Al Freeman Jr.
Nacimiento : 1934-03-21, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Muerte : 2012-09-09
Historia
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Al Freeman, Jr., M.Ed. (born Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr. on March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas) is an African-American actor and director.
Freeman has made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1985, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. He left the show briefly to appear in the network's controversial sitcom Hot L Baltimore. During that period, "Ed" was played by another actor, Arthur Pendleton.
He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to direct a soap opera.
After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea. His portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations.
Freeman currently teaches acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C..
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Earl Sinclair
Loretta Sinclair (Alfre Woodard) es una mujer al borde de la autodestrucción en un peligroso barrio de Chicago, donde el tráfico de drogas y la violencia están a la orden del día. Sin embargo, una oportunidad de renacer se le presenta cuando es acogida por su tío Earl (Al Freeman Jr.) en el hogar ancestral de la familia Sinclair en una pequeña población rural de Mississipi. Loretta descubrirá el valor de la familia y recuperará su autoestima. Esta película marca el debut tras las cámaras de la aclamada autora afroamericana Maya Angelou.
Poppa
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Old Johnson Whittaker
Narra la historia del primer cadete afroamericano de la prestigiosa academia militar de West Point, que fue víctima de la cruel violencia racista de sus compañeros.
Elijah Muhammad
Malcolm Little (1925–1965) nació en Omaha (Nebraska). Su padre, ministro baptista, murió siendo él niño, y su madre acabó en un psiquiátrico cuando el Ku Klux Klan incendió su casa. Después de ser rechazado por el ejército, cayó en la delincuencia y fue a parar a la cárcel. Allí se convirtió al Islam y cambió radicalmente su vida, convirtiéndose pronto en un carismático líder del movimiento de liberación de la comunidad negra norteamericana.
Narrator (voice)
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.
Danny Larwin
Un juez experimenta un gran sentimiento de culpa después de que una minucia técnica le obligue a poner en libertad a una banda de peligrosos criminales. Como consecuencia de su error, un angustiado marido busca incansablemente a los asesinos de su esposa para vengarse de ellos.
Lt. Cooper
Cuando su ex secretaria es acusada de asesinato, Perry Mason renuncia a su cargo de juez para defenderla.
Screenplay
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
The Leader
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside their home.
Director
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside their home.
A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
Charles Roberts
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin
A punto de acabar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el comandante americano Falconer (Burt Lancaster) dirige un escuadrón de ocho hombres completamente agotados hasta un castillo medieval. El propietario los acoge con la esperanza de que lo defiendan de las tropas alemanas. Pero los soldados tienen otros planes: apoderarse de la fortaleza.
Dennis Lawrence
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Howard
Un misterioso irlandés, Finian McLonergan (Fred Astaire), y su hija Sharon (Petula Clark) llegan al Valle del Arco Iris, que vive del cultivo de tabaco y está dominado por el malvado juez Rawkins. Finian y Sharon llevan consigo un lingote de oro que han robado al duende Ogg. Piensan que, si lo entierran en el valle, crecerá y se transformará en un gran tesoro. Pero Ogg se presenta en el pueblo con la intención de recobrar su lingote. Mientras tanto, Sharon se enamora de uno de los campesinos.
Robbie Loughlin
Un detective ya maduro debe resolver un caso de asesinato relacionado con el ambiente homosexual.
Self
This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."
Clay
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
Harvey
"For Pete's Sake" is the heartfelt and inspiring story of a man (Robert Sampson) struggling to come to terms with his wife's (Pippa Scott) untimely death, while raising their young son (Johnny Jenson). Sam Groom portrays the family's pastor and Terri Garr debuts as a wayward young woman in this entertaining and thought-provoking comedy-drama.
Taru
1945, Segunda Guerra Mundial. Morton, el capitán de un buque mercante norteamericano que navega por el Océano Pacífico, aspira a ser comandante, razón por la cual es muy exigente y severo con la tripulación. Pero los marineros están más que hartos y a punto de amotinarse. Secuela de la conocida "Escala en Hawai" (Mister Roberts, 1955), de John Ford y Mervin LeRoy.
Intern
A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
Thomas Newcomb
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Medic Gwathney
Korean War drama.
Satchel
"Black Rebels" (also known as "The Rebel Breed") is about juvenile delinquents--in particular, kids who resort to racially motivated crimes. To combat this problem, the cops send two recent police academy graduates to a local high school to pose as students. However, the guys playing 'students' were 27 and 23 years of age! In fact, none of these teens looked close to being teenager. And, to make it worse, one of these pseudo-teens looks silly, as he's supposed to play a guy who is a biracial Latino--but this effect was achieved by painting his skin--it's quite obvious. And, oddly, some times he is a lot more black-looking than others!!
Tras el bombardeo de Pearl Harbour (1941), el comandante Barney Doyle (Glenn Ford) se hace cargo del mando de un submarino que se hace famoso por cumplir arriesgadas misiones: una de ellas consiste en cazar a un portaaviones japonés, protegido por un buque que transporta prisioneros.
