Ketty Lester

Ketty Lester

Born: August 16, 1938
in Hope, Arkansas, USA

Movies for Ketty Lester...

Title: The Wonder Years
Character: Sister Henderson
Released: September 22, 2021
Type: TV
A coming of age story set in the late 1960s that takes a nostalgic look at a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama through the point-of-view of imaginative 12 year-old Dean. With the wisdom of his adult years, Dean’s hopeful and humorous recollections show how his family found their “wonder years” in a turbulent time. Inspired by the classic series of the same name.
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Runaway Car
Title: Runaway Car
Character: Willie Mae
Released: January 27, 1997
Type: Movie
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby nephew. Once on the street, they almost run over a young man. Not knowing if he is hurt, they pick up the man too. But the worst luck begins when the car brakes break down
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Percy & Thunder
Title: Percy & Thunder
Character: Grandma Kate
Released: September 7, 1993
Type: Movie
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Street Knight
Title: Street Knight
Character: Lucinda
Released: March 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Myrtle
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Title: TV 101
Character: Monique's Grandmother
Released: November 29, 1988
Type: TV
TV 101 is an American drama series that aired on CBS from 1988 until 1989. The series stars Sam Robards, Brynn Thayer, Leon Russom and Andrew Cassese. Other notable cast members include Stacey Dash, Teri Polo, Alex Désert and Matt LeBlanc. The music for this show was created and produced by Todd Rundgren.
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Handsome Harry's
Title: Handsome Harry's
Character: Pearline Simms
Released: July 23, 1985
Type: Movie
American TV-Comedy
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The Night the City Screamed
Title: The Night the City Screamed
Character: Mrs. King
Released: December 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.
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Battered
Title: Battered
Character: Helen
Released: September 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
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Cops and Robin
Title: Cops and Robin
Character: Secretary
Released: March 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow who witnessed the killing of her police officer husband and now is stalked by the gangster who murdered him.
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Peeping Times
Title: Peeping Times
Character: Nutritionist
Released: January 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Peeping Times is a comedy special that aired on NBC on January 25, 1978. Co-produced, written and directed by Rudy De Luca and Barry Levinson, the special featured an early broadcast network appearance of David Letterman. David Frost was co-executive producer. The show was a spoof of TV news magazine programs.
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Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Title: Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
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All Day Long
Title: All Day Long
Character: Gloria
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A young orphaned boy comes to live with his aunt and discovers that his best friend is having an affair with her.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Title: The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Character: Unemployment Clerk
Released: March 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
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Uptown Saturday Night
Title: Uptown Saturday Night
Character: Irma
Released: July 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
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It's Good to Be Alive
Title: It's Good to Be Alive
Character: Roy Campanella's Mother
Released: February 22, 1974
Type: Movie
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959. Cinematographer Ted Voigtlander was Emmy-nominated.
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Title: Temperatures Rising
Character: Nurse Ferguson
Released: September 12, 1972
Type: TV
Temperatures Rising is an American television sitcom that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network. The network had a good deal of faith in the low-rated series, which went through three cast changes, two different formats, and two time slots during its run.
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Blacula
Title: Blacula
Character: Juanita Jones
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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Uptight
Title: Uptight
Character: Alma
Released: December 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
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Title: That Girl
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
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Just for Fun
Title: Just for Fun
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.