Biography: Raymond St. Jacques |
One of the most dynamic of the '60s "new wave" of African-American actors, Raymond St. Jacques had originally intended to become a social worker. Thankfully, he did not allow his richly theatrical voice and imposing physique to go to waste, and... more
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Cast: Woody Strode
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller
Length: 90min
Assignment: Kill Castro was originally released as Cuba Crossing. Stuart Whitman stars as a mercenary hired to "off" the Cuban dictator. He soon discovers that he will be immediately expendable once the deed is done, and that co-stars like Robert...
Cast: Lloyd Bridges Beau Bridges Gary Lockwood
Tags: Police Drama Action Buddy Film
Length: 89min
When uptight FBI agent Joe Jennings (Beau Bridges) is forced to team up with reluctant local officer Benny Avalon (Bubba Smith), the two must learn to overcome their differences and work together to break up a drug smuggling operation. ~ Iotis...
Cast: R.G. Armstrong
Tags: Political Drama Action Drama
Length: 83min
When an underqualified white man is given the job that Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) is infinitely more qualified for, the young black man becomes involved in a violent, radical movement to rise up against the perpetrators of racism. ~ Iotis...
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 81min
Raymond St. Jacques both directs and stars in The Book of Numbers. St. Jacques and Philip Thomas play depression-era African Americans, barely making out an existence as waiters in a deep-south community. Both men decide that there's more money to be...
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
Cast: Raymond St. Jacques Godfrey Cambridge
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: Ossie Davis
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...
Cast: Dana Andrews
Tags: Biopic Drama Religious Drama
Length: 110min
President Richard Nixon's legal counsellor Charles Colson was tried for several criminal charges relating to the Watergate cover-up, eventually spending some time in prison. This film explores Colson's personal crisis, and the religious convictions...
If He Hollers, Let Him Go (1968)
Tags: Crime Drama Drama Crime
Length: 106min
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily...
Cast: Leslie Nielsen Janet MacLachlan
Tags: Drama Science Fiction Thriller Social Problem Film
Length: 103min
A married couple struggles to adjust when the husband's brain is transplanted into the skull of a black man. David Rowe (Raymond St. Jacques) is the white district attorney who must now live life as a black man. His wife Margaret (Susan Oliver) tries...
Cast: John Wayne Richard Pryor David Janssen Aldo Ray
Tags: War Adventure Combat Films War
Length: 135min
The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in Vietnam. Wayne's role is similar to his part in The Longest Day (1963), but it was evident to the worldwide public that the same...
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