Biography: Godfrey Cambridge |
Born in New York City to immigrants from British Guiana, Godfrey Cambridge was raised in Nova Scotia. He returned to New York in time for high school, graduating from Flushing High in three years. While attending Hofstra University, Cambridge appeared... more
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Cast: Samuel Fuller Art Carney Jeremy Kagan Seymour Cassel
Length: 96min
Billy Dee Williams stars as legendary ragtime pianist/composer Scott Joplin in this 1977 iopic. Despite his brilliance, Joplin (1868-1917) was confined by the color of his skin to the dregs of show business in the late 19th century. While competing...
Tags: Drama Police Detective Film
Length: 74min
The Cut Man Caper originated as a 90-minute episode of the weekly TV anthology Police Story. Heading the cast is Robert Hooks as Ernie Tillis, a detective in the robbery-homicide division. On the trail of loan-company robbers, Hooks is forced to rely...
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
Tags: Police Detective Film Crime Mystery
Length: 100min
This sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) brings back Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) and Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge), two freewheeling African-American police detectives working the beat in Harlem. Joe (Peter DeAnda) is a famous...
Cast: Eddie Albert Elliott Gould
Length: 90min
In this crime comedy, a gullible private volunteers to become the subject of numerous military biological and chemical weaponry experiments. Later he becomes so messed up that he is forced into early retirement. He then decides to use some of the...
Tags: Animal Picture Drama Family
Length: 90min
In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a fence-jumping contest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Pam Grier Eartha Kitt Yaphet Kotto
Tags: Thriller Mystery Blaxploitation Superhero Film
Length: 89min
In this laxploitation film, statuesque action star Pam Grier is cast as comic-strip heroine Friday Foster. A freelance photographer with an insatiable thirst for adventure, Friday unearths a conspiracy to assassinate several prominent black political...
Cast: Melvin Van Peebles Mantan Moreland Estelle Parsons
Tags: Satire Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners Message Movie
Length: 97min
African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber, a white, middle class husband to Althea (Estelle Parson) and father of two who is also a mild bigot. One morning, Jeff wakes...
Tags: Sci-Fi Disaster Film Science Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 88min
Cashing in on director Larry Hagman's fame as star of Dallas, a canny distributor reissued Beware! the Blob (aka Son of Blob) with the come-on line "The Film That J.R. Shot!" Picking up where the original Blob (1958) left off, the film begins as the...
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Cast: Vittorio De Sica Edward G. Robinson Raquel Welch Robert Wagner Godfrey Cambridge
Tags: Ensemble Film Crime Comedy Caper
Length: 105min
Vittorio De Sica delivers a full-blown comic performance as Cesare Celli, an American gangster exiled to Italy and kidnapped by a collection of inept crooks. These incompetents are headed by Harry Price (Robert Wagner), who demands a ransom from...
Cast: Ossie Davis Raymond St. Jacques
Tags: Action Comedy Buddy Film Action Comedy Thriller Blaxploitation Police Detective Film Crime
Length: 97min
Ossie Davis makes his directorial debut a smashing success in the trend-setting action crime comedy Cotton Comes To Harlem. Coffin Ed (Raymond St. Jacques) and Grave Digger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge), two plainclothesmen on the Harlem detail, are...
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