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Ama (1991)
Character: Babs
A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She learns its contents at the office where her mother cleans. The disk, through magic realism and by way of ancestors, warns her of the dangers of forgetting one's heritage.
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Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)
Character: Gen. Christian Awani
Liv, a mercenary, is drawn into a mission to rescue a kidnapped politician. He travels to the volatile Mideast and is assisted by Laura, a translator, where their lives are imperiled.
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Black and White in Colour (1992)
Character: Self
A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.
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Nairobi Affair (1984)
Character: N/A
A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent poachers. As if that wasn't hard enough, he has to deal with his estranged father, now a safari guide, and with the woman they both love.
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The Attendant (1993)
Character: The Attendant
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.
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The Music Machine (1979)
Character: Claire's Father
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
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Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
Character: Mutt, Moving Man
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
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Fable (1965)
Character: Mark
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
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In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)
Character: Zikky
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
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Pal (1971)
Character: Norman
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
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King (1984)
Character: Mr. King
A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
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Escape From Kampala (1991)
Character: Minawa
The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".
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Drums Along Balmoral Drive (1986)
Character: Badinga
'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
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In the Cool of the Day (1963)
Character: Murray Logan's chauffeur (uncredited)
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
Character: Abdullah
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
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The Comedians (1967)
Character: Haitian Soldier (uncredited)
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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The Dogs of War (1980)
Character: Dexter
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.
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The Wild Geese (1978)
Character: Col. Mboya
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Sapphire (1959)
Character: Man on the Street
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
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Flame in the Streets (1961)
Character: Boyfriend
Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.
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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981)
Character: Dr. Michael Oloya
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Character: Dambala (Segment 3 "Voodoo")
Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
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Countdown at Kusini (1976)
Character: John Okello
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
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Shaft in Africa (1973)
Character: Kopo
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Guns at Batasi (1964)
Character: N/A
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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Help! (1965)
Character: Bahamian Police Chief
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.
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Beyond This Place (1959)
Character: Haydock
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)
Character: Papa Fola
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian single mother to son Sammy, is under pressure from her family to find a suitable husband and who better than the local Reverend? After making friends with Matthew, a British comic-book writer and one of his heros, Sammy has other ideas. He successfully plots to get them together but they've still a few obsticles to overcome. (from Amazon)
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Character: Prof. Johns
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
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Jemima + Johnny (1966)
Character: Jemima's Dad (as Tommy Baptiste)
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
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The Ipcress File (1965)
Character: Barney
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
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Black Snake (1973)
Character: Isiah
On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.
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