John Earl Jelks

John Earl Jelks

Born: July 16, 1959

Movies for John Earl Jelks...

Exhibiting Forgiveness
Title: Exhibiting Forgiveness
Character: La'Ron
Released: January 20, 2024
Type: Movie
Utilizing his paintings to find freedom from his past, a Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.
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Title: East New York
Character: James Hilliard
Released: October 2, 2022
Type: TV
Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighborhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.
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A Holiday in Harlem
Title: A Holiday in Harlem
Character: Thomas
Released: November 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Business executive Jazmin Carter is known for two things: turning fledgling businesses into profit producers and avoiding Christmas in Harlem, the neighborhood where she grew up.
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Title: Love Life
Character: Kirby Watkins
Released: May 27, 2020
Type: TV
A romantic comedy anthology series which follows a different protagonist each season on the journey from first love to last love, with each half-hour episode chronicling one of their relationships.
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Title: The I-Land
Character: Professor Verne
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: TV
Wiped clean of memories and thrown together, a group of strangers fight to survive harsh realities -- and the island that traps them.
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Title: On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Character: Judd Waltrip
Released: August 25, 2019
Type: TV
In the early 1990s, a recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and cons her way up the ranks of the multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme which ruined her financially in the first place.
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Title: New Amsterdam
Character: Horace Reynolds
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
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Night Comes On
Title: Night Comes On
Character: John Lamere
Released: August 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Angel is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
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Title: The Good Fight
Character: Perry Cardwell
Released: February 19, 2017
Type: TV
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
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Tough
Title: Tough
Character: Larry
Released: May 14, 2015
Type: Movie
An estranged father and son reconnect after 11 years when they discover that they share the same apartment complex. The cause for the disconnect was the father inability to deal with his sons lifestyle.
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The Miraculous
Title: The Miraculous
Character: Man from the Desert
Released: October 28, 2014
Type: Movie
An imaginary portrait of the performance artist Bas Jan Ader's final days. Ader was a Dutch performance artist who was lost at sea in 1975, while he was attempting to cross the ocean during a performance called, In Search of the Miraculous. Ader, (Josh Elrod) travels through the desert of the American West, and joins forces with a fever dream companion (John Earl Jelks) and they make their way to the ocean where they perform Ader's final, miraculous performance. The film is set in Southern California.
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Title: True Detective
Character: Sam Whitehead
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: TV
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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Enter the Dangerous Mind
Title: Enter the Dangerous Mind
Character: Lt. Ike
Released: March 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Ray Bell
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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Miracle at St. Anna
Title: Miracle at St. Anna
Character: Detective Dillard
Released: September 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Mr. Achok
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Compensation
Title: Compensation
Character: Arthur/Nico Jones
Released: June 14, 1999
Type: Movie
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
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A Powerful Thang
Title: A Powerful Thang
Character: Craig Watkins (as John Jelks)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
This innovative drama, set in Ohio, traces an African American couple's search for intimacy and friendship. The spirited, African-identified Yasmine Allen is a writer and single mother who has been dating saxophone teacher Craig Watkins for a month. Wishing to end her self-imposed celibacy following her son's birth, Yasmine has reached a turning point in the relationship-but Craig, the Big Lug, wants to take it slow. Sage advice from friends and family members remind them, "sex is a powerful thang." Like her highly acclaimed CYCLES, Davis's film incorporates animation as well as Afro-Haitian dance in a rich exploration of the lives of African Americans.
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Crocodile Conspiracy
Title: Crocodile Conspiracy
Character: (as John Jelks)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.
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Dark Exodus
Title: Dark Exodus
Released: July 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Subjected to Jim Crow laws and an overtly racist white population that still sees Blacks as property, an African American family in the South sends its sons away to a better life. Visualizing the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban, industrial North in sepia tones, director Iverson White’s period film captures the atmosphere of early 20th century America.