Vonetta McGee

Vonetta McGee

Born: January 14, 1945
Died: July 9, 2010
in San Francisco, California, USA
Vonetta Lawrence McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010) was an American actress. She debuted in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence and went on to appear in blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000, and 1974's Thomasine & Bushrod alongside her then-boyfriend Max Julien. In 1975, she was Clint Eastwood's co-star in The Eiger Sanction. She was a regular on the 1987 Universal Television situation comedy Bustin' Loose, starring as Mimi Shaw for its only season (1987–88).

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Filming Silenzio
Title: Filming Silenzio
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Featurette about the making of Sergio Corbucci's 'Il grande silenzio' consisting mostly of footage from 'Western Italian Style'.
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Black August
Title: Black August
Character: Georgia Jackson
Released: August 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a $70 gas station robbery crime in 1960. He was 18 years of age when the sentence of one year-to-life was handed down to him.
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Title: EZ Streets
Released: October 27, 1996
Type: TV
EZ Streets is an American television drama series created by Paul Haggis. It premiered on CBS on October 27, 1996 with a two hour pilot telefilm. The series stars Ken Olin, Joe Pantoliano, and Jason Gedrick.
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The Man Next Door
Title: The Man Next Door
Character: Rapists' Rehabilitator
Released: January 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Title: Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Character: Claudia Petrie
Released: November 6, 1994
Type: Movie
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
Title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
Character: Annie Bollin
Released: May 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Sleazy talk show host Ted Mayne writes a tell-all book, which enrages and embarrasses several very prominent women. One of them, actress Roxanne Shield, loses her composure during an interview and winds up making a televised death threat. Of course, when Ted is murdered, she is arrested. Witnesses claim they saw Roxanne outside his apartment that night and police later find the murder weapon in her car. Renowned defence attorney Perry Mason accepts the challenge of defending her in court.
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Stormy Weathers
Title: Stormy Weathers
Released: May 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into the case, however, she finds out that there is much more to the case.
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You Must Remember This
Title: You Must Remember This
Character: Brenda
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers his strong principles when it came to supporting his actors and his art overall.
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Brother Future
Title: Brother Future
Character: Mortilla
Released: February 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
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To Sleep with Anger
Title: To Sleep with Anger
Character: Pat
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
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Title: Bustin' Loose
Character: Mimi Shaw
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
Bustin' Loose is an American situation comedy that was loosely based on the 1981 film of the same name starring Richard Pryor. The series premiered in first-run syndication in 1987 and lasted for only one season.
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Title: Amen
Released: September 27, 1986
Type: TV
Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, and 227.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Jackie Williams
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Title: Hell Town
Character: Sister Indigo
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: TV
Hell Town is an American drama series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1985 to December 25, 1985. The series features former Baretta star Robert Blake.
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Father of Hell Town
Title: Father of Hell Town
Character: Sister Indigo
Released: March 6, 1985
Type: Movie
In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
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Black Hollywood
Title: Black Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in American movies.
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Repo Man
Title: Repo Man
Character: Marlene
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
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Title: Cagney & Lacey
Character: Claudia Petrie
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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Scruples
Title: Scruples
Character: Francine
Released: May 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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Title: Diff'rent Strokes
Released: November 3, 1978
Type: TV
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
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Superdome
Title: Superdome
Character: Sonny
Released: January 9, 1978
Type: Movie
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
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Foxbat
Title: Foxbat
Character: Toni Hill
Released: December 15, 1977
Type: Movie
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Character: Paula Jones
Released: March 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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The Eiger Sanction
Title: The Eiger Sanction
Character: Jemima Brown
Released: May 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
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Title: Police Woman
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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Thomasine & Bushrod
Title: Thomasine & Bushrod
Character: Thomasine
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.
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Detroit 9000
Title: Detroit 9000
Character: Roby Harris
Released: August 1, 1973
Type: Movie
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
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Shaft in Africa
Title: Shaft in Africa
Character: Aleme
Released: June 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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The Norliss Tapes
Title: The Norliss Tapes
Character: Mme. Jeckiel
Released: February 21, 1973
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.
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Blacula
Title: Blacula
Character: Tina
Released: August 25, 1972
Type: Movie
An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.
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Melinda
Title: Melinda
Character: Melinda
Released: August 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
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Hammer
Title: Hammer
Character: Lois
Released: July 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
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The Big Bust Out
Title: The Big Bust Out
Character: Claire
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
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The Kremlin Letter
Title: The Kremlin Letter
Character: The Negress
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Rone and his team are sent to retrieve it. They go undercover, successfully reaching out to Erika Kosnov, the wife of a former agent, now married to the head of Russia's secret police. Their plans are interrupted, however, when their Moscow hideout is raided by a cunning politician.
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The Lost Man
Title: The Lost Man
Character: Diane Lawrence
Released: July 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
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Faustina
Title: Faustina
Character: Faustina Ceccarelli
Released: October 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Faustina, the offspring of a black G.I. and a Roman woman who met during the conflict of World War II, must choose between two Italian men who desperately vie for her attention.
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The Great Silence
Title: The Great Silence
Character: Pauline
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
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Western, Italian Style
Title: Western, Italian Style
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.