Leslie UggamsFilmography

Born:: May 25, 1943 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A musical career came virtually by inheritance to African-American entertainer Leslie Uggams. Her father sang with the Hall Johnson Choir, and her mother was a chorus dancer. At age 6, Leslie was appearing with Ethel Waters in the TV sitcom The Beulah Show; at eight, she was featured on Paul...Read More

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Toe to Toe

Actors: Louisa Krause, Sonequa Martin, Silvestre Rasuk, Leslie Uggams, Gaius Charles

Synopsis: Two seniors at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school forge a close relationship on the lacrosse field, only to find their growing bond tested in this drama inspired by a study that indicates interracial friendships end at age 14 for approximately 87 percent of American teenagers. Fiercely Read More

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Words and Music by Jerry Herman

Actors: Jerry Herman, Ken Bloom, Alice Borden, Barry Brown, Marge Champion, Carol Channing

Synopsis: Jerry Herman is a singer and songwriter who rose to fame on the strength of several hit Broadway shows, launched at a time when the rise of rock and roll was leading many to doubt the future of the American musical theater. Born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey to parents with a love of Read More

2007
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

1994
A Different World: College Kid

Synopsis: To cut down on costs, Lena (Jada Pinkett, Gina (Ajai Sanders), Charmaine (Karen Malina White), Dorian (Bumper Robinson) and Terrell (Patrick Y. Malone) all move into the same apartment. Almost immediately, they clash with their landlord Langston Paige (Billy Dee Williams), who turns out to be a Read More

1993
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl

Synopsis: This tribute to the music of Jerry Herman, the songwriter who helped create Hello Dolly, Mame and La Cage Aux Folles, features performances from such Broadway stars as Carol Channing, Rita Moreno and Leslie Uggams. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
The Cosby Show: The Return of the Clairettes

Synopsis: Leslie Uggams guest stars as Kris Temple, beloved high school chum of Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad). As Clair and Kris gigglingly recreate their salad days by swapping gossip, wearing wigs and bursting into song, their husbands Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Herb (Ron Foster) take advantage of their Read More

1991
Magnum, P.I.: Paradise Blues

Synopsis: Leslie Uggams guest stars as jazz singer Alexis Carter, with whom T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) had fallen in love during the Vietnam war. Now that Alexis has apparently come back into his life, T.C. hopes to rekindle the romance. This turn of events positively baffles Magnum (Tom Selleck), who knows Read More

1984
Sizzle

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a singer (Loni Anderson) travels to Chicago during the 1920s to seek revenge against the gangster who killed her boyfriend. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
The Muppet Show: Leslie Uggams

Actors: Leslie Uggams

Synopsis: Guest star Leslie Uggams is joined by Big Bird of Sesame Street fame, who throws a wrench into the budding relationship of Gonzo and his chicken Camilla. Among the musical performances include "Love Will Keep us Together" as a duet between Uggams, and Uggams' take on "Hey There, Good Times". Read More

1979
Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

1979
Heartbreak Motel

Synopsis: Heartbreak Motel enjoyed a brief theatrical life on the drive-in circuit, then settled down into Late Late Show screenings. Leslie Uggams stars as a singer whose car breaks down a million miles from nowhere. Taking refuge at a run-down motel (hence the title), she finds herself at the mercy of Read More

1978
Roots

Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More

1977
Poor Pretty Eddie

Synopsis: In this low-budget, violent and trashy exploitation outing, an African-American singer is kidnapped and forced to endure all sorts of torments and indignities at the hands of a white, psycho Southern family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
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

1972
Skyjacked

Actors: Kelley Miles, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain

Synopsis: Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when the skyjacker, revealed to be passenger James Brolin Read More

1972
Hullabaloo: Show 035

1966
Two Weeks in Another Town

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton, Daliah Lavi

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about the inner workings of the movie business. Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas) is an actor whose career has gone into a tailspin along with his personal life; after a severe bout with Read More

1962