
Character: P.T.L. Club Director
Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that they had established in 1987.
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