Charles S. Dutton Filmography

Legion

Actors: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Scott Stewart's supernatural thriller Legion, scripted by Peter Schink, concerns a group of strangers in an out of the way eatery who become the first line of defense when God, believing the human race is no longer worthy of Him, decides to end their existence. This motley crew's only spiritual Read More

Honeydripper

Actors: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Keb' Mo', Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kel Mitchell

Synopsis: Tyrone (Danny Glover) is the proprietor of the Honeydripper juke joint. When business at the once-popular club begins to trail off and Tyrone hires unpredictable electric guitarist Sonny (Gary Clark, Jr.) against his better judgment, Tyrone's last-ditch bid to draw in crowds during harvest time Read More

Cuttin' Da Mustard

Actors: Charles S. Dutton, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Sinbad

House: House Training

Synopsis: Foreman (Omar Epps) takes on the case of Lupe (Monique Gabriela Cumen), a 28-year-old con artist suffering from "brain freeze". At first contemptueous of Lupe because she has never tried to rise above her inner-city surroundings (as he has), Foreman eventually becomes so emotionally involved with Read More

The Bronx is Burning

Actors: John Turturro, Oliver Platt, Daniel Sunjata

Synopsis: Filmed on location in New York and Connecticut, the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning was a vivid (if not overly expensive) retelling of the New York Yankees' championship year of 1977. Heading the enormous cast of celebrity lookalikes were Oliver Platt as Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and Read More

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

Actors: Christopher McDonald, Emilio Estevez, T.K. Carter, Ronny Cox, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial for beating motorist Rodney King were found innocent. The city was engulfed by a massive riot, but the film plays these moments for laughs. In Read More

House: Euphoria, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Foreman (Omar Epps) has begun suffering the same symptoms as wounded police officer Joe Lauria (Scott Michael Campbell), who after being seized by uncontrollable laughter suddenly went blind. . .and just as suddenly died. As Foreman's condition worsens, a Read More

Threshold [TV Series]

Actors: Carla Gugino, Brian Van Holt, Brent Spiner, Rob Benedict, Peter Dinklage

Synopsis: CBS' spin on ABC's Lost for the 2005-2006 TV season was the weekly, hour-long sci-fi effort Threshold. The crash-landing of an alien spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean prompted the government to engage the services of a crack team of specialists, who were obliged to investigate the incident and Read More

Secret Window

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: From writer/director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) comes this filmed adaptation of Stephen King's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, one of four stories in the collection Four Past Midnight. Johnny Depp stars as Mort Rainey, a recently divorced author who decides to take some time off at his Read More

Against the Ropes

Crew: Director

Actors: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S. Dutton, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Daly, Joe Cortese, Kerry Washington

Synopsis: Charles S. Dutton's feature-length directorial debut Against the Ropes is based on the real-life story of Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who became a successful boxing manager. Played by Meg Ryan, Kallen works her way up in the world of boxing by believing in the fighting skills of Read More

Something the Lord Made

Actors: Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Mary Stuart Masterson, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: The true story of two medical pioneers -- one celebrated, one overlooked -- is brought to life in this made-for-cable drama. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) is chief surgeon at Johns Hopkins University, where he is pioneering new techniques in heart surgery. Blalock makes the acquaintance of Vivien Read More

Gothika

Actors: Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: A woman is taken on a voyage to the other side of sanity in this moody thriller. Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Dr. Doug Grey (Charles S. Dutton), in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her Read More

D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

Actors: Charles S. Dutton, Bobby Hosea, Trent Cameron

Synopsis: From October 2-25, 2002, the capital of the United States was held in a grip of terror by a pair of elusive snipers whose targets were seemingly selected at random. During this period, no gas station, convenience store, or highway was safe from the relentless killers, throwing a nation already Read More

The Country Bears

Actors: Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Diedrich Bader

Synopsis: This family musical enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first film ever based on a theme park attraction, the "Country Bears Jamboree" at Disneyworld. Beary Barrington (voice of Haley Joel Osment) is an adolescent bruin raised by a human family after he was found by a park ranger 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

Conviction

Actors: Omar Epps

Synopsis: Conviction is a biopic about Carl Upchurch, a hardcore felon who managed to educate himself and developed a spiritual awakening during one of his numerous stints inside prison. He began to spread his message to other inmates, and soon he was asked to help mediate problems between some of the most Read More

Eye See You

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Tom Berenger, Charles S. Dutton, Sean Patrick Flanery, Christopher Fulford, Dina Meyer, Robert Patrick, Robert Prosky, Courtney Vance

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone returned to the screen after a three-year absence (excepting his voice work in Antz) with this tense and violent psychological crime thriller. FBI agent Jake Malloy (Stallone) has been traumatized by an especially vicious murder. No longer able to perform his job, Malloy is Read More

Deadlocked

Actors: David Caruso, Charles S. Dutton, John Finn, Diego Wallraff

Synopsis: David Caruso and Charles S. Dutton play two men at the end of their wits in this beat-the-death-sentence TV drama. Jacob Doyle (Dutton) has just seen his son wrongly convicted of murder and decides to take the law into his own hands: He sequesters the jury himself -- at gunpoint -- and demands Read More

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

Actors: Andy Garcia, Mía Maestro, Gloria Estefan, David Paymer, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: World-class trumpeter Arturo Sandoval was a shining light in Cuba's exciting jazz scene and championed by jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie as one of the greatest musicians he'd ever heard. But as Sandoval's fame grew, so did his discomfort with Fidel Castro and Cuba's Communist leadership. Though Read More

The Corner

Crew: Director

Actors: T.K. Carter, Khandi Alexander, Sean Nelson, Glenn Plummer

Synopsis: The toll that drugs and crime have taken on an economically-depressed African-American neighborhood in Baltimore paints the backdrop for this miniseries produced for and initially aired by the premium cable network HBO. Gary McCullogh (T.K. Carter) was once a hard-working man with an education and Read More

Random Hearts

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack, Richard Jenkins, Paul Guilfoyle, Peter Coyote, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Two people who've known the pain of loss and the sting of betrayal are brought together under trying circumstances in this romantic drama. Dutch van den Broeck (Harrison Ford) is a police detective based in Washington D.C. whose wife works for an upscale department store; flying to Miami on Read More

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sharon Lawrence, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Nicole Carson, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: A major earthquake brings the City That Never Sleeps to a screeching halt in this made-for-TV suspense drama. New York City Mayor Lincoln (Charles S. Dutton) and Fire Chief Ahearn (Tom Skerritt) are contentious political rivals forced to set aside their differences and work together when a Read More

Cookie's Fortune

Actors: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Robert Altman directed this bittersweet ensemble piece about an eccentric and entangled group of family and friends living in the Deep South. Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is the widowed matriarch of a small-town Mississippi family, which includes her nieces Camille (Glenn Close), a Read More

The '60s

Actors: Charles S. Dutton, Cliff Gorman, David Alan Grier, Bill Smitrovich, Annie Corley, Leonard Roberts, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Jerry O'Connell, Jeremy Sisto, Jordana Brewster

Synopsis: Originally aired as a two-part miniseries on NBC, The 60's follows two families whose lives mirror much of the political and social tumult of that decade. The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian (Jerry O'Connell) joins the Read More

Black Dog

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent

Synopsis: Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57) directed this action drama about an ex-convict tricked into trucking illegal weapons across state lines. Truckdriver Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) fell asleep at the wheel, resulting in an accident that brought him a conviction of vehicular manslaughter and a two-year Read More

Blind Faith

Actors: Charles S. Dutton, Courtney Vance, Kadeem Hardison, Lonette McKee, Garland Whitt

Synopsis: Lawyer John Williams (Courtney B. Vance) looks back in flashback to 1957 when he began as a lawyer while living in the Bronx with his older brother, Charles (Charles S. Dutton). Married to Carol (Lonette McKee), Charles is the NYPD's first African-American sergeant, and he plans a police exam for Read More

Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: Pinocchio

True Women

Actors: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this Civil War-era epic centers on the exploits of Sarah Ashby McClure (Dana Delany) and her sister Euphemia (Annabeth Gish) as they try to make their way on the male-dominated West Texas plains. When their home is threatened by Mexican forces and Native American warriors Read More

Mimic

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: While one would imagine that the average New Yorker would be used to dealing with bugs after years of apartment dwelling, a scientific experiment gone wrong results in an insect that even Raid can't handle in this sci-fi/horror thriller. In Manhattan, cockroaches are spreading a deadly disease Read More

First Time Felon

Crew: Director

Actors: Omar Epps, Delroy Lindo, Rachel Ticotin, William Forsythe, Treach

Synopsis: In this drama, a young drug dealer is sent to a strict and difficult boot camp in hopes that discipline and self-confidence will help him create a better life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Get on the Bus

Actors: Richard Belzer, Ossie Davis, De'Aundre Bonds, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall, Harry J. Lennix, Hill Harper, Bernie Mac, Wendell Pierce, Roger Guenveur Smith, Isaiah Washington, Steve White

Synopsis: Released one year to the day after the 1995 Million Man March, in which a million African-American men marched peacefully in Washington, D.C. in a bid for greater unity and understanding, Spike Lee's Get On the Bus follows a group of black men who take a charter bus from Los Angeles to the rally Read More

A Time to Kill

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - Prison Riot

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: This episode would seem to be the precursor to producer Tom Fontana's gritty cable TV series Oz. Most of the homicide detectives are dispatched to a maximum security prison, where two inmates have been killed in a riot. Surrounded by several of the criminals whom they put away in earlier episodes Read More

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan

Synopsis: In this episode of the Jack Reed saga, the Chicago cop takes over where his recently slain partner left off and protects a women from those who would kill her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan, Joe Morton, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: In this fifth TV movie based on the character of incorruptible Chicago detective Jack Reed, Brian Dennehy once again wears two hats as both star and director. A multiple murder has occurred in a suburban cemetery in broad daylight. Most of the victims are Russian immigrants, whose friends and Read More

Night Visitors

Actors: Faith Ford, Thomas Gibson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Gray

Synopsis: Following her brother's death, a graduate student looks into his demise and finds that he had stolen a box filled with alien remains. Now she too is in terrible danger as the government is determined to keep the secret. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Piano Lesson

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Alfre Woodard and Charles S. Dutton star as sister and brother in this made-for-television Hallmark Hall of Fame production about an African-American family's struggle to retain their heritage. The drama tells the story of an impoverished black family whose history is told in the carvings Read More

Nick of Time

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton, Peter Strauss, Roma Maffia

Synopsis: A stranger pulled into a deadly scheme races against time to save his daughter in this thriller. Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an accountant who comes to L.A. with his ten-year-old daughter Lynn (Courtney Chase) to attend a funeral. On the street, Gene and Lynn are pulled aside by Mr. Smith (Christopher Walken Read More

Zooman

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., Cynthia Martells, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: In this tough but literate urban drama (based on a play by Charles Fuller), Zooman (Khalil Kain) is a petty criminal and gangbanger who in the midst of a shootout with other gangsters accidentally kills a nine-year-old girl. The girl's father, Rueben Tate (Louis Gossett Jr.), is distraught over Read More

Cry, the Beloved Country

Actors: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene, Leleti Khumalo, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Alan Paton's classic novel about two fathers coming to terms with personal loss and the emotional scars inflicted on South Africa during the era of apartheid was brought to the screen for a second time with this adaptation, the first major film produced in South Africa after Nelson Mandela's Read More

A Low Down Dirty Shame

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Charles S. Dutton, Jada Pinkett Smith, Salli Richardson, Andrew Divoff

Synopsis: A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money in this action-comedy. Writer-director Keenan Ivory Wayans also stars as Los Angeles private eye Arthur Shame, a former cop whose troubled past resurfaces when a one-time colleague asks for Read More

Foreign Student

Actors: Marco Hofschneider, Robin Givens, Rick Johnson, Charlotte Ross, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: A French boy goes to Virginia and finds love with an intelligent black girl in this nostalgic French drama set in 1955, and based on the popular 1986 novel by Philippe Labro. The movie was filmed in both Paris and Virginia. The film contains many references to blues and jazz, Faulkner, Chandler Read More

Surviving the Game

Actors: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: The Richard Connell short story, The Most Dangerous Game, has been adapted for the screen many times. In this updated version, the rapper-actor Ice-T plays Mason, a homeless man whose best friend and his dog both die on the same day. Cole (Charles S. Dutton, a relief worker, tells Mason that Read More

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Kevin Dunn, Susan Ruttan, Miguel Ferrer, Joe Grifasi, Suki Kaiser

Synopsis: Chicago's most dedicated police officer Jack Reed (Brian Dennehy) returns in this police drama to solve a murder and to clean up his own corrupt department. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History

Synopsis: Actress Alfre Woodard narrates this look at the life of Frederick Douglass, an influential 19th century civil rights activist. As this PBS program unfolds, viewers learn that Douglass was a slave at birth who was taught to read as a young boy by a slave owner's wife. As he grew older and continued Read More

Rudy

Actors: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Lili Taylor, Jason Miller, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: A young man learns to let nothing stop him from realizing his ambitions in this drama, based on a true story. Ever since he was a little boy, Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin) has dreamed of attending Notre Dame University, and playing on the Fighting Irish football team. However, Rudy's dream doesn't Read More

Menace II Society

Actors: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vonte Sweet, Larenz Tate

Synopsis: This debut offering from twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes was one of the most critically-acclaimed urban crime films to appear in the wake of John Singleton's influential Boyz N the Hood. Set in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, the film is narrated by 18-year-old Caine (Tyrin Turner) Read More

A Matter of Justice

Actors: Martin Sheen, Patty Duke, Charles S. Dutton, Jason London, Alexandra Powers

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, Patty Duke plays a mother who vows to do everything possible to keep custody of her grandchild following the murder of her son. Though no one believes her, Duke is convinced that her boy was murdered by his suspiciously worldly ex-wife-to-be. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Distinguished Gentleman

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker, Victoria Rowell

Synopsis: A smooth-talking confidence trickster makes his way into congress (where the cynical would suggest he'd have plenty of company) in this comedy. Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) is a con man from Florida who gets the bright idea that a scam artist could make a tidy sum if he was able to get Read More

Alien ³

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover

Synopsis: Acclaimed director David Fincher's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor of a Read More

Mississippi Masala

Actors: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca

Synopsis: Mississippi Masala is a tale of how prejudice makes victims and instigators of us all. In 1972, Indian Jay (Roshan Seth), a resident of Uganda, is forced by the bigoted Amin regime to take his family and flee the country. He vows to hate and distrust all blacks--at least until he is able to Read More

The Ebony/Jet Guide to Black Excellence: The Entertainers

Synopsis: Children need positive role models to understand the values and perseverance necessary to be successful in today's world. The Ebony/Jet Guide to Black Excellence series is a project designed to educate young African-Americans about leaders they can look up to. Ebony/Jet Guide to Black Excellence Read More

Q & A

Actors: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal, Lee Richardson

Synopsis: Following Serpico (1973) and Prince of the City (1981), veteran urban crime film director Sidney Lumet completed a thematic trilogy about New York City police corruption with this noir drama. When New York City cop Mike Brennan (Nick Nolte) shoots an unarmed Hispanic drug dealer in cold blood, he Read More

Jacknife

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Kathy Baker, Charles S. Dutton, Loudon Wainwright III

Synopsis: This little-known Robert DeNiro film is set several years after the war in Vietnam. DeNiro plays an unpredictably explosive war veteran, while Ed Harris co-stars as his army buddy, who's trying his best to forget his Vietnamese experiences by crawling into a bottle. While visiting Harris and Harris Read More

An Unremarkable Life

Actors: Patricia Neal, Shelley Winters, Mako, Rochelle Oliver, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: In this film, sisters Frances and Evelyn McEllany (Patricia Neal and Shelley Winters) are two older women who have put aside their differences to set up a comfortable life together. However, when shy, retiring Frances falls in love with an Asian mechanic (Mako), her stuffy, intolerant sister falls Read More

Runaway

Actors: Jasmine Guy, Charles S. Dutton, Gavin Allen

Synopsis: Besieged with guilt, a teenage boy feels he's to blame for his friend's accidental death and hides away in the subterranean subway world beneath the streets of New York City. His grief and guilt are assuaged somewhat through two friendships he develops. ~ All Movie Guide Read More