Thalmus Rasulala
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thalmus Rasulala (November 15, 1939 – October 9, 1991) was an African American actor who was an original cast member of ABC's soap opera One Life to Live from its inception in 1968 until he left the show in 1970. Born as Jack Crowder in Miami, Florida, he appeared in many films and made guest appearances in TV shows. Notable roles include Lt. Jack Neal in One Life to Live, Roy in Bucktown, Blake Tarr in Friday Foster, Bill Thomas in What's Happening!!, and Omoro Kinte (Kunta Kinte's father) in Roots. He also appeared in The Twilight Zone, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Sophisticated Gents. His last acting role was as General Afir in Mom and Dad Save the World with Teri Garr and Jeffrey Jones. He died shortly after completing his scenes, and the film, released after his death, is accordingly dedicated to his memory. He died on October 9, 1991, from heart failure in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at age 51. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thalmus Rasulala, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: November 15, 1939
Deathday: October 09, 1991
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New Jack City
1991-03-08
New Jack City
Overview: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-08
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The Out-of-Towners
1970-05-28
The Out-of-Towners
Overview: George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-28
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Blacula
1972-08-25
Blacula
Overview: An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Mom and Dad Save the World
1992-07-24
Mom and Dad Save the World
Overview: Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the throne.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-24
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Judgement
1992-08-05
Judgement
Overview: A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-05
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974-02-20
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Overview: In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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The Boss' Wife
1986-01-01
The Boss' Wife
Overview: Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Friday Foster
1975-12-25
Friday Foster
Overview: Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Lambada
1990-03-16
Lambada
Overview: Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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Bucktown
1975-07-02
Bucktown
Overview: Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local redneck policemen are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand, so then he and his lady friend Aretha are threatened and attacked by the crooked cops. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. With the redneck cops out of the way, Duke lets his guard down. Then the situation gets out of hand again. Finally, Duke must settle the score himself.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-02
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Mr. Ricco
1975-01-31
Mr. Ricco
Overview: Accused murderer Frankie Steele walks free, thanks to the efforts of San Francisco defense lawyer Joe Ricco. Then a pair of cop killings strikes the city. All signs point to the newly released Steele as the perpetrator. Has Ricco sprung a killer? Dean Martin keeps his affable ease but abandons his hipster Matt Helm-series swagger to portray Ricco in his final leading-role film, a whodunit mystery set in the city that also was the gritty center of action for the era’s Bullitt and Dirty Harry. Convinced that Steele isn’t behind the murders, Ricco launches an inquiry and runs up against a police lieutenant assigned to birddog him, evidence planted by a racist cop and several assassination attempts on Ricco himself. As the mystery deepens, so does the danger. And behind it all is someone the attorney never suspected. The pre-Laverne & Shirley Cindy Williams plays Ricco’s office assistant.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-31
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Above the Law
1988-04-08
Above the Law
Overview: Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-08
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Cool Breeze
1972-03-29
Cool Breeze
Overview: A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Born American
1986-01-14
Born American
Overview: A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-14
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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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Willie Dynamite
1974-01-23
Willie Dynamite
Overview: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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Blind Vengeance
1990-08-22
Blind Vengeance
Overview: A man seeks revenge on the white supremacists acquitted in the murder of his son
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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The Last Hard Men
1976-04-22
The Last Hard Men
Overview: In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yuma Territorial Prison and come gunning for Burgade.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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Bulletproof
1988-04-20
Bulletproof
Overview: A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-20
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Last Hours Before Morning
1975-04-19
Last Hours Before Morning
Overview: An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at a beautiful movie star's home.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-19
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983-03-22
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Overview: This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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The Defiant Ones
1986-01-05
The Defiant Ones
Overview: Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escape chained to each other.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-05
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Booker
1984-10-01
Booker
Overview: Booker tells the true story of Booker T. Washington, who, as a young slave, dreams of learning to read and write. After the Civil War frees him, Booker is forced to work long hours in a salt furnace to help his family survive. But with hard work and persistence, Booker finds a way to learn and gain the freedom that comes with education.
Genres: Family Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The President's Mistress
1978-02-10
The President's Mistress
Overview: A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-10
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Adiós Amigo
1975-12-25
Adiós Amigo
Overview: Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.
Genres: Western Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Killer on Board
1977-10-10
Killer on Board
Overview: The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-10
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The Package
1989-01-25
The Package
Overview: Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
1974-01-31
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Overview: In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Life on the Edge
1992-05-19
Life on the Edge
Overview: Earthquakes and aftershocks forces a group of residents stranded at a party to reevaluate their lives, as one grueling situation after another, prompts surprise and comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-19
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The Bait
1973-03-13
The Bait
Overview: Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-13
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The Jerk, Too
1984-01-06
The Jerk, Too
Overview: Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-06
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The Trial of the Moke
1978-05-03
The Trial of the Moke
Overview: Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his fellow cadets to rid the base of its only black graduate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-03
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Fun with Dick and Jane
1977-03-18
Fun with Dick and Jane
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
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