Al Freeman Jr.

Al Freeman Jr.

Born: March 21, 1934
Died: September 9, 2012
in San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Al Freeman, Jr., M.Ed. (born Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr. on March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas) is an African-American actor and director.

Freeman has made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1985, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. He left the show briefly to appear in the network's controversial sitcom Hot L Baltimore. During that period, "Ed" was played by another actor, Arthur Pendleton.

He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to direct a soap opera.

After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea. His portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations.

Freeman currently teaches acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C..

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Down in the Delta
Title: Down in the Delta
Character: Earl Sinclair
Released: December 25, 1998
Type: Movie
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Title: Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Character: Poppa
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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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Title: Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Character: Old Johnson Whittaker
Released: February 26, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
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Title: Homicide: Life on the Street
Character: Deputy Commissioner James Harris
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: TV
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
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Malcolm X
Title: Malcolm X
Character: Elijah Muhammad
Released: November 18, 1992
Type: Movie
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Reverend Thayer
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Stan Wallace
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Title: Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.
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Seven Hours to Judgment
Title: Seven Hours to Judgment
Character: Danny Larwin
Released: September 16, 1988
Type: Movie
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
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Perry Mason Returns
Title: Perry Mason Returns
Character: Lt. Cooper
Released: December 1, 1985
Type: Movie
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
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Title: The Cosby Show
Released: September 20, 1984
Type: TV
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
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Title: Roots: The Next Generations
Character: Malcolm X
Released: February 18, 1979
Type: TV
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.
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Title: Roots: The Next Generations
Released: February 18, 1979
Type: TV
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.
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Title: King
Character: Damon Lockwood
Released: February 12, 1978
Type: TV
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968.
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Title: Hot l Baltimore
Released: January 24, 1975
Type: TV
Hot l Baltimore was a 1975 American television situation comedy series adapted from a hit off-Broadway play by Lanford Wilson.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Donald Mosher
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Title: To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Released: January 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
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A Fable
Title: A Fable
Character: The Leader
Released: March 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside their home.
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Title: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
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My Sweet Charlie
Title: My Sweet Charlie
Character: Charles Roberts
Released: January 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
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Castle Keep
Title: Castle Keep
Character: Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin
Released: July 23, 1969
Type: Movie
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
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The Lost Man
Title: The Lost Man
Character: Dennis Lawrence
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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Finian's Rainbow
Title: Finian's Rainbow
Character: Howard
Released: October 9, 1968
Type: Movie
An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a struggling farmer and an African American community facing persecution from a bigoted politician.
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Title: The Mod Squad
Released: September 24, 1968
Type: TV
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: One Life to Live
Character: Capt. Ed Hall
Released: July 15, 1968
Type: TV
One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the ABC network, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network since April 29, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978.
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The Detective
Title: The Detective
Character: Robbie Loughlin
Released: May 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
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The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
Title: The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."
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Title: Judd for the Defense
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: TV
High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.
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Dutchman
Title: Dutchman
Character: Clay
Released: December 28, 1966
Type: Movie
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
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For Pete's Sake
Title: For Pete's Sake
Character: Harvey
Released: October 14, 1966
Type: Movie
"For Pete's Sake" is the heartfelt and inspiring story of a man (Robert Sampson) struggling to come to terms with his wife's (Pippa Scott) untimely death, while raising their young son (Johnny Jenson). Sam Groom portrays the family's pastor and Terri Garr debuts as a wayward young woman in this entertaining and thought-provoking comedy-drama.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Alan Harmon
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Ensign Pulver
Title: Ensign Pulver
Character: Taru
Released: July 31, 1964
Type: Movie
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences...
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The Troublemaker
Title: The Troublemaker
Character: Intern
Released: June 22, 1964
Type: Movie
A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
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Black Like Me
Title: Black Like Me
Character: Thomas Newcomb
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Charlton White
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Sniper's Ridge
Title: Sniper's Ridge
Character: Medic Gwathney
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Korean War drama.
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This Rebel Breed
Title: This Rebel Breed
Character: Satchel
Released: March 19, 1960
Type: Movie
To combat the problem of drug-dealing juvenile delinquents operating in racial gangs, two recent police academy graduates are sent to a local high school, posing as students. [Initially released in theaters in 1960 as "This Rebel Breed", it was re-released as "The Black Rebels" five years later, re-edited with the addition of a handful of dialogue-free scenes of youths making out in a bedroom, with partial female nudity.]
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Para
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character: Taxi Man
Released: September 21, 1959
Type: TV
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.
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Torpedo Run
Title: Torpedo Run
Character: Sam Baker
Released: October 24, 1958
Type: Movie
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Houseboy
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.