Robert Earl Jones
Also Known As: Robert Earl, RobertEarl Jones
Biography: Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and professional boxer. One of the first prominent black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career. Jones was best known for his leading roles in films such as Lying Lips (1939) and later in his career for supporting roles in films such as The Sting (1973), Trading Places (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Witness (1985). He was the father of actor James Earl Jones. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tate County, Mississippi, USA
Birthday: February 03, 1910
Deathday: September 07, 2006
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Gender: Male
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Odds Against Tomorrow
Overview: An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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The Sting
Overview: A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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Cockfighter
Overview: A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Sleepaway Camp
Overview: After a terrible boating accident, Angela Baker is sent to Camp Arawak, where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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A Billion for Boris
Overview: In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
Overview: Allison Kramer suffers recurring nightmares and selective amnesia, returning to camp to discover the truth as the secrets of infamous killer Angela Baker are revealed. [Production for this sequel to 'Sleepaway Camp III' (1989) was shut down after Double Helix Films went bankrupt in 1992, though the film was officially completed using archive footage and released on-demand beginning in 2012.]
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-23
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Cold River
Overview: Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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The Displaced Person
Overview: A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-12
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One Potato, Two Potato
Overview: Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-29
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Lying Lips
Overview: A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.
Genres: Drama Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-02
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The Secret of the Purple Reef
Overview: When a man mysteriously vanishes on his ship in the Caribbean, his two brothers journey there to investigate his disappearance.
Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-11
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Proof of the Man
Overview: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-08
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Trading Places
Overview: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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The Cotton Club
Overview: Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Maniac Cop 2
Overview: After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down those that wronged him.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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Rain Without Thunder
Overview: This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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The Notorious Elinor Lee
Overview: Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Wild River
Overview: A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Witness
Overview: A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Pie in the Sky
Overview: Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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