Al Freeman Jr.
Also Known As: Al Freeman, Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr., Albert C. Freeman Jr.
Biography: Al Freeman, Jr. (March 21, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American actor and director. Freeman made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1985, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. He left the show briefly to appear in the network's controversial sitcom Hot L Baltimore. During that period, "Ed" was played by another actor, Arthur Pendleton. He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to direct a soap opera. After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea. His portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations. Freeman also taught acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Freeman, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Birthday: March 21, 1934
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 09, 2012
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Malcolm X
Overview: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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The Detective
Overview: Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-28
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A Fable
Overview: A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside their home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Dutchman
Overview: A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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This Rebel Breed
Overview: To combat the problem of drug-dealing juvenile delinquents operating in racial gangs, two recent police academy graduates are sent to a local high school, posing as students. [Initially released in theaters in 1960 as "This Rebel Breed", it was re-released as "The Black Rebels" five years later, re-edited with the addition of a handful of dialogue-free scenes of youths making out in a bedroom, with partial female nudity.]
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-19
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The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
Overview: This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Down in the Delta
Overview: A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Overview: A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Overview: A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-04
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The Lost Man
Overview: A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-11
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My Sweet Charlie
Overview: A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-20
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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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For Pete's Sake
Overview: "For Pete's Sake" is the heartfelt and inspiring story of a man (Robert Sampson) struggling to come to terms with his wife's (Pippa Scott) untimely death, while raising their young son (Johnny Jenson). Sam Groom portrays the family's pastor and Terri Garr debuts as a wayward young woman in this entertaining and thought-provoking comedy-drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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Castle Keep
Overview: During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-23
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Sniper's Ridge
Overview: Korean War drama.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Black Like Me
Overview: Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Seven Hours to Judgment
Overview: A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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Boy Meets Girl
Overview: An ex-ballplayer whose parents are divorcing meets a woman engaged to a guy she doesn't love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Broken Mask
Overview: A young white collegian and a fellow black student struggling for understanding come to realize that living together harmoniously is a two-way street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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Ensign Pulver
Overview: 1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences...
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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Perry Mason Returns
Overview: When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Overview: The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-26
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Finian's Rainbow
Overview: An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a struggling farmer and an African American community facing persecution from a bigoted politician.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-09
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Torpedo Run
Overview: A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-24
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Overview: A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-20
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Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Overview: Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-24
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