Mabel King Filmography

Born:: December 25, 1932 in Charleston, SC
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born Mabel Washington, this black character actress appeared onscreen from the '70s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Dead Men Don't Die

Actors: Elliott Gould, Mark Moses, Mabel King, Philip Bruns

Synopsis: Television anchor Barry Barron (Elliott Gould) is killed after he becomes involved with a breaking story, but is raised as a zombie by a voodoo spell. Not quite the stumbling idiot that most of the undead are known for, Barron has to solve his own murder and uncover the story. He is helped in his Read More

1991
Scrooged

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard Read More

11/23/88
The Jerk, Too

Synopsis: Navin Johnson, the consummate idiot, returns in this remake of Steve Martin's popular 1979 film The Jerk. As in the first, Johnson, the lily white adoptee of a black sharecropper sets out across the country in search of true love. This version was designed as a pilot for a TV series that never Read More

1984
The Jeffersons: Some Enchanted Evening

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Synopsis: Florence (Marla Gibbs) is crestfallen when she is unable to join the Jeffersons and Willises at a charity ball where her favorite soap opera star (Hal Williams) is slated to appear. This dilemma segues into a fanciful dream sequence, in which Florence is cast as Cinderella, and her Prince Charming Read More

1984
Getting Over

Actors: John R. Daniels, Gwen Brisco, Bernice Givens, Mary Hopkins, Sheila Dean

Synopsis: This tuneful drama features the rock group Love Machine as it tells the tale of a record promoter hired by a crooked producer to fulfill affirmative action quotas. It is the hard-working, independent-minded promoter who discovers and develops the Love Machine, an all female group. The trouble Read More

1981
The Gong Show Movie

Actors: Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, Mabel King, Lillie Shelton, Jaye P. Morgan

Synopsis: During the 1970s, the Gong Show was a game/talent show phenomenon. With equal measures of parody, camp and pure lowest-common denominator exploitation, it presented a bizarre assortment of talented and untalented contestants (for example, the musician who played his trumpet with his bellybutton) Read More

1980
The Jerk

Actors: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King

Synopsis: Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin (who co-wrote the script with Carl Gottlieb) in this gag-laden comedy about an idiotic white man, raised by a poor family of black sharecroppers, who doesn't realize he's not black. Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is told the horrible truth when he finds himself Read More

1979
The Wiz

Actors: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet's The Wiz is the film version of the popular Broadway musical that retells the events of L. Frank Baum's classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through the eyes of a young African-American kindergarten teacher who's "never been below 125th Street." Leaving a large family dinner to Read More

1978
What's Happening!!: Season 02

Actors: Fred Berry

Synopsis: The second-season opener of What's Happening focuses on the series' most popular character, corpulent high schooler Freddie "Rerun" Tubbs (Fred Berry), who astonishes his pals Raj (Ernest Thomas) and Dwayne (Haywood Nelson) by announcing his plans to marry an illegal alien (played by future Fame Read More

1977
Scott Joplin

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Eubie Blake, Godfrey Cambridge

Synopsis: Billy Dee Williams stars as legendary ragtime pianist/composer Scott Joplin in this 1977 biopic. Despite his brilliance, Joplin (1868-1917) was confined by the color of his skin to the dregs of show business in the late 19th century. While competing in a musical contest, Joplin introduces his most Read More

1977
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson, Sam "Birmingham" Briston

Synopsis: Based on the novel by William Brasher, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is set in the segregated south of 1939. African-American baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), tired of being jerked around by the less-than-ethical managers of the Negro League teams, forms his Read More

1976
What's Happening!!: Season 01

Actors: Fred Berry

Synopsis: The urban sitcom What's Happening!! was introduced in August of 1976, with a four-episode trial run. In the opener "The Runaway," Raj Thomas (Ernest Thomas) hires a babysitter for his kid sister Dee (Danielle Spencer) so he can attend a party with his pals Rerun (Fred Berry) and Dwayne (Haywood Nelson Read More

1976
Ganja and Hess

Actors: Enrico Fales, Tara Fields

Synopsis: A scientist stricken with an insatiable hunger for blood dominates this strikingly atmospheric drama. Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy and respected African-American anthropologist, is assigned a new assistant, an intelligent but unstable man named George Meda (Bill Gunn). One drunken Read More

1973