Art Evans

Art Evans

Born: March 27, 1942
in Berkeley, California, USA
Arthur James “Art” Evans is an American actor who has made multiple film and television program appearances over the span of three decades. His acting career, spanning over 30 years, started with Frank Silvera's Theater of Being in Los Angeles. He took a starring role in The Amen Corner, which transferred to Broadway in 1965. His first uncredited acting performance in film was Claudine in 1974. His first credited role was in Chico and the Man as Bubba in the episode Too Many Crooks, which aired in 1976. He is probably best known for his role as Leslie Barnes in the action 1990s films Die Hard 2: Die Harder, in which he plays an air traffic control tower employee. Evans has also appeared in Fright Night and Fright Night II, as well as many appearances in a variety of television shows such as MAS*H and Hill Street Blues. In 1984, Evans co-starred in the all-star African-American drama A Soldier's Story as the memorable brown-nosing character Wilkie. His talents for many instruments came in handy when playing Blind Lemon Jefferson in the movie Leadbelly. Also starred in the music video for Stevie Wonder's Go Home.

Movies for Art Evans...

Title: The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Character: Charlie (voice)
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: TV
Follow the adventures and misadventures of newly 14-year-old Penny Proud and her family as they navigate modern life with hilarity and heart. The 2020s bring a new career for mom Trudy, wilder dreams for dad Oscar and new challenges for Penny, including a socially woke neighbor who thinks she has a lot to teach her.
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You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Title: You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Character: Himself
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
An extensive look at the making of Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988) featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, rare photographs, behind-the-scenes footage and more.
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Alien Rising
Title: Alien Rising
Character: General Tabor
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
When a seemingly abandoned alien spacecraft is discovered orbiting Neptune, a top secret expedition is sent to investigate. In the derelict hulk they discover two surviving alien life forms telepathically linked to one other. 13 years later a savvy, ex-DEA agent and martial arts expert finds herself renditioned to a high security establishment on a remote island where they are conducting experiments on the incarcerated aliens.
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iSteve
Title: iSteve
Character: Ol’ Mose
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: Movie
A comedic look at the life of Steve Jobs.
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Title: Last Man Standing
Character: Mort
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women.
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Anderson's Cross
Title: Anderson's Cross
Character: Grandfather
Released: May 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Nick Anderson, Kevin Daniels, and Tracey Green do everything together. They are the best of friends, and yet they couldn't be more different. Neighbors from adolescence, they finish each other's thoughts and sentences, joys and pains, happiness and tears. Using Nick's house as their own members only clubhouse, they escape into their own world of contentment. Yet the inevitable intrusion of others tests their stability in ways never imagined.
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Church: The Movie
Title: Church: The Movie
Character: Pastor Jones
Released: April 1, 2010
Type: Movie
When a reformed bad boy returns to The Church on the Hill as its Youth Leader, he has his hands full with boisterous kids, a congregation that's $27,000 in debt and a duplicitous deacon determined to make a profit by grabbing the church's land.
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House Under Siege
Title: House Under Siege
Character: Jack Miller
Released: March 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital where they will expect the police. They enter the house quietly with no drama. But when the doctor tells them she needs an ambulance to the hospital or else she will die, and his co-worker picks up the phone ready to call, the boys bring their guns out. The doctor along with his family are taken hostages, and the boys threaten him to save the girl if they all want to stay alive.
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Machete Joe
Title: Machete Joe
Character: Sammy
Released: January 29, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of out-of-work actors decide to take their careers into their own hands by shooting a low-budget horror film, about an urban myth. With only 15 days to shoot their unfinished script, at a remote castle in the desert, getting through the first night becomes a nightmare. As their egos begin to surface so do the dead bodies.
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Shades of Ray
Title: Shades of Ray
Character: Tyler
Released: October 18, 2008
Type: Movie
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.
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Jada
Title: Jada
Character: Howard
Released: October 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Jada is the faith based story of a woman whose life becomes chaotic when her husband is killed in a questionable car accident. Her once-comfortable middle-class lifestyle comes crashing down when an insurance company labels the accident a suicide and refuses to pay her benefits as the survivor.
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Young Cesar
Title: Young Cesar
Released: June 26, 2007
Type: Movie
When Ali Dean went to prison, left behind two sons. Tariq trains to become a boxer, but his brother, Cesar, ends up on the streets dealing drugs. And while Ali is about to be released, even he may not be able to save his wayward son. The deeper Cesar gets into crime, the more important Ali's need to be a father to him becomes.
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Title: Lincoln Heights
Released: January 8, 2007
Type: TV
Eddie Sutton is a dedicated police officer, his wife Jenn, a devoted nurse, but their most important job is as parents to their three teenage children Cassie, Tay and Lizzie. They're your everyday American family living in the suburbs of Southern California, but the Suttons are thrown for a loop when Eddie decides to move his wife and three kids to the inner-city neighborhood where he grew up.
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Never Die Alone
Title: Never Die Alone
Character: Mr. Waters
Released: March 26, 2004
Type: Movie
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
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Gas
Title: Gas
Character: Will
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Upon returning to Los Angeles to attend his father's funeral, Damon (Alexander) soon learns that in order to claim his share of the family inheritance he must work alongside his brother, Mookie (Kain) — a former drug-dealer who had previously cost Damon a college scholarship — in keeping the family's long-running gas station in business for at least one year. As the siblings repeatedly butt heads over matters both great and small, they soon come to realize that it takes more than money to hold a family together.
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The Watermelon Heist
Title: The Watermelon Heist
Character: Mailman
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
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Super Spy: The Final Exit
Title: Super Spy: The Final Exit
Character: Willie Ray
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
In this urban comedy, an aspiring young filmmaker named Sherlock heads off to Hollywood in hopes of making a blockbuster action movie and becoming famous. Everything seems to be going as planned, with filming underway, until the cameras record something accidentally. What ends up on film will be something that all involved wish they'd never been associated with. Stars A.J. Jamal.
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Title: Monk
Character: Rusty
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Interstate 60
Title: Interstate 60
Character: Otis
Released: April 13, 2002
Type: Movie
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
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Boys Klub
Title: Boys Klub
Character: Father Sal
Released: June 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his aunt, teenager Mario Vandetti makes fast friends with a group of neighborhood kids and encouraged by a caring priest they soon form a basketball team, becoming contenders in a city tournament.
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Rhapsody
Title: Rhapsody
Character: James Tanner
Released: March 15, 2001
Type: Movie
The life of a beautiful rising female recording star is placed in jeopardy when she witnesses the drive-by shooting of a rival rap-star in Las Vegas. Wanted by both the killers and the corrupt police, the young woman must go into hiding while three of her kick-ass friends root-out the truth to the situation.
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The Cheapest Movie Ever Made
Title: The Cheapest Movie Ever Made
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
2000 action comedy
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Title: L.A. Heat
Released: March 15, 1999
Type: TV
L.A. Heat is an American action series starring Wolf Larson and Steven Williams as Los Angeles police detectives, in the tradition of films like Lethal Weapon. The series aired on TNT from March 15, 1999.
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After All
Title: After All
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
An ambitious news reporter refuses to let anything come between her and her dream of being an anchorwoman until a former lover she thought was out of her life returns.
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Title: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Character: Wally (segment "They Towed My Car")
Released: November 4, 1998
Type: TV
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
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Always Outnumbered
Title: Always Outnumbered
Character: Markham Peale
Released: March 21, 1998
Type: Movie
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
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Metro
Title: Metro
Character: Lt. Sam Baffett
Released: January 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
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The Great White Hype
Title: The Great White Hype
Character: Minister
Released: May 3, 1996
Type: Movie
When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.
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Bushwhacked
Title: Bushwhacked
Character: Marty (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1995
Type: Movie
A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and leads a scout group on a hike through the mountains.
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Tales from the Hood
Title: Tales from the Hood
Character: Eli
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
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Bitter Harvest
Title: Bitter Harvest
Character: Earl Yates
Released: November 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Travis has just buried his father, when Kelly, an attractive hitchhiker walks into his life. At the same time, another attractive blonde, Jolene, starts taking an interest in Travis. Both women are secretly after something.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Argyle Saperstein
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Walt Taylor
Released: April 21, 1993
Type: TV
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
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CB4
Title: CB4
Character: Albert Sr.
Released: March 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...
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Trespass
Title: Trespass
Character: Bradlee
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is on the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.
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The Finishing Touch
Title: The Finishing Touch
Character: Lieutenant Morman
Released: December 16, 1992
Type: Movie
Sam Stone is a cop with personal as well as professional problems. Stone investigates a series of killings in the night club scene. His ex-wife, also a cop, goes undercover to find the killer and Stone is faced with a double problem: keeping her alive and catching the killer before another woman is killed.
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Title: Mad About You
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: TV
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
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Title: Roc
Character: The Repairman
Released: August 25, 1991
Type: TV
Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor.
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Revenge of the Nerds
Title: Revenge of the Nerds
Character: Wallace Carter
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Unaired pilot based on the movie of the same name.
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Title: Dream On
Released: July 8, 1990
Type: TV
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
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Die Hard 2
Title: Die Hard 2
Character: Leslie Barnes
Released: July 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane’s smart-mouthed heroics.
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Mom
Title: Mom
Character: Lt. Hendrix
Released: June 19, 1990
Type: Movie
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.
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Downtown
Title: Downtown
Character: Henry Coleman
Released: January 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get even with the policeman. Soon, Kearney learns that he is off the cushy suburban beat and must now work in the deadliest precinct in Philly, where he is partnered with tough veteran cop Dennis Curran. Tensions are high between them, but Kearney soon proves he can play just as rough as the crooks.
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Title: Family Matters
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: TV
A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
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Title: Doogie Howser, M.D.
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: TV
Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a teenager, with normal teenage friends and problems. But unlike a normal teenager, he is just learning to drive while also consulting on serious medical cases like heart transplants.
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The Mighty Quinn
Title: The Mighty Quinn
Character: Jump Jones
Released: February 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.
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School Daze
Title: School Daze
Character: Cedar Cloud
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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Title: A Different World
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: TV
A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities. While it was a spin-off from The Cosby Show, A Different World would typically address issues that were avoided by The Cosby Show writers. One episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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White of the Eye
Title: White of the Eye
Character: Detective Charles Mendoza
Released: June 19, 1987
Type: Movie
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...
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Native Son
Title: Native Son
Character: Doc
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
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Ruthless People
Title: Ruthless People
Character: Lt. Bender
Released: June 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
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Long Time Gone
Title: Long Time Gone
Character: Neighbor #1
Released: May 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Title: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Character: Arturo
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
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Title: 227
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.
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Fright Night
Title: Fright Night
Character: Detective Lennox
Released: August 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.
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Handsome Harry's
Title: Handsome Harry's
Character: Speedy Simms
Released: July 23, 1985
Type: Movie
American TV-Comedy
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Seduced
Title: Seduced
Character: Cop #1
Released: March 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gregory Harrison plays Mike Riordon a district attorney, who is young, handsome and living at home with his Irish mom for the most. Vicky's husband Arthur gets Mike involved in a merger of two companies...or something like that even though he knows that Mike and Vicky were a couple and that she had dumped him. Whilst Mike and Vicky are attending a party, Arthur is alone at home when a burglar appears out of nowhere and shoots him point blank.
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Into the Night
Title: Into the Night
Character: Jimmy
Released: February 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
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Tuff Turf
Title: Tuff Turf
Character: Security Guard
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: Movie
The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
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Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Title: Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Character: Walton
Released: December 11, 1984
Type: Movie
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
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A Soldier's Story
Title: A Soldier's Story
Character: Private Wilkie
Released: September 14, 1984
Type: Movie
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
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The Seduction of Gina
Title: The Seduction of Gina
Character: Delivery Man
Released: January 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.
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Christine
Title: Christine
Character: Auto Assembly Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
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Class Reunion
Title: Class Reunion
Character: Carl Clapton
Released: October 29, 1982
Type: Movie
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party. When guests start getting bumped off, the other alumni, including snooty yacht salesman Bob Spinnaker, class tease Bunny Packard, and class zero Gary Nash, spring into action to uncover the culprit.
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Wrong Is Right
Title: Wrong Is Right
Character: Warehouse Guard
Released: April 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
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Title: 9 to 5
Character: Morgan
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
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Between Two Brothers
Title: Between Two Brothers
Character: Sanitation Worker
Released: March 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less polished brother Russ who runs the family business and harbors the guilt for their father's recent death.
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Title: World War III
Character: Buford
Released: January 31, 1982
Type: TV
When starving mobs begin rioting in the streets of Moscow, Soviet leaders believe they have no recourse but to seize the Alaskan pipeline to force the United States to end the grain embargo that has brought turmoil to the U.S.S.R.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
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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First Family
Title: First Family
Character: Longo's Right Hand Man
Released: December 25, 1980
Type: Movie
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
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The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Title: The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Character: Intern
Released: February 6, 1980
Type: Movie
A high school athlete is well on the road to becoming an alcoholic like his ex-hockey pro father until his teammate and best friend commits himself to saving him from his self-destructive habit.
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Skag
Title: Skag
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Title: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Character: Baggage Master
Released: June 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
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The Main Event
Title: The Main Event
Character: Fighter
Released: June 22, 1979
Type: Movie
Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
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The In-Laws
Title: The In-Laws
Character: Treasury Truck Driver
Released: June 15, 1979
Type: Movie
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
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The In-Laws
Title: The In-Laws
Character: Driver
Released: June 15, 1979
Type: Movie
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Character: Principal
Released: April 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
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The Cracker Factory
Title: The Cracker Factory
Character: Abdul
Released: March 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
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Some Kind of Miracle
Title: Some Kind of Miracle
Character: Elvis
Released: January 3, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance, have to adjust to his being in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
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Youngblood
Title: Youngblood
Character: Junkie
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth.
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Title: King
Character: A.D. King
Released: February 12, 1978
Type: TV
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968.
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Big Time
Title: Big Time
Character: Buzz Murdock
Released: July 31, 1977
Type: Movie
A small time con-artist gets between the FBI and a suitcase filled with money.
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Fun with Dick and Jane
Title: Fun with Dick and Jane
Character: Man At Bar
Released: March 18, 1977
Type: Movie
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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Minstrel Man
Title: Minstrel Man
Character: Tambo
Released: March 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white performers in blackface, and the other is a composer fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrel performers.
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Leadbelly
Title: Leadbelly
Character: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Released: May 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
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The Orphan and the Dude
Title: The Orphan and the Dude
Character: Curtis 'The Dude' Brown
Released: July 18, 1975
Type: Movie
Two oddballs, one a black man called "The Dude" and one white, called "The Orphan" share a Culver City, California apartment.
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Title: Chico and the Man
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood.
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Title: Police Woman
Character: Russ Singer
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
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Death Wish
Title: Death Wish
Character: Police Officer at Precinct (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1974
Type: Movie
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
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Claudine
Title: Claudine
Character: Young Brother (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
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Sisters
Title: Sisters
Character: African Room Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
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Title: M*A*S*H
Released: September 17, 1972
Type: TV
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.