Joe Seneca
出生 : 1919-01-14, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
死亡 : 1996-08-15
略歴
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Joe Seneca (January 14, 1919 – August 15, 1996) was an American film and television actor who had a lengthy Hollywood career, portraying bit parts in many major films and television sitcoms spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Seneca was born Joel McGhee in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to his Hollywood career, Seneca belonged to the R&B singing group "The Three Riffs", performing at upscale supper clubs in New York City. He was also a songwriter and had big hits with "Talk to Me" which was sung by Little Willie John and "Break It to Me Gently", which was a smash twice, once by Brenda Lee in 1962, and once by Juice Newton in 1982. His song "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" was recorded by Ike & Tina Turner, Manfred Mann and The Spencer Davis Group.
Arguably his most well-known roles are that of bluesman Willie Brown in Crossroads and Dr. Meddows in The Blob, the evil head of a government team sent to contain the title creature.
Seneca also made multiple appearances on The Cosby Show as Hillman President Dr. Zachariah J. Hanes. He also played Alvin Newcastle [1]on an episode of The Golden Girls entitled "Old Friends."
Joe appeared in Spike Lee's "School Daze" as the Mission College President McPherson in 1988.
Joe appeared on Matlock: The Blues Singer Episode May 9, 1989.
Joe also appeared in Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" Music Video In the late 80's.
He died from asthma at the age of 77.
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Reverend Isaiah Street
2人の白人青年に暴行を受けた黒人 少女の父親カールは自ら犯人を射殺する。陪審員全員が白人という圧倒的にカールに不利な状況の中、彼を助けるべく若き弁護士が立ち上がる。J．グリシャム原作の映画化。
Deacon Wilkes
In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice that pervaded the South, he was determined to fight for equality for all African Americans.
Spits
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.
Toomer
才人スパイク・リー監督が、自身も尊敬する、近代アメリカきっての偉大な思想家であり、キング牧師と並ぶ黒人解放運動のリーダー、マルコムＸの生涯を描いた伝記的作品。物語は、マルコムがチンピラだった頃から始まる。若くして窃盗罪で服役し、刑務所の中でイスラム教に改宗、出所ののち彼は、イライジャ・ムハマットの下でブラック・モスレムきっての白人を敵対視する煽動家となる。やがて組織に疑問を感じ、多人種共存の道を探ってメッカを巡礼、そしてあらゆる人種の真の友愛を悟って帰国。そしてアメリカ黒人の解放運動を今までになかった新しい理念によって大きく展開しようとした矢先の１９６５年２月２１日、ハーレムのオーデュボン・ボールルームでの講演中に１３発の銃弾を浴びて射殺されるまでの、壮絶な軌跡を克明に追う。原作は、マルコムＸが著わし「ＲＯＯＴＳ／ルーツ」のアレックス・ヘイリーがまとめた『マルコムＸ自伝』。Ｄ・ワシントンのパワフルな芝居とテンポの良い演出が、この長尺を一気に見せる。
Williben Williams
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Joseph
The ape man flies to New York, where cabby Jane and her father help him rescue Cheetah from a madman.
A Christmas party rages while a store clerk sits alone. The party takes it upon themselves to spread some holiday cheer. Produced by Young Artists United.
Dr. Meddows
とある田舎町の森に火の玉が墜落する。目撃したホームレスの老人が好奇心から現場に向かうが、そこで粘液状の物体に腕を取りつかれてしまう。 そこへデート中のメグとポールが通りあわせ、老人を病院へ運ぶが、老人は物体に喰い尽くされ、ポールも犠牲となる。目撃したメグは一部始終を訴えるが信じて貰えず、保安官は町の不良少年ブライアンの仕業だと疑う。
President Harold McPherson
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
A promotional video for Michael Jackson's 1987 hit single "The Way You Make Me Feel".
Clatoo
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her daring defense of this group of men, provoking racial tension that makes a compelling drama.
Moments Without Proper Names makes Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through an hourlong, non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines Parks’s photographs with his musical compositions and scenes from his films. It also features footage of Parks, plus interpretations of his personal reminiscences performed by actors Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.
Reverend
Willie Brown
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
Ezra
R・カスダンが製作から脚本、監督まで務めた痛快娯楽ウェスタン。とある事件で出獄したばかりのエメットは、故郷シルバラードに向かう途中、仲間に身ぐるみをはがされたというペイドンと出会う。エメットの弟で正当防衛の殺人で投獄されていたジェイクを助けて逃亡し、そこへ黒人ガンマンのマルが加勢。4人は一途、シルバラードへ向かうが、しかしそこには土地独占を企てる牧場主が嫌がらせを続けており、エメットの姉夫婦も立ち退きを要求されていた。そして酒場のオーナーで町の保安官として君臨しているコッブ達の悪行に怒ったエメットは仲間と共に一味に戦いを挑む……。
Noah
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born freeman who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a freeman. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
Pluto
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
Santiago
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
Dr. Thompson
酒びたりの日々を送る弁護士が、ある訴訟をきっかけに再び真実と正義を問いただすようになるまでを描く法廷ドラマ。主人公ギャルビンは新聞の死亡欄から裁判になりそうな事件を見つけては、葬儀に紛れ込んで依頼を受けようとするまでに落魄れた毎日を送っていた。そこに医療ミスで植物人間にされた患者の弁護の仕事がやってくる。始めは金になりそうと言うだけで引き受けたが、調査を進める内に再び弁護士魂に火が点り、法廷に立ち上がるギャルビンだったが……。
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Partygoer
ニューヨークのマンハッタン。結婚8年目のサラリーマン、テッド・クレイマーは忙しい毎日を送っているが、ある日突然、自立を決意した妻ジョアンナに家出されてしまう。テッドは仕方なく自力で7歳の息子ビリーの面倒をみるようになるが、仕事と子育ての両立は想像以上に厳しかった。やがてジョアンナは、ビリーの親権が自分にあると裁判所に訴え出るが、テッドは拒絶。クレイマー対クレイマーの裁判が法廷で争われることになる。
Doorman
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.
Ed Rudolph
The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
Police Sergeant
白昼のニューヨーク。ペラム駅発123号列車が地下路線の途中で武装集団にハイジャックされた。犯人4人、人質18人。地下鉄公安局のガーバー警部補と犯人たちの虚々実々の駆け引きが始まった・・・。
