Eriq La Salle

Eriq La Salle

Born: July 23, 1962
in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Eriq La Salle (born July 23, 1962) is an American actor and director, known for Coming to America and ER.

Movies for Eriq La Salle...

A Second Chance at Love
Title: A Second Chance at Love
Character: Jack Roberts
Released: March 26, 2022
Type: Movie
The film centers around Alicia and Arnold’s picture-perfect marriage, but underneath the surface, there is something amiss. Arnold is ready to grow their family, but Alicia is hesitant to the idea. Rather than face the problem head on, Alicia, the self-proclaimed "love doctor," immerses herself in her divorced parents, Jack and Brenda’s, dating affairs by setting them each up on a blind date dating app.
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Title: Tamron Hall
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and entertaining conversations.
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Logan
Title: Logan
Character: Will Munson
Released: February 28, 2017
Type: Movie
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
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Title: Angie Tribeca
Character: Dr. Brainerd
Released: January 17, 2016
Type: TV
Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.
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Title: Under the Dome
Character: Hektor Martin
Released: June 24, 2013
Type: TV
A small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. While military forces, the government and the media positioned outside of this surrounding barrier attempt to break it down, a small group of people inside attempt to figure out what the dome is, where it came from, and when (and if) it will go away.
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Blackout
Title: Blackout
Character: George
Released: October 24, 2012
Type: Movie
After being charged with hacking into the Pentagon security system, computer-whiz Josh Martin is kidnapped during house arrest and delivered to a shadowy criminal known as Charles Keller. Requested to hack into the state’s highly advanced electrical system and shut it down, it’s clear what Keller wants—total chaos. When California goes dark, he gets what he wants. And tonight, no one will be prepared for what’s about to happen.
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Title: Blackout
Character: George
Released: September 2, 2011
Type: TV
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MegaFault
Title: MegaFault
Character: Charley 'Boomer' Baxter
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismology expert Dr Amy Lane, Boomer must now race against time to stop the chasm that is threatening to tear America - and the entire world - in half.
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Relative Stranger
Title: Relative Stranger
Character: Walter Clemons
Released: March 14, 2009
Type: Movie
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Title: King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Character: Himself
Released: January 16, 2007
Type: Movie
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War documents the work Martin Luther King did in attempting to bring peace to people during the turmoil of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. The film includes interviews with contemporaries such as Jesse Jackson, and military experts like Colin Powell.
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Johnny Was
Title: Johnny Was
Character: Julius
Released: September 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison...
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A Concert for Hurricane Relief
Title: A Concert for Hurricane Relief
Character: Presenter
Released: September 2, 2005
Type: Movie
A Hurricane Katrina relief concert. After Louisiana was destroyed by Katrina, famous stars all came together and put on this concert, which aired on over 20 television stations, including NBC, TV Guide Channel, ABC, CBS, PAX, FOX, Cinemax, TBS, and USA.
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Inside Out
Title: Inside Out
Character: Doctor Peoples
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Families in an idyllic suburban neighborhood are taunted by a mysterious doctor who moves in to town and spins a web of psychological chaos that changes their lives forever.
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Title: Retrosexual: The '80s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: November 14, 2004
Type: TV
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Biker Boyz
Title: Biker Boyz
Character: Tariq "Slick Will" (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets.
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Crazy As Hell
Title: Crazy As Hell
Released: October 23, 2002
Type: Movie
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Aaron Gibbs
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Ray Ellison
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
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One Hour Photo
Title: One Hour Photo
Character: Det. James Van Der Zee
Released: August 21, 2002
Type: Movie
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!"
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Ultimate Jordan
Title: Ultimate Jordan
Character: Narrator
Released: November 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Marking 20 years since Michael Jordan's celebrated arrival in the NBA, this truly historic 3-disc Collector's Edition chronicles the amazing career of this great American icon. For the first time ever, exclusive to this set, are Jordan's five all-time, greatest games in their entirety. Add to this, five #1 best-selling Michael Jordan programs, over an hour of bonus footage including MJ's greatest moves, dunks and shots, plus DVD-ROM features and you have the ultimate tribute to the ultimate sports legend.
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Mind Prey
Title: Mind Prey
Character: Lucas Davenport
Released: March 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Mind Prey is an adaptation of the John Sandford mystery novel of the same name, featuring Sandford's famous detective Lucas Davenport. Andi Manette (Sheila Helley), a well respected psychiatrist, and her two daughters have been kidnapped and detective Lucas Davenport (Eriq La Salle) is about to meet his ultimate nemesis in their sadistic captor, John Mail (Titus Welliver). Davenport and Mail both have a penchant for computer games and gaming culture. Their shared interest helps Davenport to understand and guess the kidnapper's next move, but the victims are put in further danger when Mail forces Davenport into a cruel and insane cat-and-mouse game.
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Title: Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Character: Diego
Released: November 23, 1996
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.
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Title: The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: TV
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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Michael Jordan: Above and Beyond
Title: Michael Jordan: Above and Beyond
Character: Narrator
Released: May 7, 1996
Type: Movie
"Michael Jordan Above and Beyond" provides a much-needed look at Michael Jordan's fantastic return from retirement in 1995. The first 20 minutes or so recap his retirement, attempt at minor league baseball, and his dealing with his father's murder. It picks up when it starts looking at the huge frenzy that was his return to the NBA in the Spring of 1995. It covers his mediocre first game back against the Pacers, his Friday night Chicago return against the Magic, and his subsequent return to form with a game-winning shot against Atlanta, and a career night dropping 55 on the Knicks.
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Drop Squad
Title: Drop Squad
Character: Bruford Jamison Jr
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.
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Title: ER
Character: Peter Benton
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Color of Night
Title: Color of Night
Character: Anderson
Released: August 19, 1994
Type: Movie
A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense affair with a mysterious woman who may be connected to the crime.
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Empty Cradle
Title: Empty Cradle
Character: Detective Knoll
Released: October 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.
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Title: The Larry Sanders Show
Character: Eriq La Salle
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.
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Title: The Human Factor
Character: Michael Stoven
Released: April 16, 1992
Type: TV
The Human Factor is a short-lived medical drama that aired in 1992. It stars Eriq La Salle and John Mahoney.
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Murder in Oakland
Title: Murder in Oakland
Character: Eric
Released: July 31, 1991
Type: Movie
Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new additions to the police department's five overworked homicide teams. When they investigate a seemingly motiveless prostitute killing, they find themselves drawn into the centre of a fight for survival among Oakland's dangerous drug gangs.
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Eyes of a Witness
Title: Eyes of a Witness
Character: Mchumbo
Released: March 30, 1991
Type: Movie
Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are slaughtering protected species, then raiding Masai villages and forcing them to help carry their ill-gotten gains across the border. Roy flies to Kenya to convince her to leave and becomes a suspect for murder when the village is raided and he tries to help a UN doctor shot by the raiders. The only witness is a young Masai boy, who is reluctant to come forward because of possible retribution against his tribe.
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Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Title: Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Character: Jack Spade
Released: December 15, 1990
Type: Movie
After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.
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Jacob's Ladder
Title: Jacob's Ladder
Character: Frank
Released: November 2, 1990
Type: Movie
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
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When We Were Young
Title: When We Were Young
Character: Virgil Hawkins
Released: July 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Prospective series pilot about eight 1959 high school graduates in a Northern California town preparing to go off into the world.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Bobby Lee
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Magic Moments
Title: Magic Moments
Character: Dancing Guy (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1989
Type: Movie
A successful magician is approached to do a TV special, which he has not done before. He and the beautiful producer of the show fall in love with each other, much to the disappointment of her possessive guardian (who is the person she works for). He sets out to wreck their happiness.
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Coming to America
Title: Coming to America
Character: Darryl Jenks
Released: June 29, 1988
Type: Movie
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
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What Price Victory
Title: What Price Victory
Character: Trumayne James
Released: January 18, 1988
Type: Movie
What Price Victory is about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on two star high school athletes.
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Title: A Different World
Character: Professor Paul Mann
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: TV
A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities. While it was a spin-off from The Cosby Show, A Different World would typically address issues that were avoided by The Cosby Show writers. One episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Five Corners
Title: Five Corners
Character: Samuel Kemp
Released: September 11, 1987
Type: Movie
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
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Where Are the Children?
Title: Where Are the Children?
Character: Deputy Bernie Miles
Released: December 12, 1986
Type: Movie
In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief Ed Coffin wrongfully suspects that Nancy is behind the disappearances.
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Out of the Darkness
Title: Out of the Darkness
Character: Bobby
Released: October 12, 1985
Type: Movie
A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked New York in the 70s.
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Cut and Run
Title: Cut and Run
Character: Fargas
Released: August 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
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Rappin'
Title: Rappin'
Character: Ice
Released: May 10, 1985
Type: Movie
An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.