Roger E. Mosley
Also Known As: Roger Earl Mosley
Biography: Roger Earl Mosley (December 18, 1938 - August 7, 2022) was an American actor, director and writer, best known for his role as the helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin on the long running CBS television series, Magnum, P.I., which originally aired from 1980 until 1988. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Earl Mosley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: December 18, 1938
Deathday: August 07, 2022
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Stay Hungry
Overview: A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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Pentathlon
Overview: When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all… the fight for his life.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-04
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Steel
Overview: Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-21
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Cruise Into Terror
Overview: An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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Heart Condition
Overview: Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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The Mack
Overview: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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Hit Man
Overview: Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Letters from a Killer
Overview: A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison only to be framed for yet 2 more murders which he did not commit. With the help of his former prison guard, he once again sets out to clear his name
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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Zora is My Name!
Overview: A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930's and 40's, and the stories, songs and folklore that were her heritage and inspiration.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Leadbelly
Overview: The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-28
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Unlawful Entry
Overview: After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops who answered their call. He helps them install a security system, begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol angling to pry into the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-26
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Darktown Strutters
Overview: When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-07
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The River Niger
Overview: An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Overview: A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Overview: Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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The New Centurions
Overview: An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-03
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The White Lions
Overview: A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-31
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Terminal Island
Overview: In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, free to do what they like except leave. The main camp of convicts is controlled by the tyrannical Bobby, who rules with an iron hand, and the women are used as sex slaves. A.J. and a group of more free-minded murderers have escaped and gone into hiding. When A.J. and his men liberate the women from Bobby's custody, tensions mount to an all-out confrontation for control of the island.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-22
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The Greatest
Overview: Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-17
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Big Time
Overview: A small time con-artist gets between the FBI and a suitcase filled with money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-31
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Overview: In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker has been framed for a diamond robbery.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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McQ
Overview: Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-04
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Hammerlock
Overview: Two prison guards team up with a convict and a drug smuggler to recapture bank robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary
Overview: Told by a member's son, this is the story of five kids from L.A.'s Watts neighborhood who formed a little-known funk and soul outfit in the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Drum
Overview: A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Genres: History Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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Pray TV
Overview: A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Attica
Overview: Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-02
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The Jericho Mile
Overview: A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the Olympic team.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Semi-Tough
Overview: A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-18
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A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Overview: Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. Ultimately, charm, lust and passion prevail, but Darnell learns the hard way that when you play, you pay. Brandi is much harder to get rid of than she was to get--especially when she realizes that she has a rival vying for Darnell's affection. When he finally decides to call it quits, Brandi becomes an obsessed femme fatale stalking the new love of her life.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-04
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The Other Side of Hell
Overview: A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-17
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