Godfrey Cambridge
Nacimiento : 1933-02-26, New York City
Muerte : 1976-11-29
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Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time magazine in 1965 as "one of the country's four most celebrated Negro comedians."
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Himself (archive footage)
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
Tom Turpin
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Ford Malotte
Friday Foster es una fotógrafa de una revista de moda que recibe el encargo de ir a cubrir la llegada de Blake Tarr, el hombre de color más rico del mundo. Cuando está bajando del avión es tiroteado y la cámara se convierte en testigo mudo de los hechos. Uno de los asaltantes logra escapar con vida, pero sabiendo que ha sido fotografiado, busca por todos los medios acabar con Friday. Al poco tiempo Clorils, una de sus mejores amigas, es asesinada en medio de un desfile de moda. La investigación, de la mano del detective Colt Hawkins, apunta al senador David Lee Hart, de Washington, por lo que deciden trasladarse allí, descubriendo que se trata de una conspiración para acabar con el poder de la gente de color en las altas esferas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dusty
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.
Mr. Jenkins
Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.
Producer
An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.
Writer
An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.
Host - Himself
An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.
Godfrey Cambridge
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Gravedigger Jones
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.
Chester Hargis
Secuela de "La masa devoradora" (1958). Un trozo del monstruo original se descongela y escapa para seguir engullendo todo lo que se cruza en su camino.
Willie Dorsey
Loonie, hijo de un entrenador de perros, ha aprendido de él todo lo que sabe acerca de estos animales y su sueño es llegar algún día a encargarse él mismo de un perro para convertirlo en un campeón. Su oportunidad aparece cuando encuentra un can al que nadie quiere.
Gravedigger Jones
El carismático reverendo Rev Deke O’malley intenta vender fraudulentos viajes a África a la gente de Harlem. Los policías Gravedigger Jones y Coffin Ed Johnson investigarán el sospechoso caso.
Jeff Gerber
Jeff Gerber, a racist insurance agent and fitness freak, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself, when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him.
Taxi Driver
One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.
Benjamin 'Benny' Brownstead
Un antiguo gángster llamado Cesare Celli acude al entierro de un antiguo amigo y camarada. Al salir, se encuentra con cuatro hombres que le dicen que hay un coche esperándole. Éstos le piden un rescate de cincuenta mil dólares, pero Celli consigue convencerlos de que no tiene dinero. Además, les propone realizar juntos un golpe, con el que conseguirían un botín de cinco millones de dólares en platino. Para conseguir el dinero necesario, realizan una serie de pequeños robos. (FOTOGRAMAS)
Don Masters
El Dr. Schaefer es el psicoanalista del presidente de los Estados Unidos, un trabajo que le plantea muchos problemas.
Mike
George Norton, un tipo bastante torpe que trabaja para un importante jefe de la mafia, descubre un gran robo y se ve implicado en la muerte del guardián del dinero. Como su jefe empieza a sospechar de él, Norton tendrá que buscar por su cuenta al verdadero ladrón y asesino.
Fire Inspector
A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
Gitlow Judson
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.