Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen

Born: January 16, 1950
in Houston, Texas, USA
Debbie Allen is an American film and television actress and director.

Movies for Debbie Allen...

Title: The Unwanted Mate
Character: Mrs. Walker
Released: March 30, 2024
Type: TV
Evelyn, a young omega, is rescued by Alpha Keiran when she is ambushed by the rogues. And then she finds that powerful alpha is her mate, but he is going to reject her.
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The Hidden Power of Purpose
Title: The Hidden Power of Purpose
Character: Narrator
Released: October 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Narrated by Debbie Allen, the film bridges inspiring stories of individuals who have found purpose in their lives with the insights of leading scientists whose work affirms that living with purpose improves health and longevity.
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Title: The Jennifer Hudson Show
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: TV
Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.
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Title: The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Character: Myrtle (voice)
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: TV
Follow the adventures and misadventures of newly 14-year-old Penny Proud and her family as they navigate modern life with hilarity and heart. The 2020s bring a new career for mom Trudy, wilder dreams for dad Oscar and new challenges for Penny, including a socially woke neighbor who thinks she has a lot to teach her.
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Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
Title: Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons of entertainment and American culture. The special examines how Black actresses of Hollywood have become power brokers and the iconic moments and roles have paved the way for them today.
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Title: JANET JACKSON.
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: TV
The documentary takes viewers through Janet Jackson's life and career, contain never-before-seen footage, and feature home videos from the legendary artist. Jackson discusses her controversial 2004 Super Bowl halftime show performance with Justin Timberlake, her father Joe Jackson, the death of her brother Michael Jackson, and more.
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Title: Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
Character: Self
Released: July 28, 2021
Type: TV
Get personal with Robin Roberts and some of Hollywood’s groundbreaking women as they bear witness to their incredible journeys on their path to purpose. Each episode is a profound conversation filled with emotion and inspiration. Listen to never-before-heard stories of how these groundbreakers came face-to-face with their vulnerability, authenticity and intuition. Discover their commonalities and learn how their stories and experiences created room for expansion and evolution.
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Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous
Title: Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous
Character: Betty Samson
Released: April 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Anna Campbell, now 65, sparked controversy when she bared it all on stage years ago. When a theatre festival asks to re-stage the work with a younger actress in her role, dramatic and comic fireworks ensue.
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Title: Cardi Tries
Character: Self
Released: December 17, 2020
Type: TV
Rap superstar Cardi B is back with more adventures than ever! Always up for a challenge, Cardi is going BIGGER and jumping way out of her comfort zone.
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Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
Title: Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
Character: Herself
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: Movie
This documentary spotlights Debbie Allen's career and follows her group of dance students as they prepare for Allen's annual "Hot Chocolate Nutcracker," a reimagining of the classic ballet.
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Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance
Title: Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance
Character: Self
Released: June 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Follow the fascinating evolution of jazz dance from its origins in Africa, through to its modern-day interpretations which reveal the political and social influences affecting the dance form today.
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Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Title: Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Character: Self
Released: November 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous, often estranged younger brother, tap dance legend Gregory Hines.
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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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Title: Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 2018
Type: TV
A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.
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American Tap
Title: American Tap
Character: Self
Released: July 24, 2018
Type: Movie
The history of tap is an ever-evolving panorama of inclusion, adversity, and reinvention. This in-depth documentary is an absorbing narrative about a quintessentially American dance form—from its origins, to the historic and cultural events that shaped it, to its present day rebirth as a vibrant art form.
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Broadway: The Next Generation
Title: Broadway: The Next Generation
Released: November 16, 2017
Type: Movie
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
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Title: S.W.A.T.
Character: Charice Harrelson
Released: November 2, 2017
Type: TV
A locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he's tasked to run a highly-trained unit that's the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles.
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Title: Raven's Home
Character: Great Aunt Maureen
Released: July 21, 2017
Type: TV
Best friends Raven and Chelsea, now both divorced mothers, are raising their children in a house together. Their house is turned upside down when they realize one of Raven's children inherited the same psychic abilities as their mother.
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Title: Grace and Frankie
Character: Dorothy
Released: May 8, 2015
Type: TV
Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.
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Title: Jane the Virgin
Character: Beverly Flores
Released: October 13, 2014
Type: TV
A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."
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A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
Title: A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary with stars from the original cast.
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Title: Celebrity Ghost Stories
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2009
Type: TV
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.
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Fame
Title: Fame
Character: Ms. Angela Simms
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: Movie
An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
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Next Day Air
Title: Next Day Air
Character: Ms. Jackson
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes ten people's lives forever.
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Bring Back... Fame
Title: Bring Back... Fame
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 2008
Type: Movie
Justin Lee Collins attempts to track down the cast of Fame, both the film and the TV series.
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Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
Title: Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
Character: American Idol Auditionee in Sunglasses
Released: August 19, 2006
Type: Movie
In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy - by relying on her spectacular singing voice. She ultimately gains national prominence as the winner of a hit talent show. Fantasia Barrino plays herself in this modern true Cinderella story. Also starring Loretta Devine, Kadeem Hardison and Viola Davis.
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Title: Everybody Hates Chris
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Title: Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Character: Anita (segment "West Side Story")
Released: August 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.
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Title: So You Think You Can Dance
Released: July 20, 2005
Type: TV
Dancers selected in open auditions across America take part in a rigorous competition designed to best display their talents, training and personalities to a panel of judges and viewers as they strive to win votes and avoid elimination.
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Title: Bring Back...
Character: Self - Lydia Grant
Released: May 10, 2005
Type: TV
Bring Back... is a British television series comprising one-off shows where Justin Lee Collins tries to locate people from music, TV or film backgrounds to reunite them for a one-off performance or get-together. The series was broadcast on Channel 4.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Catherine Fox
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: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Catherine Avery
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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Confessions of an Action Star
Title: Confessions of an Action Star
Character: Self
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A 'mocumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame and fortune caused Frank to lose his sense of what's truely important, he realised he's going to have to get in touch with his roots if there's ever going to be a comeback.
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Title: All of Us
Released: September 16, 2003
Type: TV
Robert James, an entertainment reporter for a local Los Angeles television station, is handsome, smart and thoroughly modern in his thinking. Recently divorced from the somewhat self-absorbed Neesee, the mother of their endearing 6-year-old son, Robert refuses to buy into the old stereotype that being divorced means you can't get along with the ex.
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The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
Title: The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 2002
Type: Movie
Cartoon Network holds an awards show awarding cartoon excellence.
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It's Black Entertainment
Title: It's Black Entertainment
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2002
Type: Movie
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured are: Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Little Richard, Also included are today's contemporary superstars: Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Russell Simmons, and many, more! 80 minutes plus DVD bonus features.
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The Painting
Title: The Painting
Character: Bertha Lee Gilmore
Released: October 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and confusion of the late sixties. Travel back in time to visit a young man, Randy (Freeman) who finds himself immersed in the impassioned civil rights cause in the States, and struggles valiantly to adjust to the changing social fabric around him. But this is only the first of two worlds that Randy encounters. When he is drafted and shipped off to Asia - and the nightmare that called itself Vietnam - this inexperienced soldier must fight for his life and his convictions as he attempts to survive amid the turmoil of a war whose real nature is alien even to the country fighting it.
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All About You
Title: All About You
Released: August 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Two people run from the pain of their broken past. When they discover each other, they find themselves at a crossroad where the only thing that stands between them and a second chance is each other.
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The Old Settler
Title: The Old Settler
Character: Quilly McGrath
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but unworldly young man named Husband travels up from the South to board with the sisters while he searches for his beloved Lou Bessie, who left their small town a few years back to find a new life. Husband would like to bring Lou Bessie back home, but she's enamored with the excitement of the city, and her plans are more complicated. In time, Elizabeth and Husband begin a courtship that may or may not overcome their considerable age difference, while Quilly reacts disapprovingly.
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Title: The Division
Released: January 7, 2001
Type: TV
The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.
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Everything's Jake
Title: Everything's Jake
Character: Debbie Allen
Released: September 25, 2000
Type: Movie
A homeless man takes a newly homeless man under his wing and teaches him how to survive on the streets.
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Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Title: Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Character: Herself
Released: July 20, 1999
Type: Movie
From world-renowned performer of the Jazz Age, to WWII spy, to civil rights activist – a look into the iconic life and legacy of Josephine Baker, narrated by Arsenio Hall, including rare archive footage, and interviews with Debbie Allen, Lynn Whitfield (who portrayed Baker in The Josephine Baker Story), and two of Baker’s sons.
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Michael Jordan: An American Hero
Title: Michael Jordan: An American Hero
Character: Deloris Jordan
Released: April 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Michael Jordan: An American Hero is an American television film that aired on April 18, 1999 on Fox. It stars Michael Jace as Michael Jordan.
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Title: E! True Hollywood Story
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: TV
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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Title: C Bear and Jamal
Released: February 3, 1996
Type: TV
C Bear and Jamal is an animated children's television show that premiered on the Fox Kids Fprogramming block in 1996. It features an African-American elementary-aged school kid named Jamal, whose constant companion was "C Bear", a hip hop teddy bear who sings. Film Roman co-produced the show.
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Out-of-Sync
Title: Out-of-Sync
Character: Manicurist
Released: June 4, 1995
Type: Movie
A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.
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Title: In the House
Character: Jackie Warren
Released: April 10, 1995
Type: TV
In the House is an American sitcom
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Precious (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Lola (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Mona Must Die
Title: Mona Must Die
Character: Betty
Released: May 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Disillusioned, Eddie is a long-suffering husband who finds passion and happiness with his neighbor, Rachel, a struggling estate agent. Only one thing stands in their way - Mona, Eddie's tyrannical wife who helped Eddie when he was still a recent immigrant, then trapped him in a loveless marriage. As the relationship deepens, the two lovers devise a plan where Rachel is brought into the house as Mona's live-in attendant for Mona must die.
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Blank Check
Title: Blank Check
Character: Yvonne
Released: February 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston is fed up with his family -- especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal nearly bulldozes Preston with his car and gives the boy a blank check as compensation. Preston makes the check out for $1 million and goes on a spending spree he'll never forget. Maybe now, his family will take him seriously!
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Title: Intimate Portrait
Character: Self
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.
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Stompin' at the Savoy
Title: Stompin' at the Savoy
Character: Estelle
Released: April 19, 1992
Type: Movie
As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.
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Sunday in Paris
Title: Sunday in Paris
Character: Sunday Chase
Released: July 7, 1991
Type: Movie
A pilot for an unsold NBC series. A single woman with three children realizes that her family has lost sight of their values and gives up her career as a daytime-drama actress in New York to move back with her extended family on their Texas farm.
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Title: Sunday in Paris
Released: July 7, 1991
Type: TV
A pilot for an unsold NBC series. A single woman with three children realizes that her family has lost sight of their values and gives up her career as a daytime-drama actress in New York to move back with her extended family on their Texas farm.
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Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella
Title: Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A 1990 PBS documentary around the topic of A cappella music. Artists that performed as part of the documentary include The Mint Juleps, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Rockapella and The Persuasions. It also stars Spike Lee, Debbie Allen and a cameo appearance by Samuel L. Jackson.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Joanna Chapman
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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Title: A Different World
Character: Dr. Langhorne
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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Title: A Different World
Character: Herself (Uncredited)
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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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Title: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Character: Michelle
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
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Night of 100 Stars II
Title: Night of 100 Stars II
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 1985
Type: Movie
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
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Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration
Title: Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 1985
Type: Movie
Broadcast on NBC February 18, 1985, the Disneyland 30th Anniversary Celebration was hosted by John Forsythe and Drew Barrymore. The special is a look back into the first thirty years of Disneyland's history. Featuring footage from opening day in 1955, including the famous Walt Disney opening day speech.
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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: Celebrity
Character: Regina Brown
Released: February 12, 1984
Type: TV
Self-proclaimed faith healer T.J. Luther, movie star Mack Crawford and journalist Kleber Cantrell share a fateful reunion in a deserted Texas cabin that was the scene of a night of violence over two decades.
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Women of San Quentin
Title: Women of San Quentin
Character: Carol Freeman
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
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The Kids from Fame: From the Royal Albert Hall London
Title: The Kids from Fame: From the Royal Albert Hall London
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1983
Type: Movie
This is a live performance for the British fans of Fame that recreates their most memorable episode moments like "Desdamona". The excitment of the London fans along with some behind the scenes shot makes this a truly memorable viewing experience.
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Alice at the Palace
Title: Alice at the Palace
Character: Red Queen
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.
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Title: Fame
Character: Lydia Grant
Released: January 7, 1982
Type: TV
An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although fictional, it was based heavily on the actual Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California, and in all seasons but the third, several exterior scenes were shot on location in New York City. The popularity of the series, particularly in the UK, led to several hit records and live concert tours by the cast. Despite its success, very few of the actors maintained high-profile careers after the series was cancelled. A number of the cast members were seen again briefly in Bring Back...Fame, a reunion special made for British television in 2008.
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Ragtime
Title: Ragtime
Character: Sarah
Released: November 20, 1981
Type: Movie
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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Fame
Title: Fame
Character: Lydia
Released: May 16, 1980
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Title: The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Character: Ola
Released: November 6, 1979
Type: Movie
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
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Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Title: Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Character: Claire 'Ebony' Bryant
Released: August 3, 1979
Type: Movie
In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
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Title: Roots: The Next Generations
Character: Nan Branch Haley
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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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Title: The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Character: Julie Sutton
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Selena Moore
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: 3 Girls 3
Character: Self
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: TV
Three show-business unknowns (a singer, a dancer and a comic) played themselves on stage and off in this combination sitcom and variety show from Gary Smith and Dwight Hemion, one of the medium's classier production teams. Critics liked 'Girls,' but its debut had low ratings and there were only three more episodes.
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Title: Battle of the Network Stars
Released: November 13, 1976
Type: TV
Battle of the Network Stars was a series of competitions where television stars from ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete in various sporting events. A total of nineteen of these competitions were held, all of which were aired by ABC. In 2013, the show appeared in TV Guide's list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.
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Title: Good Times
Released: February 8, 1974
Type: TV
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.