Badja Djola

Badja Djola

Born: April 9, 1948
Died: January 8, 2005
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Badja Medu Djola (born Bernard Bradley; April 9, 1948 – January 8, 2005) was an American actor from Brooklyn, New York who worked primarily within Black film. He is best known for Mississippi Burning, Penitentiary, A Rage in Harlem, and Who's the Man?

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Back in the Day
Title: Back in the Day
Character: Grant Brown
Released: May 24, 2005
Type: Movie
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
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Night at the Golden Eagle
Title: Night at the Golden Eagle
Character: Gabriel
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Two elderly criminals spend their final night in Los Angeles, California at the Golden Eagle Hotel prior to their departure to Las Vegas, Nevada, to lead a life without crime. Unfortunately, on the hottest night of the summer, these two ex-criminals seemingly get caught in the malice of prostitutes, pimps, drunken bums, fighting monkeys, and young runaways.
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Title: The Lone Gunmen
Released: March 4, 2001
Type: TV
After years of playing second fiddle to Agents Mulder and Scully on  The X-Files, the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen are finally heading out on their own. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.
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The Price of Air
Title: The Price of Air
Character: Sugar
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
In the idyllic suburban distopia of Orange, the affable but clueless Paul agrees to be a drug courier for Mr. Ball who's about to take delivery of a drug rumored to be "more addictive than air." Against the better judgment of his best friend D., Paul does the deal for quick cash, but the supplier turns on him and murders D. in the ensuing shootout. Paul goes on the lam with the cash and the stash, but only after promising his dying friend that he'll flush it before Ball puts them in the street.
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Deterrence
Title: Deterrence
Character: Harvey
Released: March 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.
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Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
Title: Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
Character: Fast Eddie
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1970s Atlanta, a diminutive gay man tries to find succor from the small-town religion that filled him with self-loathing. He meets Miss Make-Do, who teaches him the fun of reckless behavior and emotional management via getting higher than a kite. The film features a host of cameos from John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Kathy Kinney and others.
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The Hurricane
Title: The Hurricane
Character: Mobutu
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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Butter
Title: Butter
Character: Roscoe
Released: October 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her cousin/manager for the murder forcing him to go on the run and to try to get the goods on the real killers.
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The Players Club
Title: The Players Club
Character: The Doctor
Released: April 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.
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Gunshy
Title: Gunshy
Character: Abel
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.
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The Brave
Title: The Brave
Character: Rider
Released: July 30, 1997
Type: Movie
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
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Rosewood
Title: Rosewood
Character: John Bradley
Released: February 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
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Heaven's Prisoners
Title: Heaven's Prisoners
Character: Batist
Released: May 17, 1996
Type: Movie
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.
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Title: ER
Character: Mike Lembreaux
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Knight Rider 2010
Title: Knight Rider 2010
Character: Zeke
Released: February 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Napoleon 'Neech' Manley
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Who's the Man?
Title: Who's the Man?
Character: Lionel Douglas
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.
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The Waterdance
Title: The Waterdance
Character: Decton
Released: May 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.
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Christmas on Division Street
Title: Christmas on Division Street
Character: Scorpio
Released: December 15, 1991
Type: Movie
A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends.
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The Last Boy Scout
Title: The Last Boy Scout
Character: Alley Thug
Released: December 13, 1991
Type: Movie
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
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Title: Roc
Character: William Long
Released: August 25, 1991
Type: TV
Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor.
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A Rage in Harlem
Title: A Rage in Harlem
Character: Slim
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.
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An Innocent Man
Title: An Innocent Man
Character: John Fitzgerald
Released: October 6, 1989
Type: Movie
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
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Mississippi Burning
Title: Mississippi Burning
Character: Agent Monk
Released: December 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Title: The Serpent and the Rainbow
Character: Gaston
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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The Lightship
Title: The Lightship
Released: December 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
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The Lonely Guy
Title: The Lonely Guy
Character: Native
Released: January 27, 1984
Type: Movie
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
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Penitentiary
Title: Penitentiary
Character: 'Half Dead' Johnson
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.
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The Main Event
Title: The Main Event
Character: Heavyweight In Gym
Released: June 22, 1979
Type: Movie
Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.