Leon

Leon

Born: March 8, 1962
in New York City, New York, USA
Leon Preston Robinson IV (usually credited as simply "Leon") is an American actor and singer, who began his professional career as an actor in 1981.

Movies for Leon...

First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story
Title: First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story
Character: Emerson
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Inspired by the true life of Detroit native Tonesa Welch. It charts Welch's rise from a teenager's mother to a drug dealer, she is referred to by federal prosecutors as "The First Lady of the BMF"
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Title: Swarm
Character: Harris
Released: March 16, 2023
Type: TV
A young woman's obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn.
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A Day to Die
Title: A Day to Die
Character: Tyron Pettis
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A disgraced parole officer is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dangerous drug heists within twelve hours in order to pay the $2 million dollars he owes, rescue his kidnapped pregnant wife, and settle a score with the city's corrupt police chief, who is working with the gang leader and double-crossed him years ago.
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Madonna: Madame X
Title: Madonna: Madame X
Character: Innocent Man/Saint (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon’s rare and rapturous tour performance, hailed by sold out theatrical audiences worldwide. The unprecedented intimate streaming experience will take viewers on a journey as compelling and audacious as Madonna’s fearless persona, Madame X, a secret agent traveling around the world, changing identities, fighting for freedom and bringing light to dark places.
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The Glorias
Title: The Glorias
Character: Frank
Released: December 18, 2020
Type: Movie
An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has made an everlasting mark on modern history. A nontraditional chronicle of a trailblazing life.
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Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
Title: Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
Character: Jasper
Released: December 5, 2020
Type: Movie
Five guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Ben, Sarah discovers that an event from the past may connect them and change their lives forever.
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Title: City on a Hill
Character: Reverend Isaiah Hughes
Released: June 16, 2019
Type: TV
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
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Title: 40 and Single
Character: Dan Mayor
Released: October 10, 2018
Type: TV
A bisexual, mixed race, single bridal fashion designer maneuvers life and business in post colonial Africa.
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Her Only Choice
Title: Her Only Choice
Character: Melvin
Released: October 6, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of infertility, a newly-expectant mother is diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
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Title: Recovery Road
Character: Alan
Released: January 25, 2016
Type: TV
Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a sober living facility while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life. Based on the popular young adult novel by Blake Nelson.
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Soul Ties
Title: Soul Ties
Character: Dale Sr.
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: Movie
When a young woman's faith in her beloved collides head on with her faith in people, what begins as a tale of gut wrenching heartache, ends in a triumphant redemption that not only touches the soul, it leaves a welcome mat at the door of awakening.
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I Really Hate My Ex
Title: I Really Hate My Ex
Character: Sean
Released: April 14, 2015
Type: Movie
How far would you go to get over your ex? After recent bad relationships with men, best friends Brea, Wendy, and Jessica want answers—so they decide to kidnap their exes and hold them hostage until they get them! After the kidnappers share their story in an internet chat room, they become a worldwide sensation, as millions cheer on their battle of the exes in this screamingly funny comedy of seduction and abduction.
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The Cheaters Club
Title: The Cheaters Club
Character: James
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
Samantha, Trina and Rain are three sexy friends who form "The Cheater's Club", an agency designed to help women expose their men, who have been accused of cheating and encourage the men through unconventional methods to change their adulterous ways. Olive, played by Eva Marcille, runs the agency while the ladies execute the operation and set the traps for the un-expecting men! The ladies use their feminine wiles to expose the cheaters at almost any costs. Women hire them to answer that nagging question, "Is my man cheating"? Eventually the ladies decide to take things up a notch by kidnapping, imprisoning and torturing the men into forcing confessions. Samantha, the leader of the group, takes things too far and as she flashes back to her own personal pain and ultimately someone pays a price for their action that changes everyone forever.
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37
Title: 37
Character: Dr. Koehm
Released: August 8, 2014
Type: Movie
A rocker makes a pact to kill himself on his 37th birthday. 12 weeks before the release of his final album and the end of his life, he meets and falls in love with a woman who has a dark secret of her own.
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And Then There Was You
Title: And Then There Was You
Character: Joshua Gilbert
Released: October 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Natalie and Joshua appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves. Newly divorced and soured on relationships, Natalie is picking up the pieces of her shattered world. In the process of healing, she meets a new man who challenges the boundaries of her trust and her ability to fall in love again.
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From This Day Forward
Title: From This Day Forward
Character: Deon
Released: May 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Patrice and Corrine are two sexy, confident women with great relationships, but they've got it all wrong when it comes to love. Before they drive their men crazy, they've got some tough lessons to learn about trust and fidelity, if they hope to make love last.
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Diary of a Single Mom
Title: Diary of a Single Mom
Character: Mike
Released: January 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Ocean (Monica Calhoun), a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the residents and the problems found within. As she struggles with a new job, a new home, her own children, a difficult niece, and the issues of other tenants, all within learn something about taking action and using compassion in their own lives.
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Cover
Title: Cover
Character: Ryan Chambers
Released: May 8, 2007
Type: Movie
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Title: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Character: Slim
Released: November 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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Friends and Lovers
Title: Friends and Lovers
Character: Tyrel
Released: March 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on the best-selling novel by author Eric Jerome Dickey, this funny and insightful drama follows four African-Americans, detailing the relationship trials and tribulations they face. Stand-up comedian Leonard romances beautiful Debra -- but will her religious convictions cause their relationship to stall? Meanwhile, Debra's friend Shelby starts dating Leonard's buddy Tyrel.
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Buffalo Soldiers
Title: Buffalo Soldiers
Character: Stoney
Released: October 31, 2002
Type: Movie
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Title: Hack
Character: Ulysses Sims
Released: September 27, 2002
Type: TV
Hack is a television series that aired on the American CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. The series centers on the fictional life of a former police officer, Polish-American Mike Olshansky, who left the force after being charged with corruption and now works as a taxi driver in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Ali
Title: Ali
Character: Brother 'Joe' (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
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Title: Crossing Jordan
Character: Vicellous Owens
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Little Richard
Title: Little Richard
Character: Little Richard
Released: February 20, 2000
Type: Movie
The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a Black singer in the 1950s, to his born-again phase and brief "retirement" from rock and roll.
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Mr. Rock n Roll: The Alan Freed Story
Title: Mr. Rock n Roll: The Alan Freed Story
Character: Jackie Wilson
Released: October 31, 1999
Type: Movie
This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, and he discovered how amazing R&B or Rhytym & Blues is, however, the music is considered to be "BLACK" music. So, most radio stations won't play it. However, Freed believed that it's the next wave, so he fights to have it played on the air. Eventually, he went into the big time - New York, and he decided to dub this music "ROCK & ROLL". Despite his success, he still had a lot of opposition and made deals with the wrong people, which would lead to his downfall.
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Bats
Title: Bats
Character: Jimmy Sands
Released: October 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
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Mean Streak
Title: Mean Streak
Character: Altman Rogers
Released: June 27, 1999
Type: Movie
The hitting record of Joe Di Maggio is about to broken by a black player. However a person who feels that it is sacred threatens the player if he breaks the record. Lou Mattoni, a detective who is a little racist, is assigned to the case.
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Friends & Lovers
Title: Friends & Lovers
Character: Manny
Released: April 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
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Title: The Temptations
Character: David Ruffin
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: TV
Biography of the singers who formed the hit Motown musical act, The Temptations.
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Side Streets
Title: Side Streets
Character: Errol Boyce
Released: September 5, 1998
Type: Movie
In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City.
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The Temptations
Title: The Temptations
Character: David Ruffin
Released: March 3, 1998
Type: Movie
A biographical look at The Temptations, the Motown soul vocal quintet who first came to fame in the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving original member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1990s and the deaths of the other original members.
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Title: Oz
Character: Jefferson Keane
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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The Price of Kissing
Title: The Price of Kissing
Character: Larry
Released: April 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Pauley Perrette plays Renee, a young woman discovering her own meaning of love. From childhood memories of her mother to her own experiences as a young woman, she struggles to find answers to life's greatest mystery. From a recommendation of a friend, she becomes the doorman at a local club. There she meets several friends who help her on her journey of discovery. Who will be there when it rains?
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B.A.P.S
Title: B.A.P.S
Character: Himself
Released: March 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Two clueless homegirls move to L.A. to become dancers, but instead find themselves scamming a dying millionaire to eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses).
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Spirit Lost
Title: Spirit Lost
Character: John
Released: March 24, 1997
Type: Movie
John Chapman and his beautiful wife Willie have just moved into a seaside village on the North Carolina coast. But they quickly discover that their quaint new house already has a long-standing tenant. Built 200 years ago by a philandering sea captain, the house is residence to the spirit of Arabella, an abandoned lover with an insatiable, centuries-old lust and a viciously jealous nature. Spirit Lost welcomes you to the dark side of Ghost - an erotic tale of the supernatural.
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Runaway Car
Title: Runaway Car
Character: Officer Isaiah 'Beau' Beaufort
Released: January 27, 1997
Type: Movie
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby nephew. Once on the street, they almost run over a young man. Not knowing if he is hurt, they pick up the man too. But the worst luck begins when the car brakes break down
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Title: Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Character: Uncle Melvin
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Waiting to Exhale
Title: Waiting to Exhale
Character: Russell
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
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Title: Central Park West
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: TV
The glamorous and exciting life for the staff of trendy magazine 'Communique', owned by Allen Rush, "the Darth Vader of publishing".
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Above the Rim
Title: Above the Rim
Character: Shep
Released: March 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
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Cool Runnings
Title: Cool Runnings
Character: Derice Bannock
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
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Cliffhanger
Title: Cliffhanger
Character: Kynette
Released: May 28, 1993
Type: Movie
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
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The Five Heartbeats
Title: The Five Heartbeats
Character: J.T.
Released: March 29, 1991
Type: Movie
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
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Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
Title: Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
Character: Innocent Man / Saint (segment "Like a Prayer")
Released: November 13, 1990
Type: Movie
The Immaculate Collection is the first commercially released greatest videos compilation by singer Madonna. Released on November 13, 1990 to accompany the audio CD, it contained hits spanning 1983-1990. The collection won "Best Long Form Video" category at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. Includes the following videos: 1. Lucky Star 2. Borderline 3. Like a Virgin 4. Material Girl 5. Papa Don't Preach 6. Open Your Heart 7. La Isla Bonita 8. Like a Prayer 9. Express Yourself 10. Cherish 11. Oh Father 12. Vogue 13. Vogue (1990 MTV Awards Show Performance)
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Flying Blind
Title: Flying Blind
Released: July 30, 1990
Type: Movie
Melodrama set in Philadelphia, PA in 1965. Eddie Panvini (Panebianco), a teenage photographer from South Philadelphia facing the Vietnam draft joins the coffeehouse fringe in 1965 Philadelphia and struggles with several moral choices before deciding to go to Vietnam as a war photographer.
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A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Title: A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Character: Michael Thomas
Released: December 3, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime and violence of their ghetto neighborhood.
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The Women of Brewster Place
Title: The Women of Brewster Place
Character: Abshu
Released: March 19, 1989
Type: Movie
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
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Colors
Title: Colors
Character: Killer-Bee
Released: April 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
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The Lawless Land
Title: The Lawless Land
Character: Roadkill
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find.
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The Father Clements Story
Title: The Father Clements Story
Released: December 13, 1987
Type: Movie
In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his fight to adopt a troubled teen and save him from life on the streets.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Ronald "Pinto" Sewell
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Band of the Hand
Title: Band of the Hand
Character: Moss
Released: April 11, 1986
Type: Movie
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
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Streetwalkin'
Title: Streetwalkin'
Character: Jason
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
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The Flamingo Kid
Title: The Flamingo Kid
Character: Fortune Smith
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Iceman
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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Sole Survivor
Title: Sole Survivor
Character: Gang Leader
Released: March 16, 1984
Type: Movie
After inexplicably surving a plane crash, TV station worker Denise tries to get on with her life. After she learns that she was actually supposed to die in the crash, the unseen specter of death starts sending its minions, people that have recently died, to collect her.
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Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Title: Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
They have raged on for forty years, cutting a swath across continents and lighting the fuse of revolutionary thought. From the pressure-cooker ghettos of England to the mighty gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, one band has forged an enduring legacy. This is their story.
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The Temptations Le film de leur ascension vers la gloire
Title: The Temptations Le film de leur ascension vers la gloire
Character: David Ruffin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie