Frances Foster

Born: 1924-06-11


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Malcolm X

as Woman Outside Audubon Ballroom
Released: 1992-11-18

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation....

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Crooklyn

as Aunt Song
Released: 1994-05-13

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her...

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Clockers

as Gloria
Released: 1995-09-15

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night...

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The Distinguished Gentleman

as Grandma
Released: 1992-12-04

A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just...

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Five Corners

as Waitress
Released: 1987-09-11

A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out...

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A Piece of the Action

as Bea Quitman
Released: 1977-10-07

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell...

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Trapped In Silence

as Ovelia
Released: 1986-05-11

A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no...

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Darrow

as Elsa Jackson
Released: 1991-06-08

The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.

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Enemy Territory

as Elva Briggs
Released: 1987-05-22

An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is...

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Citizen Cohn

as First Annie Lee Moss
Released: 1992-08-22

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from...

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Take a Giant Step

as Poppy
Released: 1959-12-01

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A...

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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

as Self
Released: 1989-08-14

James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for...

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Desperate

as Loretta
Released: 1987-09-19

In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not,"...

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The House of Dies Drear

as Great-Grandmother Jeffers
Released: 1984-06-01

A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the...

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Through an Open Window

as Dianne
Released: 1992-03-25

A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her...

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Tales of the Unknown South

as "Neighbors"
Released: 1984-11-07

Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the...

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The Last Tenant

as Nurse in Home
Released: 1978-06-25

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant...

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The First Breeze of Summer

as Gremmar
Released: 1976-01-28

A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly...

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Legacy of Blood

as Sylvie
Released: 1974-03-12

An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.

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Law & Order

as Mary Tillar
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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Great Performances

as Gremmar
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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North and South

as Slave
First aired: 1985-11-03

The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of...

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Kojak

as Pearl Johnson
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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Good Times

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-02-08

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1,...

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The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

as Mrs. Hawthorne
First aired: 1987-05-21

Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a...

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A Man Called Hawk

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-01-28

A Man Called Hawk is a prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network...

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King

as Alberta King
First aired: 1978-02-12

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister...

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