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Black Like Me (1964)
Character: Burial Insurance Salesman
Black Like Me is the true account of journalist and author John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
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Neighbors (1971)
Character: Bill Gunther
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.
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Change of Mind (1969)
Character: David Rowe
A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.
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Dark Mansions (1986)
Character: Davis
A woman hired to write the history of a wealthy family stays at the family's estate in Oregon. She discovers that she strongly resembles a long-dead ancestor in the family, and finds things happening to her that happened to--and led to the death of--that woman.
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James Weldon Johnson (1972)
Character: (Self) Narrator
A biography of James Weldon Johnson whose career included music, poetry, and public service. Includes a visualization of his poem The creation, with a reading by Raymond St. Jacques. Johnson, most known for his poem, “The Creation”, was active in civil rights, and was the first Black man admitted to the Florida Bar. This biography of Johnson includes a dramatic reading of “The Creation”. Johnson wrote the lyrics to "Life Every Voice and Sing".
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Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (1978)
Character: Det. Insp. George Dunbar
When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.
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Uptight (1968)
Character: B.G.
Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
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Glory (1989)
Character: Frederick Douglass
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Character: Coffin Ed Johnson
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
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The Comedians (1967)
Character: Captain Concasseur
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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Lost in the Stars (1974)
Character: John Kumalo
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
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Mister Moses (1965)
Character: Ubi
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
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Voodoo Dawn (1990)
Character: Claude
Group of immigrant Haitian farm workers tries to fight off an evil Haitian voodoo priest who tries to kill them & use their body parts to make up a zombie army.
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They Live (1988)
Character: Street Preacher
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
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Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
Character: Coffin Ed Johnson
Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
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Madigan (1968)
Character: Dr. Taylor
NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While they follow various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.
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The Wild Pair (1987)
Character: Ivory
A strait-laced FBI agent and a hulking, big-hearted narcotics cop team up to track down a drug lord associated with a militant hate group.
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The Baron (1977)
Character: Peter Mosten
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.
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Born Again (1978)
Character: Jimmy Newsom
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
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The Green Berets (1968)
Character: Sgt. Doc McGee
Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
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The Final Comedown (1972)
Character: Imir
Prejudice transforms a young black man into an armed militant leader, who believes the only answer to racism is violent revolution.
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Mister Buddwing (1966)
Character: Hank
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
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The Pawnbroker (1965)
Character: Tangee
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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The Monk (1969)
Character: Lieutenant Edward Heritage
Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster. Monk refuses — until he meets Mrs. Barnes and jumps on a merry-go-round of viciousness and murder.
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Book of Numbers (1973)
Character: Blueboy Harris
Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
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Timebomb (1991)
Character: Det. Sanchez
When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn't his own. Fearing for his sanity, Eddy contacts psychiatrist Dr. Anna Nolmar for help. Anna thinks he's hallucinating until another attack proves the dangers are all too real. The two of them go on the run, trying to discover the truth about Eddie's past and true identity before it kills them.
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Search for the Gods (1975)
Character: Raymond Stryker
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
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Cool Breeze (1972)
Character: Bill Mercer
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
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If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968)
Character: James Lake
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel towards a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murderer who had framed James years before.
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The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Character: Randolph, Molloch's Bodyguard
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.
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