Barry Shabaka Henley
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barry Shabaka Henley (born Barry Joseph Henley; September 15, 1954) is an American character actor. Henley is a fixture in many films, most often the films of director Michael Mann, having worked with the director four times. Henley played Herbert Muhammad in Ali. In Collateral he made an impression as a sensitive jazz musician living on borrowed time. He also starred in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. In Miami Vice, Henley succeeded Edward James Olmos as superior officer, Lt. Martin Castillo. He also appeared in the short-lived television series, Robbery Homicide Division and Barbershop. From 2009, he has played the recurring character of FBI Agent Vreede in FlashForward, an ABC television series. He also played Buddy in How Stella Got Her Groove Back. It was announced that Henley will have a role on Heroes as Detective Fuller. In 1999 Henley supplied the role of Pokerface in the Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence film Life. As a stage actor, Henley's honors include the Drama Desk, Obie, and Olivier Awards. He was also a member of the West Coast Black Repertory Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Shabaka Henley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Birthday: September 15, 1954
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Gender: Male
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The Terminal
Overview: Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-17
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Collateral
Overview: Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-04
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Patch Adams
Overview: The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Life
Overview: Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Ali
Overview: In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-10
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Four Brothers
Overview: Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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The Scout
Overview: When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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The Dry Land
Overview: A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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State of Play
Overview: When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-17
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Pavement
Overview: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this is a serial killer choosing victims at random, but Sam and Buckley discover a pattern involving health personnel who work in neonatal intensive care. Doctors aren't supposed to play god, but someone's decision years before has driven a killer over the brink. Can they find him?
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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Horsemen
Overview: A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Fear of a Black Hat
Overview: Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-03
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Shackles
Overview: An aspiring teacher (Hughley) takes the one job he's offered, a position at a school inside a prison.
Genres: Drama Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-20
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Streets of Blood
Overview: A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-13
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City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
Overview: This documentary chronicles the making of the film Collateral (2004). We get to see Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx training for their roles, as well as Jada Pinket Smith's Audition. Michael Mann also informs us on his preparation for the film, as well as some more behind-the-scenes looks at the 17 special camera-ready taxis and the taxi crash.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-14
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Carrie
Overview: A contemporary take on the horror classic about an awkward, telekinetic teenage girl, whose lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-16
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Remember Sunday
Overview: A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly gets to know Gus, the more she's intrigued by him. But she's also mystified. Gus is absent-minded, preoccupied. Is he hiding something? The short answer is: yes. He's reluctant to share with her that since suffering a brain aneurysm, he's totally lost his short-term memory. Every day is a brand new day, his life starts anew. Every day he sees Molly he struggles to remember who she is and what she represents. Every day, he has to fall in love with her all over again.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-21
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Due Season
Overview: After being accepted into the conservatory of her dreams, Vicky Waters must win a competition to stay, but to do so he'll need a secret weapon: Gospel Music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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The Thing Called Love
Overview: A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Water & Power
Overview: Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the powerful and corrupt of Los Angeles.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Overview: Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, ends as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love – even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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100 Years From Mississippi
Overview: Mamie Lang Kirkland still remembers the night in 1915 when panic filled her home in Ellisville, Mississippi. Her family was forced to flee in darkness from a growing mob of men determined to lynch her father and his friend. Mamie’s family escaped, but her father’s friend, John Hartfield, did not. He suffered one of the most horrific lynchings of the era. Mamie vowed to never return to Mississippi – until now. After one hundred years, Mamie’s youngest child, filmmaker, Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, takes his mother back to Ellisville to tell her story, honor those who succumbed to the terror of racial violence, and give testimony to the courage and hope epitomized by many of her generation
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-06
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What's Love Got to Do with It
Overview: Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-09
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Paterson
Overview: A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Miami Vice
Overview: A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Lackawanna Blues
Overview: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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Mad Families
Overview: Three families compete for a camping spot during a busy Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-12
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Lucky
Overview: Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-29
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Till Death Us Do Part
Overview: This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-18
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Chasing Titles Vol. 1
Overview: Father, Joe can't get it together to provide for his family. Desperate for money, he runs a side hustle while working for an express mail company. His 12-year-old son, Caleb is fed up with the living standards in his dysfunctional family. When Joe loses his job and screws up his side hustle, he falls into deep depression, turns to cocaine, pain killers and alcohol which then calls for desperate measures. Caleb is then put on the forefront of the most important decision in his life.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Rush Hour
Overview: When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Bulworth
Overview: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Origami
Overview: In a post apocalyptic world, two survivors make an epic journey where staying alive is only the beginning.
Genres: Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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Stolen
Overview: Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only surrender her when Will reveals the whereabouts of the 20 million dollars he contrived to conceal from their last robbery.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Office Uprising
Overview: The compound of an arms manufacturer turns into a zombie nightmare when its workers are given the wrong formula.
Genres: Comedy Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-19
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A Star Is Born
Overview: Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Lord of Illusions
Overview: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Overview: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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Destiny Turns on the Radio
Overview: Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anything can happen in that town of many possibilities...especially since there's been some weird electrical disturbances. As the stranger, fresh out of prison, tries to put his life back together--to recover his money from an old bank heist and the girl he lost in doing the job--something keeps interfering with his plans. Is it fate...or just Destiny?
Genres: Crime Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-28
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American Nightmares
Overview: Two voyeuristic nerds are hacking the devices of people as they themselves are hacked by the feed from story tellers Mister Malevolent and Mystic Woman who have seven moralistic horror stories to tell.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Dolemite Is My Name
Overview: The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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White Water
Overview: White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: drink from it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-07
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The Big Year
Overview: Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-13
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Fallen
Overview: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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Miscreant
Overview: A young law school student explains to detectives just how he came to be found in a house with three dead bodies.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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