Biography: Arthur James “Art” Evans was an American actor who made multiple film and television program appearances over the span of five decades. His acting career started with Frank Silvera's Theater of Being in Los Angeles. He took a starring role in "The Amen Corner," which transferred to Broadway in 1965. His first uncredited acting performance in film was "Claudine" in 1974. His first credited role was in "Chico and the Man" as Bubba in the episode "Too Many Crooks," which aired in 1976. He is probably best known for his role as Leslie Barnes in the action 1990s film "Die Hard 2: Die Harder," in which he plays an air traffic control tower employee. Evans has also appeared in "Fright Night" and "Fright Night II," as well as many appearances in a variety of television shows such as "M*A*S*H" and "Hill Street Blues." In 1984, Evans co-starred in the all-star African-American drama "A Soldier's Story" as the memorable brown-nosing character, Wilkie. His talents for many instruments came in handy when playing Blind Lemon Jefferson in the movie "Leadbelly." Also starred in the music video for Stevie Wonder's "Go Home."
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 27, 1942
Deathday: December 21, 2024
Popularity:
1983-12-09
Overview: Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-09
Popularity:
1990-07-03
Overview: One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-03
Popularity:
1997-01-16
Overview: Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-16
Popularity:
1987-06-19
Overview: In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-19
Popularity:
1984-09-14
Overview: In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-14
Popularity:
1998-03-21
Overview: An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
Popularity:
1990-01-12
Overview: Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get even with the policeman. Soon, Kearney learns that he is off the cushy suburban beat and must now work in the deadliest precinct in Philly, where he is partnered with tough veteran cop Dennis Curran. Tensions are high between them, but Kearney soon proves he can play just as rough as the crooks.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-12
Popularity:
1993-03-12
Overview: A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-12
Popularity:
1986-05-02
Overview: Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-02
Popularity:
1986-12-24
Overview: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-24
Popularity:
2013-04-14
Overview: A comedic look at the life of Steve Jobs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-14
Popularity:
1999-01-22
Overview: An ambitious news reporter refuses to let anything come between her and her dream of being an anchorwoman until a former lover she thought was out of her life returns.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
Popularity:
1993-11-03
Overview: Travis has just buried his father, when Kelly, an attractive hitchhiker walks into his life. At the same time, another attractive blonde, Jolene, starts taking an interest in Travis. Both women are secretly after something.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
Popularity:
1995-08-04
Overview: A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and leads a scout group on a hike through the mountains.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-04
Popularity:
1979-06-15
Overview: In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
Popularity:
2010-03-14
Overview: Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital where they will expect the police. They enter the house quietly with no drama. But when the doctor tells them she needs an ambulance to the hospital or else she will die, and his co-worker picks up the phone ready to call, the boys bring their guns out. The doctor along with his family are taken hostages, and the boys threaten him to save the girl if they all want to stay alive.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-14
Popularity:
1985-07-23
Overview: American TV-Comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-23
Popularity:
1978-05-24
Overview: An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-24
Popularity:
1988-02-12
Overview: Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-12
Popularity:
2013-07-03
Overview: When a seemingly abandoned alien spacecraft is discovered orbiting Neptune, a top secret expedition is sent to investigate. In the derelict hulk they discover two surviving alien life forms telepathically linked to one other. 13 years later a savvy, ex-DEA agent and martial arts expert finds herself renditioned to a high security establishment on a remote island where they are conducting experiments on the incarcerated aliens.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-03
Popularity:
1985-08-02
Overview: Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-02
Popularity:
1975-07-18
Overview: Two oddballs, one a black man called "The Dude" and one white, called "The Orphan" share a Culver City, California apartment.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-18
Popularity:
1976-05-28
Overview: The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-28
Popularity:
1977-03-02
Overview: Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white performers in blackface, and the other is a composer fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrel performers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-02
Popularity:
1977-07-31
Overview: A small time con-artist gets between the FBI and a suitcase filled with money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-31
Popularity:
1979-01-03
Overview: The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance, have to adjust to his being in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-03
Popularity:
1979-03-16
Overview: Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-16
Popularity:
1979-06-15
Overview: In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
Popularity:
1979-06-27
Overview: Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
Genres: Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-27
Popularity:
1980-12-25
Overview: When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-25
Popularity:
1982-04-16
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
Popularity:
1982-10-29
Overview: Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party. When guests start getting bumped off, the other alumni, including snooty yacht salesman Bob Spinnaker, class tease Bunny Packard, and class zero Gary Nash, spring into action to uncover the culprit.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-29
Popularity:
1985-01-11
Overview: The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
Popularity:
1985-02-22
Overview: Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-22
Popularity:
1985-03-12
Overview: Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gregory Harrison plays Mike Riordon a district attorney, who is young, handsome and living at home with his Irish mom for the most. Vicky's husband Arthur gets Mike involved in a merger of two companies...or something like that even though he knows that Mike and Vicky were a couple and that she had dumped him. Whilst Mike and Vicky are attending a party, Arthur is alone at home when a burglar appears out of nowhere and shoots him point blank.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-12
Popularity:
1986-05-23
Overview: A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.
Genres: Action TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-23
Popularity:
1986-06-26
Overview: A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-26
Popularity:
1989-02-17
Overview: Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-17
Popularity:
1990-06-19
Overview: During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-19
Popularity:
1992-12-16
Overview: Sam Stone is a cop with personal as well as professional problems. Stone investigates a series of killings in the night club scene. His ex-wife, also a cop, goes undercover to find the killer and Stone is faced with a double problem: keeping her alive and catching the killer before another woman is killed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-16
Popularity:
1992-12-25
Overview: Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is on the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-25
Popularity:
1995-05-24
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
Popularity:
1996-05-03
Overview: When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-03
Popularity:
2000-01-01
Overview: 2000 action comedy
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
Popularity:
2001-03-15
Overview: The life of a beautiful rising female recording star is placed in jeopardy when she witnesses the drive-by shooting of a rival rap-star in Las Vegas. Wanted by both the killers and the corrupt police, the young woman must go into hiding while three of her kick-ass friends root-out the truth to the situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-15
Popularity:
2001-06-01
Overview: Sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his aunt, teenager Mario Vandetti makes fast friends with a group of neighborhood kids and encouraged by a caring priest they soon form a basketball team, becoming contenders in a city tournament.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-01
Popularity:
2002-04-13
Overview: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-13
Popularity:
2003-01-01
Overview: To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Popularity:
2004-01-01
Overview: Upon returning to Los Angeles to attend his father's funeral, Damon (Alexander) soon learns that in order to claim his share of the family inheritance he must work alongside his brother, Mookie (Kain) — a former drug-dealer who had previously cost Damon a college scholarship — in keeping the family's long-running gas station in business for at least one year. As the siblings repeatedly butt heads over matters both great and small, they soon come to realize that it takes more than money to hold a family together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Popularity:
2004-03-26
Overview: A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-26
Popularity:
2007-06-26
Overview: When Ali Dean went to prison, left behind two sons. Tariq trains to become a boxer, but his brother, Cesar, ends up on the streets dealing drugs. And while Ali is about to be released, even he may not be able to save his wayward son. The deeper Cesar gets into crime, the more important Ali's need to be a father to him becomes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-26
Popularity:
2008-10-18
Overview: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-18
Popularity:
2010-01-29
Overview: A group of out-of-work actors decide to take their careers into their own hands by shooting a low-budget horror film, about an urban myth. With only 15 days to shoot their unfinished script, at a remote castle in the desert, getting through the first night becomes a nightmare. As their egos begin to surface so do the dead bodies.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-29
Popularity:
2010-04-01
Overview: When a reformed bad boy returns to The Church on the Hill as its Youth Leader, he has his hands full with boisterous kids, a congregation that's $27,000 in debt and a duplicitous deacon determined to make a profit by grabbing the church's land.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-01
Popularity:
2010-05-20
Overview: Nick Anderson, Kevin Daniels, and Tracey Green do everything together. They are the best of friends, and yet they couldn't be more different. Neighbors from adolescence, they finish each other's thoughts and sentences, joys and pains, happiness and tears. Using Nick's house as their own members only clubhouse, they escape into their own world of contentment. Yet the inevitable intrusion of others tests their stability in ways never imagined.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-20
Popularity:
1973-03-26
Overview: Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-26
Popularity:
1980-01-06
Overview: Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-06
Popularity:
1980-02-06
Overview: A high school athlete is well on the road to becoming an alcoholic like his ex-hockey pro father until his teammate and best friend commits himself to saving him from his self-destructive habit.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-06
Popularity:
1974-07-24
Overview: After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-24
Popularity:
1979-04-28
Overview: Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-28
Popularity:
1979-06-22
Overview: A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an idea her protégé isn't fond of.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-22
Popularity:
2016-12-02
Overview: An extensive look at the making of Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988) featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, rare photographs, behind-the-scenes footage and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-02
Popularity:
2003-01-01
Overview: In this urban comedy, an aspiring young filmmaker named Sherlock heads off to Hollywood in hopes of making a blockbuster action movie and becoming famous. Everything seems to be going as planned, with filming underway, until the cameras record something accidentally. What ends up on film will be something that all involved wish they'd never been associated with. Stars A.J. Jamal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Popularity:
1984-12-10
Overview: This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-10
Popularity:
2008-10-13
Overview: Jada is the faith based story of a woman whose life becomes chaotic when her husband is killed in a questionable car accident. Her once-comfortable middle-class lifestyle comes crashing down when an insurance company labels the accident a suicide and refuses to pay her benefits as the survivor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-13
Popularity:
1984-01-17
Overview: Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-17
Popularity:
1977-03-18
Overview: When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-18
Popularity:
1974-04-22
Overview: Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-22
Popularity:
1982-03-09
Overview: Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less polished brother, Russ, who runs the family business and harbors the guilt for their father's recent death.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-09
Popularity: