Olivia Cole

Olivia Cole

Born: November 26, 1942
Died: January 19, 2018
in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Movies for Olivia Cole...

First Sunday
Title: First Sunday
Character: Momma T
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
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Title: Christy
Released: April 3, 1994
Type: TV
Christy is an American historical fiction drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes. Christy was based on the novel Christy by Catherine Marshall, the widow of Senate chaplain Peter Marshall. The novel had been a bestseller in 1968, and the week following the debut of the TV-movie and program saw the novel jump from #120 up to #15 on the USA Today bestseller list. Series regular Tyne Daly won an Emmy Award for her work on the series.
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Title: Brewster Place
Character: Miss Sophie
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: TV
Brewster Place is a short lived American drama series which aired on ABC in May 1990. The series was a spinoff of the 1989 miniseries The Women of Brewster Place, which was based upon Gloria Naylor's novel of the same name. The series starred talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who also served as co-executive producer.
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The Women of Brewster Place
Title: The Women of Brewster Place
Character: Miss Sophie
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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Big Shots
Title: Big Shots
Character: Mrs. Newton
Released: October 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler's estranged father.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Judge Julie McFarlane
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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Title: North and South
Character: Maum Sally
Released: November 3, 1985
Type: TV
The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best friends while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point but later find themselves and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Character: Elizabeth
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Callie Coleman
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Yvette Dauphin
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Melinda Coop
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Something About Amelia
Title: Something About Amelia
Character: Ruth Walters
Released: January 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Counseling helps family deal with the discovery that their child was sexually abused by the closest relative.
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Title: Report to Murphy
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: TV
Report to Murphy is an American situation comedy television series starring Michael Keaton that premiered on CBS on April 5, 1982.
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Some Kind of Hero
Title: Some Kind of Hero
Character: Jesse
Released: April 2, 1982
Type: Movie
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
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Mistress of Paradise
Title: Mistress of Paradise
Character: Victorine
Released: October 4, 1981
Type: Movie
In the 19th century, a wealthy Northern woman marries a Louisiana plantation owner and then becomes suspicious about his first wife's death.
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Fly Away Home
Title: Fly Away Home
Character: Sarah Brookford
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
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Children of Divorce
Title: Children of Divorce
Character: Betty Williams
Released: November 24, 1980
Type: Movie
The conflict and separation of their parents and the impact on four youngsters from three socially different families is the thrust of this drama.
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The Sky Is Gray
Title: The Sky Is Gray
Character: Octavia
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's. James, the boy in question, has a raging toothache that necessitates a trip to the dentist. His mother (played by Emmy-winner Olivia Cole), accompanies James to town on an eye-opening odyssey where the boy gains valuable insights into poverty, racism - and his own sense of pride. With an exciting musical score by Webster Lewis, this multi-award winning film explores a child's discovery that the world is a complicated place... where things are never truly black or white... only shades of gray.
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Title: Backstairs at the White House
Character: Maggie Rogers
Released: January 29, 1979
Type: TV
Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
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Coming Home
Title: Coming Home
Character: Corrine
Released: February 15, 1978
Type: Movie
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.
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Heroes
Title: Heroes
Character: Jane Adcox
Released: November 4, 1977
Type: Movie
A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.
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Title: Rafferty
Released: September 5, 1977
Type: TV
Rafferty is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 5 to November 28, 1977. The series stars Patrick McGoohan as Doctor Sid Rafferty, a former army doctor running his own private practice in Los Angeles and helping out part time at City General Hospital.
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Title: Szysznyk
Released: August 1, 1977
Type: TV
Szysznyk was an short-lived American television series produced by Paramount Network Television, originally broadcast on CBS during the 1977-78 television season, and starring Ned Beatty as Nick Szysznyk. Only ten episodes were aired.
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Title: Roots
Character: Mathilda
Released: January 23, 1977
Type: TV
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
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Title: Police Woman
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.