Biography: Courtney Vance |
Although he had been appearing in both film and television productions since the mid-'80s, it took nearly two decades for actor Courtney B. Vance to finally receive recognition. The Detroit native was bitten by the acting bug while a student at... more
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama
Length: 120min
In 1980, Clarence Brandley was an African-American janitor who was convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school student in the city of Conroe, TX. James Keeshan, a powerful local prosecutor, handled the case and was able to obtain a...
Love and Action in Chicago (1999)
Cast: Kathleen Turner Ed Asner
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 91min
Courtney B. Vance stars in this screwball romantic comedy as Eddie Jones, a devout Catholic who is committed celibacy. He is also a trained killer for the Eliminator Corp; a shadowy government organization dedicated to wasting society's undesirables....
Tags: Biography History Social History Physical Sciences Race & Ethnicity
Length: 120min
Cast: Sylvester Stallone
Tags: Police Detective Film Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 96min
Sylvester Stallone returned to the screen after a three-year absence (excepting his voice work in Antz) with this tense and violent psychological crime thriller. FBI agent Jake Malloy (Stallone) has been traumatized by an especially vicious murder. No...
American Experience: Partners of the Heart (2003)
Cast: Morgan Freeman Bill Duke
Tags: Medicine Science & Technology Social History History Biography
Length: 60min
This 60-minute entry in the PBS American Experience anthology chronicles the unorthodox medical partnership between Alfred Blalock, chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins, and Vivien Thomas, a black man with little more than a high school education. When...
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama
Length: 122min
Lawyer John Williams (Courtney B. Vance) looks back in flashback to 1957 when he began as a lawyer while living in the Bronx with his older brother, Charles (Charles S. Dutton). Married to Carol (Lonette McKee), Charles is the NYPD's first...
Cast: Virginia Madsen Ernest R. Dickerson
Tags: Police Detective Film Action Action Thriller
Length: 99min
In this crime thriller a black policeman and his partner look into the suspicious death of a Ku Klux Klan leader. The dead man's son was the only witness. When his partner is also killed, the cop is accused of the crime. Innocent and fearing unjust...
Cast: Jack Lemmon George C. Scott William Friedkin Armin Mueller-Stahl Courtney Vance Hume Cronyn
Tags: Psychological Drama Courtroom Drama Drama
Length: min
A jury argues a case in a stuffy room on a hot summer's day. Eleven say "guilty!" But one holdout (Jack Lemmon) is convinced of the defendant's innocence and stubbornly argues "reasonable doubt." This tense courtroom drama is a remake of Sidney...
Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
Cast: Peter Bogdanovich Scott Glenn
Tags: Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 95min
When a serial killer threatens to destroy the spirit of Christmas in New York, a pair of gumshoes set off to stop him. To keep holiday shoppers from panicking, the two cops try to keep their investigation low-key. Unfortunately, a pushy television...
Naked City: Justice With a Bullet (1998)
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito
Tags: Crime Drama Thriller
Length: 107min
A pair of tourists think they have found salvation after two detectives save them from a crooked limo driver. Unfortunately for the travellers, one of the private eyes has been marked for death by a professional killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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