Bernie Hamilton
Nascimento : 1928-06-12, East Los Angeles, California, USA
Morte : 2008-12-30
História
Solid character actor that for various reasons never became a star. He is perhaps best known for his role as the tough police captain in the hit 1970s television series, "Starsky and Hutch." Other notable credits include Luis Buñuel's English-language film, "The Young One" (1960) where he plays a jazz musician who flees a lynch mob, and "One Potato, Two Potato" (1964), where he got a chance to show a softer side as a man fighting to obtain parental rights of his stepdaughter.
Hijacker #2
Um adolescente se torna um lobisomem após férias com a família na Transilvânia.
Harley
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local redneck policemen are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand, so then he and his lady friend Aretha are threatened and attacked by the crooked cops. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. With the redneck cops out of the way, Duke lets his guard down. Then the situation gets out of hand again. Finally, Duke must settle the score himself.
Ragman
Um praticante de vodu ressuscita Blacula, mas acaba virando seu escravo. Formando um exército sedento por sangue, Blacula começa a ser perseguido por Justin Carter, um policial obcecado por ocultismo.
Davis
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.
Lt. Jessop
Após um grupo de jovens revolucionários invadirem a sede de uma empresa e roubarem 5 milhões dólares em heroína, eles pedem ajuda ao tenente Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs é fica relutante em ajudar os radicais, uma vez que violaram uma série de leis (apesar de uma boa causa), mas quando o grupo também é acusado de um assassinato que não cometeu, Tibbs decide ir junto, mas sem o conhecimento do departamento de polícia.
Mike
A young black theological student battles against his heroin addiction and alcoholism.
Capt. Jackson
Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor plating, and storm the enemy camp.
House
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
Reggie Page
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Chauffeur
Neddy Merrill tem estado ausente durante a maior parte do verão. Ele reaparece em uma piscina de amigos. Enquanto eles conversam, alguém percebe que há piscinas em todos os vizinhos, abrangendo todo o vale. Ele decide nadar de piscina para piscina por todo o vale. Quando ele para em cada piscina de seu caminho, conta a sua história de vida. Seus amigos estão perplexos com sua determinação em concluir a missão, "nadando em casa", mas foi imediatamente compreendido intuitivamente. Sua paixão é monumental, assim como é monumental o seu esquecimento e décadas de negligência com aqueles que ele tem de mais caro. Sua odisseia o leva de amor e poder a desespero e ruína.
Chaka
Tarzan has to deal with slave traders who are making raids into African villages to get slaves.
Dickory
A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.
Amando
Three grown brothers journey to Brazil to rescue their plane-wrecked father who has been kidnapped by a revolutionary guerrilla.
Pete
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.
Frank Richards
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
Quinius
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.
Negro
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
Charlie
Um veterano padre, excêntrico e alcoolotra, recruta três relutantes condenados, a ajudá-lo a socorrer uma colônia de crianças leprosas, em uma ilha do Pacífico, ameaçada por um vulcão.
Goodbye George
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Traver
Um músico de jazz procura refúgio de um linchamento numa ilha remota, onde ele encontra um guarda florestal hostil e uma jovem objeto das suas atenções.
Bar Sharpie
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
Pompala
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.
Zuwaba
Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.
Neb
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
Soldier (uncredited)
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Ernie
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.