Ron Cephas Jones
Biography: Ron Cephas Jones (January 8, 1957 – August 19, 2023) was an American actor, best known for his role as William Hill in the drama series This Is Us (2016–2022), which earned him four consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning twice for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2018 and 2020.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 08, 1957
Deathday: August 19, 2023
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A Raisin in the Sun
2008-02-25
A Raisin in the Sun
Overview: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-25
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Clyde's
2021-11-23
Clyde's
Overview: In this stirring new play from the team of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at reclaiming their lives. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them under her thumb, the staff members are given purpose and permission to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-23
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A Day in Black and White
2001-08-31
A Day in Black and White
Overview: Two men identified only as Black Man and White Man start the film as a discussion over a speech on race to be given at school the next day and escalates into an argument about the differences in the races - moving along all of the cultural lines and finding mutual fears and concerns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese
2011-12-02
Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Overview: In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-02
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Titus
2013-09-27
Titus
Overview: TITUS is the story of a virtuoso African-American jazz musician whose damaged soul has brought him to the status of a nobody. Living in London, far from home, he’s wasting away, estranged from his one true love, his vintage alto sax. All hope looks lost until a visitor arrives, Jessica, the daughter he abandoned as a baby…
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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Ashes
2011-03-05
Ashes
Overview: A young Indian man struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill brother... but their lives are unraveling and he falls in with the wrong crowd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Naked Acts
1996-01-02
Naked Acts
Overview: An aspiring actress has lost considerable weight to land her first movie role, but what the director didn’t tell her was that it includes a nude scene. Reluctant to do it, she embarks on a personal journey that unveils secrets once hidden under her weight, as she discovers emotional nudity is just as revealing as taking her clothes off.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-02
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Glass Chin
2014-04-19
Glass Chin
Overview: After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-19
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Double Platinum
1999-05-16
Double Platinum
Overview: The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-16
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Paid in Full
2002-10-25
Paid in Full
Overview: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Half Nelson
2006-08-11
Half Nelson
Overview: Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Dog Days
2018-08-10
Dog Days
Overview: A group of people in Los Angeles are brought together thanks to their canine friends.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-10
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The Holiday Calendar
2018-11-02
The Holiday Calendar
Overview: A talented photographer stuck in a dead-end job inherits an antique Advent calendar that may be predicting the future -- and pointing her toward love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Venom
2018-09-28
Venom
Overview: Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Dolemite Is My Name
2019-10-04
Dolemite Is My Name
Overview: The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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He Got Game
1998-05-01
He Got Game
Overview: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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Sweet and Lowdown
1999-12-03
Sweet and Lowdown
Overview: In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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