Percy Rodrigues

Percy Rodrigues

Date of Birth: 13 Jun 1918

Country: Canada

Biography: A symbol of intelligence, leadership and moral strength in his various 60s and 70s roles, African-Canadian actor Percy Rodrigues rose in Hollywood stature during the late 60s following a couple of earlier Broadway appearances. The serenely handsome, distinguished-looking actor also became notable for helping to break racial barriers on TV and went on to become a voice of great distinction behind the camera. His distinctive, booming voice commanded early attention and he narrated a few Canadian

Total Credits at Criticker: 22 (Actor)

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    Sentimental story centers around a deaf-mute, Singer, and Mick, a teenager who lives in the house where he rents a room. Mick and Singer become friends, though they are separated by Singer's lack of communication ability and Mick's struggle with teenage traumas... (imdb)
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    BrainWaves
    After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be ok again. However in her dreams, she lives the last day of her savor - and realizes that she's been killed! (imdb)
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    The Atlanta Child Murders
    The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over whether he is the actual killer or a scapegoat offered up by the city's mostly black leadership. (imdb)
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    Genesis II
    Genesis II (1973) - TV Movie
    A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future. (imdb)
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    Come Back, Charleston Blue
    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 Astral Factor
    A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who testified against him at his trial. (imdb)
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    Hugo the Hippo
    The Sultan of Zanzibar has a problem--his harbor is infested with sharks. To solve the problem, he brings in twelve hippos to keep the sharks away, and it works. But once the hippos are no longer needed, they become a nuisance and are massacred by Aban Khan--all but one little hippo named Hugo. What will become of the last of the Zanzibar hippos? (imdb)
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    Carol for Another Christmas
    A man sits back on Christmas and mourns his son who died 20 years before in World War II. He sits and listens to "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" and becomes more and more sullen. He is visited by three ghosts who center the experience they supply on not just Christmas, but War. (imdb)
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    The Forgotten Man
    A soldier who was reported killed in Vietnam but was actually a POW returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold and his life completely changed. (imdb)
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    The Legend of Hillbilly John
    A wandering ballad singer in the Appalachians meets an ugly bird-type creature, is transported back in time, finds himself involved in the Devil's work. (imdb)
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    The Last Survivors
    After a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon. (imdb)
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    Sanford
    Sanford (1980) - TV Series
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    The Lives of Jenny Dolan
    A female newspaper reporter is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
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    The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
    Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
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    The Plainsman
    Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
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    Ring of Passion
    The championship battles between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling in 1936 and 1938 were legendary, as they pummeled each other in their efforts to attain the heavyweight title.
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    The Boy from Dead Man\
    Two young boys must retrieve a church bell from the depths of a murky lagoon in a Louisiana swamp. Complicating matters is the fact that the lagoon is home to a large and deadly alligator.
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    Roots: The Next Generations
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    Planet of the Apes
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
    Horror writer David Hall reserves a hotel and invites his "friends" for the weekend. Each wants to sue him for some reason. Perry's friend Jordan is one of the guests. He is seen in the hotel's high tower when David is thrown to his death.
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    Star Trek
    Star Trek (1966) - TV Series
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    The Fugitive
    The Fugitive (1963) - TV Series
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