Eriq La Salle

Eriq La Salle

Nascimento : 1962-07-23, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

História

Eriq La Salle (born July 23, 1962) is an American actor and director, known for Coming to America and ER.

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Eriq La Salle
Eriq La Salle

Filmes

A Second Chance at Love
Jack Roberts
The film centers around Alicia and Arnold’s picture-perfect marriage, but underneath the surface, there is something amiss. Arnold is ready to grow their family, but Alicia is hesitant to the idea. Rather than face the problem head on, Alicia, the self-proclaimed "love doctor," immerses herself in her divorced parents, Jack and Brenda’s, dating affairs by setting them each up on a blind date dating app.
Logan
Will Munson
Em 2029, Logan ganha a vida como chofer de limousine para cuidar do nonagenário Charles Xavier. Debilitado fisicamente e esgotado emocionalmente, ele é procurado por Gabriela, uma mexicana que precisa da ajuda do ex-X-Men para defender a pequena Laura Kinney / X-23. Ao mesmo tempo em que se recusa a voltar à ativa, Logan é perseguido pelo mercenário Donald Pierce, interessado na menina.
Como um Pai
Director
Clay é um virtuoso do trompete. Em dificuldades financeiras, é obrigado a dar aulas em uma escola problemática. Lá ele descobre o poder transformador da música, revelando o talento escondido de seus alunos.
Blackout
George
After being charged with hacking into the Pentagon security system, computer-whiz Josh Martin is kidnapped during house arrest and delivered to a shadowy criminal known as Charles Keller. Requested to hack into the state’s highly advanced electrical system and shut it down, it’s clear what Keller wants—total chaos. When California goes dark, he gets what he wants. And tonight, no one will be prepared for what’s about to happen.
Magnitude Máxima
Charley 'Boomer' Baxter
When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismology expert Dr Amy Lane, Boomer must now race against time to stop the chasm that is threatening to tear America - and the entire world - in half.
Relative Stranger
Walter Clemons
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Himself
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War documents the work Martin Luther King did in attempting to bring peace to people during the turmoil of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. The film includes interviews with contemporaries such as Jesse Jackson, and military experts like Colin Powell.
Johnny Was
Julius
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison...
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
Presenter
A Hurricane Katrina relief concert. After Louisiana was destroyed by Katrina, famous stars all came together and put on this concert, which aired on over 20 television stations, including NBC, TV Guide Channel, ABC, CBS, PAX, FOX, Cinemax, TBS, and USA.
Intimidade Revelada
Doctor Peoples
Families in an idyllic suburban neighborhood are taunted by a mysterious doctor who moves in to town and spins a web of psychological chaos that changes their lives forever.
Corridas Clandestinas
Tariq "Slick Will" (uncredited)
Manuel Galloway é o líder de uma trupe de motoqueiros que reúne, principalmente, homens de negócio negros que, sempre que possível, deixam o trabalho para pilotar suas próprias motos. Galloway tem como principal meta manter com sua trupe o título de um campeonato realizado em Fresno, assim como ensinar a seu filho a arte de pilotar uma moto.
Crazy As Hell
Director
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?
Crazy As Hell
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?
Retratos de Uma Obsessão
Det. James Van Der Zee
O revelador de fotografias, Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Williams), é completamente apaixonado por sua profissão. Muito solitário, Sy é obcecado pela família de uma de suas clientes, Nina Yorkin (Connie Nielsen). Sy sempre revelou os filmes mais importantes dos Yorkin - o casamento, o nascimento do primeiro filho, os aniversários, a primeira aula na escola, as férias... Sy se considera parte da família e tenta, cada vez mais, aproximar-se dos Yorkin, até uma crise inesperada impulsioná-lo a ultrapassar os limites, colocando a vida de todos em perigo.
A Sombra de um Homem
Producer
Tom Van Allen (Val Kilmer) é conhecido como Danny Parker e se faz passar por um traficante de drogas, que se tornou informante de dois policiais, Gus Morgan (Doug Hutchinson) e Al Garcetti (Anthony LaPaglia), que agem disfarçados. Mas Tom é um trompetista e quase nada do que diz ou faz é verdade. A razão disto é para se vingar, mesmo que morra tentando, e esta hipótese não está longe de ser descartada.
Ultimate Jordan
Narrator
Marking 20 years since Michael Jordan's celebrated arrival in the NBA, this truly historic 3-disc Collector's Edition chronicles the amazing career of this great American icon. For the first time ever, exclusive to this set, are Jordan's five all-time, greatest games in their entirety. Add to this, five #1 best-selling Michael Jordan programs, over an hour of bonus footage including MJ's greatest moves, dunks and shots, plus DVD-ROM features and you have the ultimate tribute to the ultimate sports legend.
Mind Prey
Lucas Davenport
Mind Prey is an adaptation of the John Sandford mystery novel of the same name, featuring Sandford's famous detective Lucas Davenport. Andi Manette (Sheila Helley), a well respected psychiatrist, and her two daughters have been kidnapped and detective Lucas Davenport (Eriq La Salle) is about to meet his ultimate nemesis in their sadistic captor, John Mail (Titus Welliver). Davenport and Mail both have a penchant for computer games and gaming culture. Their shared interest helps Davenport to understand and guess the kidnapper's next move, but the victims are put in further danger when Mail forces Davenport into a cruel and insane cat-and-mouse game.
Michael Jordan, Above and Beyond
Narrator
"Michael Jordan Above and Beyond" provides a much-needed look at Michael Jordan's fantastic return from retirement in 1995. The first 20 minutes or so recap his retirement, attempt at minor league baseball, and his dealing with his father's murder. It picks up when it starts looking at the huge frenzy that was his return to the NBA in the Spring of 1995. It covers his mediocre first game back against the Pacers, his Friday night Chicago return against the Magic, and his subsequent return to form with a game-winning shot against Atlanta, and a career night dropping 55 on the Knicks.
A Lenda de Earl Manigault
Director
Inspirado na vida de Earl Manigault, este drama conta a história do talentoso jogador de basquete que inovou o esporte e tornou-se uma verdadeira lenda nas ruas do Harlem com seus saltos e cestas espetaculares. Apesar de ter uma promissora carreira pela frente, Earl acaba se envolvendo com drogas, fica cada vez mais longe das quadras e chega a ser preso. Mais tarde, recuperado, passa a treinar garotos e dedica a vida a manter os jovens longe das drogas.
A Lenda de Earl Manigault
Diego
Inspirado na vida de Earl Manigault, este drama conta a história do talentoso jogador de basquete que inovou o esporte e tornou-se uma verdadeira lenda nas ruas do Harlem com seus saltos e cestas espetaculares. Apesar de ter uma promissora carreira pela frente, Earl acaba se envolvendo com drogas, fica cada vez mais longe das quadras e chega a ser preso. Mais tarde, recuperado, passa a treinar garotos e dedica a vida a manter os jovens longe das drogas.
Drop Squad
Bruford Jamison Jr
Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.
A Cor da Noite
Anderson
Um psicólogo nova-iorquino fica traumatizado e viaja para Los Angeles depois que um de seus pacientes comete suicídio. Na Califórnia, seu amigo médico é brutalmente assassinado e ele aceita atender alguns de seus pacientes, porém as consequências são assustadoras.
Empty Cradle
Detective Knoll
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.
Eyes of a Witness
Mchumbo
Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are slaughtering protected species, then raiding Masai villages and forcing them to help carry their ill-gotten gains across the border. Roy flies to Kenya to convince her to leave and becomes a suspect for murder when the village is raided and he tries to help a UN doctor shot by the raiders. The only witness is a young Masai boy, who is reluctant to come forward because of possible retribution against his tribe.
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Jack Spade
After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.
Alucinações do Passado
Frank
Jacob (Tim Robbins) está tendo alucinações que misturam seu passado com a família e imagens da Guerra do Vietnã, onde teve cicatrizes emocionais profundas. Ele tenta descobrir junto de sua namorada Jezebel (Elizabeth Peña) e seu amigo Louis (Danny Aiello) o porquê desses delírios estão vindo à tona.
When We Were Young
Virgil Hawkins
Prospective series pilot about eight 1959 high school graduates in a Northern California town preparing to go off into the world.
Magic Moments
Dancing Guy (uncredited)
Um Príncipe em Nova York
Darryl Jenks
Akeem (Eddie Murphy), o príncipe herdeiro de Zamunda, África, se rebela contra o casamento arranjando por seu pai, o rei Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones), que concorda que o filho viaje pelo mundo por 40 dias. Assim, Akeem vai para Nova York, se passando por um pobre estudante para encontrar uma noiva que o ame pelo o que ele é, não por sua posição. Vai trabalhar em uma lanchonete e sente-se atraído por Lisa (Shari Hadley), a filha do seu patrão, Cleo McDowell (John Amos), que é interesseiro e atrapalha o romance, pois quer um bom partido para a filha, sem imaginar quem é na verdade seu funcionário. Akeem viajou com Semmi (Arsenio Hall), seu melhor amigo, que não gosta de se passar por pobre e faz gastos e toma atitudes que podem revelar a identidade de Akeem.
What Price Victory
Trumayne James
What Price Victory is about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on two star high school athletes.
Five Corners
Samuel Kemp
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Onde Estão as Crianças?
Deputy Bernie Miles
Nancy fugiu da angústia de seu primeiro casamento após ser acusada da morte horrível de seus dois filhos. Muitos quilômetros e anos depois, ele se casou novamente e teve mais dois filhos. Mas apenas quando sua dor acalmou, a tragédia novamente bate em sua porta e seus dois filhos desaparecem sem deixar rastros ... e todos começam a suspeitar do envolvimento de Nancy.
Out of the Darkness
Bobby
A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked New York in the 70s.
Inferno em Direto
Fargas
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
Rappin'
Ice
An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.