Fred Covington

Born: 1928-07-01

Fred Covington was born on July 1, 1928 as Alfred Covington. He was an actor, known for Norma Rae (1979), The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) and Challenge (1974). He died on July 28, 1993 in Marietta, Georgia, USA.


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Norma Rae

as Alston Purvis
Released: 1979-03-02

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working...

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Freedom Road

as Sheriff Bentley
Released: 1979-10-29

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the...

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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

as Auctioneer
Released: 1976-07-16

Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he...

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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

as Governor #1
Released: 1978-12-01

Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as...

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Coward of the County

as Brother Hofelter
Released: 1981-10-07

A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody...

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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

as Attorney Lake
Released: 1980-03-25

The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by...

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Grass Roots

as Police Captain
Released: 1992-02-24

This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will...

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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

as Man in Jail
Released: 1981-06-05

An aspiring country singer and his feisty younger sister/manager struggle to reach their dreams...

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The Brass Ring

as MacDonald Jennings
Released: 1974-10-26

A sequel to 1974's Challenge, in which the title character is assigned to gather incriminating...

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The Battle of Chickamauga

as Narrator
Released: 2007-07-03

The Battle of Chickamauga proved to be one of the fiercest engagements of the American Civil...

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Nashville 99

as Hyder
First aired: 1977-04-01

Featuring Claude Atkins as Metro Nashville police lieutenant and Jerry Reed as his sidekick,...

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