Al Freeman Jr.
Nascimento : 1934-03-21, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Morte : 2012-09-09
História
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Al Freeman, Jr., M.Ed. (born Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr. on March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas) is an African-American actor and director.
Freeman has made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1985, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. He left the show briefly to appear in the network's controversial sitcom Hot L Baltimore. During that period, "Ed" was played by another actor, Arthur Pendleton.
He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to direct a soap opera.
After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea. His portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations.
Freeman currently teaches acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C..
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Earl Sinclair
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
Poppa
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Old Johnson Whittaker
O ano é 1881, um tempo em que a discriminação racial era um sentimento forte e impregnado em cada americano, Johnson Wittaker (Seth Gillian), é um dos primeiros negros a despontar no meio social até então destinado somente aos brancos. Ele é admitido na mais importante instituição educacional dos estados Unidos: a Academia Militar de West Point. Na Academia, Johnson é submetido a todo tipo de humilhação e é levado injustamente aos tribunais. Baseado em fatos reais, Julgamento em West Point é o retrato cruel de um passado doloroso da sociedade norte-americana.
Elijah Muhammad
Uma homenagem ao controverso ativista negro e líder da luta pela liberação negra. Ele chegou ao fundo do poço durante seu encarceramento nos anos 50, tornou-se um muçulmano negro e, mais tarde, líder da Nação do Islã. Seu assassinato em 1965 deixou um legado de autodeterminação e orgulho racial.
Narrator (voice)
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.
Danny Larwin
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
Lt. Cooper
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Screenplay
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
The Leader
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside their home.
Director
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside their home.
A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
Charles Roberts
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
Dennis Lawrence
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Howard
Um misterioso Irlandês, Finian, e sua bela filha Sharon, chegam um dia em Rainbow Valley, uma pequena cidade do Sul de meeiros de tabaco no estado mítico de Missitucky. A cidade tem seu próprio residente sonhador, Woody Mahoney, que pensa que pode ser capaz de colocar a cidade no mapa fazendo o cruzamento de hortelã com o tabaco, de modo que ele já vai crescer mentolado. Finian vem para a cidade porque roubou o jarro de ouro de um Leprechaun e planeja enterra-lo no chão pois assim vai crescer mais rápido. Mas os problemas aparecem na forma de Og o Leprechaun, que seguiu Finian para a América e está empenhado em recuperar seu ouro.
Robbie Loughlin
O policial Joe Leland investiga o assassinato brutal de um jovem homossexual e acaba descobrindo conexões com uma poderosa rede de corrupção governamental em Nova York.
Self
This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."
Clay
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
Harvey
"For Pete's Sake" is the heartfelt and inspiring story of a man (Robert Sampson) struggling to come to terms with his wife's (Pippa Scott) untimely death, while raising their young son (Johnny Jenson). Sam Groom portrays the family's pastor and Terri Garr debuts as a wayward young woman in this entertaining and thought-provoking comedy-drama.
Taru
1945, em um velho navio de carga em algum lugar nos confins do oceano Pacífico: o capitão Morton se esforça para se tornar comandante, e por isso exige a máxima qualidade do trabalho de sua tripulação, sem conceder-lhes liberdade ou favores - ignorando que estão a milhares de quilômetros de distância Da frente de Batalha. Em uma palavra: ele enlouquece sua tripulação. Eles estão quase revoltados, mas ninguém ousa dar o primeiro passo. Até que o alferes Pulver faz uma brincadeira com o capitão, o que desencadeia consequências fatais.
Intern
A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
Thomas Newcomb
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Medic Gwathney
Korean War drama.
Satchel
"Black Rebels" (also known as "The Rebel Breed") is about juvenile delinquents--in particular, kids who resort to racially motivated crimes. To combat this problem, the cops send two recent police academy graduates to a local high school to pose as students. However, the guys playing 'students' were 27 and 23 years of age! In fact, none of these teens looked close to being teenager. And, to make it worse, one of these pseudo-teens looks silly, as he's supposed to play a guy who is a biracial Latino--but this effect was achieved by painting his skin--it's quite obvious. And, oddly, some times he is a lot more black-looking than others!!
Em 1942, o comandante do submarino USS Grayfish, Barney Doyle, é um capitão capaz, respeitado por seus homens e eficaz no mar. Seu alvo principal é o porta aviões japonês Akagi, que liderou o ataque a Pearl Harbor. Doyle é atormentado pelo fato de que sua esposa e filha foram presos quando os japoneses invadiram as Filipinas e ele não tem noticias deles por quase 10 meses. Ele fica aliviado quando fontes confiáveis confirmam que eles estão vivos. Mas havia uma boa razão para os japoneses permitirem que ele soubesse que sua família estava a salvo. Todos os civis estão sendo transportados para o Japão no Akagi e portanto usados como um escudo humano, forçando Doyle a tomar uma decisão terrível.
