Moses Gunn

Born: 1929-10-02

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 17, 1993) was an American actor. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company in the 1960s. His 1962 Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks. He was nominated for a 1976 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for The Poison Tree and played Othello on Broadway in 1970. Description above from the Wikipedia article Moses Gunn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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The NeverEnding Story

as Cairon - Empress' Servant
Released: 1984-04-06

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of...

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Certain Fury

as Dr. Freeman
Released: 1985-03-01

Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a...

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Heartbreak Ridge

as Staff Sergeant Webster
Released: 1986-12-05

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as...

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as Bumpy Jonas
Released: 1971-06-25

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped...

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Amityville II: The Possession

as Turner
Released: 1982-09-24

A local priest tries to rid 112 Ocean Avenue of unclean spirits, but what he doesn't yet suspect...

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Firestarter

as Dr. Pynchot
Released: 1984-05-11

Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her...

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Rollerball

as Cletus
Released: 1975-06-25

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the...

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The Ninth Configuration

as Maj. Nammack
Released: 1980-02-29

Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum....

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Ragtime

as Booker T. Washington
Released: 1981-11-20

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among...

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The Hot Rock

as Dr. Amusa
Released: 1972-01-26

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be...

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Nothing But a Man

as Mill Hand
Released: 1964-12-27

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

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Shaft's Big Score!

as Bumpy Jonas
Released: 1972-06-08

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

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Wild Rovers

as Ben
Released: 1971-06-23

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and...

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Bates Motel

as Henry Watson
Released: 1987-07-05

A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility,...

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Leonard Part 6

as Giorgio
Released: 1987-12-18

After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a...

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The Great White Hope

as Scipio
Released: 1970-10-11

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing...

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Remember My Name

as Pike
Released: 1978-02-10

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins...

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The Sheriff

as Cliff Wilder
Released: 1971-03-30

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy...

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The Women of Brewster Place

as Ben
Released: 1989-03-19

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

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The Iceman Cometh

as Joe Mott
Released: 1973-11-10

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await...

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Aaron Loves Angela

as Ike
Released: 1975-12-25

Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in...

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Law of the Land

as Jacob
Released: 1976-04-29

A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

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Of Mice and Men

as Crooks
Released: 1968-01-31

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great...

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WUSA

as Clotho
Released: 1970-08-19

Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in...

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The Killing Floor

as Heavy Williams
Released: 1984-04-10

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's...

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Carter's Army

as Pvt. Doc Hayes
Released: 1970-01-27

A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of...

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Memphis

as Tio Wiggins
Released: 1992-01-27

Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black...

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Amazing Grace

as Welton J Waters
Released: 1974-08-30

A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she...

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Cornbread, Earl and Me

as Benjamin Blackwell
Released: 1975-05-21

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal,...

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Brother Future

as Isaac
Released: 1991-02-03

A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds...

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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

as Mr. Miller
Released: 1972-12-19

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a...

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Perfect Harmony

as Zeke
Released: 1991-03-31

During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences...

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The House of Dies Drear

as River Lewis Darrow
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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Eagle in a Cage

as General Gourgaud
Released: 1972-01-09

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon

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Murder Times Seven

as Sam Paxton
Released: 1990-10-14

For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some...

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Haunts of the Very Rich

as Seacrist
Released: 1972-09-20

A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After...

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The Luckiest Man in the World

as Voice
Released: 1989-02-22

New York City garment manufacturer Sam Posner is a liar, a bully and a cheat who makes life...

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Dixie Lanes

as Isaac
Released: 1988-05-03

Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas...

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Legacy of Blood

as Joe Mattingly
Released: 1974-03-12

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

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Moving Target

as uncredited
Released: 1973-05-22

A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been...

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The First Breeze of Summer

as Milton Edwards
Released: 1976-01-28

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

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Quincy, M.E.

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-10-03

Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Willy Stone
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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Hill Street Blues

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-01-15

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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Homicide: Life on the Street

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-01-31

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...

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Highway to Heaven

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-19

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

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Tales from the Crypt

as Uncle Ezra Thornberry
First aired: 1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...

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The Cosby Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-20

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for...

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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...

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Hotel

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-08-21

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...

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Great Performances

as Milton Edwards
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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Switch

as Alexo
First aired: 1975-09-09

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...

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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...

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Vega$

as Domo
First aired: 1978-09-20

Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981....

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Maude

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-12

Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her...

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Roots

as Kintango
First aired: 1977-01-23

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

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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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Amen

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-09-27

Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27,...

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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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The Jeffersons

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-01-18

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

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Father Murphy

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-03

A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose...

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Movin' On

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-05-08

Movin' On is an American drama series that ran for two seasons, between 1974 and 1976. It...

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The Contender

as George Beifus
First aired: 1980-04-03

A college student turned prizefighter hopes to make it big so that he can support his widowed...

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Kung Fu

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-14

The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...

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