Robert Earl Jones

Robert Earl Jones

Birth : 1910-02-03, Senatobia, Mississippi, USA

Death : 2006-09-07

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Robert Earl Jones

Movies

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
Ben (archive footage)
At the request of her psychiatrist, Allison Kramer, thought to be the survivor of a camp massacre years ago, returns to the site of the killings to unlock her repressed memories. But who is Allison, really? A survivor, or the killer?
Rain Without Thunder
Old Lawyer
This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.
Maniac Cop 2
Harry
A supernatural maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
Witness
Custodian
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
The Cotton Club
Stage Door Joe
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
A Billion for Boris
Grandaddy
In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
Sleepaway Camp
Ben
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Trading Places
Attendant
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Cold River
The Trapper
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
Proof of the Man
Wilshire Hayward
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
The Displaced Person
Astor
A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
Cockfighter
Buford
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
The Sting
Luther Coleman
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Terror in the City
Farmer
Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
One Potato, Two Potato
William Richards
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
The Secret Of The Purple Reef
Tobias
When a man mysteriously vanishes on his ship in the Caribbean, his two brothers journey there to investigate his disappearance.
Wild River
Sam Johnson (uncredited)
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Jazz Club Patron (uncredited)
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
The Notorious Elinor Lee
Benny Blue
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
Lying Lips
Detective Wenzer
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.