Fred Covington

Fred Covington

Born: July 1, 1928
Died: July 28, 1993
Fred Covington was born on July 1, 1928 as Alfred Covington. He was an actor, known for Norma Rae (1979), The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) and Challenge (1974). He died on July 28, 1993 in Marietta, Georgia, USA.

Movies for Fred Covington...

The Battle of Chickamauga
Title: The Battle of Chickamauga
Character: Narrator
Released: July 3, 2007
Type: Movie
The Battle of Chickamauga proved to be one of the fiercest engagements of the American Civil War. Over a period of two days in September 1863, more than 100,000 men struggled for control of the south's most strategic transportation hub, the city of Chattanooga. Along the hills and valleys surrounding the Chickamauga Creek, over 34,000 casualties would be suffered, and the Confederate Army of Tennessee would achieve their last, great victory. Shot on location using High Definition cameras, this 70-minute documentary film dramatically recreates the battle by including more than 50 fully animated maps, period photographs, historical documents, and over 200 reenactors.
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Grass Roots
Title: Grass Roots
Character: Police Captain
Released: February 24, 1992
Type: Movie
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
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Coward of the County
Title: Coward of the County
Character: Brother Hofelter
Released: October 7, 1981
Type: Movie
A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Title: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Character: Man in Jail
Released: June 5, 1981
Type: Movie
An aspiring country singer and his feisty younger sister/manager struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad.
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Title: The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Character: Attorney Lake
Released: March 25, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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Freedom Road
Title: Freedom Road
Character: Sheriff Bentley
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Norma Rae
Title: Norma Rae
Character: Alston Purvis
Released: March 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Title: They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Character: Governor #1
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
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Title: Nashville 99
Character: Hyder
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: TV
Featuring Claude Atkins as Metro Nashville police lieutenant and Jerry Reed as his sidekick, this show features many country music personalities and is shot on location at various downtown Nashville sites as well as other locations (including Opryland).
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Title: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Character: Auctioneer
Released: July 16, 1976
Type: Movie
In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, and James Earl Jones star as three barnstorming ballplayers who take on prejudice and their own League's unfair rules while stealing cars, food and home base - anything to prove that they're the best team around. It's a showdown of brains over booby traps and sportsmanship over racial segregation as Bingo Long's All-Stars swing their way into a winning season;.
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The Brass Ring
Title: The Brass Ring
Character: MacDonald Jennings
Released: October 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A sequel to 1974's Challenge, in which the title character is assigned to gather incriminating evidence against his rival in the state senate, but his assignment gets complicated when the rival hires a group of killers to rub him out.