Afemo Omilami

Afemo Omilami

Born: December 13, 1950
in Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Afemo Omilami is an American actor.

Movies for Afemo Omilami...

Freedom's Path
Title: Freedom's Path
Character: Ellis Freeman
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
A Union soldier flees from battle and is rescued unexpectedly from free Black man Kitch and his friends. Risking everything, Kitch takes William deep into the woods to the safety of his adopted home. It's here that William discovers Kitch is a part of secret community of freed slaves, who run a portion of the Underground Railroad. When a ruthless and desperate slave catcher discovers the underground network, he conspires to bring it burning down to the ground.
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Horror Noire
Title: Horror Noire
Character: Zeke (segment 'The Lake')
Released: October 28, 2021
Type: Movie
An anthology film presenting six short horror stories from black writers and directors, featuring racist vampires, supernatural creatures, and Satan his damn self.
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Full Count
Title: Full Count
Character: Mr Gravitt
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
An unfortunate chain of events forces Milton Young to give up his dream of playing professional baseball and return home to the town he fought hard to escape. Once home, Milton faces insurmountable economic and personal hardships, only to be faced with an even greater challenge: defending himself against a Tragic crime that could send him to prison for life. What emerges is a heart-warming story about perseverance, faith, triumph, and the struggle to never let go of a dream.
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Title: Creepshow
Character: Brenner
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: TV
A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.
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A Brother's Honor
Title: A Brother's Honor
Character: Richard Granger
Released: September 18, 2019
Type: Movie
3 brothers are reunited after their grandfather suffers a heart attack. The Granger men, Jace, Caden and Dalton promise their dying grandfather that they will work together to save the family's failing business, Granger Aeronautics. The we brothers also find themselves banding together to find out who really killed their mother and subsequently, free their father, Sheppard who is serving a 30 year prison sentence for her murder. Family secrets, business mismanagement, intrigue and a little romance help to make this a great story.
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Poms
Title: Poms
Character: David
Released: May 9, 2019
Type: Movie
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-heart seniors, though they face roadblocks along the way.
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The Best of Enemies
Title: The Best of Enemies
Character: Franklin Mose
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
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Down for Whatever
Title: Down for Whatever
Character: Lieutenant Baker
Released: July 22, 2018
Type: Movie
A young and successful doctor is shocked to learn her two sisters are suspected of killing a cop.
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Hidden Figures
Title: Hidden Figures
Character: Man Outside Store
Released: December 10, 2016
Type: Movie
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
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Title: Saints & Sinners
Character: Detective St. Charles
Released: March 6, 2016
Type: TV
A large Southern church is the background for greed, corruption and murder.
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Terminator Genisys
Title: Terminator Genisys
Character: Perry
Released: June 23, 2015
Type: Movie
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
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The Good Lie
Title: The Good Lie
Character: Dr. Monyang
Released: September 10, 2014
Type: Movie
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
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Title: True Detective
Character: Police Chief Holloway
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: TV
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Character: District 11 Mayor
Released: November 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Title: G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Character: Chairman Joint Chief of Staff
Released: March 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
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Steel Magnolias
Title: Steel Magnolias
Character: Drum
Released: October 7, 2012
Type: Movie
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
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Beneath the Dark
Title: Beneath the Dark
Character: The Man
Released: November 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Driving to a wedding in Los Angeles through the Mojave Desert, Paul and Adrienne pull off the highway and into Roy's Motel and Cafe. This roadside artifact proves to be a strange and surreal place with an unsettling mix of travelers, who force our couple to discover the secret hidden between them and ultimately, the horrifying reality of their current situation.
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The Blind Side
Title: The Blind Side
Character: CPS Caseworker
Released: November 20, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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The Reaping
Title: The Reaping
Character: Haman
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
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Hounddog
Title: Hounddog
Character: Charles
Released: January 22, 2007
Type: Movie
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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The List
Title: The List
Character: A.L. Jenkins
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A sudden death tied to a list from the past leads to unimaginable evil. Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stunned by his father's sudden death--and then by the terms of the will: the elder Jacobson has left the bulk of his estate to charity.
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Madea's Family Reunion
Title: Madea's Family Reunion
Character: Isaac Sr.
Released: February 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, are suffering relationship trouble, and through it all, she has to organize her family reunion.
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Title: Ghost Whisperer
Character: Archivist
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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Cold Mountain
Title: Cold Mountain
Character: Joshua
Released: December 24, 2003
Type: Movie
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
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Runaway Jury
Title: Runaway Jury
Character: SUV Driver
Released: January 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Drumline
Title: Drumline
Character: President Wagner
Released: December 13, 2002
Type: Movie
A talented street drummer from Harlem enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.
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Sweet Home Alabama
Title: Sweet Home Alabama
Character: Jimmy Lee
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: Movie
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
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Title: The Shield
Character: Vince Peabo
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: TV
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
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The Rosa Parks Story
Title: The Rosa Parks Story
Released: February 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Animal Factory
Title: Animal Factory
Character: Captain Knight
Released: October 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
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Title: Sheena
Character: Kontee
Released: October 7, 2000
Type: TV
Sheena's parents were archaeologists who died in the jungle when she was about six years old, leaving their daughter Shirley Hamilton. She was taken in by Kali, a local Shamaness of a tribe who brought her up, and five years ago she was taught how to morph into animals and birds, acquiring their abilities, even flight. Further, she became a mythical creature called "The Darachna" who relies on people' fear of the unknown. For this she covers herself in a dark liquid mud which allows her to be largely unseen in the low light of the jungle, and with more than normal strength, agility and speed, and armed with a pair of gloves with bone claws, she is a formidable one woman fighting force. She does kill sometimes.
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Tigerland
Title: Tigerland
Character: SFC Ezra Landers
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
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Remember the Titans
Title: Remember the Titans
Character: Charles Campbell
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
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Bringing Out the Dead
Title: Bringing Out the Dead
Character: Griss
Released: October 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
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Chill Factor
Title: Chill Factor
Character: Courtroom Colonel
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A store clerk and an ice cream truck driver are thrown together when a dying scientist entrusts them with a deadly chemical kept in ice. This chemical will kill every living thing once it melts. They have to take the chemical codenamed 'Elvis' to the next nearest military base while being chased by terrorists who want it to hold the country for ransom.
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Title: The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Character: Noah's Father
Released: May 9, 1999
Type: Movie
In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the local townspeople cherish him — especially restaurant owner Sarah McClellan. But when greedy real estate developers set their sights on Noah's land and he rejects their six-figure offer, this taciturn man is forced to summon all his strength in order to defend not only his property and way of life, but his sanity.
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Funny Valentines
Title: Funny Valentines
Character: Ephraim Lee
Released: February 14, 1999
Type: Movie
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
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Selma, Lord, Selma
Title: Selma, Lord, Selma
Character: John Webb
Released: January 17, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Title: Dawson's Creek
Character: Clifton Smalls
Released: January 20, 1998
Type: TV
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
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Title: New York News
Released: September 28, 1995
Type: TV
New York News is a newspaper drama which was broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1995 fall lineup.
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Gordy
Title: Gordy
Character: Krugman
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
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Drop Squad
Title: Drop Squad
Character: Berl (Flip) Mangum
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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Forrest Gump
Title: Forrest Gump
Character: Drill Sergeant
Released: June 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
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The Real McCoy
Title: The Real McCoy
Character: Cab Dispatcher
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex-husband she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.
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The Firm
Title: The Firm
Character: Cotton Truck Driver
Released: June 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
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Sankofa
Title: Sankofa
Character: Noble Ali
Released: May 28, 1993
Type: Movie
On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past.
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In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
Title: In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
Character: Prison Guard
Released: May 12, 1991
Type: Movie
From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gordon Kahl.
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The Long Walk Home
Title: The Long Walk Home
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
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Web of Deceit
Title: Web of Deceit
Character: Bailiff
Released: October 17, 1990
Type: Movie
After making a name for herself on the West Coast, a defense lawyer returns to her hometown of Atlanta to argue a controversial rape-murder case. But it's not all work and no play: once there, she reenters high society and has a reunion with an old flame -- who just happens to be the prosecuting attorney on her case. As she investigates her client's claims of innocence, she uncovers a sinister conspiracy that threatens both her life and her new romance.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Darryl Lamaine
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: Henry Patterson
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: Michael Kano
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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Glory
Title: Glory
Character: Tall Contraband
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Title: In the Heat of the Night
Released: March 6, 1988
Type: TV
In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and Carroll O'Connor. TGG Direct released the first season of the series to DVD on August 28, 2012.
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The Money Pit
Title: The Money Pit
Character: Bernie
Released: March 26, 1986
Type: Movie
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
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Title: Miami Vice
Character: Desmond Maxwell
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Trading Places
Title: Trading Places
Character: Longshoreman
Released: June 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Title: Rage of Angels
Character: Vet #1
Released: February 20, 1983
Type: TV
A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers.
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Freedom Road
Title: Freedom Road
Character: Young Black Man with Scars
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Title: Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Character: Charlie Weems
Released: April 22, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Jule Monroe
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.