Sam Laws

Sam Laws

Birth : 1924-01-26, Washington, D.C.

Death : 1990-03-16

Profile

Sam Laws

Movies

Project X
Bartender
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
Get Crazy
Minister
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
Heart Like a Wheel
Piano Player
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
White Dog
Charlie
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
The Hustler of Muscle Beach
Stan
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat mentally challenged young man who wants to win bodybuilding championships, but needs some help and direction--and the promoter thinks he's just the one to do it.
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Horton
Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
Mr. Billion
Pops Dinwitty
A fortuneless auto mechanic inherits a billion dollar financial empire when his uncle dies. However, there is one stipulation. In order to claim his fortune he must arrive in San Francisco within twenty days, and along the way there are a number of people who want to "share" his wealth.
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Henry Dubar
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930s.
Darktown Strutters
Philo Rasberry
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
White Line Fever
Pops Dinwiddie
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Satan's Disciple
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
Truck Turner
Nate
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Dirty O'Neil
Clyde
A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
A Dream for Christmas
Junkman (uncredited)
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.
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Deacon Greene
A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
Walking Tall
Willie Rae Lockman
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
Hit Man
Sherwood Epps
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
Cool Breeze
Finian
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.