Sam Laws

Sam Laws

Born: January 26, 1924
Died: March 16, 1990
in Washington, D.C.

Movies for Sam Laws...

Project X
Title: Project X
Character: Bartender
Released: April 17, 1987
Type: Movie
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
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Get Crazy
Title: Get Crazy
Character: Minister
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
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Heart Like a Wheel
Title: Heart Like a Wheel
Character: Piano Player
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
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White Dog
Title: White Dog
Character: Charlie
Released: July 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
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The Hustler of Muscle Beach
Title: The Hustler of Muscle Beach
Character: Stan
Released: May 16, 1980
Type: Movie
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat mentally challenged young man who wants to win bodybuilding championships, but needs some help and direction--and the promoter thinks he's just the one to do it.
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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Title: The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Character: Horton
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
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Mr. Billion
Title: Mr. Billion
Character: Pops Dinwitty
Released: March 3, 1977
Type: Movie
An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president.
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Title: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Character: Henry
Released: July 16, 1976
Type: Movie
In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, and James Earl Jones star as three barnstorming ballplayers who take on prejudice and their own League's unfair rules while stealing cars, food and home base - anything to prove that they're the best team around. It's a showdown of brains over booby traps and sportsmanship over racial segregation as Bingo Long's All-Stars swing their way into a winning season;.
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Darktown Strutters
Title: Darktown Strutters
Character: Philo Rasberry
Released: October 7, 1975
Type: Movie
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
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White Line Fever
Title: White Line Fever
Character: Pops Dinwiddie
Released: July 16, 1975
Type: Movie
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Title: The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Character: Satan's Disciple
Released: April 25, 1975
Type: Movie
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
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Truck Turner
Title: Truck Turner
Character: Nate
Released: June 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
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Dirty O'Neil
Title: Dirty O'Neil
Character: Clyde
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
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A Dream for Christmas
Title: A Dream for Christmas
Character: Junkman (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Eddie Maxwell
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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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Title: Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Character: Deacon Greene
Released: May 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
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Walking Tall
Title: Walking Tall
Character: Willie Rae Lockman
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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Hit Man
Title: Hit Man
Character: Sherwood Epps
Released: December 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
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Cool Breeze
Title: Cool Breeze
Character: Finian
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.