Beverly Todd

Beverly Todd

Born: July 11, 1946
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Beverly Todd (born July 11, 1946) is an American actress, producer and writer. Todd gained major work during the 1970s, appearing in notable films such as The Lost Man (1969), They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970), Brother John (1971) and A Piece of the Action (1977). This eventually led to other distinguished and more important work. Her more memorable roles came in Lean on Me and the film Crash. Recently, she reunited with Morgan Freeman (who co-starred with her in Lean On Me), playing the role of his wife in the 2007 film The Bucket List.

Todd was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Virena Todd (née Skinner).

Todd was previously married to film producer Kris Keiser. Together they had a son Malik Smith, who died on March 20, 1989 at the age of eighteen after being severely beaten at a nightclub while on spring break.

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A Dark Foe
Title: A Dark Foe
Released: July 30, 2021
Type: Movie
The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to catch a vicious serial killer.
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The Reason
Title: The Reason
Character: Shirley
Released: September 12, 2020
Type: Movie
The film, based on the William Sirls book, follows a small-town pastor, his wife and their sick child as a mysterious man is sent to give them hope. Sirls adapted his book for the screen, writing the screenplay with Aviv Rubinstein and Richard Clark Jr.
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On the Ride
Title: On the Ride
Released: March 2, 2020
Type: Movie
On his morning bike ride, Scott grapples with the memories of a trauma he experienced with his husband Todd. When his route suddenly takes an unexpected turn, Scott finds himself on the doorstep of a stranger intimately connected to the past he can’t shake.
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Turnover
Title: Turnover
Character: Ruth
Released: March 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Café owner Peter, leaves his disgruntled manager Henry, to take care of business, and he instead hires a crew of misfits. Peter returns to an unrecognizable business but soon learns the value of camaraderie with the new team.
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Title: 9-1-1
Character: Beatrice Carter
Released: January 3, 2018
Type: TV
Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.
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I Will Follow
Title: I Will Follow
Character: Amanda
Released: September 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.
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The Bucket List
Title: The Bucket List
Character: Virginia Chambers
Released: December 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.
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Title: K-Ville
Released: September 17, 2007
Type: TV
K-Ville is an American television drama created and executive produced by Jonathan Lisco, centering on policing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Deran Sarafian directed the pilot. On May 15, 2008, the series was officially canceled.
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Title: Ghost Whisperer
Character: Sheri Powell
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: TV
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
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Title: The Closer
Character: Mrs. Richards
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
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Crash
Title: Crash
Character: Graham's Mother
Released: May 6, 2005
Type: Movie
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
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Animal
Title: Animal
Character: Latreese
Released: May 1, 2005
Type: Movie
His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence. Can a father haunted by his past redeem his family from the very streets he created, or will he be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Gilda Ruiz
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: House
Character: Alicia Foreman
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Title: Six Feet Under
Character: Lucille Charles
Released: June 3, 2001
Type: TV
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
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The Surgeon
Title: The Surgeon
Character: Nurse Burns
Released: January 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years later, he returns to the hospital that condemned his work to begin practicing his grizzly experiments once more.
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Class of '61
Title: Class of '61
Released: April 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
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Lean On Me
Title: Lean On Me
Character: Ms. Levias
Released: March 3, 1989
Type: Movie
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.
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Clara's Heart
Title: Clara's Heart
Character: Dora Cambridge
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: Movie
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to new experiences, and eventually leading to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.
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Moving
Title: Moving
Character: Monica Pear
Released: March 4, 1988
Type: Movie
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
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Baby Boom
Title: Baby Boom
Character: Ann Bowen
Released: October 7, 1987
Type: Movie
J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a live-in relationship with Steven, a successful investment broker who, along with J.C., agreed children aren't part of the plan. J.C.'s life takes an unexpected turn when a distant relative dies and the will appoints her the caretaker of their baby girl, Elizabeth. The baby's sudden arrival causes Steven to leave, breaking off their relationship. Juggling power lunches and powdered formula, she is soon forced off the fast track by a conniving colleague and a bigoted boss. But she won't stay down for long. She'll prove to the world that a woman can have it all and on her own terms too!
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Title: A Different World
Character: Julia Reeves
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Wiseguy
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
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A Different Affair
Title: A Different Affair
Character: Maria
Released: March 24, 1987
Type: Movie
A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.
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The Ladies Club
Title: The Ladies Club
Character: Georgiane
Released: April 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of women and gotten away with it through legal technicalities.
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Title: The Redd Foxx Show
Released: January 18, 1986
Type: TV
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A Touch of Scandal
Title: A Touch of Scandal
Character: Beatty
Released: November 27, 1984
Type: Movie
Katherine Gilvey is a comely councilwoman, whose campaign for Attorney General is being managed by her ambitious, but cold-hearted husband Benjamin, which takes a turn when photographs surface of her liasion with a male prostitute, who used to be a law client of hers, and has now turned up dead. Also is a note telling her to withdraw from the campaign or the photos will be made public. Investigating on her own, Katherine's suspects to the idenity of the blackmailer are: a shadowy power broker, a charismatic minister, an activist priest, or even her own husband.
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Title: Blue Thunder
Released: January 6, 1984
Type: TV
Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter. The series uses the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in the television series. This was a large support van with a desert camouflage off-road vehicle stored inside. The television series cast includes James Farentino, Dana Carvey, and former professional American football players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus. The series was canceled by ABC after they felt the similar Airwolf on CBS would win the ratings battle. Also, the series aired at the same time as the CBS soap opera Dallas on Friday nights, and lost. Eleven episodes were made before the series was cancelled.
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Please Don't Hit Me, Mom
Title: Please Don't Hit Me, Mom
Character: Louise Hawley
Released: January 19, 1983
Type: Movie
A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
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Title: St. Elsewhere
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: TV
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Vice Squad
Title: Vice Squad
Character: Louise Williams
Released: January 22, 1982
Type: Movie
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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Title: Falcon Crest
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: TV
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy
Title: Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Character: Lahoma Brown Paige
Released: May 31, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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The Jericho Mile
Title: The Jericho Mile
Character: Wylene
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the Olympic team.
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Title: Benson
Character: Casey Turner
Released: September 13, 1979
Type: TV
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.
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Title: Harris and Company
Released: March 15, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Julie Farr, M.D.
Released: March 7, 1978
Type: TV
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Having Babies III
Title: Having Babies III
Character: Kelly Williams
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
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The Ghost of Flight 401
Title: The Ghost of Flight 401
Character: Dana
Released: February 18, 1978
Type: Movie
An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.
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Title: Lou Grant
Released: September 20, 1977
Type: TV
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
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Title: The Fitzpatricks
Released: September 5, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: The Fantastic Journey
Released: February 3, 1977
Type: TV
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Six Characters in Search of An Author
Title: Six Characters in Search of An Author
Character: The Stepdaughter
Released: October 14, 1976
Type: Movie
A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for an author to tell their tragic story. An adaptation of the classic Luigi Pirandello play, updated to take place in a 1970s television studio.
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Title: Quincy, M.E.
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the later episodes.
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Brother John
Title: Brother John
Character: Louisa MacGill
Released: August 15, 1971
Type: Movie
An enigmatic man (Sidney Poitier) returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Title: They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Character: Puff
Released: July 10, 1970
Type: Movie
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
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Some Kind of a Nut
Title: Some Kind of a Nut
Character: Policewoman
Released: September 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.
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The Lost Man
Title: The Lost Man
Character: Sally Carter
Released: July 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
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Deadlock
Title: Deadlock
Character: Melissa Rodan
Released: February 22, 1969
Type: Movie
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Title: The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Character: Receptionist
Released: May 10, 1968
Type: Movie
On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the city of New York.
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Title: The Wild Wild West
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.
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Title: Love of Life
Released: September 24, 1951
Type: TV
Love of Life is an American soap opera which aired on CBS from September 24, 1951, to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks before Love of Life, and who would go on to create The Secret Storm two and a half years later.