Godfrey Cambridge
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time magazine in 1965 as "one of the country's four most celebrated Negro comedians." Description above from the Wikipedia article Godfrey Cambridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City
Birthday: February 26, 1933
Deathday: November 29, 1976
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Gender: Male
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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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The President's Analyst
Overview: At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Beware! The Blob
Overview: A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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The Busy Body
Overview: Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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Watermelon Man
Overview: A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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Splendor in the Grass
Overview: A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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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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Cotton Comes to Harlem
Overview: Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Overview: A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-17
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Scott Joplin
Overview: The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Genres: Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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Come Back, Charleston Blue
Overview: Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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The Troublemaker
Overview: A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-22
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Gone Are the Days!
Overview: A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-09
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Whiffs
Overview: Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Bye Bye Braverman
Overview: One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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The Biscuit Eater
Overview: Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl Holliman) tells his son Lonnie that his dog, Moreover, is a good-for-nothing "biscuit eater."
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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But... Seriously
Overview: A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-25
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Dead Is Dead
Overview: An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-26
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Five on the Black Hand Side
Overview: Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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