Fred Covington
Also Known As: Alfred Covington
Biography: Fred Covington was born on July 1, 1928 as Alfred Covington. He was an actor, known for Norma Rae (1979), The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) and Challenge (1974). He died on July 28, 1993 in Marietta, Georgia, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 01, 1928
Deathday: July 28, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Overview: An aspiring country singer and his feisty younger sister/manager struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-05
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Overview: Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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Norma Rae
Overview: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Overview: Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Grass Roots
Overview: This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-24
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Coward of the County
Overview: A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Overview: The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-25
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Freedom Road
Overview: Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-29
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The Battle of Chickamauga
Overview: The Battle of Chickamauga proved to be one of the fiercest engagements of the American Civil War. Over a period of two days in September 1863, more than 100,000 men struggled for control of the south's most strategic transportation hub, the city of Chattanooga. Along the hills and valleys surrounding the Chickamauga Creek, over 34,000 casualties would be suffered, and the Confederate Army of Tennessee would achieve their last, great victory. Shot on location using High Definition cameras, this 70-minute documentary film dramatically recreates the battle by including more than 50 fully animated maps, period photographs, historical documents, and over 200 reenactors.
Genres: War Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-03
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The Brass Ring
Overview: A sequel to 1974's Challenge, in which the title character is assigned to gather incriminating evidence against his rival in the state senate, but his assignment gets complicated when the rival hires a group of killers to rub him out.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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