Ron O'Neal
Nascimento : 1937-09-01, Utica, New York, U.S.
Morte : 2004-01-14
História
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Ron O'Neal (September 1, 1937 in Utica, New York – January 14, 2004 in Los Angeles, California) was an American actor, director and screenwriter. O'Neal is most remembered for his starring role as Youngblood Priest in the blaxploitation film Super Fly and the anti-villain Cuban officer Colonel Bella in the film Red Dawn, although he also had recurring roles on the television show Living Single as Synclaire's father and as Whitley Gilbert's father on A Different World. He was also a regular on the 1982 series "Bring 'Em Back Alive" with Bruce Boxleitner in which he played the Sultan of Johore.
He died in 2004 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 on the same day "Super Fly" was released on DVD in the US.
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Self
The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's contemporaries, (Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, etc.), established comedians (Billy Crystal, Rosanna Barr, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, etc.) and young comedians (Jeff Atoll, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, etc.).
Self
Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
Frank Harris
Dakota Smith is an ex-cop and former private eye with a proclivity for community service. When a young basketball player entangles himself with drug dealers, he turns to Dak for help. Eventually goons are sent to kill the hoopster, but they hit the family of Rex Stevens by mistake. Frustrated by the incompetent and crooked police, the trio of Smith, Stevens, and their friend Frank Harris then battle the drug dealers for control of the streets. Also the heroes must tangle with Felix, a stealthy and ruthless hitman.
Self
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
Captain Lang
Police Officer Billy Rains (Mike Norris) and his partner Darren Steel (David Rael) are finishing their last shift together, after which Rains intends to leave for retirement in Mexico. Everything changes, however, when the pair respond to a simple call that turns deadly, leading them on a high-speed chase throughout the city and killing Rains. Paired with a new partner, Smith (Fred Williamson), Steel goes on a quest to bring justice to his murdered partner and the city.
Bubba
Jake Travor (Jim Brown), boxeador famoso, retornou a sua cidade natal e encontrou os lugares de sua infância completamente destruídos pela violência, e seu pai no hospital depois de levar um tiro de uma gangue local. A primeira proposta de Jake é um acordo entre as gangues e a comunidade, a ideia de paz é chacinada com mais mortes. “Hot City” é a história de uma comunidade obrigada a tomar uma decisão, uma cruel e audaciosa decisão, resgatar uma vida pacífica através das armas ou viver para sempre numa verdadeira zona de guerra.
Dectective
Nesta quinta parte da série, o jovem cientista Rick Myers e os sobreviventes do filme anterior lutam contra demônios vindos de uma dimensão paralela, ajudados pelos bonecos assassinos, agora bonzinhos, e pelo espírito do "mestre dos brinquedos" Toulon.
Director
A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.
George Wilkes
A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.
Ray Samuels
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.
George 'Cotton' Shorter
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
Samuel 'Tubbs' Tubarian
In the 21st Century, the "Corporation" sends a spaceship to dispose of earth's severe nuclear waste to a distant region in the cosmos. The astronauts awaken from their "cryo-sleep" to truly cry over finding themselves marooned... their fuel is not sufficient to bring them back home. The shuttle craft on board that can accommodate no more than two passengers presents the only hope, and soon a "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" type of distrust and betrayal sets in, until one by one, only one sole survivor remains.
Tom Boyle
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
Mayor
O detetive Danny prende perigoso assassino. Três anos depois, o criminoso foge da prisão, mas sofre acidente de automóvel e a polícia o dá como morto. Mas certos crimes fazem Danny suspeitar que o assassino está vivo e que eles vão se reencontrar em breve
Cliff Taylor
The president of an African country wants to boost his economy with a new dam. He ignores the protests of the tribes in the flooded region, so they declare rebellion. To avoid bad publicity, the president doesn't use his army, but hires four international mercenaries, who shall find tribes leader Kuruba and smother the protest. However after learning about the tribes motivation, the Vietnam veterans T.J. and Cliff realize how they're being used and reconsider.
Daniel Backus
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.
Steve Phillips
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
Col Ernesto Bella
Quando a cidade de 8 jovens é invadida por soldados soviéticos e cubanos, e gradativamente por forças militares, eles tomam a decisão de irem para as montanhas. Os adolescentes então adotam o nome da equipe de futebol do colégio, os Wolverines, e formam uma guerrilha armada contra o comunismo, e em defesa da família, dos amigos e dos Estados Unidos.
Otis Kaylor
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
Mustapha Mond
An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
Commander Dan Thurman
O tempo é agora, o lugar é a bordo do U.S.S. Nimitz, o mais poderoso porta-aviões nuclear dos Estados Unidos em manobras militares no Oceano Pacífico. De repente, uma estranha tempestade elétrica atinge o navio e dispara o impossível: o Nimitz é arremessado de volta ao tempo para 09 de Dezembro de 1941, poucas horas antes do ataque japonês a Pearl Harbour. Enquanto o esquadrão inimigo voa em direção ao Havaí, o capitão do Nimitz (Kirk Douglas), um perito do Departamento de Defesa (Martin Sheen) e um senador à beira do desespero (Charles Durning) precisam decidir o que fazer. Será que eles devem permitir que os japoneses completem sua mortal invasão, ou devem lançar um pesado contra-ataque que mudará para sempre o curso da história?
Francis Cardoza
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Lt. Charlie Garber
A jovem babá Jill Johnson é contratada pelo casal Mandrakis para cuidar de seus dois filhos pequenos. Mas o horror começa quando alguém telefona para a casa dos Mandrakis e diz, com voz tétrica: "Você já foi olhar as crianças?". Inicialmente, a baby-sitter pensar tratar-se do sr. Mandrakis, mas logo percebe que a coisa é mais grave quando o misterioso interlocutor passa a ligar diversas vezes seguidas, sempre pronunciando a misteriosa frase: "Você já foi olhar as crianças?".
Rollins
Uma das melhores equipes de agentes da delegacia de narcóticos, segue a pista de uma operação multimilionária, quando misteriosamente as coisas começam a ficar muito perigosas. Um a um, os componentes do esquadrão são eliminados por um assassino mestre no karatê. Para ajudar a descobrir a identidade do assassino, a policia convoca o campeão Matt Logan, um perito nas artes marciais disposto a lutar e enfrentar os perigos dessa investigação.
Otis
An ex-professional boxer gets a new start when teaming up with an ageing hoodlum and an ex-call girl.
Walter Nance
Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
Paulo
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and swords and will not allow him to push around the peace-loving Indians or fellow settlers of the West.
Priest
A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
Story
A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
Director
A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
Priest
Conta a saga de um traficante espertalhão do Harlem, Youngblood Priest, que espera fazer uma última venda para converter toda a sua cocaína em dinheiro e começar uma vida nova longe do crime.
Joe Peralez
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.
Peter
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
