Fred WilliamsonFilmography

Fighting Words

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Tara D'Agostino, Jeff Stearns, Fred Willard

Synopsis: A spitfire coffeehouse poet catches the attention of a conservative publisher, only to find that her attempts to get him to take part in an underground poetry-reading contest mask a much deeper motivation in the feature directorial debut of longtime television writer E. Paul Edwards. To Jake Read More

Revamped

Actors: Jeff Rector, Christa Campbell, Fred Williamson, Billy Drago

Synopsis: Jeff Rector, Billy Drago, Christina Campbell and Fred Williamson star in this nocturnal tale of terror concerning a successful businessman seduced into the treacherous world of the undead. Transformed into a bloodthirsty vampire by the kiss of a beautiful night-walker, businessman Richard Clarke Read More

Spaced Out

Actors: Butch Patrick, Fred Williamson, Larry Thomas, Cole Williams, Robert Z'Dar

Synopsis: An investigative reporter attempts to prevent the aliens that once abducted him from taking over the entire planet Earth in this low-budget sci-fi comedy featuring Fred Williamson and Robert Z'Dar. Al Manac (James Vallo) was onto the scoop of a lifetime when he was captured by aliens, transported Read More

Crooked

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Gary Busey, Fred Williamson, Olivier Gruner

Synopsis: When a high-class call girl witnesses a brutal murder with the potential to shake the police department, the state department, and the entire criminal underworld, it's up to two rival cops to see that she survives at all costs in this bullet-riddled action entry starring Fred Williamson, Gary Read More

Transformed

Actors: Leo T. Fong, Fred Williamson, Tadashi Yamashita, Ken Moreno, Shirlee Knudson

Starsky & Hutch

Actors: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Fred Williamson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: Starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the title roles, this kitschy tongue-in cheek action comedy is based on the popular 1970s cop show of the same name. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (Wilson) and Dave Starsky (Stiller) are a tough pair of plain-clothes cops who drive a red and white Ford Torino and Read More

The Wild Ride to Super Bowl I

Vegas Vampires

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sin City becomes the sight of a horrific vampire plague when a gang of vicious bloodsuckers descend upon the gambling paradise and soak the dry desert sand with warm wet blood in director Fred Williamson's two-fanged shocker. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

BaadAsssss Cinema

Synopsis: British director Isaac Julien takes on the Blaxploitation era of the '70s in the hour-long documentary Baadasssss Cinema. With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. Read More

On the Edge

Actors: Gary Busey, Ice-T, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: Blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson directed and stars in this action thriller written by his wife, Linda. Amidst the rough-and-tumble drug-trade of the inner city, a young, well-intentioned basketball phenom gets in too deep. Before long, the gangsters come knocking and the teen's best friend Read More

Jim Brown: All-American

Actors: Jim Brown, Dr. Walter Beach, Hank Aaron, Bernie Casey, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.

Synopsis: Spike Lee's documentary on the football star, movie actor, and social activist is a no-frills examination of a man who has rarely been out of the public spotlight for over 45 years. Jim Brown talks about the various phases of his life, from his boyhood in the all-black community of St. Simons Read More

Rhapsody

Actors: Ice-T, Glenn Plummer, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: The urban drama Rhapsody begins when Jelly frames his friend Roughneck concerning a drug deal. Roughneck ends up doing time. When he is released, Jelly has become a hip-hop impresario looking to sign Roughneck's brother to a recording contract. Roughneck sets out to get his revenge, and save his Read More

The Independent

Actors: Jerry Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Max Perlich, Ginger Lynn Allen, Billy Burke

Synopsis: Imaginary Z-grade 1960s exploitation film producer Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller), who was responsible for such faux-works as Buddy Cops V: Hayseed and Toughnut, sci-fi blaxploitation flick The Foxy Chocolate Robot, and, of course, Heil Titler , is the focus for this Read More

Down 'n Dirty

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Fred Williamson, Bubba Smith, Gary Busey, David Carradine

Synopsis: Blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson produced, directed, and stars in this action thriller as Dakota Smith, a hard-nosed but scrupulously honest cop who has more than a few questions when his partner is murdered. As Smith sets out to find who killed his sidekick and bring him to justice, he Read More

Submerged

Actors: Coolio, Brent Huff, Nicole Eggert, Dennis Weaver, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: In this thriller, an airliner on a routine flight over the Pacific Ocean is hijacked by a gang of terrorists, who deliberately crash the plane into the water. As it turns out, the flight was not as routine as everyone imagined -- one of the passengers is carrying computer hardware that controls a Read More

Active Stealth

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Fred Williamson, Hannes Jaenicke

Synopsis: A soldier sets out on a mission of mercy only to discover he's a pawn in a deadly game in this action thriller from cult hero Fred Olen Ray. Veteran U.S. Air Force pilot Murphy (Daniel Baldwin) and his superior, Captain Reynolds (Fred Williamson), are kidnapped by members of a Central American Read More

Whatever It Takes

Actors: Fred Williamson, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Andrew Dice Clay

Synopsis: Get three guys with cool nicknames for the price of one as Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, and Andrew "Dice" Clay team up for this gritty action thriller. Two undercover agents try to get the inside scoop on bootleg steroid use in the no-holds-barred world of professional Read More

Blackjack

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Phillip MacKenzie, Kam Heskin, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: Made especially for the USA Network, this action adventure centers on freelance bodyguard and former U.S. Marshal Jack Devlin (Dolph Lundgren and his attempts to protect a young woman from vicious gangsters. Unfortunately, Devlin's ability to do his job is severely restricted after an explosion Read More

Black Punisher

Actors: Fred Williamson

Night Vision

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred Williamson, Cynthia Rothrock, Robert Forster, Willie Gault, Frank Pesce

Synopsis: Obsessed with the media, a crazed serial killer likes to videotape the agonizing death of his victims thus providing the only clues a police detective has to go on. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pitch

Synopsis: In this Canadian documentary, two young filmmakers attend the Toronto Film Festival and pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled The Dawn, concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. During the 1996 Toronto fest, they approach Roger Ebert Read More

Full-Tilt Boogie

Actors: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: The filmization of Quentin Tarantino's first script, with television actor George Clooney in his first starring feature-film role, Robert "El Mariachi" Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) was a campy action horror thriller that became a major box-office hit. This off-beat documentary from Sarah Kelly Read More

Fast Track [TV Series]

Synopsis: Produced in Canada for a Canadian and U.S. viewership, the weekly, hour-long drama series Fast Track starred Keith Carradine as Richard Beckett. A former racecar driver, Beckett had become a doctor, working almost exclusively along the speedway circuit and tending to the injuries of his fellow Read More

From Dusk Till Dawn

Actors: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: In this action-horror flick from director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino stars with George Clooney as a pair of bad-to-the-bone brothers named Seth and Richie Gecko. After a string of robberies that left a river of blood in the Geckos' wake, the sadistic siblings Read More

Original Gangstas

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus. John Bookman (Fred Williamson) is a successful Read More

Silent Hunter

Crew: Director

Actors: Miles O'Keeffe, Fred Williamson, Peter Colvey, Lynne Adams, Jason Cavalier

Synopsis: This action film concerns Jim Paradine (Miles O'Keeffe), a stressed-out Miami Beach policeman who goes to the mountains to visit his friend Eli (Frank Fontaine), a local cop. While he's there, Paradine runs into the gang of crooks who murdered his family two years before and left him for dead. Peter Colvey Read More

Monday Night Football: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

Synopsis: Since its first broadcast in 1970, ABC's Monday Night Football has become one of television's longest running and most popular shows. With a combination of game highlights, announcer gaffs and hilarious banter, this video highlights many memorable moments of the show's first 25 years. Announcers Read More

South Beach

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Gary Busey, Peter Fonda, Fred Williamson, Robert Forster

Synopsis: One of Fred Williamson's more unusual efforts as both actor and director, this one features the action star as a cigar-smoking detective named Mac Derringer. He is enlisted by his ex-wife (Vanity), a phone-sex operator, to catch the masked psychopath who murdered her co-worker. With the aid of Read More

State of Mind

Actors: Don Hannah, Lisa Gaye, Dominiek Berten, Pablo Catry

Synopsis: This Belgian-French-Dutch co-production helmed by director Reginald Adamson went unreleased for four years, then disappeared for another four until being picked up by Troma in 2000. Frequent Troma stars Don Hannah and Lisa Gaye are in the cast, but the film's real draw is action star Fred Read More

Steele's Law

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: This moderately interesting actioner stars Fred Williamson (who also directed) as John Steele, a Chicago detective who travels to Dallas. His mission is to catch a lunatic assassin named Joe Keno (Doran Inghram), who sports a ponytail and uses a sword to kill. Steele's girlfriend (Phyllis Cicero) Read More

Three Days to a Kill

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fred Williamson directed and stars in this average action film as Col. Wright, who teams up with a paroled thief (Bo Svenson) and the former lover of a Colombian druglord to rescue the kidnapped World Security Ambassador. Henry Silva is the kingpin, and the film is full of nudity and violence, but Read More

Delta Force Commando 2: Priority Red One

Actors: Richard Hatch, Fred Williamson, Van Johnson, Giannina Facio

Synopsis: This convoluted sequel once again centers upon the courageous exploits of a secret, elite cadre of American jet fighters struggling to keep the world safe from communism. This time they must stop an enemy conspiracy to steal nuclear weapons. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Cobra III: The Manila Connection

Actors: Fred Williamson

Synopsis: After a group of technically advanced villains plan to wreak havoc on the world, competent cop Robert Malone (Fred Williamson) is called upon to stop them. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Kill Reflex

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Fred Williamson, Maud Adams

Synopsis: Kill Reflex is a Po' Boy production, produced and directed by that company's founder, Fred Williamson. Williamson also assumes the starring role in this violent throwback to the glory days of Blaxploitation. He plays a Chicago cop whose partner is killed; when he wants answers, he discovers that Read More

Black Cobra 2

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1987 actioner Black Cobra, Fred Williamson resumes his role as a tough-as-nails urban detective. The villain is a terrorist who'll kill anyone who impedes his escape. The terrorist breaks into a schoolroom full of children and holds the kids hostage. It's up to Williamson Read More

Delta Force Commando

Actors: Fred Williamson, Bo Svenson, Mark Gregory

Synopsis: A pair of Air Force pilots are sent to Nicaragua on a dangerous terrorist mission. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Intent

Actors: Lisa Eilbacher, Steve Railsback, Maud Adams, Fred Williamson, Persis Khambatta

Synopsis: An archaeologist has come back home with a priceless gem in his possession. However, it was ill-gotten and his life is in extreme danger. After he's killed, his widow becomes the mark of several treasure-seekers. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Hell's Heroes

Actors: Miles O'Keeffe, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: The Bastards (led by Fred Williamson) venture into the jungles of Vietnam with the intent of killing as many Vietcong as possible. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Black Cobra

Actors: Fred Williamson, Eva Grimaldi, Karl Landgren, Maurice Poli, Vassilli Karis

Synopsis: Stelvio Massi directed this Italian-made action film, a copy of George Cosmatos' Cobra with Fred Williamson in the Stallone role. As a tough NYPD detective, Williamson protects photographer Eva Grimaldi, who witnessed a murder by the leader of the vicious Black Cobras biker gang. Fans of Italian Read More

The Messenger

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Fred Williamson, Sandy Cummings, Val Avery, Michael Dante, Christopher Connelly

Synopsis: This enjoyably sleazy action film stars Fred Williamson as Jake Turner, a burglar who also happens to be an ex-con and a former Green Beret. When Turner's drug-addicted wife dies, he begins murdering the dealers and mobsters whom he holds responsible, including genre favorite Joe Spinell (Maniac). Read More

Foxtrap

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Fred Williamson, Christopher Connelly, Arlene Golonka, Donna Owen, Beatrice Palme

Synopsis: Fred Williamson stars in this gritty action film as an L.A. detective named Thomas Fox, hired by a wealthy industrialist (Christopher Connelly) to find his missing niece (Donna Owen). Fox follows the girl all over Europe -- including a stop at the Cannes Film Festival -- and brings her back home Read More

Half-Nelson

Actors: Morgan Brittany

Synopsis: Half-Nelson was a very brief TV cop series which made its bow on March 24, 1985, with a two-hour "special". Joe Pesci, sporting lots and lots of hair, stars as ex-Manhattan cop Rocky Nelson, nicknamed "Half" Nelson because he stands well under six feet. Nelson is now a Beverly Hills security guard Read More

The New Gladiators

Actors: Jared Martin, Fred Williamson, Howard Ross, Eleanor Gold, Cosimo Cinieri

Synopsis: In this futuristic Italian crime drama, 21st-century Romans devise an ingenious way to take care of criminals -- they make them fight each other gladiator-style on national television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Warrior of the Lost World

Actors: Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson, Harrison Muller

Synopsis: This sci-fi adventure is set in a distant future wherein the scorched, irradiated Earth is run by the tyrannical Omega Force until a courageous motorcycle-riding maverick shows up to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Impact

Actors: Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Marcia Clingan, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Vincent Conte

Synopsis: This crime drama features a computer expert who is bilking the casinos in Vegas by hacking into the computers that run the slot machines. This way, he's able to tell when each machine is about to spit out a jackpot. His girlfriend Kathy (Marcia Clingan) goes to Vegas, plays the machines, and Read More

The New Barbarians

Actors: Fred Williamson, Anna Kanakis, Venantino Venantini

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill, derivative film about vulgar road warriors in the year 2019 -- after a nuclear holocaust -- the two macho heroes (Giancarlo Prete and Fred Williamson) have to single-handedly save a band of religious nomads plagued by the evil Templars. Between scenes and characters lifted Read More

The Bronx Warriors

Actors: Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly, Fred Williamson, Mark Gregory, Stefania Girolami

Synopsis: One of many post-apocalyptic science-fiction films which poured out of Europe in the wake of George Miller's Mad Max, this film stars Stefania Girolami as Anna, who runs away from her wealthy but obnoxious family into the surrealistic biker gangland of the Bronx. There, she meets Trash (Marco de Read More

Vigilante

Actors: Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright, Rutanya Alda, Don Blakely

Synopsis: The excessive violence in this action thriller makes New York City look like the site of a civil war -- or rather, a nauseatingly uncivil war fought between factory workers allied with neighborhood citizens against their enemies: drug pushers and other low-lifes. At first the worker Eddie Merino (Robert Forster Read More

Vivre pour Survivre

Actors: Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Belinda Mayne, Jess Hahn, Mirella Banti

Synopsis: Although the title is the same, this film is not related to the 1953 White Fire by John Gilling, except for their mutual interest in diamonds. Beau (Robert Ginty) and Ingrid (Belinda Mayne) are siblings who were raised by Sam (Jess Hahn) after they were orphaned while very young. Now all three are Read More

The Big Score

Crew: Director

Actors: Fred Williamson, John Saxon, Richard Roundtree, Nancy Wilson, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: A Chicago cop is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from the force. In order to clear his name, he goes after the real culprits -- without the extra baggage of police regulations that might have made his task more difficult if he were still active in the department. This script was originally Read More

The Last Fight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rubén Blades, Fred Williamson, Joe Spinell, Darlanne Fluegel

Synopsis: Fred Williamson produced and directed The Last Fight, but he didn't take the starring role. That honor is reserved for singer Ruben Blades, playing a chronic gambler who turns to prizefighting to pay off his debts. He rises to the top of the pugilistic world, disregarding the warnings of his Read More

The New York Ripper

Actors: Jack Hedley, Almanta Keller, Paolo Malco, Howard Ross

Synopsis: Jack Hedley of The Anniversary stars as a hardbitten police lieutenant tracking a sadistic sex-killer in this gruesome thriller from splatter-maven Lucio Fulci. The misogynistic script (by Fulci and prolific collaborators Gianfranco Clerici and Vincenzo Mannino) posits a femme-hating psycho (who Read More

One Down Two to Go

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree, Paula Sills

Synopsis: This violent martial-arts film features a galaxy of the blaxploitation genre's best known stars, including Jim Kelly (Black Eliminator) in his final role. Richard Roundtree stars as a tournament promoter who gets shaken down by an evil gangster (Joe Spinell) and must call on his three friends Read More

Fear in the City

Synopsis: War is waged in an inner-city neighborhood when the Mafia struggles with local gang members for the rule of the roost. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Express to Terror

Synopsis: A nuclear-powered transcontinental train provides the setting for this television pilot from the mystery series Supertrain. The story concerns a shady agent who becomes the prime target for murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Inglorious Bastards

Actors: Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Peter Hooten, Michael Pergolani, Jack Basehart

Synopsis: The Inglorious Bastards was the alternate title for the Italian adventure yarn Counterfeit Commandos. The main characters are five soldiers facing court-martial in World War II France. The quintet consists of Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Peter Hooten, Michael Pergolami, and Jackie Basehart. The Read More

Blind Rage

Actors: D'Urville Martin, Leo T. Fong, Tony Ferrer, Fred Williamson, Dick Adair

Synopsis: Despite an amusing premise -- five blind men commit a bank robbery -- this Filipino crime film fails to rise above its low-budget blaxploitation look. D'Urville Martin (Dolemite) and Fred Williamson are the main draws, but only devoted fans will want to sit through this one. After 1974's Read More

Deadly Mission

Synopsis: Convicted of crimes while in France during World War II, five soldiers are imprisoned by the Army. They later escape to try and make a difference in a crucial battle. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

Mr. Mean

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former Cosa Nostra henchman who seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss. Filmed Read More

Fist of Fear, Touch of Death

Actors: Fred Williamson, Ron Van Clief, Adolph Caesar, Aaron Banks

Synopsis: The legendary Bruce Lee and former NFL great Fred Williamson star in Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, which is concerned with one of the biggest martial arts tournaments in history. The movie was filmed on location at Madison Square Garden. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Joshua

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this post-Civil War Western, Fred Williamson stars as a vigilante on the hunt for the men who killed his mother. First titled The Black Rider. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Journey

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fred Williamson returns as L.A. detective Jesse Crowder in this loose sequel to the previous year's No Way Back. This time, Crowder must escort a government witness (Bernard Kuby) across the country to New York, dodging homicidal gangsters at every stop along the way. Blaxploitation fans will Read More

Take a Hard Ride

Actors: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly

Synopsis: Jim Brown and Fred Williamson team up for this violent western, directed by Antonio Marghetti under the name of Anthony M. Dawson. Brown plays Pike, a stonefaced cowboy who meets up Tyree (Fred Williamson), a jocular and dishonest gambler. Together with a mute Indian scout Kashtok (Jim Kelly), the Read More

Adios Amigos

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor

Synopsis: One of the first efforts of actor/producer/director Fred Williamson's Po' Boy productions, Adios Amigo costars Williamson with Richard Pryor. Playing a couple of inept western outlaws, Williamson and Pryor mastermind several failed crimes, ranging from a real estate scam to a statecoach holdup. Read More

Mean Johnny Barrows

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Jenny Sherman, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: A Vietnam War veteran (Fred Williamson) is discharged from the Army, and becomes involved with mobsters when he is unable to find a job. The gang uses him on a job when one of the thugs (Roddy McDowall) and his girlfriend (Jenny Sherman) decide to provoke a gang war. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

No Way Back

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Williamson, Charles Woolf, Tracy Reed, Virginia Gregg, Stack Pierce

Synopsis: Fred Williamson directed, wrote, produced, and starred in this first effort from his own company, Po' Boy Productions. The standard blaxploitation plot concerns Los Angeles detective Jesse Crowder (Williamson), traveling to San Francisco where he is hired to track down a missing man who embezzled Read More

Bucktown

Actors: Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King, Bernie Hamilton

Synopsis: A man moves to the small and racially divided town where his bar-owning brother was murdered after he refused to pay crooked white cops for "protection." When he is threatened himself, he calls in some hefty men to help him, but they instead decide to take over the town. In order to oust the Read More

Three Tough Guys

Actors: Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, Paula Kelly

Synopsis: This Italian film was made for the blaxploitation action niche, but sloppy dubbing and unintentionally funny dialogue kept it from packing the kind of action punch needed for box-office success. Father Charlie (Lino Venturi) is an ex-con who has been granted an exemption from canon law to become a Read More

Crazy Joe

Actors: Mario Erpichini, Nella Dina, Timothy Holley

Synopsis: This graphically violent crime drama follows the relatively brief career of the notorious racketeer Crazy Joe Gallo, who formed an alliance with all of New York City's African-American gangs while serving time in Attica. Once he got out, he used that alliance to try and take over the Mafia, an act Read More

Boss Nigger

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A black cowboy saves a frontier town from both the law and the bad guys in this western written by and starring Fred "The Hammer" Williamson. Boss (Williamson) is an African-American bounty hunter traveling though the Wild West with his best friend and sidekick Amos (D'urville Martin) Read More

Black Eye

Actors: Richard Anderson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves, Bret Morrison, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: Best known for directing several popular science-fiction films in the 1950s, Jack Arnold turned to blaxploitation with this gritty crime film. Fred Williamson stars as Shep Stone, who becomes a private detective after being suspended from the police department. The usual sleazy setpieces deal with Read More

Three the Hard Way

Actors: Fred Cash, Angelyn Chester, Sam Gooden, Ralph Johnson, Pamela Serpe, Reggie Torian

Synopsis: The "three" alluded to in the title are played by Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. Letting their fists do all the talking, the hard-nosed trio takes on a neofascist organization. It is the avowed purpose of this all-white hate group to "cleanse" Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington DC of Read More

The Soul of Nigger Charley

Actors: Michael Cameron, James Garbo, Johnny Greenwood, Robert Minor

Synopsis: This movie, a sequel to The Legend of Nigger Charlie, tells the story of a Southern colonel in the Civil War who has raided locations in the North in order to capture renegade slaves for a colony of Southern aristocrats living in Mexico. Escaped slave Charley (Fred Williamson) and his friend and Read More

That Man Bolt

Actors: Ken Kazama

Synopsis: Set amid the exciting, exotic streets of Vegas, LA and Hong Kong, this blaxploitation actioner features a mixture of martial arts, gratuitous sex and comedy as it chronicles an enemy spy's worldwide pursuit of a heroic kung fu fighter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hell Up in Harlem

Actors: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery, D'Urville Martin

Synopsis: This hastily assembled sequel to the blaxploitation hit Black Caesar downplays the gritty drama of that film to create a pure action tale with a comic book flavor. The story begins with badly wounded crimelord Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) escaping an assassination attempt masterminded by corrupt Read More

Black Caesar

Actors: Omer Jeffrey

Synopsis: Cult director Larry Cohen (It's Alive) directed this violent blaxploitation film. Nasty racist John McKinney cripples a black shoeshine boy, who grows up to be Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson), the Godfather of Harlem. The crimelord now has his tormentor McKinney (Art Lund) in his pocket, based on Read More

Hammer

Actors: Tracy Ann-King, Nawana Davis, John DeCarlos, Leon Isaac, Perrie Lott, Jamal Moore, Al Richardson

Synopsis: In this African-American boxing drama, a pugilistic stevedore becomes a professional fighter thanks to his mob connections. His primary backer is himself controlled by the Mafia. Trouble ensues when the fighter must choose between his beloved and a championship match. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Legend of Nigger Charley

Synopsis: Set in the pre-Civil War South, this western adventure follows three escaped Virginia slaves on their journey into the West. The already arduous journey is made worse by the dogged bounty hunter who pursues them. Along the way the fugitive trio add others to their group, doing good wherever they Read More

M*A*S*H

Actors: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff

Synopsis: Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits Read More

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Kay Thompson

Synopsis: Upon completing Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, a tearful Liza Minnelli declared publicly that she would never, ever work with tyrannical director Otto Preminger again. Worse luck for her: Junie Moon contains what may well be Minnelli's best non-musical performance. Based on the novel by Marjorie Kellogg Read More

Deadlock

Actors: James McEachin, Leslie Nielsen, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadlock stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Sam Danforth (since this is long before the Police Squad era, Nielsen plays it straight). The white Danforth finds himself at ideological loggerheads with black district attorney Leslie Washburn (Hari Rhodes). Racial tensions are escalated when Read More

Star Trek: The Cloud Minders

Synopsis: The Enterprise becomes involved in an important mining planet's class struggle in this installment of the enduringly popular science fiction series. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock visit the planet Ardana on a routine mission to collect a shipment of an element known as zenite, when they are Read More

Ironside: Sergeant Mike

Synopsis: The title character in the episode is a well-trained but ill-tempered Alsatian, who is the only witness to the murder of a sweet old lady. It turns out that the victim was anything but a paragon of virtue--in fact, she may well have been an accomplished con artist. What Ironside (Raymond Burr) Read More

Johnny Barrows, El Malo

Sin Retorno

Synopsis: This Spanish language film is set in the mean and dirty streets of New York. ~ All Movie Guide Read More