Brock Peters Filmography

The Last Place on Earth

Actors: Tisha Campbell-Martin, Dana Ashbrook, Billy Dee Williams

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker James Slocum directs the romantic drama The Last Place on Earth, filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountain region of Northern California. Dana Ashbrook plays Rob Baskin, a businessman who travels to Lake Tahoe in order to spread the ashes of his late mother (Phyllis Diller). Along Read More

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

Synopsis: Hosted by Obba Babatunde, this documentary from Passport Productions studies the life and career of African American entertainer Dorothy Dandridge. Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty features interviews with such Dandridge admirers as Brock Peters, Lawrence Fishburne, and Academy Award winner Read More

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

Actors: Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Tim Curry, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film, directed by show creator Cathy Malkasian with a screenplay by Kate Boutilier (writer of Nickelodeon's Rugrats in Paris). The main character is 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry (voice of Lacey Chabert), a Read More

10,000 Black Men Named George

Actors: Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles, Brock Peters, Carla Brothers

Synopsis: In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. So in 1925, when journalist and political activist Asa Philip Randolph and railway car porter Ashley Totten formed Read More

The Locket

Synopsis: Adapted from the bestselling novel by Richard Paul Evans, the made-for-TV The Locket stars Vanessa Redgrave as Esther Huish, an elderly, embittered resident of a nursing home. Into Esther's life comes young attendant Michael Keddington (Chad Willett), who like Esther has been forced to live a life Read More

The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom

Synopsis: The true story of the revolt and subsequent trial of escaped African slaves is documented in The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom. When a group of men and women were kidnapped from the coast of Sierra Leone in 1839, they had no idea what to expect. Conditions aboard the slave ship were Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 151: Image in the Sand

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 138: Far Beyond the Stars

Park Day

Actors: Hill Harper, Monica Calhoun, Lande Scott, Brock Peters, Sydney Tamiia Poitier

Synopsis: In the small, largely African-American Southern town of New Haven, a young man finds himself caught between two rival factions: one, a bunch of narcissistic frat boys, the other, a group of homeys in the hood. It doesn't take long for tensions to come to a boil. Hill Harper, Lande Scott, and Monica Calhoun Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 152: Shadows and Symbols

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: Dark Sentinel

Actors: Quinton Flynn, John deLancie, Robert Foxworth, Rob Paulsen, Frank Welker

Synopsis: The Quest team journeys to Cameroon, there to help harvest a medically beneficial sap from trees that are being threatened with extinction by an insensitive logging company. Before long, the plundering loggers are being menaced by an invisible but undeniably ferocious monster. Dr. Quest cannot Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 125: A Time to Stand

Synopsis: First telecast September 29, 1997, Deep Space Nine's sixth-season opener takes place three months after the crew was forced to surrender DS9 to the Dominion/Cardassian alliance. Now ensconced on the Defiant, Sisko and his crew continues to wage a bloody battle against the enemy, but Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: Ndovu's Last Journey

Actors: J.D. Roth, George Segal, Robert Patrick, Michael Benyaer, Jesse Douglas

Synopsis: In Tanzania, Quest team members Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji receive a summons from "beyond" to protect a pachyderm named Ndovu as it makes its final journey to the elephant's graveyard. En route, our heroes run afoul of poachers who intend to rob the sacred burial site of its rich ivory deposits. Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 84: Paradise Lost

Synopsis: Picking up where the previous week's "Homefront" left off, this episode finds Sisko and Odo still in San Francisco, still preparing Earth for war against the dominion. The instigators of the hostilities appear to be a band of Changeling infiltrators. But upon further investigation, Sisko comes to Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 83: Homefront

Synopsis: Deep Space Nine's first offering for the calendar year 1996 was this episode, which originally aired January 1. A crucial Federation/Romulan peace conference is interrupted by a deadly explosion, apparently the handiwork of a Dominion-aligned Changeling. Further evidence indicates that a Read More

The Secret

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: In Secret, a Cape Cod businessman (Kirk Douglas) plans to run for political office until his grandson's battle with dyslexia force him to acknowledge that he suffers from the same disorder. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Highway Heartbreaker

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this is the tale of three women who join forces to get revenge on the handsome con man whose investment scheme cost them thousands of dollars. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

You Must Remember This

Synopsis: A highly principled African-American independent filmmaker hides his early profession because his films never became popular. This Wonderworks drama chronicles what happens when the former filmmaker's niece finds his old films in a trunk and then begins researching her uncle's contributions. She Read More

The Importance of Being Earnest

Actors: Wren T. Brown, Daryl Roach, Chris Calloway, Lanei Chapman, Ann Weldon

Synopsis: This adaptation of playwright Oscar Wilde's memorable romantic comedy about two wealthy noblemen who begin calling themselves Ernest in hopes of winning the love of two beautiful girls is set in modern times. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

African Story Magic

Synopsis: It's off to darkest Africa for this street-smart kid (Brock Peters) where he learns all about tribal customs and tradition. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Kim Cattrall, David Warner, James Doohan, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: The plot involves a peace conference between the Federation of Planets and the troublesome Klingons. The Klingons are hoping to perform a little damage control after triggering a mining disaster on one of their moons; their spokesman is the seemingly contrite General Chang (Christopher Plummer). Read More

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

Synopsis: The superb, utterly convincing special effects in the two-part TV movie The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake cannot be faulted. Less convincing are the scenes in which the fictional TV reporters, demoralized and in tears, can't bring themselves to describe the extent of the destruction. Read More

Alligator 2: The Mutation

Actors: Richard Lynch, Steve Railsback, Joseph Bologna, Woody Brown

Synopsis: Not so much a sequel to the John Sayles-scripted Alligator as a shoddy remake, this sophomoric low-budget effort plays like a bad TV movie about a swamp-dwelling alligator mutated to monstrous size by toxic waste, munching on the screaming residents of a lakefront community. The naughty polluter Read More

Polly

Actors: Celeste Holm, Phylicia Rashad

Synopsis: There were those in 1989 who bellyached that Disney Television's Polly was a far from faithful adaptation of Eleanor Porter's classic novel Pollyanna. What they meant was that Polly did not resemble the 1960 Hayley Mills movie version of Pollyanna, which itself played fast and loose with the Read More

To Heal a Nation

Actors: Eric Roberts

Synopsis: To Heal a Nation is the true story of Jan Scruggs (Eric Roberts), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. In 1979, Scruggs, employed by the US Department of Labor, becomes obsessed with the dream of erecting a monument to those who died in Vietnam. In pursuit of this dream, Scruggs and his fellow Read More

Broken Angel

Actors: Roxann Biggs, Susan Blakely, William Shatner

Synopsis: Erika Eleniak is the "broken angel" in this made-for-TV domestic drama. The troubled daughter of William Shatner and Susan Blakely, Erika drops out of sight after a shooting incident at her high school prom. Deducing that his daughter has become involved in drug dealing, Shatner goes on a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Trial by Error

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is appointed foreman of the jury in an apparently "open and shut" murder trial. The accused claims that he killed the victim in self-defense, when said victim found the accused in bed with his wife. Half of the jury is for conviction, half for acquittal; as for Jessica Read More

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan

Synopsis: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Old Acquaintance

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) and T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) are reunited with their high school classmate Goldie Morris (Lee Purcell), who is still the same zany, impulsive political activist she'd been back in the good old days when she was Magnum's tutor. Goldie wants the detective to help her locate a Read More

Joe Louis: For All Time

Synopsis: This excellent documentary on the American boxing champion
Joe Louis reveals little-publicized facts about the end of his extraordinary career. Using still photos and newsreels, director Peter Tatum recalls the many fights won by the "Brown Bomber" against fighters like Primo Carnera and one Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Puss-In-Boots

Synopsis: Ben Vereen stars as the clever title character in this delightful episode of Shelley Duvall's made for cable series Faerie Tale Theatre. A quick-witted talking cat dons boots, a cloak, and a hat in order to carry out his plan to turn his master -- a poor peasant played by Gregory Hines -- into a Read More

A Caribbean Mystery

Actors: Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes

Synopsis: Helen Hayes plays Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in A Caribbean Mystery. Recuperating from an illness at a resort in the Bahamas, Miss Marple makes the acquaintance of a genial British major (Maurice Evans). When her new friend is murdered, Miss M takes on the case herself. She Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Synopsis: Huckleberry Finn joins Tom Sawyer and Jim, a runaway slave, as they escape down the Mississippi River on a raft. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Murder on the Rising Star

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is charged with the murder of rival Viper pilot Ortega (Frank Ashmore). With the full weight of evidence against him, Starbuck finds few that are willing to believe his protestations of innocence. One of those few, however, is his best friend Apollo (Richard Hatch), who Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel

Synopsis: This made-for-TV effort stars Lindsay Wagner as Meg Laurel, an orphan who graduates Harvard Medical School and returns to treat the sick in her Appalachian hometown in the 1930s. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Death by Good Intention

Synopsis: An affirmative-action program at a major metropolitan hospital is threatened when a young African American resident, who owes his job to the program, is suspected of causing a patient's death through negligence (to use the old cliché, the operation was successful but the patient died). The young Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Synopsis: This is a 1978 version of the Mark Twain classic with Huck dodging the drudgery of an eastern boys school (which he's doomed to attend) by faking his own drowning. Unfortunately his shenanigans result in his good friend Jim getting blamed for his apparent earthly exit. So the two of them set off Read More

Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter

Synopsis: Lincoln's early days are the focus of this historical biography as the young "Mr. Lincoln" is molded by the people and events he encounters. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance

Synopsis: Five Yankee children held hostage by Confederates, nurse a black Union Army soldier back to health and convince him to help them. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

SST: Death Flight

Actors: George Maharis, Doug McClure, Martin Milner, Robert Reed, Susan Strasberg, Billy Crystal, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Death Flight was originally known as SST: Death Flight when it was first telecast February 25, 1977. Though fairly expensive so far as TV movies go, the film is brought down to earth by its standard B-flick plot. On its maiden flight, America's first supersonic transport runs into deadly danger Read More

Aces High

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Malcolm McDowell plays a World War I air ace, in charge of an elite squadron. Outwardly a bastion of courage, McDowell dies a little every time one of his boys is killed. To steel his nerves, he takes to drink, which has an adverse effect on his abilities. Christopher Plummer staunchly portrays Read More

Two-Minute Warning

Actors: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett

Synopsis: Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston Read More

Baretta: Woman in the Harbor

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: According to police records, paroled female convict Virginia Marriott (Ann Coleman) has committed suicide. Thus, when Virginia's parole officer sees the girl, very much alive, wandering near the harbor, he is amazed. But not for long: The officer is promptly murdered, bringing maverick undercover Read More

Framed

Actors: Joe Don Baker, Conny van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Brock Peters

Synopsis: Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker, Karlson's star in Walking Tall, plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler with a streak of integrity. Framed by the film's villains--including a cartel of corrupt cops--Ron is Read More

Baretta: Photography by John Doe

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: When a retired cop falls off the roof of a building, his death is ruled as accidental, brought about by excessive drinking. But the cop's grandson doesn't buy this verdict, insisting that the old man was murdered. It is up to undercover detective Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) -- and a hitherto Read More

Tight as a Drum

Synopsis: This mystery is set at a military school where a young cadet goes on a terrifying rampage after he learns that his father, a crime lord, has been killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Jacob's Boy

Synopsis: Brock Peters plays the central figure in this story, a man charged by Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) with a murder that he didn't commit. Unfortunately, once he surrenders his fingerprints to the authorities, he will be exposed as the same person who ran away from a homicide Read More

Lost in the Stars

Actors: Brock Peters

Synopsis: Lost in the Stars was an American Film Theatre adaptation of the musical play by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill--which in turn was based on the Alain Paton novel Cry the Beloved Country. Brock Peters portrays a South African minister who goes to the Big City to locate his son Raymond St. Jacques Read More

Soylent Green

Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters

Synopsis: Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry Harrison. In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes Read More

Slaughter's Big Ripoff

Actors: Ed McMahon, Jim Brown

Synopsis: The sequel to Slaughter, this film follows the adventures of Slaughter (Jim Brown) as he struggles to kill a group of vengeful mobsters, led by the sinister Duncan (Ed McMahon), before they kill him. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Five on the Black Hand Side

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tchaka Almoravids, Kwasi Badu, Bonnie Banfield, Carl Mikal Franklin, Sonny Jim, Rudy Joe Ringo, Imamu Sukuma, Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson

Synopsis: Five on the Black Hand Side was 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 Read More

Black Girl

Synopsis: In this melodrama a mother tries to compensate for her feelings of inadequacy and failure as a parent to her own children by taking in a troubled foster child. As she struggles to make up for her past mistakes, her jealous daughters mistreat the girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Synopsis: In this drama, a freed-POW returns home and is further traumatized by his supposed friends, family and neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack Johnson

Actors: Brock Peters

Synopsis: Brock Peters narrates and Miles Davis provides the musical score of the feature-length documentary Jack Johnson. Using stills, rare film clips and the occasional interview, director William Cayton fashions a commanding, poignant portrait of the black boxing champion who held the heavyweight title Read More

The McMasters

Actors: Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine, Nancy Kwan, Jack Palance

Synopsis: Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' Read More

Ace High

Actors: Eli Wallach, Bud Spencer, Brock Peters, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: There isn't much disagreement as to whether this spaghetti western is styled after the Director Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood blockbuster, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Ace High, directed by Giuseppe Colizzi, and filmed in Almeria, Spain, is missing at least two ingredients that could possibly Read More

Daring Game

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Nico Minardos, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Vic Powers (Lloyd Bridges) leads a specialized rescue unit known as the Flying Fish. When an American economics professor is kidnapped by a malevolent Latin American dictator, the call goes out to recover the victim. The unit is equally adept in or out of the water. Ricardo (Nico Minardos) is the Read More

P.J.

Actors: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated attempts on her life, the PI moves her, the tycoon, and his family to the Bahamas. There, another attempt is made to kill the mistress, but this time the detective kills the Read More

Revenge at El Paso

Synopsis: In this exciting western, a condemned killer is just about to swing when a bank president hires him to find the outlaws who just robbed his bank. The man must be very careful though, as these outlaws are quite clever. Action ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Money Machine

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: African stockbroker Walter DuBruis (Brock Peters) is poised to destroy the economy of Ghalea by flooding the nation with counterfeit money. His partner in crime is master forger Raf Tagoor (Michael Shilo), who has come into possession of a shipment of genuine currency paper. Assigned to dispose of Read More

The Incident

Actors: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges, Jack Gilford, Ed McMahon, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Martin Sheen may be the Grey Eminence of movies nowadays, but back in 1967 he often as not played switchblade-wielding punks. This he does, in the company of Tony Musante, in The Incident. After mugging a helpless old man, Sheen and Musante take over a subway car, terrorizing its occupants. In Stagecoach Read More

The Pawnbroker

Actors: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Thelma Oliver, Jaime Sanchez

Synopsis: Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, even though his wife and family did not. The devastating experience and unrelenting memories inhibit Sol from emotional involvement with life. He has no faith in Read More

Heavens Above!

Actors: Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of its time, and has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. Peter Sellers plays an idealistic British reverend with a bad habit of telling the truth at all times. He also Read More

The L-Shaped Room

Actors: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Anthony Booth, Brock Peters, Patricia Phoenix, Dame Cicely Courtneidge,