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A Dream for Christmas (1973)
Character: Cassie Thomas
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.
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Father of Hell Town (1985)
Character: Nora
In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
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Three Secrets (1950)
Character: Delia (uncredited)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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There Goes My Baby (1994)
Character: Grandmother
It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wants to attend a liberal university. Surfer bum Stick plans to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Calvin lives in the poor Watts section of Los Angeles, which is slowly erupting in violence. As the summer nights grow long, they'll all be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
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Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974)
Character: Moma Lottie (as Frances Williams)
In 1950s Harlem a vicious Italian gangster (Frank deKova) tries to muscle in on a black racketeer's (Paul Harris) numbers game.
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Queen for a Day (1951)
Character: Anna
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
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Rented Lips (1988)
Character: Black Grandma
A documentary filmmaker, who has spent the last 15 years making films like "Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend," is finally given the chance to make the documentary on Indian farming he has always wanted to. The catch? He must simultaneously direct a porn film. But as he tries to make the porn film, which he turns into a musical called "Halloween in the Barracks," he must deal with a temperamental actor, a fundamentalist preacher, and other obstacles.
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Sister, Sister (1982)
Character: Mother Bishop
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
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The Reckless Moment (1949)
Character: Sybil (uncredited)
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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The Ambush Murders (1982)
Character: Emily Tyson
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
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Her Sister's Secret (1946)
Character: Mathilda
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams
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The Black Klansman (1966)
Character: Ellie Madison
After his daughter is killed by the KKK, a black man seeks revenge by passing as white and becoming a Klansman.
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The Jerk (1979)
Character: Grandma Johnson
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
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A Piece of the Action (1977)
Character: Naomi Chamberlain
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
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The Family Secret (1951)
Character: N/A
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Together Brothers (1974)
Character: Mama Wes
A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer.
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Lying Lips (1939)
Character: Elizabeth Green
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.
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The Glove (1979)
Character: Grandma Hale
A bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous, angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel.
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Midnight Ramble (1994)
Character: Self - Actress
A documentary chronicling the pioneering efforts of black filmmaker William D. Foster in the early years of the industry and Oscar Micheaux's controversial impact on the subsequent "race movies".
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Magnificent Doll (1946)
Character: Amy
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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