Rosalind Cash
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rosalind Cash (December 31, 1938 – October 31, 1995) was an American singer and actress, whose best known film role was as Charlton Heston's character's love interest Lisa, in the 1971 science fiction cult classic, The Omega Man. To soap audiences, she is probably best remembered as Mary Mae Ward on General Hospital from 1994–1995. Cash was the second of four children. Her siblings were John (1936–1998), Robert, and Helen. All were born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her older brother, Col. John A. Cash, enjoyed a long illustrious career with the United States Army. He died in 1998 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Rosalind Cash graduated with honours from Atlantic City High School in 1956. She attended City College of New York and was an original member of the Negro Ensemble Company founded in 1968. Her career extended to stage, screen, and television. Her films included Klute (1971), The New Centurions (1972) with George C. Scott, Uptown Saturday Night (1974) with Sydney Poitier, and Wrong Is Right (1982). In 1995, she appeared in Tales from the Hood which marks her last film appearance during her lifetime. Cash was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the Public Broadcasting Service production of Go Tell it on the Mountain and in 1973 appeared as Goneril with James Earl Jones' Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival. She died of cancer on October 31, 1995, at the age of 56. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rosalind Cash, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: December 31, 1938
Deathday: October 31, 1995
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
1975-01-06
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Overview: Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-06
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A Killing Affair
1977-09-21
A Killing Affair
Overview: A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-21
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The Omega Man
1971-08-01
The Omega Man
Overview: Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984-08-10
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Overview: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Wrong Is Right
1982-04-16
Wrong Is Right
Overview: Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-16
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Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
1976-02-06
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
Overview: A doctor in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer of hookers.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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Death Spa
1988-07-29
Death Spa
Overview: Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-29
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Keeping On
1983-02-08
Keeping On
Overview: A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-08
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Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975-05-21
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Overview: The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-21
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From a Whisper to a Scream
1987-09-25
From a Whisper to a Scream
Overview: The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Special Bulletin
1983-03-20
Special Bulletin
Overview: A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-20
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Amazing Grace
1974-08-30
Amazing Grace
Overview: A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-30
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The Monkey Hustle
1976-12-24
The Monkey Hustle
Overview: A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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Hickey & Boggs
1972-10-04
Hickey & Boggs
Overview: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979-01-27
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Overview: A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-27
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Melinda
1972-08-06
Melinda
Overview: A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-06
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The New Centurions
1972-08-03
The New Centurions
Overview: An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-03
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
1982-02-17
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Overview: Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-17
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The Joy That Kills
1985-01-28
The Joy That Kills
Overview: Adaptation of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," about a woman feeling relief at the news of her husband's death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-28
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Just an Overnight Guest
1983-08-01
Just an Overnight Guest
Overview: A family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-01
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Tales from the Hood
1995-05-24
Tales from the Hood
Overview: A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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Death Drug
1978-01-01
Death Drug
Overview: A young man in Los Angeles dreams of striking it big as a singer in the music business. One day he gets signed to a big record contract, but along with the fame and money he develops an addiction to the drug PCP.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Mighty Pawns
1987-02-14
The Mighty Pawns
Overview: Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-14
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A Dangerous Affair
1995-01-01
A Dangerous Affair
Overview: Sharon Blake is a successful career woman who has a passionate affair with a possessive man. When she tries to break off the relationship, she uncovers the dark side of her former lover, who starts stalking and harassing her.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Sister, Sister
1982-06-07
Sister, Sister
Overview: Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-07
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The All-American Boy
1973-10-24
The All-American Boy
Overview: Vic "Bomber" Bealer is a handsome, manipulative boxer who aspires to something greater than the small-town life he knows in Texas. But, even when opportunities present themselves, Bealer is too restless and indecisive to take advantage. Despite being on the cusp of making the Olympic boxing team, his life is in total disarray as he juggles relationships with an old flame, a girl who's way too young for him, and a foul-mouthed trainer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
1985-01-14
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Overview: This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Uptown Saturday Night
1974-07-26
Uptown Saturday Night
Overview: Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-26
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King Lear
1974-02-20
King Lear
Overview: James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance recording of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production deftly envisions the bard's haunting tragedy with a fine supporting cast, including Raul Julia, Paul Sorvino and Rene Auberjonois.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Black Hollywood
1984-11-28
Black Hollywood
Overview: Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in American movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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Klute
1971-06-23
Klute
Overview: A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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