Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

Born: April 26, 1958
in Copenhagen, Denmark
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2011) and the prequel series Better Call Saul (2017–2022). For this role he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Esposito's other television roles include Federal Agent Mike Giardello in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street (1998–1999), Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror in the ABC supernatural drama series Once Upon a Time (2011–2017), Tom Neville in the NBC science fiction series Revolution (2012–2014), Dr. Edward Ruskins in the Netflix comedy-drama series Dear White People (2017–present), Stan Edgar in the Amazon Prime Video superhero drama series The Boys (2019–present), and Moff Gideon in the Disney+ space western drama series The Mandalorian (2019–present), the lattermost of which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also portrayed American Baptist pastor and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the TV series Godfather of Harlem (2019–present). Esposito also portrays Antón Castillo, the main antagonist of the video game Far Cry 6, released in 2021.

He is also known for his appearances in several Spike Lee films, such as School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), and Malcolm X (1992). Esposito's other major films include Taps (1981), King of New York (1990), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), Fresh (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Ali (2001), Last Holiday (2006), Gospel Hill (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Money Monster (2016), Okja (2017), Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and Stargirl (2020).

Movies for Giancarlo Esposito...

MaXXXine
Title: MaXXXine
Released: July 4, 2024
Type: Movie
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
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Megalopolis
Title: Megalopolis
Character: Frank Cicero
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.
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Abigail
Title: Abigail
Character: Lambert
Released: April 18, 2024
Type: Movie
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
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Title: Parish
Character: Gracián 'Gray' Parish
Released: March 31, 2024
Type: TV
Gray Parish is a good man with a troubled past who gave up his life of crime for life as a family man. But when his son is violently murdered, old habits return, sending him on a relentless quest with moral intentions and dangerous consequences.
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Title: The Gentlemen
Character: Uncle Stan
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: TV
When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Character: Baxter Stockman (voice)
Released: July 31, 2023
Type: Movie
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
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Title: Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Character: Granite (voice)
Released: February 10, 2023
Type: TV
After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo works together to protect the city's Lower East Side from danger.
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Title: Kaleidoscope
Character: Leo Pap
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: TV
A master thief and his crew attempt an epic and elaborate heist worth $7 billion dollars — but betrayal, greed and other threats undermine their plans.
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Euphoria
Title: Euphoria
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: November 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt creates elaborately staged films that investigate the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an allegory for societal and individual behaviors. With the multi-channel film installation Euphoria he continues this examination by exploring capitalism, colonialism, and the influential effects of unlimited economic growth in society.
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Bonnie
Title: Bonnie
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2022
Type: Movie
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
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Title: The Jennifer Hudson Show
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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Beauty
Title: Beauty
Character: Beauty's Father
Released: June 11, 2022
Type: Movie
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.
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Title: The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Character: Stan Edgar (voice)
Released: March 3, 2022
Type: TV
From some of the most unhinged and maniacal minds in Hollywood today comes this animated anthology series, a collection of irreverent and emotionally shocking animated short films. Each episode plunges elbow-deep into unseen crevices of The Boys Universe.
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Title: Show Me More
Character: Self - "Gus Fring"
Released: October 20, 2021
Type: TV
This docu-series offers an exclusive backstage pass to AMC’s hit shows, featuring never-before-seen footage, access to your favorite cast and show creators, and sneak peeks of what’s to come.
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Title: Ultra City Smiths
Character: Pruit Normings
Released: September 13, 2021
Type: TV
Two detectives must contend with dangerous corruption as they investigate the mysterious disappearance of the last honest politician in their dark city. A group of unlikely suspects emerges - each with the last name of Smith.
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Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Title: Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: August 2, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
Character: Narrator
Released: February 21, 2021
Type: TV
This three-part documentary series profiles hip-hop artist Tekashi 6ix9ine's epic rise to notoriety. Director Karam Gill examines the culture of manufactured celebrity through 6ix9ine's mastery of social media.
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Title: The Eisen Hour
Character: Himself - Guest
Released: January 23, 2021
Type: TV
The Eisen Hour is a weekly hour-long, six-episode series featuring Emmy nominated broadcaster, Rich Eisen. Each week, Eisen will sit down with some of the most dynamic personalities from the world of sports and entertainment. True to his style, Rich will unearth unique stories and opinions using his total recall of all things movies and pop culture. Each week highlights a joyful, engaging, and oftentimes hilarious look at the world of entertainment through the lens of Eisen’s uncanny interviewing style.
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The Long Home
Title: The Long Home
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Rural Tennessee in the 1940's: a young man unwittingly goes to work building a honky-tonk for the charismatically diabolical bootlegger who murdered his father ten years earlier and runs into conflict when he falls for the young woman the bootlegger is grooming to be a prostitute. NOTE: 2020-08-31 According to Wikipedia, The Long Home was tentatively expected to be released in 2017, and in November of that year, the sales rights to the movie were acquired by Great Point Media. However, it has yet to be released in any format as of 2022.
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Unpregnant
Title: Unpregnant
Character: Bob
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
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Title: Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2020
Type: TV
Aftershow for the show "The Boys" featuring members of the cast, creative team and other special guests.
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Title: The Broken and the Bad
Character: Self
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: TV
This short-form docu-series, hosted by Giancarlo Esposito, is inspired by the most memorable characters, situations and themes of the Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad universe. Episodes follow: a real-life Saul Goodman character, a meth lab clean-up crew, a convicted conman, a radio-free zone in West Virginia, and patrolling the drug cartel tunnels between the US and Mexico.
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Title: Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Character: The Grandfather
Released: June 29, 2020
Type: TV
Serialized remake of 'The Princess Bride' told in short chapters featuring celebrities at home during quarantine.
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For NYC
Title: For NYC
Released: June 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Noel Ashman and Damon Dash direct a collection of favorite quotes from high profile artists, recorded on their smart phones, in their homes during quarantine to give Nyc a boost in these hard times and to raise money for NYC residents struggling with the covid19 pandemic.
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Title: Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Character: Self - Moff Gideon
Released: May 4, 2020
Type: TV
Executive producer Jon Favreau invites the cast and crew of The Mandalorian to share an unprecedented look at the making of the series. Each chapter explores a different facet of the first live-action Star Wars television show through interviews, never-before-seen footage, and roundtable conversations hosted by Favreau himself.
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Stargirl
Title: Stargirl
Character: Archie Brubaker
Released: March 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Leo Borlock is an average student at Mica High School. He gets decent grades, is a member of the school's marching band and has always been content flying under the radar. But all that changes when he meets Stargirl Caraway, a confident and colorful new student with a penchant for the ukulele, who stands out in a crowd. She is kind, finds magic in the mundane and touches the lives of others with the simplest of gestures. Her eccentricities and infectious personality charm Leo and the student body, and she quickly goes from being ignored and ridiculed to accepted and praised, then back again, sending Leo on a rollercoaster ride of emotions.
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Coda
Title: Coda
Character: Paul
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
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Line of Duty
Title: Line of Duty
Character: Tom Volk
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.
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Title: Harley Quinn
Character: Lex Luthor (voice)
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: TV
Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City.
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Title: The Mandalorian
Character: Moff Gideon
Released: November 12, 2019
Type: TV
After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter.
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Title: Godfather of Harlem
Character: Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: TV
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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Title: Creepshow
Character: Doc
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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Title: Game Changer
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: TV
In this game show, the game changes every show! Players begin each round without knowing the rules -- and must figure them out while competing to win.
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Title: The Kelly Clarkson Show
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.
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Title: The Boys
Character: Meerkat Stan Edgar (voice)
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: TV
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
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Title: The Boys
Character: Stanford 'Stan' Edgar
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: TV
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
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Title: Jett
Character: Charlie Baudelaire
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: TV
Fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy ”Jett” Kowalski is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.
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Stuck
Title: Stuck
Character: Lloyd
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
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Title: Dallas & Robo
Character: Victor Goldsmith
Released: May 30, 2018
Type: TV
Sassy space-trucker Dallas and self-proclaimed warrior-poet Robo navigate their way around cannibal bikers, rival space truckers, and vending machine burritos as they try to make a buck in the seedy world of interplanetary big-rigging.
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The Nagano Tapes
Title: The Nagano Tapes
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: February 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Five Rings Films presents the inspiring story of how Czech Republic won gold at the first Olympics to feature professionals from the NHL.
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Title: Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Character: Jorge
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Mason Washington
Released: September 21, 2017
Type: Movie
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
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Title: DuckTales
Character: Phantom Blot (voice)
Released: August 12, 2017
Type: TV
The adventures of billionaire Scrooge McDuck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, their famous uncle Donald Duck, pilot extraordinaire Launchpad, Mrs. Beakly, Webby and Roboduck. Adventures and hidden treasures are everywhere, in their hometown Duckburg and all around the world.
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Okja
Title: Okja
Character: Frank Dawson
Released: June 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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Unacknowledged
Title: Unacknowledged
Character: Narrator
Released: May 23, 2017
Type: Movie
An exploration of the Alien presence on Earth and the reality of suppressed free energy technology.
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Title: Dear White People
Character: Narrator
Released: April 28, 2017
Type: TV
At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
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Title: Better Call Saul Employee Training
Character: Gustavo Fring
Released: April 10, 2017
Type: TV
Better Call Saul's Emmy-Award winning Employee Training digital series.
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Title: Rebel
Character: Charles
Released: March 28, 2017
Type: TV
After her brother is slain by police, Oakland police officer Rebecca “Rebel” Cole becomes disillusioned with the system and is forced to take matters into her own hands and become a private investigator and a champion for her community.
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PAYDAY THE MOVIE
Title: PAYDAY THE MOVIE
Character: The Dentist
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Payday the web series, e3 trailers, dlc trailers and crime fest trailers edited into a movie
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Title: Westworld
Character: El Lazo
Released: October 2, 2016
Type: TV
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
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Brother Nature
Title: Brother Nature
Character: Congressman Frank McClaren
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd: a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger's best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of unfortunate events. As Roger tries to take a stand amidst outrageous fishing excursions, propulsive water jetpacks and American history-themed musicals, he realizes that being a part of a new family may be more difficult than he'd thought.
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Title: The Get Down
Character: Pastor Ramon Cruz
Released: August 12, 2016
Type: TV
In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.
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On Meditation
Title: On Meditation
Character: Self
Released: July 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Peter Matthiessen, David Lynch, and Russell Simmons see among the many celebrity devotees interviewed in this case of Zen Buddhist meditation.
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Money Monster
Title: Money Monster
Character: Captain Powell
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
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The Jungle Book
Title: The Jungle Book
Character: Akela (voice)
Released: April 7, 2016
Type: Movie
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
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The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
Title: The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
Character: Il Boss
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Three life-long friends struggle with an early middle-age crisis as they start to try to get a job for the first time. An ironic quest to avoid becoming an adult and accept responsibilities.
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Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Title: Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 17, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary short taking a look at the popular independent Enzian movie theater in Maitland, Florida.
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Title: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Character: Jorge
Released: September 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Gustavo Fring
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Title: Allegiance
Character: Oscar Christoph
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: TV
Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian spies deactivated decades ago. But today the Kremlin has re-enlisted them into service as they plan a terrorist operation inside the U.S. border that will bring America to its knees.
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I Did Not Forget You
Title: I Did Not Forget You
Character: Dr. Sabian
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Poker Night
Title: Poker Night
Character: Bernard
Released: December 20, 2014
Type: Movie
When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best detectives at Poker Night, then match wits against his captor.
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Title: The Game Awards
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2014
Type: TV
The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the video game industry. Established in 2014, the shows are produced and hosted by game journalist Geoff Keighley, who worked on its predecessor, the Spike Video Game Awards, for over ten years. In addition to the awards, The Game Awards also features premieres of new games and in-depth looks at previously announced ones.
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Batman: Assault on Arkham
Title: Batman: Assault on Arkham
Character: Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)
Released: August 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.
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Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Title: Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Character: Self
Released: June 22, 2014
Type: Movie
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.
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Son of Batman
Title: Son of Batman
Character: Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Released: May 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group known as The League of Assassins.
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Requiem for the Big East
Title: Requiem for the Big East
Character: Narrator
Released: March 16, 2014
Type: Movie
The meteoric ascension of the Big East conference, and how in less than a decade, it became the most successful college basketball league in America.
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Title: Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2014
Type: TV
Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC’s "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".
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Timms Valley
Title: Timms Valley
Character: Pruit Normings
Released: December 31, 2013
Type: Movie
A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and livelihoods of its citizens are intertwined with the fate of the town's biggest employer, Timms Industrial Piping. When the company's founder and CEO goes missing in a plane crash, the lives of the characters are turned upside down. Shot in stop-motion animation with baby dolls repurposed as an array of adult characters, and modeled on 1980s primetime soaps like Dynasty.
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No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Title: No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.
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They Die by Dawn
Title: They Die by Dawn
Character: Rufus Buck
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.
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Title: Drunk History
Character: Andrés Pico
Released: July 9, 2013
Type: TV
Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America’s great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.
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Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Title: Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Over/Under
Title: Over/Under
Released: January 4, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: The Haunting Of...
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 2012
Type: TV
"The Haunting Of..." is an original series featuring world-renowned psychic-medium Kim Russo as she gives an exclusive look at celebrities who have had their lives changed by paranormal events. Each one-hour episode of "The Haunting Of..."
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Alex Cross
Title: Alex Cross
Character: Daramus Holiday
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: Movie
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fire. As he mulls over accepting a job with the FBI, he is told that a friend has been murdered and he vows to track down the killer. Soon, he and his team are forced to match wits with a psychotic contract killer, who displays a disturbing commitment towards seeing his job through.
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Title: Revolution
Character: Major Tom Neville
Released: September 17, 2012
Type: TV
One day, electricity just stopped working and the world was suddenly thrust back into the dark ages. Now, 15 years later, a young woman's life is dramatically changed when a local militia arrives and kills her father, who mysteriously—and unbeknownst to her—had something to do with the blackout. An unlikely group sets out off on a daring journey to find answers about the past in the hopes of reclaiming the future.
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Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: TV
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
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Certainty
Title: Certainty
Character: Father Heery
Released: September 16, 2011
Type: Movie
In the big city, a loving young couple Deb and Dom planning to get ready to marry seek guidance from the Catholic Church, which only brings out the true life problems they may encounter with each other and their friends. A sobering real life scenario on how religion can affect couples future together.
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Dreaming American
Title: Dreaming American
Character: Daytona LeMans
Released: June 20, 2011
Type: Movie
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S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Title: S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Character: Inspector Hollander
Released: March 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officer, Lt. Paul Cutler, is sent to train the Detroit S.W.A.T. team on new anti-terrorism and homeland security techniques. Cutler has a hard time settling into his assignment as he locks horns with his new captain and encounters resistance from the team he must lead. Cutler begins to adjust to his new assignment, starting a budding romance with police psychologist Kim Byers along the way. Unexpectedly, a routine hostage call turns deadly, and a relentless ex-government agent named Walter Hatch vows revenge on Cutler and the entire S.W.A.T. team for killing the woman he loves. Cutler must use his considerable S.W.A.T. training and knowledge to save his teammates and defeat a trained killer.
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Title: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
Character: Gordon Ramirez
Released: February 16, 2011
Type: TV
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior was a short-lived American police procedural drama that aired on CBS. The show debuted in 2011 as a spin-off from the successful Criminal Minds, which had premiered in 2005. This edition's profiling team also worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia. In an April 2010 episode of Criminal Minds, during the show's fifth season, the original team met the new team and worked with them to find a San Francisco serial killer. This episode served as the new series' backdoor pilot.
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Rabbit Hole
Title: Rabbit Hole
Character: Auggie
Released: December 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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Title: Conan
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2010
Type: TV
A late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien.
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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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Title: Community
Character: Gilbert Lawson
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
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PoliWood
Title: PoliWood
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2009
Type: Movie
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
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Title: Leverage
Character: Alexander Moto
Released: December 7, 2008
Type: TV
A five-person team comprised of a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, use their skills to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Title: Chelsea on the Rocks
Character: Tip
Released: May 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
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Title: New Amsterdam
Released: March 4, 2008
Type: TV
John Amsterdam is a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, and immortal. In 1642 he saved a Native Indian girl during a massacre of her indigenous tribe. In return, the girl cast an ancient spell that conferred immortality upon him. Amsterdam will not age, she told him, until he finds his one true love.
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Gospel Hill
Title: Gospel Hill
Character: Dr. Palmer
Released: February 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
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Title: Breaking Bad
Character: Gustavo 'Gus' Fring
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: TV
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Xenophobia
Title: Xenophobia
Character: Young
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Mano
Title: Mano
Character: Nino
Released: October 22, 2007
Type: Movie
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Feel The Noise
Title: Feel The Noise
Character: Roberto Vega
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his step-brother Javi to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true to themselves and each other, while overcoming obstacles in love, greed and pride, all culminating in an explosive performance at New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
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The Box
Title: The Box
Character: Dwayne Burkhalter
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.
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Title: Kidnapped
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: TV
Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007. The series returned on Universal HD in 2008.
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Sherrybaby
Title: Sherrybaby
Character: Parole Officer Hernandez
Released: September 8, 2006
Type: Movie
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.
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Rain
Title: Rain
Character: Ken Arnold
Released: April 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Rain, a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her daughter, Rain's mother secretly contacts Rain's biological mother, and Rain learns the truth of her parentage: She is the daughter of a white socialite. Sent to live with her wealthy grandmother, Rain adjusts to boarding school life, where her musical talents flourish.
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Last Holiday
Title: Last Holiday
Character: Senator Dillings
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: Movie
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.
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Title: South Beach
Character: Robert Fuentes
Released: January 11, 2006
Type: TV
Leaving their troubles in Brooklyn behind, best friends Matt and Vincent head to Miami for adventure, hoping to find Matt's old flame, up-and-coming fashion model Arielle. Diving into the glamorous local scene at the Hotel Soleil's hip club Nocturnal, they uncovers the dangerous and possibly seedy underbelly of South Beach.
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Derailed
Title: Derailed
Character: Detective Church
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: Movie
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Title: Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Character: Little Jeff
Released: September 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for the rules of the street. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Title: Ghost Whisperer
Character: Ely Fisher
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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Title: Bones
Character: Richard Benoit
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Back in the Day
Title: Back in the Day
Character: Benson Cooper
Released: May 24, 2005
Type: Movie
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
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I Will Avenge You, Iago!
Title: I Will Avenge You, Iago!
Character: Director
Released: April 19, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Character: Orlando Ramirez
Released: March 3, 2005
Type: TV
The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses for trial.
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Chupacabra Terror
Title: Chupacabra Terror
Character: Dr. Peña
Released: January 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Cryptozoologist Doctor Peña traps the legendary Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean Island to make his name in the scientific community. When he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship Regent Queen, commanded by Captain Randolph, the monster breaks out of the cargo hold and makes a smorgasbord out of the passengers and crew.
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Hate Crime
Title: Hate Crime
Character: Detective Esposito
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.
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Doing Hard Time
Title: Doing Hard Time
Character: Captain Pierce
Released: November 23, 2004
Type: Movie
A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
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A Killer Within
Title: A Killer Within
Character: Vargas
Released: November 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered and his son unconscious in critical condition at the hospital. Now, fingered as a suspect by the police, Addison must race to find the real killer and prove his innocence before it's too late.
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Title: 5ive Days to Midnight
Character: Tim Sanders
Released: June 7, 2004
Type: TV
A physicist discovers a briefcase containing postdated documents and evidence which indicate he will die five days in the future.
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Noise
Title: Noise
Character: Hank
Released: January 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff), a young divorced woman and recovering alcoholic, moves into a Manhattan apartment that seems a bit too secluded to be true. It is: Upstairs lives Charlotte Bancroft (Ally Sheedy), a woman with a wall of obliviousness who can turn even an 'apology' into a guilt trip, Charlotte persists in making Joyce's nighttime hours a living hell. As the torture continues, Joyce starts to lose her grip on her job, her health and her sanity. It's a heck of a price to pay for having your own place.
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Blind Horizon
Title: Blind Horizon
Character: J.C. Reynolds
Released: December 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
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Title: Las Vegas
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: TV
Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.
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Ash Tuesday
Title: Ash Tuesday
Character: Karl
Released: May 9, 2003
Type: Movie
After September 11th, six Lower Manhattan residents must deal with pain on their own. Yet in doing so, they find that their lives are inexplicably linked. "Ash Tuesday" examines the loneliness inherent in New York life, but it does so with a refreshing wit and humor that will leave you smiling.
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Title: Girls Club
Released: October 21, 2002
Type: TV
Girls Club is an American television series created by David E. Kelley that was shown on Fox in the United States in October 2002. It is often compared to Ally McBeal, another series created by Kelley, which ended in May 2002.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: Chief Braga
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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Title: Half & Half
Character: Darrell Washington
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006. The show focuses on the lives of two paternal half-sisters in their twenties who were estranged throughout their childhood, and are finally developing a close relationship. The series is set in San Francisco. It was the second-most-watched show on UPN's Monday night line-up and fourth overall on the network. The show was on The CW's first draft line-up in March 2006, but due to several circumstances—including The CW's contractual obligation to pick up Reba, the uncancelling of All of Us, and the pick-up of the Girlfriends spin-off The Game—Half & Half was left off the final Fall 2006 schedule and ended production. The series has aired in reruns on Global TV in Canada, Trouble in the UK and in local syndication in the United States. It also airs in the United States on TV One.
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Title: Street Time
Released: June 23, 2002
Type: TV
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.
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Ali
Title: Ali
Character: Cassius Clay, Sr.
Released: December 10, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
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Piñero
Title: Piñero
Character: Miguel Algarin
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
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Monkeybone
Title: Monkeybone
Character: Hypnos
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilarious alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!
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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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Title: The $treet
Character: Tom Divack
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: TV
The $treet is an American television drama series about a small brokerage house called Belmont Stevens located in New York and the lives of its employees. Freddie Sacker was one of the most notable characters played by Rick Hoffman.
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Title: Soul Food
Character: Jules
Released: June 28, 2000
Type: TV
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
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Homicide: The Movie
Title: Homicide: The Movie
Character: Mike Giardello
Released: February 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
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Josephine
Title: Josephine
Character: Spike
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.
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Title: Third Watch
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: TV
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
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Thirst
Title: Thirst
Character: Dr. Lawrence Carver
Released: October 24, 1998
Type: Movie
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
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Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Title: Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Character: Chaz Villanueva
Released: October 4, 1998
Type: Movie
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.
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Phoenix
Title: Phoenix
Character: Louie
Released: September 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
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Title: Creature
Character: Lt. Thomas Peniston / Werewolf
Released: May 18, 1998
Type: TV
An amphibious shark-like monster attacks an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the island.
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Twilight
Title: Twilight
Character: Reuben Escobar
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
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Stardust
Title: Stardust
Character: Mr. Peavey
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A scientist finds his newest invention; a microchip that infuses inanimate objects with human qualities co-opted by the company he works for, which wants to capitalize on his findings. Knowing his creation can be used for evil purposes, he stashes it away, but his 11-year-old son, Charlie (Jared Robbins), finds it and implants it into a vacuum cleaner he calls Stardust. Will he manage to elude his dad's greedy bosses?
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Trouble on the Corner
Title: Trouble on the Corner
Character: Darryl
Released: October 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in red gloves and a kimono. When he confuses his erotically bizarre patients' most perverse neuroses with his own, the fine line between reality and fantasy erodes with lethal consequences. Darkly comedic, Trouble on the Corner takes you into the depths of one man's decent into madness and races toward the murderous conclusion of this tale of a modern urban nightmare.
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Five Desperate Hours
Title: Five Desperate Hours
Character: Joseph Grange
Released: October 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Joseph Grange (Giancarlo Esposito), an unstable fugitive from the law, bursts into the home of suburban housewife Claire Ballard (Sharon Lawrence), and an intense hostage drama begins. Desperate to save her life, Claire initiates a dialogue with Grange as a trigger-happy SWAT team waits outside poised to storm the house. Claire, herself the product of a troubled past, begins to identify with the tormented Grange and, over five tension-filled hours, victim and captor forge an unlikely bond.
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Title: The Hunger
Character: Vampire
Released: July 20, 1997
Type: TV
The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.
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Nothing to Lose
Title: Nothing to Lose
Character: Charlie Dunt
Released: July 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
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Title: The Practice
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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The People
Title: The People
Character: Anthony Rivera
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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The Maze
Title: The Maze
Character: Henry Kunitz
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
People are trapped in a solitary building of infinite corridors and rooms where there appears to be no exit yet perhaps it is all part of an experiment.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Georgie
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Two hit men, a call girl, and a gay couple become entangled in a web of violence. In the course of one night, they just narrowly miss each other.
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The Tomorrow Man
Title: The Tomorrow Man
Character: Jonathan Driscoll
Released: September 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a great rocket-disaster. As he wants to prohibit this, a mad scientist is in his way. But there are more problems: He has to act as a human. Computer-expert Jonathan Driscoll becomes his mentor and tries to help and repair him.
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Title: Nash Bridges
Released: March 29, 1996
Type: TV
Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.
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Title: Swift Justice
Released: March 13, 1996
Type: TV
Swift Justice is an American television series The series stars James McCaffrey as a former NYPD detective and Navy SEAL, who after getting kicked off the force, handles cases the police can't by becoming a private eye.
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Mylène Farmer: California
Title: Mylène Farmer: California
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Short film release
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Waiting to Exhale
Title: Waiting to Exhale
Character: David Matthews (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
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Reckless
Title: Reckless
Character: Host Tim Timko
Released: November 17, 1995
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
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The Keeper
Title: The Keeper
Character: Paul Lamont
Released: September 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have unforeseen consequences.
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Blue in the Face
Title: Blue in the Face
Character: Tommy Finelli
Released: September 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
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The Usual Suspects
Title: The Usual Suspects
Character: FBI Agent Jack Baer
Released: July 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
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Smoke
Title: Smoke
Character: 1st OTB Man / Tommy
Released: June 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
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Klash
Title: Klash
Character: Stoney
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Reggae music is featured in this romantic thriller set in Jamaica. Stoney (Giancarlo Esposito), a photojournalist, is assigned by a U.S. music magazine to cover a battle of the bands in Jamaica. There he becomes involved with the seductive Blossom (Jasmine Guy) who works for Mr. Lee (Lucien Chen), a crime boss. Lee is planning to rob the concert box office. Blossom tries to convince Stoney to help her steal the money from Lee and escape to another island paradise. Interspersed amongst the action are many clips of the reggae bands as they musically battle it out.
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Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
Title: Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 1994
Type: Movie
A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Title: New York Undercover
Character: Adolfo Guzman
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: TV
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.
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Fresh
Title: Fresh
Character: Esteban
Released: June 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his employers against each other.
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Benders
Title: Benders
Character: Jack
Released: February 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Title: Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Character: Autobiography Reading (voice)
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.
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Title: Bakersfield P.D.
Character: Detective Paul Gigante
Released: September 14, 1993
Type: TV
Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track. Fox canceled the show after one season, citing low ratings. The cable channel Trio reran the show under its "Brilliant But Cancelled" umbrella.
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Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Paris Minton
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: TV
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
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Amos & Andrew
Title: Amos & Andrew
Character: The Reverend Fenton Brunch
Released: March 5, 1993
Type: Movie
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
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Title: Homicide: Life on the Street
Character: Michael Giardello
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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Mood Indigo
Title: Mood Indigo
Character: Arthur Sistrunk
Released: January 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally murdered by a patient, and a lady lawyer who enlists his help in solving a baffling crime.
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Malcolm X
Title: Malcolm X
Character: Thomas Hayer
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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Bob Roberts
Title: Bob Roberts
Character: Bugs Raplin
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.
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Night on Earth
Title: Night on Earth
Character: YoYo
Released: December 12, 1991
Type: Movie
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Title: Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Character: Jimmy Jiles
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Attorney Baylor
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: Defense Attorney Rodney Fallon
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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Mo' Better Blues
Title: Mo' Better Blues
Character: Left Hand Lacey (Piano)
Released: August 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
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King of New York
Title: King of New York
Character: Lance
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Title: Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
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Do the Right Thing
Title: Do the Right Thing
Character: Buggin Out
Released: June 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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School Daze
Title: School Daze
Character: Julian 'Dean Big Brother Almighty' Eaves
Released: February 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Gang Member #1
Released: May 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A surrealistic journey into the experiences and reflections of a documentary filmmaker as he evaluates the people and places that have made up his life. Alternatively, a 65 minute feature made up of songs from Don Johnson's record of the same name.
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Sweet Lorraine
Title: Sweet Lorraine
Character: Howie
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
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Maximum Overdrive
Title: Maximum Overdrive
Character: Videoplayer
Released: July 25, 1986
Type: Movie
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
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Roanoak
Title: Roanoak
Character: Simon Fernandes
Released: May 26, 1986
Type: Movie
The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North Carolina, and the conflicts that ensued between the two diverse cultures before this early settlement mysteriously vanished.
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Rockabye
Title: Rockabye
Character: Marcus
Released: January 11, 1986
Type: Movie
A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the bus in New York City on her way to Vermont, and reluctantly accepts the help of a hard-nosed reporter in tracking him down after being given the runaround from the police.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Jumpin' Jack
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Title: Desperately Seeking Susan
Character: Street Vendor
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
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Finnegan Begin Again
Title: Finnegan Begin Again
Character: Intruder
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Character: Elisha
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
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The Cotton Club
Title: The Cotton Club
Character: Bumpy Hood
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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Title: Miami Vice
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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Title: Miami Vice
Character: Luther
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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Title: Miami Vice
Character: Ricky
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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The Brother from Another Planet
Title: The Brother from Another Planet
Character: Man Being Arrested (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1984
Type: Movie
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
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Trading Places
Title: Trading Places
Character: Cellmate #2
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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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Title: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Character: Julio
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.
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Taps
Title: Taps
Character: Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce
Released: December 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
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The Gentleman Bandit
Title: The Gentleman Bandit
Character: Jamie
Released: May 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
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Running
Title: Running
Character: Puerto Rican Teenager
Released: October 30, 1979
Type: Movie
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
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Tutti a squola
Title: Tutti a squola
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The upright prof. Filippo Bottini Said Pippo is an "old-fashioned" teacher in a Roman school. He would like a Heart book-style school but clashes with the harsh reality of modern teaching and in particular with the turmoil of the seventies: strikes, occupations, armed students, feminist colleagues. Overwhelmed by events, he will find himself more and more in the maelstrom of the post-1968 protest until he becomes a drug courier. He will be arrested and incarcerated, but thanks to the release on bail provided by his colleague Lalla, with whom he had in the meantime started a relationship, he will be able to redeem himself.
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Et Salammbo?
Title: Et Salammbo?
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: The Residence
Character: A.B. Wynter
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
132 rooms. 157 suspects. One dead body. One wildly eccentric detective. One disastrous State Dinner. The Residence is a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world's most famous mansion.
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Please Don’t Feed the Children
Title: Please Don’t Feed the Children
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After a viral outbreak ravaged the country’s adult population, a group of orphans heads south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.
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The Mandalorian
Title: The Mandalorian
Character: Moff Gideon
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After the fall of the Galactic Empire, a lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches of the lawless galaxy.
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The Electric State
Title: The Electric State
Character: Marshall
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In a retro-futuristic past, orphaned teenager Michelle traverses the American West with an eccentric drifter and a sweet but mysterious robot in search of her younger brother.