Godfrey Cambridge
Date of Birth: 26 Feb 1933
Country: USA
Biography: Actor. Born in New York City, he began his career as a brilliant stand-up comedian and was acclaimed by Time magazine as one of the country's four most celebrated African American comics in the 1960s. He branched into acting performing on Broadway in 1962, in the play "Nature's Way" for which he received a Tony Award nomination. For feature films, he made his debut in "The President's Analyst" (1967), followed by "The Biggest Bundle of Them All" (1968), "Bye Bye Braverman" (1968) and was most no
Total Credits at Criticker: 18 (Actor)
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Friends gather for the funeral of a friend. Sub-plots unfold as the group attempts to link-up to attend the funeral of their friend, Braverman. (imdb)
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An extremely bigotted white man find out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand! (imdb)
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Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.
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At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him. (imdb)
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A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers. (imdb)
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Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
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Robinson, Welch and some incompetent European gangsters kidnap an American gangster who they think has a lot of money. (imdb)
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Sid Caesar stars as the bumbling right hand man of mob boss Robert Ryan who is sent to find a corpse buried in a suit lined with stolen mob money. (imdb)
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An Army private volunteers to be the subject of biological and chemical weaponry experiments. When the effects force him into early retirement from the military, he turns to a new career, using the experimental gases to help him rob banks.
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Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers. (imdb)
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The journalist nephew of an aging doctor decides to profile his uncle's life on TV. (imdb)
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Released at a time when most black-oriented films were bloody action fests. In contrast, this low-budget effort, coproduced by actors Brock Peters and Michael Tolan, eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior (www.allmovie.com)
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In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a fence-jumping contest. (imdb)
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A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie. (imdb)
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Scott Joplin (1977) - TV Movie
Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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The Furst Family of Washington (1973) - TV Movie
An African-American's barbershop serves as the neighborhood meeting place for all sorts of interesting characters, much to the disgust of his mother.
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A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house. The obstacles he must overcome include the mob (who, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, surreptitiously follow him in a garbage truck) and corrupt officials--among them, an Irish fire chief, played by Godfrey Cambridge, black comic actor.
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