Biography
Louis Gossett Jr. (born May 27, 1936 - March 29, 2024) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and as Fiddler in the television miniseries "Roots". He has won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards in an acting career that spans over five decades.
Known For
Complete Filmography

IF
2024
as Lewis (voice)
After discovering she can see everyone's imaginary friends, a girl embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten imaginary friends with their ...

IF
2024
In Memory Of
After discovering she can see everyone's imaginary friends, a girl embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten imaginary friends with their ...

The Color Purple
2023
as Ol' Mister
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately find...

Outlaw Johnny Black
2023
as Reverend Tharrington (voice) (uncredited)
Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a p...

Sidney
2022
as Self
This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Wa...

Three Months
2022
as Benny
Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's ex...

Not to Forget
2021
as Pastor John
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzheimer's. As he realizes the extent of the elderly ...

I Forgive
2021
as God (voice)
Shot five times by a Los Angeles gang, leaving ten bullet holes through his body, Tony died for thirty minutes and had an out-of-body experience, wher...

The Reason
2020
as Pastor Jim
The film, based on the William Sirls book, follows a small-town pastor, his wife and their sick child as a mysterious man is sent to give them hope. S...

The Cuban
2020
as Luis Garcia
When a young Afghan immigrant named Mina gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, a resident with dementia, reignites...

Miracle in East Texas
2020
as Irving Tanner Jr.
Two creative con men romance widows to invest in their worthless oil well during the Great Depression. Hilarity ensues when they accidentally make the...

Foster Boy
2019
as Judge George Taylor
A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his yo...

Supervized
2019
as Pendle
Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.
The Gang Activists
2019
as Self
Well known activists the Sherrills brothers address the gang violence in the birth place of the Crips and Bloods.

Hal
2019
as Self
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as co...

Breaking Brooklyn
2018
as Miles Bryant
A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old showman who takes them to live with his estranged fo...

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
as Self
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever b...

Undercover Grandpa
2017
as Mother
When the girl he likes goes missing, Jake enlists the help of his grandpa and Grandpa's former special ops buddies.

Double Play
2017
as Coco
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many years abroad. Ostrik reminisces about 1973 and the e...

King of the Dancehall
2017
as The Bishop
Nick Cannon directs and stars in this high-energy musical about a young man from Brooklyn who gets caught up in the vibrant Kingston music scene durin...

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016
as Self
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exube...

A.C. Green: Iron Virgin
2016
as Himself
He played in a record 1,192 consecutive NBA games. As a power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, he won two NBA championships. But what made A.C. Gre...

Boiling Pot
2015
as Detective Haven
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow betwee...

The Dependables
2014
as Lou Jones
Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last explosive mission. The team quickly discovers that t...

A Fighting Man
2014
as Cubby
Two men meet in the ring for a fight that will change their lives.

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Miracle at Gate 213
2013
as Roy Peddington
It's Christmas Eve and an unexpected delay at the airport has left everyone stranded. Young Joy (Savannah Page Ray from NBC's Parenthood) is travelin...

Smitty
2012
as Mr. Smith
SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-yea...

The Undershepherd
2012
as Bishop Redford
Best friends LC and Roland are two young ministers, climbing the ranks at the First Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Dr. Ezekial Canon.

Dog Jack
2011
as Grown up Jed
"Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the union army, and have to face their former master on th...

The Grace Card
2011
as George Wright
Everything can change in an instant ... and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitter...

Why Did I Get Married Too?
2010
as Porter
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas i...

The Perfect Game
2009
as Cool Papa Bell
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.

Amazing Racer
2009
as Max Donovan
After the sudden death of her father leaves a teenage girl without a family, she becomes lost in her own anger and sadness. Her family doctor informs ...
The Least Among You
2009
as Samuel Benton
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrong...

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
as Self
Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of ...

Delgo
2008
as King Zahn (voice)
In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing race to stop a war orchestrated by a power hungry ...
Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
2008
as Self
Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

A Love Story of Today
2008
as Self
A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, featuring interviews with people like Katharine Hought...

A Special Kind of Love
2008
as Self
A follow-up of A LOVE STORY OF TODAY, where actors and crew discuss GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER.

The Black List: Volume One
2008
as Himself
As a new chapter begins in this country, THE BLACK LIST offers a dynamic and never-before-heard perspective from achievers of color. This series of in...

Stories USA
2007
as Doc (segment "Club Soda")
Ten individuals set out to find themselves in an alienating world, filled with heartbreak, deception and tragedy. With so much at stake, these strange...

Cover
2007
as Detective Hicks
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that h...

Daddy's Little Girls
2007
as Willie
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady e...

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas ...

Club Soda
2006
as Doc
A young man's dream to become a successful actor is threatened by the poor decisions he makes until a spiritual guide steps in and sets his conscience...

Solar Attack
2006
as President Ryan Gordon
When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a s...

All In
2006
as Caps
Six medical students with unique talents pool their resources to win the World Series of Poker.

Left Behind: World at War
2005
as President Geral Fitzhugh
A year and a half ago, the globe was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without warning and without explanation, hundreds of millions ...

Lackawanna Blues
2005
as Ol'lem Taylor
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he liv...

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004
as Rev. Elija Bliss (archive footage)
There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...

Jasper, Texas
2003
as R.C. Horn
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This ...

Momentum
2003
as Raymond Addison
A trio of men with telekinetic powers led by Adrian Geiger rob an armored car. However the skeptical FBI agents Jordan Ripps and her partner Frank McI...

What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away
2002
as Dr. Barnes
A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focuses on three high school girls: aspiring singer Tem...

Deceived
2002
as Col. David Garrett
In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scratches erratic lines on a strip chart recorder conf...

For Love of Olivia
2001
as Daniel Stewart
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young man accused of murder, all while running for Congr...

For Love of Olivia
2001
Executive Producer
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young man accused of murder, all while running for Congr...

Dr. Lucille
2001
TV Drama starring Marina Orsini, Massimo Ghini, Louis Gossett Jr.

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000
as Lou Hastings
Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-l...

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000
Executive Producer
Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-l...

The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence
2000
as Frank
Postal inspectors investigate a con man who uses the identities of others to falsify credit card purchases. Stealing credit card offers from mail boxe...

The Highwayman
2000
as Phil Bishop
Road trips have never been this killer! Jason Priestley stars as Breakfast, a psychotic jewelry store thief whose grip on reality is frighteningly pre...

Strange Justice
1999
as Vernon Jordan
In this historical drama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement. The White House nominates Clarence Thomas as Marshall...

Y2K
1999
as Morgan
On the eve of the new millennium, a nervous military leader assembles a team to help him deal with an unforeseen problem, as they are being alerted of...

Love Songs
1999
as Reuben
Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes of lo...

Love Songs
1999
Director
Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes of lo...

The Inspectors
1998
as Inspector Frank Hughes
U.S Postal Inspectors are called in when a suburban couple are killed by a mail bomb. Suspicion immediately falls on the couple's estranged and heavil...

Legend of the Mummy
1998
as Corbeck
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our...

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
as Self
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their ...

In His Father's Shoes
1997
as Frank Crosby / Richard
A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the healthful, youthful image of his father, are spending...

In His Father's Shoes
1997
Executive Producer
A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the healthful, youthful image of his father, are spending...

To Dance with Olivia
1997
as Daniel Stewart
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgu...

To Dance with Olivia
1997
Executive Producer
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgu...

Inside
1996
as Questioner
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the que...

Inside
1996
Executive Producer
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the que...
Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story
1996
as Bob Kersee
The true story of Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers (Charlayne Woodard) and her fight to combat Graves disease while becoming the fastest female sprin...

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996
as James Mink
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excell...

Managua
1996
as Paul
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua ...

Iron Eagle on the Attack
1995
as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in ...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
1995
as Ray Alexander
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

Zooman
1995
as Rueben Tate
Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer's name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though doze...

A Father for Charlie
1995
as Walter Osgood
Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleare...
Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing
1995
as Narrator
This comprehensive HBO presentation documents the history of heavyweight boxing through the 20th century, beginning with Jess Willard's victory over J...

A Father for Charlie
1995
Executive Producer
Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleare...

Flashfire
1994
as Ben Durand
Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem to deal...

Curse of the Starving Class
1994
as Ellis
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm fa...

A Good Man in Africa
1994
as Prof. Sam Adekunle
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish A...

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994
as Ray Alexander
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Blue Chips
1994
as Father Dawkins (uncredited)
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future ar...

Monolith
1993
as Capt. MacCandless
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become involved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't...

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations
1993
An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual condition, they must become roommates. Their severed bo...
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
1992
as Reader
An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front.

Diggstown
1992
as "Honey" Roy Palmer
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is t...

Iron Eagle III
1992
as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides ...

Keeper of the City
1991
as Det. James Dela
A vigilante killer becomes a celebrity by gunning down Chicago mobsters, but nobody except a police detective and a local journalist seems eager to ca...

Carolina Skeletons
1991
as James Bragg
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of...

Toy Soldiers
1991
as Dean Parker
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. The...

The Josephine Baker Story
1991
as Sidney Williams
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a ...

Cover-Up
1991
as Lou Jackson
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of poli...
Sudie and Simpson
1990
as Simpson
A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 194...

El Diablo
1990
as Van Leek
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowbo...

Zora is My Name!
1990
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portr...

The Punisher
1989
as Jake Berkowitz
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a ...

Roots: The Gift
1988
as Fiddler
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of r...

Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
1988
as Big John Creed
The inspiring true-life drama of 17-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin...

Iron Eagle II
1988
as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear miss...

Sam Found Out: A Triple Play
1988
as Sam
Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama about a hooker and her pimp, a romance about a lonely danc...

The Father Clements Story
1987
In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his fight to adopt a troubled te...

The Principal
1987
as Jake Phillips
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school...

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

A Gathering of Old Men
1987
as Mathu
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a ...

Firewalker
1986
as Leo Porter
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Iron Eagle
1986
as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds...

Enemy Mine
1985
as Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy specie...

The Guardian
1984
as John Mack
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patro...

Finders Keepers
1984
as Century
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldie...

Jaws 3-D
1983
as Calvin Bouchard
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.

The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
1983
as narrator
Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.

An Officer and a Gentleman
1982
as Sergeant Emil Foley
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul...

Benny's Place
1982
as Benny Moore
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.

I Love Liberty
1982
as Self
An all-star variety special saluting America.

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1981
as Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, t...

It Rained All Night the Day I Left
1980
as Leo Garcia
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husb...

Lawman Without a Gun
1979
as Tom Hayward
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a ...

To Kill a Cop
1978
as Everett Walker
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 o...

The Lazarus Syndrome
1978
as Dr. MacArthur St. Clair
An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taki...

Freeman
1977
as Rex
This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony ...

The Choirboys
1977
as Calvin Motts
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

The Deep
1977
as Henri Cloche
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.

Little Ladies of the Night
1977
as Russ Garfield
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has te...

J.D.'s Revenge
1976
as Rev. Elija Bliss
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist'...

The River Niger
1976
as Dr. Dudley Stanton
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support...

Delancey Street: The Crisis Within
1975
as Otis James
The story of Delancey Street Foundation, a self-help group devoted to reclaiming ex-junkies, ex-convicts, and others.

Black Bart
1975
as Black Bart
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's or...

The White Dawn
1974
as Portagee
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three st...

Sidekicks
1974
as Jason O'Rourke
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the...

It's Good to Be Alive
1974
as Sam Brockington
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile ...

The Laughing Policeman
1973
as Insp. James Larrimore SFPD
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to...

Travels with My Aunt
1972
as Wordsworth
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him alon...

Skin Game
1971
as Jason O'Rourke
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in...

The Landlord
1970
as Copee Johnson
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec...

The Bushbaby
1969
as Tembo
The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her...

Companions in Nightmare
1968
as Lt. Adam McKay
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.

A Raisin in the Sun
1961
as George Murchison
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like a...
The New Girl
1960
as Mary's Brother
In pursuance of a lucrative government contract, a private company hires its first Black female employee to comply with government regulations concern...
Gridiron Gang
N/A
as Host
A documentary focusing on a juvenile detention center that encourages sports as a form of correction for troubled teens.

Everbrook (The Home)
N/A
The Home unfolds after a young man is nearly killed during an accident that leaves him physically and emotionally scarred. To recuperate, he is taken ...
Straight Up
N/A
as Cosmo
Anti drug series from the 1980s where a young man is transported to a place where he's tempted left and right by various drugs and his only friend is ...
Crimes of Violence
N/A
as Self - Host
Portrait of six criminals responsible of diverse agressions.
Forget to Remember
N/A
An emotionally vulnerable young man gets tricked into fulfilling a mysterious young woman’s dying wish by taking her on a cross-country road trip.