D'Urville Martin
Nascimento : 1939-02-11, New York City, New York
Morte : 1984-05-28
História
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D'Urville Martin (February 11, 1939 – May 28, 1984) was an American actor and director in both film and television. He appeared with regularity in numerous 1970s movies in the blaxploitation genre of films. Born in New York City, D'urville began his career in the mid 1960s, soon becoming a prominent recurring figure in the genre. Martin acted in several movies of the time, including Black Like Me and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Among his partners was the famous blaxploitation actor Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, playing his partner Toby in the Black Charley. Martin also directed films in his career, including Dolemite, starring Rudy Ray Moore. His career ended in 1984 with a heart attack at age 45 likely caused by his hard-partying lifestyle.
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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.
Easy
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are looking for him. A ruthless hit man, played by Bruce Glover, will stop at nothing to get what his boss wants; the money!
Willie Black
Five friends get together and decide to plan an operation to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs, however, is that all five men are blind.
Director
Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.
Amos
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
Director
Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) é um cafetão que acaba sendo sentenciado a 20 anos de cadeia por conta de drogas e outros materiaIs contrabandeados plantados por seu inimigo, Willie Greene (D'Urville Martin), e policiais.
Willie Green
Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) é um cafetão que acaba sendo sentenciado a 20 anos de cadeia por conta de drogas e outros materiaIs contrabandeados plantados por seu inimigo, Willie Greene (D'Urville Martin), e policiais.
Pilot
Sheba, a Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.
Reverend Rufus
Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a modern-day tribute to the classic 30s gangster film. Fred Williamson is Tommy Gibbs, a fearless, bulletproof tough guy who blasts his way from the gutter to become the ultimate soul brother boss. Tommy steals a ledger with the name of every crooked cop and man in the city. Enlisting the aid of his father and an army of Harlem hoods, Gibbs goes from defense to offense, launching a deadly attack on his enemies that sets off a violent chain reaction from Harlem all the way to the Caribbean, climaxing in one of the hottest turf-war shoot-outs in Hollywood history.
Booker T.
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.
Toby
After the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to reignite the Confederacy.
Billy Bowlegs
Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
Rev. Rufus
Fred “The Hammer” Williamson é Tommy Gibbs, um jovem revoltado criado no gueto, que pouco a pouco vai tomando conta dos negócios do submundo do Harlem (Nova York).
Cada dia mais ambicioso e agressivo, ele inevitavelmente se envolve com a Máfia e o resultado é uma sangrenta guerra de gangues.
O ex-jogador de futebol Williamson brilha no papel que tinha sido oferecido originalmente a Sammy Davis Jr.
Sonny
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.
Associate Producer
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
Billy Joe Ashley
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
Toby
A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.
Bus Driver
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.
Luke Harper
A young farmer becomes a singer against the wishes of his uncle.
Diego
Um jovem casal se muda para um apartamento em Nova York para começar uma família. As coisas ficam assustadoras quando Rosemary começa a suspeitar que seu futuro bebê não está seguro ao lado dos seus estranhos vizinhos.
Frankie
Joey foi criada por seus pais para ter a mente aberta, mas a situação muda quando ela traz um noivo negro para casa. Embora decidida a se casar apesar de qualquer objeção, seu noivo quer a aprovação dos pais dela e dos seus também.
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
