Clarence Williams III Filmography

Constellation

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Zoe Saldana, Lesley Ann Warren, Hill Harper, Melissa DeSousa

Synopsis: An estranged African-American family from the deep South is forced to confront their painful past when as they come together to celebrate the life and legacy of the woman whose death served as the catalyst for renewed family bonds in this redemptive family drama starring Hill Harper, Billy Dee Read More

The Blue Hour

Actors: Emily Rios, Alyssa Milano, Yorick Van Wageningen, Clarence Williams III, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: Eric Nazarian's ensemble film The Blue Hour follows the interactions of a number of citizens of Los Angeles, using that city's river as the connective tissue for the disparate people. Among the characters are Happy, a graffiti artist accosted by a homeless man named Sal; a married couple having Read More

Happy Here and Now

Actors: Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Clarence Williams III, Ally Sheedy, Josephine Martin

Synopsis: Drawn into a menacing underground world of the New Orleans elite while searching for her missing sister, Muriel (Shalom Harlow), Amelia (Liane Balaban) is aided in her investigation by ex-CIA agent Bill (Clarence Williams III) in this effort from Nadja director Michael Almereyda. Soon discovering Read More

Mystery Woman: Sing Me Murder

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. On this occasion, Sam hopes to bring new customers into her establishment by inviting the once famous folk-rock trio of Read More

Mystery Woman: Game Time

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. This time out, Sam scores a coup when she manages to get reclusive mystery writer Donald Fiske (William Katt) to make a Read More

Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend

Actors: Kellie Martin, Clarence Williams III, Nina Siemaszko, Casey Sander, Julianna McCarthy

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. To improve business, Sam hosts a book signing with three celebrity "whodunit" authors in attendance. One of the three Read More

Mystery Woman: Vision of Murder

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which specializes in mystery novels. As is her habit, Sam ends up playing amateur detective herself, this time at a fancy health spa called Drummonds. Read More

Mystery Woman: Snapshot

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. The game is afoot when Sam's friend Barbara Sommers (Patricia McCormack, a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy buff, suspects Read More

Blue Hill Avenue

Actors: Allen Payne, Aaron D. Spears, William Forsythe, William L. Johnson, Michael "Bear" Taliferro, Clarence Williams III

Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Director at the 2001 Urbanworld Film Festival, Blue Hill Avenue focuses on the rise of the drug trade in Boston, as seen through the eyes of three childhood friends. The time is the late '70s, and Tristan (Allen Payne), Money (Aaron D. Spears), E-Bone (William Johnson Read More

Skin [TV Series]

Actors: Ron Silver, Kevin Anderson, Rachel Ticotin, Pam Gidley, D.J. Cotrona

Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet was updated to contemporary Beverly Hills in this typically stylish Jerry Bruckheimer TV series. This time around, Juliet was Jewel Goldman (Olivia Wilde), the stunning teenage daughter of Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), a successful producer of steamy adult films. As for Romeo, he Read More

Mind Storm

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Jr., Emmanuelle Vaugier, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: When we first meet beautiful, psychic private investigator Tracy Wellman (Emmanuelle Vaugier), she's confronting a psycho pedophile in a junkyard in a nearly fatal effort to rescue a young boy being held prisoner. Luckily, FBI agent Dan Oliver (Antonio Sabato Jr.) is nearby to help. But he's not Read More

Reindeer Games

Actors: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Dennis Farina, James Frain

Synopsis: A burglar looking to make time with a beautiful woman after five years in prison falls into a dangerous trap in this action drama. Rudy (Ben Affleck) is serving time in prison for auto theft, where he becomes friendly with his cellmate Nick (James Frain). Nick has been enjoying a spicy courtship Read More

Ali: An American Hero

Actors: David Ramsey, Clarence Williams III, Joe Morton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Martin Ferrero

Synopsis: Shown on the Fox network, this made-for-TV biopic stars David Ramsey as legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, whose story is told largely in flashbacks. Beginning with Ali's childhood, when he was known as Cassius Clay, Ali: An American Hero traces the boxer's career, love life, and eventual devotion to Read More

Law & Order: Burn Baby Burn

Synopsis: Actor-director Clarence Williams III guest stars as Lateef Miller, a former member of the militant Black Panther party. A prominent 1960s activist, Miller again makes headlines when he is accused of murdering a white police detective. Media coverage of the subsequent trial serves as a forum for Read More

Ritual

Actors: Clarence Williams III, Denise Nicholas, Shawn Michael Howard, Angelle Brooks

Synopsis: A domestic drama that explores the dysfunctional dynamics at work beneath an affluent African-American family's veneer of ostensible perfection, Ritual stars Clarence Williams III as patriarch and former '60s student activist Leron Becker. While Becker refuses to believe that anything is wrong Read More

The Legend of 1900

Actors: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to keep him. Nicknamed Novecento (1900), the boy grows up on the ship hidden from everyone. His presence is revealed when Read More

The General's Daughter

Actors: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel Von Bargen, Clarence Williams III, James Woods

Synopsis: A murder on a military base unearths a netherworld of corruption in this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille. General Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) is a respected military leader with a flawless reputation; he's due to retire from the Army soon and is headed for a Vice-Presidential Read More

Frogs For Snakes

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Robbie Coltrane, Harry Hamlin, Ian Hart, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: This "neo-noir comic thriller" from director Amos Poe focuses on struggling actress Eva (Barbara Hershey), a waitress who moonlights by making collections for her ex-husband, loan shark Al (Robbie Coltrane). Her day job is at a Lower Manhattan diner owned by Quint (Ian Hart). Others on the scene Read More

Life

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac

Synopsis: Comedians Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a story that wouldn't appear to have many immediate humorous possibilities -- two men serving life sentences in prison for a crime they did not commit. Life opens in Harlem in 1932, where Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) is a small-time con man in Read More

Half Baked

Actors: Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams, Rachel True

Synopsis: Returning from a food run, kindly kindergarten teacher Kenny (Harland Williams) makes the mistake of feeding a massive amount of junk food to a tired-looking, diabetic NYPD horse, which drops dead. Tossed in jail, Kenny relies on his totally stoned roommates (Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, Jim Breuer Read More

Starstruck

Actors: Jamie Kennedy, Loren Dean, Clarence Williams III, Bridgette Wilson, Spencer Garrett

Synopsis: A struggling filmmaker trying to climb the show business ladder befriends an actor who's heading down the same ladder at a furious pace in this dark comedy. George (Jamie Kennedy), an aspiring writer who does temp work to make ends meet, longs to break into show business where he can get to know Read More

Last Rites

Actors: Randy Quaid, Embeth Davidtz, A. Martinez, Clarence Williams III, Tracey Ellis

Synopsis: Not at all sorry for committing a heinous crime, a convicted killer awaits his execution. By some miracle he survives the execution and demonstrates some profound changes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Brave

Actors: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Cody Lightning, Nicole Mancera

Synopsis: Johnny Depp made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this allegorical tale of the plight of Native Americans. Raphael (Depp) is an alcoholic American Indian who lives in a hovel near a junkyard with his wife Rita (Elpidia Carillo) and his children Frankie (Cody Lightning) and Marta (Nicole Mancera Read More

Hoodlum

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams, Andy Garcia, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is an African-American ex-con who, after a stay in prison, returns to Harlem at the height of its renaissance before World War II. Read More

The Love Bug

Actors: Bruce Campbell, John Hannah, Alexandra Wentworth, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dana Gould

Synopsis: This 1997 remake of the '60s successful, sequel-spawning The Love Bug (the highest grossing film in the U.S. in 1969) includes a cameo by Dean Jones, star of the original Love Bug. Herbie, a 1963 VW Bug with personality, is saved from destruction by former race-car driver Hank Cooper (Bruce Campbell Read More

Sprung

Actors: Tisha Campbell, Rusty Cundieff, Paula Jai Parker, Joe Torry, John Witherspoon

Synopsis: The trajectories of two opposing romantic relationships are fodder for this African-American screwball comedy from co-writer, star, and director Rusty Cundieff. Montel (Cundieff) and Clyde (Joe Torry) stars as friends who couldn't be less alike. An introverted photographer, Montel wants to meet Read More

Primal Fear

Actors: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 96: To The Death

Synopsis: A rogue band of Jem'Hadar attacks DS9, prompting Sisko to mount a counteroffensive. While pursuing their assailants into the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko and his officers rescue a Jem'Har squadron that has also been attacked by the renegades. Despite the rescuees' avowed loyalty to the Dominion, Sisko Read More

The Silencers

Actors: Jack Scalia, Dennis Christopher, Clarence Williams III, Carlos Lauchu, Lucinda Weist

Synopsis: The mythical, urban-legendary "men in black" make a lower-rent appearance here than in the movie of the same name. Jack Scalia stars as Rafferty, a secret service agent whose impressive marksmanship and survival skills are not enough to save a California senator from an assassination at the hands Read More

The Immortals

Actors: Eric Roberts, Tia Carrere, Tony Curtis, Joe Pantoliano, Chris Rock

Synopsis: This direct descendant of Reservoir Dogs revolves around not one bungled heist, but several. A colorful band of criminals from differing walks of life are recruited to rip-off the local crime boss (Tony Curtis) in a series of robberies. They rendezvous at the nightclub owned by their ringleader Read More

Tales From the Hood

Actors: Clarence Williams III, Joe Torry, Corbin Bernsen, Wings Hauser, Anthony Griffith, Michael Massee

Synopsis: Boyz N the Hood meets Tales from the Crypt in this alternately horrific, funny, and socially conscious anthology film. The four grim vignettes are framed by the tale of three street hoods who break into Mr. Simm's inner-city funeral home to find a stash of drugs. The mortician puts them off, by Read More

Against the Wall

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Harry Dean Stanton, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, Against the Wall represents filmmaker John Frankenheimer's return to the small screen. This in-your-face reenactment of the 1971 Attica prison riots is jam-packed with political and sociological implications. Refreshingly, none of the participants -- the prisoners, the guards Read More

Sugar Hill

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams III, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright play druglord brothers who have a mob-like crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Through flashbacks, we see how Roemello Skuggs (Snipes) and Raynathan Skuggs (Wright) entered the drug culture, with Raynathan helping his mother inject heroin. She died Read More

Deadfall

Actors: Michael Biehn, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Trigger, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: This lushly photographed, contemporary film noir tries to substitute looks and unconvincing, contrived plot twists for substance, capturing the look of a film noir but lacking the depth and characterization needed to make the film work. After his father, Mike is killed, Joe Donan (Michael Biehn) Read More

Dangerous Relations

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this prison drama centers on a hard-core convict who for the past decade has been the king of the other prisoners. Just before he is to be paroled, a young inmate challenges him. This creates considerable tension until he learns that he and the youth are related by Read More

Deep Cover

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major Read More

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Balthazar Getty, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) Read More

Maniac Cop 2

Actors: Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

Synopsis: "You have the right to remain silent . . . Forever!" This sequel to Maniac Cop pits Matt Cordell (Robert Z'dar), the crazed, murderout "Maniac Cop" of the first film (now horribly disfigured after a particularly brutal stay in prison), and Turkel (Leo Rossi), a serial killer who likes to murder Read More

Nasty Boys, Part 2: Lone Justice

Synopsis: When his son is killed in a drug-related incident, the father sets out to wreck his revenge on two Las Vegas law enforcers. (AKA Kill Or Be Killed) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Jack Spade (Wayans) returns home from a hitch in the army to find his brother Junebug has died from an overdose of gold chains, leaving his widow Cheryl (Dawnn Lewis Read More

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd

Synopsis: Norman Mailer wrote and directed this demented film noir, which takes place in a Provincetown of perpetual twilight. Most of the tale, based on his best-selling novel, is told in flashback as Dougy Madden (Lawrence Tierney) pays a visit to his son Tim (Ryan O'Neal). Dougy, a tough ex-bartender, is Read More

Perfect Victims

Actors: Deborah Shelton, Lyman Ward, Tom Dugan, Clarence Williams III, Nicolette Scorsese

Synopsis: Liz Winters (Deborah Shelton) is the head of a modeling agency in this thrilling crime drama. When two of her top models are drugged and raped, Lieutenant Kevin White (Clarence Williams III) is put of the case. The villain turns out to be a maniacal misogynist with AIDS, and the police continue Read More

The Last Innocent Man

Actors: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet, Bruce McGill, Darrell Larson

Synopsis: Filmed in Portland, Oregon, The Last Innocent Man stars Ed Harris as an adroit criminal lawyer. Having gotten several obviously guilty clients off the hook, Harris suffers a conscience attack and takes a few months off to get his act together. He is pulled out of his sabbatical by his girl friend Roxanna Hart Read More

52 Pick-Up

Actors: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor

Synopsis: Wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston). A trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack with Cini. They demand Read More

The Cosby Show: Cliff's Birthday

Synopsis: Although Cliff (Bill Cosby) has perenially guessed what he will receive for his birthday, this year Clair (Phylicia Rashad) and the kids conspire to surprise him with something totally unexpected. However, Clair is careful not divulge her plans to son Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), knowing how Read More

Purple Rain

Actors: Prince, Apollonia, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III

Synopsis: Purple Rain, the first starring film for Prince, is the story of an arrogant, young black singer, born and raised in Minneapolis, who reaches the pinnacle of stardom. The dramatic complications include "The Kid's" (Prince) miserable home life, where he suffers the brutalities of his father (well Read More

House of Dies Drear

Actors: Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Moses Gunn, Shavar Ross

Synopsis: The House of Dies Drear is a spooky old mansion where several strange events have occurred of late. An out-of-town family moves into the home, only to be confronted by an odd recluse (Joe Seneca) and by a neighbor warning them to get out "while you got the chance." The youngest members of the Read More

The Hero Who Couldn't Read

Actors: Eric D. Wallace, Clarence Williams III, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lynn Hamilton, Rene Jones

Synopsis: The fact that he is unable to read does not bother high-school basketball star Freddie Ellis (Eric D. Wallace). He is confident in the knowledge that his friends will cover for him in the classroom -- and besides, who needs to be literate in the pros? It takes the persistence of teacher Mr. Read More

The Return of the Mod Squad

Synopsis: In this crime drama, based on the old TV series, the three terminally hip undercover cops reunite after a seven year absence to find out the identity of the person who is threatening their boss's life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mod Squad: Season 05

Actors: Michael Cole, Tige Andrews, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III

The Mod Squad: Season 04

Actors: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews

The Mod Squad: Season 02

Actors: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews

The Mod Squad: Season 03

Actors: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews

The Mod Squad: Season 01

Actors: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews

The Cool World

Actors: Hampton Clanton, Yolanda Rodriguez, Carl Lee, Gary Bolling

Synopsis: No relation to the later Ralph Bakshi semi-animated feature of the same name, Cool World is set in the meanest sections of Harlem. Hampton Clayton plays Duke, a powerful street gang member who claims that he is motivated by the Black Muslim movement. His subsequent criminal activities are thus not Read More