Rusty Cundieff

Rusty Cundieff

Born: December 13, 1960
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
George Arthur "Rusty" Cundieff (born December 13, 1960) is an American film/television director, actor, and writer. His notable credits are as director/writer of and lead actor in the This Is Spinal Tap-like rap satire Fear of a Black Hat, as writer of the second installment to House Party, and as director of the horror anthology Tales from the Hood. He also directed the 1997 film, Sprung. He was also a director for Chappelle's Show and a correspondent on TV Nation. He also directed and starred in a U Can't Touch This parody titled Yes We Can, which focuses on Barack Obama. Cundieff was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Christina and John A. Cundieff, both of whom appeared in Tales from the Hood. He is married to Trina Davis Cundieff with whom he has two children. Cundieff is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. He also portrayed a fraternity brother (of the fictitious Gamma Phi Gamma) in Spike Lee's School Daze in which actual members of Alpha Phi Alpha were featured. Cundieff is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

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57 Seconds
Title: 57 Seconds
Character: Detective
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
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Doing the Hollywood Shuffle
Title: Doing the Hollywood Shuffle
Released: February 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Actors Rusty Cundieff, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Bobby McGee reflect on the production of Hollywood Shuffle.
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Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Title: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Character: Self
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
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American Nightmares
Title: American Nightmares
Character: Black Lawman
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Two voyeuristic nerds are hacking the devices of people as they themselves are hacked by the feed from story tellers Mister Malevolent and Mystic Woman who have seven moralistic horror stories to tell.
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Tales from the Hood 2
Title: Tales from the Hood 2
Character: Press Conference Reporter
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Mr. Simms returns to tell more eerie, unsettling tales involving dolls, psychics, possession and ghosts.
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In Search of Charlie Chan
Title: In Search of Charlie Chan
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on the creation of the popular Charlie Chan detective character as well as the history of Chan films of the 1930s.
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Sprung
Title: Sprung
Character: Montel
Released: May 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out that she's been fooled, she becomes Clyde's worst enemy. Meanwhile Montel and Brandy fall in love and plan to marry, and Adina and Clyde try to do everything to stop them.
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Tales from the Hood
Title: Tales from the Hood
Character: Richard (segment "Boys Do Get Bruised")
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
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Title: TV Nation
Released: July 19, 1994
Type: TV
TV Nation is a satirical newsmagazine television series written, directed and hosted by Michael Moore that was co-funded and originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and BBC2 in the United Kingdom. The show blended humor and journalism into provocative reports about various issues. After moving to Fox for its second season, the show won an Emmy Award in 1995 for Outstanding Informational Series. TV Nation was created in the wake of the success Moore had with the documentary Roger & Me, prompting Warner Bros. television to ask Moore for television series ideas. In January 1993 NBC green-lit a pilot episode which took three months to complete. Interest from the BBC prompted NBC to insert the show into its summer 1994 lineup.
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Fear of a Black Hat
Title: Fear of a Black Hat
Character: Ice Cold
Released: June 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.
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Eddie Presley
Title: Eddie Presley
Character: Guard
Released: December 8, 1992
Type: Movie
An Elvis impersonator with a wounded psyche, unflinching in his quest to keep the King's spirit alive bets it all on one night of glory, a headlining spot at dingy Tinseltown dive.
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School Daze
Title: School Daze
Character: Chucky
Released: February 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
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Hollywood Shuffle
Title: Hollywood Shuffle
Character: Audition Actor / Slave #1 / Zombie Pimp / Eddie Murphy-Type
Released: March 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.
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Title: What's Happening Now!!
Character: J.B. Whitney
Released: September 7, 1985
Type: TV
What's Happening Now!! is an American sequel series of What's Happening!! It ran in syndication from 1985 to 1988. Like the previous series, What's Happening Now!! is loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High.
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Title: MacGruder and Loud
Character: Perry
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: TV
MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder and Jenny Loud in a Los Angeles Police Department-styled police agency. They fought a battle every day to keep it a closely guarded secret from their boss, Sgt. Hanson. Malcolm and Jenny lived in a duplex-type apartment complex where there was a secret door behind the grandfather clock in her apartment, where Malcolm could sneak in and enjoy her company. This was one of the few failures from Aaron Spelling's production company in its history, since it was picked by ABC to debut right after the Super Bowl in 1985 and was heavily promoted during the game. The promotion resulted in high ratings at first, but following a quick decline, the series was cancelled three months into its run, after ranking 40th out of 104 programs that aired that season with an average 15.76 household rating, according to TVTango.com. Because of the frequent commercials during the Super Bowl, the following night Johnny Carson ask rhetorically during his monologue on The Tonight Show: "Did you see that new show, 'Frequent and Loud'?"