Vonetta McGee

Vonetta McGee

Nacimiento : 1945-01-14, San Francisco, California, USA

Muerte : 2010-07-09

Historia

Vonetta Lawrence McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010) was an American actress. She debuted in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence and went on to appear in blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000, and 1974's Thomasine & Bushrod alongside her then-boyfriend Max Julien. In 1975, she was Clint Eastwood's co-star in The Eiger Sanction. She was a regular on the 1987 Universal Television situation comedy Bustin' Loose, starring as Mimi Shaw for its only season (1987–88). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vonetta McGee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Vonetta McGee

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Black August
Georgia Jackson
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a $70 gas station robbery crime in 1960. He was 18 years of age when the sentence of one year-to-life was handed down to him.
The Man Next Door
Rapists' Rehabilitator
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Claudia Petrie
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
Perry Mason: El caso del Romeo imprudente
Annie Bollin
Un presentador de televisión publica un libro escandaloso en donde se habla de sus numerosos romances con varias mujeres conocidas. Una noche aparece asesinado en su apartamento.
You Must Remember This
Brenda
An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers his strong principles when it came to supporting his actors and his art overall.
Brother Future
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
Nunca te acuestes enfadado
Pat
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Father of Hell Town
Sister Indigo
In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
Black Hollywood
Self
Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in American movies.
Repo Man (El recuperador)
Marlene
Otto, un joven que acaba de perder su trabajo, decide que quiere vivir todo tipo de aventuras. Casualmente, se verá implicado en una investigación del gobierno sobre una extraña sustancia que provoca extraños efectos en aquellos que la observan.
Scruples
Francine
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
Superdome
Sonny
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
Foxbat
Toni Hill
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Brothers
Paula Jones
Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
Licencia para matar
Jemima Brown
Jonathan Hemlock es un profesor de historia del arte que, anteriormente, llevaba una peligrosa doble vida como asesino a sueldo para una organización secreta internacional. Sin embargo, ahora será chantajeado para llevar a cabo una última misión: la víctima será una de las tres personas que intentan la ascensión al Eiger, una peligrosa cumbre de los Alpes Suizos
Thomasine & Bushrod
Thomasine
Una clásica protagonizada por Vonette McGee y Max Julien, Thomasine y Bushrod fue pensado como una contrapartida a Bonnie y Clyde. Este par de ladrones, que operan en el sur de Estados Unidos entre 1911 y 1915. Aquí Thomasine y Bushrod roban a ricos, capitalistas blancos, para a continuación, dárselo a los mexicanos, los nativos americanos y los blancos pobres.
Detroit 9000
Ruby Harris
Después del robo sufrido por un patrocinador de un político negro, la policía de Detroit pone a cargo del caso a dos detectives, uno blanco y otro negro, que tendrán que trabajar juntos bajo una fuerte presión política.
Shaft en África
Aleme
El detective John Shaft viaja de incógnito a Etiopía, luego a Francia, para destruir una red de tráfico de personas.
Las cintas de Norliss
Mme. Jeckiel
El escritor David Norliss ha desparecido de su casa y los últimos mensajes que le ha dejado a su editor Sanford Evans han sido preocupantes, informándole que se encontraba en riesgo de muerte. Evans acude a la casa de Norliss, pero sólo encuentra una larga colección de cassettes numerados, y se dispone a escuchar el primero de ellos. En él, Norliss narra un caso en el que se ha visto envuelto: la millonaria viuda Ellen Cort le ha pedido ayuda, ya que ha visto rondando por su mansión a su fallecido marido. Acuden a la policía, pero las autoridades descreen de su denuncia. Mientras tanto numerosos asesinatos se suceden en los alrededores de la mansión Cort y las víctimas han sido drenadas completamente de sangre.
Drácula negro
Tina
Un príncipe africano acude a Transilvania para pedir al conde Drácula que le ayude a combatir el tráfico de esclavos. Como es natural, el aristócrata se burla sarcásticamente y como castigo a su osadía lo vampiriza. En la época actual, dos propietarios de un negocio de decoración deciden trasladar a su negocio en Los Ángeles los muebles y objetos del castillo. Como es fácil suponer, entre los efectos que viajan al Nuevo Mundo está el ataúd de Blacula. Nuestro vampiro de color empezará por vampirizar a sus "compradores" para seguir con una serie de asesinatos, eliminando a todo aquél que descubre su condición de no-muerto.
Melinda
Melinda
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
Hammer
Lois
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
La monja y las siete pecadoras
Claire
Siete hermosas mujeres, encerradas en una cárcel de alta seguridad, traman la evasión.
La carta del Kremlin
The Negress
Los servicios secretos estadounidenses y soviéticos intentan recuperar un documento en el que el gobierno de Washington se muestra dispuesto a ayudar a la URSS en la destrucción de las instalaciones nucleares chinas.
The Lost Man
Diane Lawrence
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Faustina
Faustina Ceccarelli
Faustina, the offspring of a black G.I. and a Roman woman who met during the conflict of World War II, must choose between two Italian men who desperately vie for her attention.
El gran silencio
Pauline
Tras ver morir a su marido a manos de un despiadado cazarrecompensas, una mujer contrata a un mercenario, apodado Silencio, para que acabe con el asesino de su marido.
Western, Italian Style
Self
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.