Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto

Born: November 16, 1939
Died: March 15, 2021
in New York City, New York, U.S.A
Yaphet Frederick Kotto (November 16, 1939 - March 15, 2021) was an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction and horror film Alien (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction and action film The Running Man (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller Midnight Run (1988) as FBI Agent Alonzo Mosley.

Movies for Yaphet Kotto...

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Title: King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more.
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Title: Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 4, 2010
Type: Movie
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
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Witless Protection
Title: Witless Protection
Character: Ricardo Bodi
Released: February 22, 2008
Type: Movie
When a small-town sheriff witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap.
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
Title: The Beast Within: Making Alien
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 2, 2003
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Mr. Big / Dr. Kananga (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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BaadAsssss Cinema
Title: BaadAsssss Cinema
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2002
Type: Movie
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
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Stiletto Dance
Title: Stiletto Dance
Character: Captain Rick Sands
Released: June 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
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Homicide: The Movie
Title: Homicide: The Movie
Character: Al 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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Inside 'Live and Let Die'
Title: Inside 'Live and Let Die'
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"
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The Defenders: Payback
Title: The Defenders: Payback
Character: Judge Williams
Released: October 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston enlists his granddaughter, M.J, a former prosecutor, and his other son Don, a law professor, to continue the work of ensuring that every individual accused of a crime is entitled to a proper defense. In this telefilm, a father murders the rapist of his young daughter after the man is released from prison and moves back to his old neighborhood. The Prestons take the case even though the father is unrepentent and unwilling to offer the attorneys any help in finding legally mitigating circumstances for his actions.
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Two If by Sea
Title: Two If by Sea
Character: FBI Agent O'Malley
Released: January 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
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The World of James Bond
Title: The World of James Bond
Released: October 29, 1995
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
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Out-of-Sync
Title: Out-of-Sync
Character: Quincy
Released: June 4, 1995
Type: Movie
A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.
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Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Title: Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Character: Marty Talbot
Released: May 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami mafia.
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Dead Badge
Title: Dead Badge
Character: Captain Hunt
Released: March 28, 1995
Type: Movie
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
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The Puppet Masters
Title: The Puppet Masters
Character: Ressler
Released: October 21, 1994
Type: Movie
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Title: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Character: Detective Martin Talbot
Released: March 27, 1994
Type: Movie
The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.
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Title: seaQuest DSV
Character: Captain Jack Clayton
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: TV
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
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Almost Blue
Title: Almost Blue
Character: Terry
Released: August 4, 1993
Type: Movie
The young jazz saxophonist Morris Poole is at the height of his career. When his wife dies he is almost overcome by grief and blames himself. When after a while he finds a new love, he ends up in a situation that reminds him of his wife's mysterious death.
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Extreme Justice
Title: Extreme Justice
Character: Larson
Released: June 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.
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It's Nothing Personal
Title: It's Nothing Personal
Character: Lt. Tom Riley
Released: February 1, 1993
Type: Movie
An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.
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Title: Homicide: Life on the Street
Character: Al 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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The American Clock
Title: The American Clock
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
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Intent to Kill
Title: Intent to Kill
Character: Captain Jackson
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agenda for his drug distribution empire.
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Chrome Soldiers
Title: Chrome Soldiers
Character: Perry Beach
Released: May 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Title: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Character: Doc
Released: September 5, 1991
Type: Movie
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.
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Hangfire
Title: Hangfire
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: January 11, 1991
Type: Movie
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Al Giardello
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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After the Shock
Title: After the Shock
Character: William McElroy
Released: September 12, 1990
Type: Movie
On October 17 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked San Francisco. Presented here are some of the stories of the brave members of the public and emergency services who rescued people who were trapped in the rubble in houses or on the freeway.
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Tripwire
Title: Tripwire
Character: Lee Pitt
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest. During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
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Ministry of Vengeance
Title: Ministry of Vengeance
Character: Mr. Whiteside
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to blow up a Viet Cong kid in self defense, but years later, when David's wife Gail and daughter Kim are killed by a group of terrorists led by Ali Aboud, in a massacre at an airport in Rome, Italy, David is devastated. Going against his faith, David sets out to find and kill Ali Aboud.
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Prime Target
Title: Prime Target
Character: Gilmore Brown
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to suspect that the serial killer might be a fellow police officer.
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The Jigsaw Murders
Title: The Jigsaw Murders
Character: Doctor Tyrone Fillmore
Released: July 25, 1989
Type: Movie
A jigsaw puzzle is the key in a detective's investigation of a gruesome murder.
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Title: Father Dowling Mysteries
Character: Lt. Fleming
Released: January 20, 1989
Type: TV
Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that aired from January 20, 1989 to May 2, 1991. Prior to the series, a TV movie aired on November 30, 1987. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC for its last two seasons. It is based on the adventures of the title character created by Ralph McInerny, in a series of mystery novels. The series was produced by The Fred Siverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions.
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A Whisper to a Scream
Title: A Whisper to a Scream
Character: Jules Tallard
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A young girl who was frustrated in her desire to become an actress starts to work for a telephone-sex company. There she meets a fascinating man who has an obsession for music related with crime.
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Terminal Entry
Title: Terminal Entry
Character: Col. Styles
Released: July 26, 1988
Type: Movie
The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
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Midnight Run
Title: Midnight Run
Character: Alonzo Mosely
Released: July 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Character: General Sorenson
Released: November 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
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The Running Man
Title: The Running Man
Character: William Laughlin
Released: November 13, 1987
Type: Movie
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
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In Self Defense
Title: In Self Defense
Character: Lt. Tyrell
Released: May 22, 1987
Type: Movie
A witness is terrorized by the killer against whom she testified.
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Desperado
Title: Desperado
Character: Bede
Released: April 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
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Pretty Kill
Title: Pretty Kill
Character: Harris
Released: March 27, 1987
Type: Movie
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.
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Eye of the Tiger
Title: Eye of the Tiger
Character: J.B. Deveraux
Released: July 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
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Title: Harem
Character: Agha Kislar
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: TV
A two-part minseries about a beautiful woman who, at the turn of the century, is kidnapped and sold into a Turkish harem where, as she struggles to protect her life and virtue, she becomes embroiled in the historical tensions and sensuous decadence of the times.
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Harem
Title: Harem
Character: Agha Kislar
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: Movie
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
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The Park Is Mine
Title: The Park Is Mine
Character: Eubanks
Released: October 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Convict
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Warning Sign
Title: Warning Sign
Character: Major Connolly
Released: August 23, 1985
Type: Movie
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Fire Chief Walker
Released: April 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
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Badge of the Assassin
Title: Badge of the Assassin
Character: Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD
Released: January 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Lt. Bradshaw
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Women of San Quentin
Title: Women of San Quentin
Character: Sgt. Therman Patterson
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
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For Love and Honor
Title: For Love and Honor
Character: Sgt. China Bell
Released: September 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while they're gearing up for possible combat assignments, often find themselves entangled in love affairs.
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Title: For Love and Honor
Released: September 23, 1983
Type: TV
For Love and Honor is a short-lived American military drama series that aired on NBC from September 23, 1983 to December 27, 1983. The series is inspired by the hit film An Officer and a Gentleman.
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The Star Chamber
Title: The Star Chamber
Character: Detective Harry Lowes
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
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Title: The A-Team
Character: Charles Struthers
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: TV
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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Fighting Back
Title: Fighting Back
Character: Ivanhoe Washington
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Title: A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Character: Denmark Vessey
Released: February 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Character: Calvin Matthias
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Rage!
Title: Rage!
Character: Ernie
Released: September 25, 1980
Type: Movie
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
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Brubaker
Title: Brubaker
Character: Richard 'Dickie' Coombes
Released: June 20, 1980
Type: Movie
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Othello
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
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Alien
Title: Alien
Character: Parker
Released: May 25, 1979
Type: Movie
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
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Blue Collar
Title: Blue Collar
Character: Smokey James
Released: February 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
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Raid on Entebbe
Title: Raid on Entebbe
Character: President Idi Amin - Jr.
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..
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The Monkey Hustle
Title: The Monkey Hustle
Character: Daddy Foxx
Released: December 24, 1976
Type: Movie
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
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Drum
Title: Drum
Character: Blase
Released: July 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
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Crunch
Title: Crunch
Character: Richard "Crunch" Blackstone
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Detective goes after drug-dealers in Manhattan.
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Friday Foster
Title: Friday Foster
Character: Colt Hawkins
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
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Title: Doctors' Hospital
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Doctors' Hospital is an American medical drama that ran on NBC during the 1975–1976 season.
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Sharks' Treasure
Title: Sharks' Treasure
Character: Ben Flynn
Released: April 18, 1975
Type: Movie
Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure
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Report to the Commissioner
Title: Report to the Commissioner
Character: Richard 'Crunch' Blackstone
Released: February 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
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Truck Turner
Title: Truck Turner
Character: Blue
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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Live and Let Die
Title: Live and Let Die
Character: Kananga/Mr. Big
Released: June 27, 1973
Type: Movie
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
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Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Title: Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Character: Self
Released: June 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973).
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Across 110th Street
Title: Across 110th Street
Character: Lt. William Pope
Released: December 19, 1972
Type: Movie
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
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The Limit
Title: The Limit
Character: Mark Johnson
Released: November 10, 1972
Type: Movie
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. One afternoon, Mark has a run-in with a gang known as The Virgins, whose leader, Big Donnie, is taken aback by the policeman's understanding, dignified demeanor despite the gang's constant derision. When Mark advises Donnie not to continue to allow his heavily pregnant girl friend, Judy, to ride a motorbike, the gang leader agrees. Later, after Donnie actively seeks Mark out for advice, the Virgins' second-in-command, Kenny, reacts with outrage.
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Bone
Title: Bone
Character: Bone
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
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Man and Boy
Title: Man and Boy
Character: Nate Hodges
Released: June 23, 1971
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
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Title: Night Gallery
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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Night Chase
Title: Night Chase
Character: Ernie Green
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A man fleeing the scene after shooting his wife's lover forms an unexpected relationship with the tough cab driver he hires to drive him to the Mexican border.
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Title: The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Character: Sonny Boy Mosby
Released: March 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: LCpl. John T. Auston
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Wyman Jackson
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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5 Card Stud
Title: 5 Card Stud
Character: Little George
Released: July 28, 1968
Type: Movie
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Title: The Thomas Crown Affair
Character: Carl
Released: June 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
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Title: Mannix
Released: September 16, 1967
Type: TV
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
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Title: Cowboy in Africa
Released: September 11, 1967
Type: TV
Cowboy in Africa was an American Broadcasting Company television series produced during 1967-1968 by Ivan Tors and featuring Chuck Connors as the main actor. A 1966 television pilot show featuring Hugh O'Brian as Jim Sinclair, made into a movie and released to cinemas, was named Africa - Texas Style.
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Title: The High Chaparral
Character: Sgt. Major Creason
Released: September 10, 1967
Type: TV
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
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Title: Tarzan
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.
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Title: The Big Valley
Character: Lobo Brown
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
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Title: The Big Valley
Character: Damien
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
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Nothing But a Man
Title: Nothing But a Man
Character: Jocko
Released: December 27, 1964
Type: Movie
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Luke
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Jonah
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Child Barnett
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Piney Biggs
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.