Al Freeman Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Al Freeman, Jr., M.Ed. (born Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr. on March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas) is an African-American actor and director. Freeman has made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1985, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. He left the show briefly to appear in the network's controversial sitcom Hot L Baltimore. During that period, "Ed" was played by another actor, Arthur Pendleton. He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to direct a soap opera. After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea. His portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations. Freeman currently teaches acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Freeman, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Malcolm X
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as Taru1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become...
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as Old Johnson WhittakerThe story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point....
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Movie pageDown in the Delta
as Earl SinclairA single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to...
Movie pageThe World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
as SelfThis documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New...
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as Danny LarwinA distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He...
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as Thomas NewcombBlack Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
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Movie pageMy Sweet Charlie
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as The LeaderA black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he...
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as Narrator (voice)Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the...
Movie pageHomicide: Life on the Street
as Deputy Commissioner James HarrisAn American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...
TV Show pageThe Cosby Show
as uncreditedThe Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for...
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TV Show pageLaw & Order
as Stan WallaceIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
TV Show pageThe F.B.I.
as Alan HarmonThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...
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as ParaAdventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...
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as uncreditedHigh-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...
TV Show pageThe Mod Squad
as uncreditedThe Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...
TV Show pageRoots: The Next Generations
as uncreditedRoots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from...
TV Show pageRoots: The Next Generations
as Malcolm XRoots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from...
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as Damon LockwoodThe story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister...
TV Show pageHot l Baltimore
as uncreditedHot l Baltimore was a 1975 American television situation comedy series adapted from a hit...
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as HouseboyAn anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...
TV Show pageOne Life to Live
as Capt. Ed HallOne Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the...
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