Helen Martin

Helen Martin

出生 : 1909-07-23, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

死亡 : 2000-03-25

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helen Dorothy Martin (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) was an American actress of stage and television who is perhaps most well known for her role in the sitcom 227 as Marla Gibbs' neighbor Pearl. Martin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Amanda Frankie (née Fox) and William Martin, a minister. Martin was a Broadway character actress for many decades, debuting in Orson Welles' production of Native Son in 1941. She appeared in at least a dozen Broadway shows including Jean Genet's The Blacks, Raisin from 1973 to 1975, Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious (and later the musical version, which was called Purlie), The Amen Corner and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment. She was an original member of the American Negro Theater. She first became famous later in life for her guest role as Wanda on the television series Good Times, and later as the wisecracking neighbor Pearl Shay on the television sitcom 227. She also played on the short-run sitcoms Baby, I'm Back (as mother in-law, Luzelle) and That's My Mama; as Loc Dog's grandma, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), the matronly grandmother Mama Doll in the 1998 film Bulworth, and the no-nonsense grandmother in the film Hollywood Shuffle. Helen Martin died of a heart attack on March 25, 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Martin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Something to Sing About
Elderly Woman
Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging Charlie to sing in the local church choir, a talent he has ignored until now. While Charlie excels in church, his old friend G. Smooth remains skeptical and stays on the streets.
I Got the Hook-Up
Grandmother
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied customers but also the FBI.
ブルワース
Momma Doll
腐敗しきった政治の世界に嫌気がさして、自らの暗殺計画を企てるベテラン議員が主人公のブラック・コメディ。怖いものがなくなった彼は過激な発言を連発。それが逆に彼の支持を広げることに……。
コレクター
Nana Cross
ワシントンDCの警察で刑事をしながら犯罪心理学を研究するクロスは、ノースカロライナで姪ナオミが何者かに誘拐されたと聞き現地へ。実は同地では8人の女子大生が次々に誘拐され、そのうち3人は遺体になって見つかっていた。犠牲者3人の誘拐された順序が殺された順序と異なることから、犯人の目的が殺人ではないと主張するクロス。やがて9番目に誘拐され、犯人のアジトから脱出した外科医ケイトからクロスは手掛かりを得る。
ポップ・ガン
Loc Dog's Grandma
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
ビバリーヒルズ・コップ3
Grandma
デトロイト市警のアクセル刑事は、盗難車の部品を売りさばく組織のアジトを急襲。だが一味のボス、デウォルドに上司を射殺されてしまう。アクセルは現場に残された手掛かりをもとに単身ビバリーヒルズへ。現地市警の刑事で、かつてともに2つの大事件を解決したローズウッドの応援を得られたアクセルだが、デウォルドが保安課長として働く巨大テーマパーク(ワンダーワールド)で偽造紙幣が製造されていることを突き止める。
House Party 2
Mrs. Deevers
Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while Kid faces the challenges of college.
Doc Hollywood
Maddie, Welcoming Committee
After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.
Night Angel
Sadie
A legendary she-demon, in the updated guise of a beautiful model, infiltrates the offices of a successful fashion magazine with the aim of corrupting the world via mass media.
A Raisin in the Sun
Mrs. Johnson
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 2
Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This second riotous volume in the Partners in Crime collection features more ribald moments culled from Townsend's laugh-filled HBO variety show. Sinbad, David Allen Grier and Damon Wayans also star.
Hollywood Shuffle
Bobby's Grandmother
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.
Amos
Mrs. McKenzie
Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Daws, ruling the cowed patients with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes.
レポマン
Mrs. Parks
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
The Jerk, Too
Grandma Johnson
Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.
Better Late Than Never
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Dummy
Mrs. Harrod
The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed between him and his court-appointed attorney, who also was deaf, and the events leading up to his precedent-setting trial.
Lawman Without a Gun
Mrs. Cartwright
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Cindy
Flower Lady
A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Mrs. Bell
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
狼よさらば
Alma Lee Brown
ポールは美しい妻子とともにNYで暮らす技師。ある日家族がチンピラに襲われ、妻は死亡、娘はショックで廃人になってしまう。彼は復讐のために私設刑事として街の犯罪者たちを殺し始める……。チャールズ・ブロンソンの人気を決定づけたシリーズの第1弾。
J.T.
Mrs. Hill
J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alley cat days before Christmas and secretly nurses it back to health.
The Phenix City Story
Helen Ward
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
The Lady Confesses
Screenplay
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
Invisible Ghost
Story
The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.
Invisible Ghost
Screenplay
The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.