Louis Gossett Jr.

Born: 1936-05-27

Louis Gossett Jr. (born May 27, 1936 - March 29, 2024) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and as Fiddler in the television miniseries "Roots". He has won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards in an acting career that spans over five decades.


See
Placeholder

as Lewis (voice)
Released: 2024-05-08

A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone's imaginary friends...

Movie page
See!

An Officer and a Gentleman

as Sergeant Emil Foley
Released: 1982-07-28

Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training...

Movie page

The Principal

as Jake Phillips
Released: 1987-09-18

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick...

Movie page

Jaws 3-D

as Calvin Bouchard
Released: 1983-07-22

A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons...

Movie page

The Color Purple

as Ol' Mister
Released: 2023-12-25

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie...

Movie page

The Punisher

as Jake Berkowitz
Released: 1989-10-05

The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing...

Movie page

Why Did I Get Married Too?

as Porter
Released: 2010-04-02

Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing...

Movie page

The Perfect Game

as Cool Papa Bell
Released: 2009-11-09

Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team...

Movie page

Firewalker

as Leo Porter
Released: 1986-11-21

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Movie page

The Deep

as Henri Cloche
Released: 1977-06-17

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they...

Movie page

Daddy's Little Girls

as Willie
Released: 2007-02-14

Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When...

Movie page

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

as Self
Released: 2007-02-03

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed...

Movie page

Enemy Mine

as Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan
Released: 1985-12-12

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he...

Movie page

Blue Chips

as Father Dawkins (uncredited)
Released: 1994-02-18

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he...

Movie page

Iron Eagle

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Released: 1986-01-17

When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle...

Movie page

The Grace Card

as George Wright
Released: 2011-02-25

Everything can change in an instant ... and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses...

Movie page

Iron Eagle II

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Released: 1988-11-11

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform...

Movie page

Iron Eagle III

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Released: 1992-01-09

Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of...

Movie page

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

as Self
Released: 2016-10-14

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival...

Movie page
as Dean Parker
Released: 1991-04-24

After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son...

Movie page
See!

Diggstown

as "Honey" Roy Palmer
Released: 1992-08-14

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who...

Movie page

Outlaw Johnny Black

as Reverend Tharrington (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 2023-09-15

Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and...

Movie page

A Raisin in the Sun

as George Murchison
Released: 1961-05-28

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment...

Movie page

Left Behind: World at War

as President Geral Fitzhugh
Released: 2005-10-21

A year and a half ago the world was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without...

Movie page

Carolina Skeletons

as James Bragg
Released: 1991-09-30

After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years...

Movie page

Undercover Grandpa

as Mother
Released: 2017-07-07

When the girl he likes goes missing, Jake enlists the help of his grandpa and Grandpa's former...

Movie page

Cover-Up

as Lou Jackson
Released: 1991-02-22

Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life...

Movie page

The Landlord

as Copee Johnson
Released: 1970-05-20

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of...

Movie page

Travels with My Aunt

as Wordsworth
Released: 1972-12-17

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly...

Movie page

A Good Man in Africa

as Prof. Sam Adekunle
Released: 1994-07-14

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man...

Movie page

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

as Rev. Elija Bliss (archive footage)
Released: 2004-07-13

There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad-...

Movie page

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-02-01

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...

Movie page

A Fighting Man

as Cubby
Released: 2014-04-24

Two men meet in the ring for a fight that will change their lives.

Movie page

Delgo

as King Zahn (voice)
Released: 2008-12-12

In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an...

Movie page

The Laughing Policeman

as Insp. James Larrimore SFPD
Released: 1973-12-20

When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed,...

Movie page

Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

as Otis James
Released: 1975-04-19

The story of Delancey Street Foundation, a self-help group devoted to reclaiming ex-junkies,...

Movie page

Three Months

as Benny
Released: 2022-02-23

Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his...

Movie page

Solar Attack

as President Ryan Gordon
Released: 2006-05-25

When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere,...

Movie page

J.D.'s Revenge

as Rev. Elija Bliss
Released: 1976-08-25

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit...

Movie page

Legend of the Mummy

as Corbeck
Released: 1998-03-30

Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a...

Movie page

Iron Eagle on the Attack

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Released: 1995-12-01

While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school,...

Movie page

Lackawanna Blues

as Ol'lem Taylor
Released: 2005-02-12

In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a...

Movie page

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

as Self
Released: 1995-06-05

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood,...

Movie page

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

as James Mink
Released: 1996-04-14

James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys...

Movie page

The Choirboys

as Calvin Motts
Released: 1977-12-23

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging...

Movie page

Miracle in East Texas

as Irving Tanner Jr.
Released: 2020-02-07

Two creative con men romance widows to invest in their worthless oil well during the Great...

Movie page

Skin Game

as Jason O'Rourke
Released: 1971-09-30

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a...

Movie page

Finders Keepers

as Century
Released: 1984-05-18

On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals...

Movie page

Sidney

as Self
Released: 2022-09-10

This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and...

Movie page

King of the Dancehall

as The Bishop
Released: 2017-01-13

Nick Cannon directs and stars in this high-energy musical about a young man from Brooklyn who...

Movie page

Foster Boy

as Judge George Taylor
Released: 2019-10-03

A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a...

Movie page

El Diablo

as Van Leek
Released: 1990-07-22

When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper...

Movie page

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

as Self
Released: 2009-01-01

Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination...

Movie page

Y2K

as Morgan
Released: 1999-07-01

On the eve of the new millennium, a nervous military leader assembles a team to help him deal...

Movie page

The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence

as Frank
Released: 2000-03-12

Postal inspectors investigate a con man who uses the identities of others to falsify credit card...

Movie page

To Kill a Cop

as Everett Walker
Released: 1978-04-10

Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is...

Movie page

The Inspectors

as Inspector Frank Hughes
Released: 1998-09-20

U.S Postal Inspectors are called in when a suburban couple are killed by a mail bomb. Suspicion...

Movie page

Jasper, Texas

as R.C. Horn
Released: 2003-06-08

In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of...

Movie page

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

as uncredited
Released: 1993-04-19

An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual...

Movie page

A Love Story of Today

as Self
Released: 2008-02-12

A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER,...

Movie page

Monolith

as Capt. MacCandless
Released: 1993-09-16

Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become involved in a very secret project...

Movie page

Momentum

as Raymond Addison
Released: 2003-03-26

A trio of men with telekinetic powers led by Adrian Geiger rob an armored car. However the...

Movie page

Roots: The Gift

as Fiddler
Released: 1988-12-11

On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold...

Movie page

It's Good to Be Alive

as Sam Brockington
Released: 1974-02-22

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to...

Movie page

Stories USA

as Doc (segment "Club Soda")
Released: 2007-11-10

Ten individuals set out to find themselves in an alienating world, filled with heartbreak,...

Movie page

Smitty

as Mr. Smith
Released: 2012-04-10

SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all...

Movie page

The White Dawn

as Portagee
Released: 1974-07-21

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by...

Movie page

The Lazarus Syndrome

as Dr. MacArthur St. Clair
Released: 1978-01-01

An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into...

Movie page

Breaking Brooklyn

as Miles Bryant
Released: 2018-05-25

A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an...

Movie page

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

as Ray Alexander
Released: 1994-05-13

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Movie page

Club Soda

as Doc
Released: 2006-09-22

A young man's dream to become a successful actor is threatened by the poor decisions he makes...

Movie page

It Rained All Night the Day I Left

as Leo Garcia
Released: 1980-08-05

A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since...

Movie page

Double Play

as Coco
Released: 2017-01-27

Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after...

Movie page

Supervized

as Pendle
Released: 2019-07-16

Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.

Movie page

The Reason

as Pastor Jim
Released: 2020-09-12

The film, based on the William Sirls book, follows a small-town pastor, his wife and their sick...

Movie page

Managua

as Paul
Released: 1996-04-09

When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels,...

Movie page

The Josephine Baker Story

as Sidney Williams
Released: 1991-03-16

Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the...

Movie page

Dog Jack

as Grown up Jed
Released: 2011-12-02

"Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the...

Movie page

Pride of Lions

as Lou Jones
Released: 2014-06-03

Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one...

Movie page

Inside

as Questioner
Released: 1996-08-25

A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators....

Movie page

Little Ladies of the Night

as Russ Garfield
Released: 1977-01-16

The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working...

Movie page

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

as Lou Hastings
Released: 2000-03-19

Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes...

Movie page

All In

as Caps
Released: 2006-03-14

Six medical students with unique talents pool their resources to win the World Series of Poker.

Movie page

Curse of the Starving Class

as Ellis
Released: 1994-09-13

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family...

Movie page

The Father Clements Story

as uncredited
Released: 1987-12-13

In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the...

Movie page

The Guardian

as John Mack
Released: 1984-10-20

The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a...

Movie page

Cover

as Detective Hicks
Released: 2007-05-08

When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going...

Movie page

Black Bart

as Black Bart
Released: 1975-01-01

A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original...

Movie page

The River Niger

as Dr. Dudley Stanton
Released: 1976-04-14

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a...

Movie page

Companions in Nightmare

as Lt. Adam McKay
Released: 1968-11-23

One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.

Movie page

I Love Liberty

as Self
Released: 1982-03-21

An all-star variety special saluting America.

Movie page

Zora is My Name!

as uncredited
Released: 1990-01-01

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century...

Movie page

Keeper of the City

as Det. James Dela
Released: 1991-12-20

A vigilante killer becomes a celebrity by gunning down Chicago mobsters, but nobody except a...

Movie page

Zooman

as Rueben Tate
Released: 1995-03-19

Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The...

Movie page

Hal

as Self
Released: 2019-03-28

Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics,...

Movie page

The Cuban

as Luis Garcia
Released: 2020-07-31

When a young Afghan immigrant named Mina gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected...

Movie page

A.C. Green: Iron Virgin

as Himself
Released: 2016-05-13

He played in a record 1,192 consecutive NBA games. As a power forward for the Los Angeles...

Movie page

Not to Forget

as Pastor John
Released: 2021-11-26

A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by...

Movie page

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

as Self
Released: 2017-10-14

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the...

Movie page

To Dance with Olivia

as Daniel Stewart
Released: 1997-03-09

A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is...

Movie page

Flashfire

as Ben Durand
Released: 1994-09-15

Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a...

Movie page

Boiling Pot

as Detective Haven
Released: 2015-09-29

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the...

Movie page

Miracle at Gate 213

as Roy Peddington
Released: 2013-12-10

It's Christmas Eve and an unexpected delay at the airport has left everyone stranded. Young Joy...

Movie page

Strange Justice

as Vernon Jordan
Released: 1999-08-29

"Fact-based story about the sexual harassment suit filed by Anita Hill during the appointment...

Movie page

Deceived

as Col. David Garrett
Released: 2002-03-26

In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically...

Movie page

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

as Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
Released: 1981-05-31

The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the...

Movie page

Love Songs

as Reuben
Released: 1999-04-25

Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short...

Movie page

The Highwayman

as Phil Bishop
Released: 2000-01-01

Road trips have never been this killer! Jason Priestley stars as Breakfast, a psychotic jewelry...

Movie page

A Special Kind of Love

as Self
Released: 2008-02-12

A follow-up of A LOVE STORY OF TODAY, where actors and crew discuss GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER.

Movie page

The Black List: Volume One

as Himself
Released: 2008-01-22

As a new chapter begins in this country, THE BLACK LIST offers a dynamic and never-before-heard...

Movie page

A Father for Charlie

as Walter Osgood
Released: 1995-01-01

Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man...

Movie page

In His Father's Shoes

as Frank Crosby / Richard
Released: 1997-06-05

A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the...

Movie page

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

as Ray Alexander
Released: 1995-03-20

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

Movie page

The Bushbaby

as Tembo
Released: 1969-09-01

The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father...

Movie page

The Undershepherd

as Bishop Redford
Released: 2012-02-15

Best friends LC and Roland are two young ministers, climbing the ranks at the First Baptist...

Movie page

A Gathering of Old Men

as Mathu
Released: 1987-05-10

A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is...

Movie page

The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die

as narrator
Released: 1983-07-15

Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark...

Movie page

For Love of Olivia

as Daniel Stewart
Released: 2001-03-18

To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a...

Movie page

Lawman Without a Gun

as Tom Hayward
Released: 1979-05-30

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small...

Movie page

I Forgive

as God (voice)
Released: 2021-10-01

Shot five times by a Los Angeles gang, leaving ten bullet holes through his body, Tony died for...

Movie page

Sam Found Out: A Triple Play

as Sam
Released: 1988-05-31

Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama...

Movie page

Benny's Place

as Benny Moore
Released: 1982-05-31

Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at...

Movie page

Sidekicks

as Jason O'Rourke
Released: 1974-03-21

Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to...

Movie page

Freeman

as Rex
Released: 1977-12-31

This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for...

Movie page

What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away

as Dr. Barnes
Released: 2002-05-31

A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away...

Movie page

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

as Self
Released: 1998-02-10

Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking...

Movie page

Family Guy

as Drill Sargent (voice)
First aired: 1999-01-31

Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures...

TV Show page

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

TV Show page

Hawaii Five-0

as Lou's father
First aired: 2010-09-20

Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers...

TV Show page

Psych

as Lloyd Marr
First aired: 2006-07-07

Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a...

TV Show page

Stargate SG-1

as Gerak
First aired: 1997-07-27

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the...

TV Show page

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host
First aired: 1975-10-11

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...

TV Show page

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

TV Show page

Bonanza

as Buck Walter
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

TV Show page

Little House on the Prairie

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-11

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael...

TV Show page

The Rockford Files

as Marcus Aurelius Hayes / O'Brien
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

TV Show page

The Rockford Files

as Marcus Aurelius 'Gabby' Hayes
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

TV Show page

The Six Million Dollar Man

as O'Flaherty
First aired: 1974-01-18

Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent,...

TV Show page

Love, American Style

as Freddy
First aired: 1969-09-29

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in...

TV Show page

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...

TV Show page

The Good Fight

as Carl Reddick
First aired: 2017-02-19

Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an...

TV Show page

Madam Secretary

as Father Laurent Vasseur
First aired: 2014-09-21

After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The...

TV Show page

ER

as Leo Malcolm
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

TV Show page

American Experience

as Self - Narrator
First aired: 1988-10-04

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...

TV Show page

Hercules

as Chiron (voice)
First aired: 1998-08-31

Follow Herc's many labors during the years he spent training on how to be a hero under the...

TV Show page

The Rookies

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-11

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows...

TV Show page

The Batman

as Lucius Fox (voice)
First aired: 2004-09-11

A young billionaire Bruce Wayne fights crime and evil as the mysterious vigilante, The Batman.

TV Show page

The Invaders

as Ollie
First aired: 1967-01-10

The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to...

TV Show page

Touched by an Angel

as Anderson Walker
First aired: 1994-09-21

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who...

TV Show page

Early Edition

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-09-28

Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives...

TV Show page

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,...

TV Show page

Ellen

as Sgt. Timko
First aired: 1994-03-29

Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July...

TV Show page

McCloud

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-02-17

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the...

TV Show page

The Jeffersons

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-01-18

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as...

TV Show page

The Dead Zone

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-06-16

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

TV Show page

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

as Commander Clash (voice)
First aired: 1990-09-15

Eco-villains beware: Captain Planet is here to save the day! With the guidance of Gaia, five...

TV Show page

Harry O

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-12

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego...

TV Show page

Extant

as Quinn
First aired: 2014-07-09

An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with...

TV Show page

Celebrity Ghost Stories

as Self
First aired: 2009-10-03

Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal...

TV Show page

Half & Half

as Ray Willis
First aired: 2002-09-23

Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006....

TV Show page

Alias Smith and Jones

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-01-05

Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to...

TV Show page

The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

TV Show page

Watchmen

as Old Man / Will Reeves
First aired: 2019-10-20

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the...

TV Show page

Petrocelli

as Kurt Olson, DA
First aired: 1974-09-11

Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974...

TV Show page

Petrocelli

as District Attorney Kurt Olson
First aired: 1974-09-11

Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974...

TV Show page

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self - America Be Seated Cast
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

TV Show page

Police Story

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-03-20

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...

TV Show page

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Lt. Carl Fellows
First aired: 1971-09-16

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and...

TV Show page

Daktari

as Mkono
First aired: 1966-01-11

Daktari is an American children's drama series that aired on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The...

TV Show page

Roots

as Fiddler
First aired: 1977-01-23

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in...

TV Show page

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

TV Show page

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Audience Member
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

TV Show page

Promised Land

as Anderson Walker
First aired: 1996-09-17

Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off...

TV Show page

The Partridge Family

as Sam Simon
First aired: 1970-09-25

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five...

TV Show page

The Mod Squad

as Smitty
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

TV Show page

The Mod Squad

as Lloyd
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

TV Show page

The Mod Squad

as Charley Jameson
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

TV Show page

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

as Dr. Karnes
First aired: 1969-09-14

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC,...

TV Show page

The Bill Cosby Show

as Hurricane Smith
First aired: 1969-09-14

The Bill Cosby Show is an American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday...

TV Show page

The Spoils Before Dying

as Duke Webster
First aired: 2015-07-08

Fictional author-filmmaker, Eric Jonrosh, adapts his epic tale of a pianist-turned-detective...

TV Show page

Return to Lonesome Dove

as Isom Pickett
First aired: 1993-11-14

After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of...

TV Show page

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self
First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

TV Show page

The Powers of Matthew Star

as Walter "Walt" Shepherd (D'Hai)
First aired: 1982-09-17

The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17,...

TV Show page

The Young Rebels

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-09-20

Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania,...

TV Show page

Cowboy in Africa

as Fulah
First aired: 1967-09-11

Cowboy in Africa was an American Broadcasting Company television series produced during...

TV Show page

Cowboy in Africa

as Joseph Hemera
First aired: 1967-09-11

Cowboy in Africa was an American Broadcasting Company television series produced during...

TV Show page

The Book of Negroes

as Daddy Moses
First aired: 2015-01-07

Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a...

TV Show page

Backstairs at the White House

as Levi Mercer, Houseman
First aired: 1979-01-29

Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who...

TV Show page

Palmerstown, U.S.A.

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-03-20

Palmerstown, U.S.A. is a drama series. It centers on the lives of two 9-year-old best friends,...

TV Show page

The Critical List

as Lem Harper
First aired: 1978-09-11

A hospital director in line for a federal cabinet post discovers that his private life may...

TV Show page

Gideon Oliver

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-02-20

Gideon Oliver is a prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network between...

TV Show page