Richard Roundtree Filmography

Final Approach

Actors: Dean Cain, Anthony Michael Hall, William Forsythe, Ernie Hudson, Sunny Mabrey

Synopsis: Dean Cain and Anthony Michael Hall go toe-to-toe at 30,000 feet in this action-packed mini-series that finds a radical terrorist poised to take down domestic flight or die trying. FBI hostage rescue specialist Jack Bender (Cain) is traveling across the country on a domestic flight when the members Read More

All the Days Before Tomorrow

Actors: Richard Roundtree, Alexandra Holden, Joey Kern

Synopsis: As a pair of youthful friends about to be separated by fate ponder their future lives apart in this metaphysical drama starring Richard Roundtree. His sleep suddenly interrupted by a late night telephone call, studious introvert Wes picks up the receiver to hear the voice of energetic beauty Read More

Brick

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Noah Segan

Synopsis: A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a Dashiell Hammett mystery. An outsider by nature, Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is forced to penetrate the elaborate ranks of the high-school social Read More

Men Cry in the Dark

Synopsis: Director Je'Caryous Johnson adapts author Michael Baisden's best-selling novel exploring the African-American male perspective on fatherhood, gold-diggers, and interracial romance in this release of a stage performance starring Allen Payne, Richard Roundtree, Rhona Bennett, and Levell Crawford. As Read More

Wild Seven

Actors: Robert Loggia, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Two sets of crooks -- one of beginners, the other old hands at the game -- are lured by the promise of the big heist in a comedy drama from writer and director James Hausler. Wilson (Robert Forster) has just been released from prison after serving 25 years for armed robbery. While Wilson is edging Read More

Grey's Anatomy: I Am a Tree

Synopsis: Surprisingly, it is Bailey (Chandra Wilson) who is the loudest voice as the staffers try to persuade Izzie (Katherine Heigl) not to give up medicine. Meanwhile, Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) scores again, and Addison (Kate Walsh) is once more the prize; Cristina (Sandra Oh) has an uncomfortable meeting Read More

Desperate Housewives: Fear No More

Synopsis: What sinister scheme can George Williams (Roger Bart) have in mind to steal Bree (Marcia Cross) away from Rex (Steven Culp)? Will Lynette (Felicity Huffman) suffer from the presence of her husband Tom's former girlfriend Annabel Foster (Melinda McGraw) when Annabel is hired by Tom's firm? Does Read More

Desperate Housewives: Sunday in the Park with George

Synopsis: Edie (Nicollette Sheridan) is a far from disinterested witness when Bree (Marcia Cross) goes out to lunch with the charming but slightly sinister George Williams (Roger Bart). Meanwhile, Bree's husband, Rex (Steven Culp), continues to suffer from ill health (can there be a connection somewhere?). Read More

Desperate Housewives: Every Day a Little Death

Synopsis: The journal of the late Mrs. Huber forces Susan (Teri Hatcher) to tell all to Edie (Nicollette Sheridan) about the fire. Bree (Marcia Cross) is having second thoughts about dating George Williams (Roger Bart). Lynette (Felicity Huffman) allows a misunderstanding to go uncorrected to get her son in Read More

Painkiller Jane

Actors: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Richard Roundtree, Tate Donovan, Eric Dane

Synopsis: Based on a comic book series created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, the made-for-cable Painkiller Jane stars Emmanuelle Vaugier as Jane Elizabeth Browning, a young Marine captain who is the sole survivor when her Special Ops force is exposed to a biochemical "retrovirus" weapon after raiding Read More

Alias: Blood Ties

Desperate Housewives: Anything You Can Do

Synopsis: Having already made trouble for Susan (Teri Hatcher), Mrs. Huber (Christine Estabrook) now turns her sights on Bree (Marcia Cross) -- who has plenty of marital headaches already. As for Susan, she is kept busy spying on Mike (James Denton) during his tête-à-tête with the toothsome Kendra (Heather Stephens Read More

Desperate Housewives: Who's That Woman?

Synopsis: Carlos, the wealthy husband of the wandering Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) strongly suspects that she's cheating on him; trouble is, he suspects the wrong guy. Meanwhile, Mrs. Huber (Christine Estabrook) wants Susan (Teri Hatcher) to pay her hush money to keep her from telling Edie (Nicolette Sheridan) Read More

Desperate Housewives: Guilty

Synopsis: Susan (Teri Hatcher) begins to fear that Mike (James Denton) may have had darker motives for moving to Wisteria Lane when she snoops around his house. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) tries to break her dependence upon her twins' medication. Edie (Nicollette Sheridan) has what she thinks is a real Read More

Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon

Actors: Mickey Hardt, Joanna Krupa, Richard Roundtree, David Carradine, Carmen Electra

Synopsis: A former kickboxer who has forsaken fighting to become a professional photographer finds that leaving his painful past behind isn't as simple as just walking away in an action-packed take of fight or flight starring Richard Roundtree, David Carradine, and Carmen Electra. Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt) Read More

Vegas Vampires

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

Boat Trip

Actors: Will Ferrell, Artie Lange, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Horatio Sanz, Roselyn Sanchez, Vivica A. Fox, Maurice Godin

Synopsis: Two guys looking for a respite from their bumpy romantic lives find themselves in the midst of a very confusing situation in this broad comedy. Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is a guy who thinks he's found the love of his life in Felicia (Vivica A. Fox), his beautiful longtime girlfriend. Jerry decides 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

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Episode 2: Fighting Back (1896-1917)

Actors: Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: The second episode of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow documents the rising black middle class and the birth of African-American political organizations, like the NAACP in 1909. During this time, W.E.B. Du Bois emerged as an outspoken critic of the Jim Crow South in the pages of the NAACP’s magazine Read More

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Episode 1: Promises Betrayed (1865-1896)

Actors: Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: At the end of the Civil War in 1865, African-Americans, recently freed from slavery, were promised the right to vote and a place in American society. While the military maintained order in the South during Reconstruction, the North withdrew its support following the election of 1876. Southern Read More

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: This PBS documentary miniseries sheds new light on an unfortunate period in American history, when the country's black citizens were legally -- and often violently -- kept "in their place" by the white hierarchy. Though promised full freedom and certain reparations after the Civil War Read More

Capone's Boys

Synopsis: In the Roaring '20s Chicago, three young men newly arrived from Liverpool find themselves working for Al Capone (Julian Littman). Capone's ruthless right-hand man Georgio (Al Sapienza) exploits Jimmy's (Marc Warren) explosive right uppercut by scheduling him in a boxing match against the local Read More

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Episode 4: Terror and Triumph (1940-1954)

Actors: Richard Roundtree

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Episode 3: Don't Shout Too Soon (1918-1940)

Actors: Richard Roundtree

Corky Romano

Actors: Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk, Peter Berg, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Kattan stars in this mob comedy as Corky Romano, a veterinarian with a penchant for pop music from the '80s. As a youth, Corky was kicked out of his Mafia-connected family for being an oddball. Now his long-lost father (Peter Falk) has been indicted and needs Read More

AntiTrust

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins, Douglas McFerran

Synopsis: Just how far should one man go to stay ahead of his competition? Milo Hoffmann (Ryan Phillippe) is a young and gifted computer software designer who with his close friend Teddy is about to launch a high-tech start-up firm based on Milo's inventive ideas in convergence, in which he's helping to Read More

Rhythm and Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular

Actors: Jerry Butler, Richard Roundtree, Dionne Warwick, Sam Moore

Hawaiian Gardens

Actors: André Eisermann, Richard Bradford, Shareen J. Mitchell, Michael Grimm

Shaft

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: This action drama puts a new spin on Shaft, one of the key "blaxploitation" films of the 1970s. John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), the namesake nephew of the legendary private eye (Richard Roundtree), is a street-smart police detective who with his partner Carmen Velez (Vanessa L. Williams) has been Read More

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First One Hundred Years

Actors: Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Amy Madigan, Lisa Anderson, Audra McDonald

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, which was later adapted into a Broadway play, Having Our Say tells the true story of the Delany Sisters, two African-American women who were fathered by a former slave, went on to attend college, and Read More

Steel

Actors: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal stars as John Henry Irons, a weapons designer Read More

George of the Jungle

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree, John Cleese

Synopsis: Jay Ward's fondly-remembered cartoon series about a klutzy king of the jungle gets the big-screen, live-action treatment in this comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. A young boy named George becomes lost in the jungles of the African nation of Bukuvu following a plane crash, where he's rescued and Read More

Any Place But Home

Actors: Joe Lando, Mary Page Keller, Dale Midkiff, Alan Thicke, Cristi Conaway

Synopsis: The lives of a down-and-out but loving and optimistic Florida couple change dramatically when their desperately impoverished relatives abduct the 11-year-old son of a wealthy businessman and bring the child to their house. When Lucas and Roberta find that Roberta's sister Carrie and her husband Read More

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored

Synopsis: Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulbert's autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored follows a young Taulbert through three decades, beginning with Read More

Original Gangstas

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

Theodore Rex

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau, Bud Cort, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg headlines this youth-oriented comedy fantasy set in a near future where scientists for some reason have genetically resurrect dinosaurs. This time, the revitalized reptiles are intelligent and equipped with humanoid articulatory tracts so they can speak. They also wear shoes. Read More

Touched By an Angel: Rock 'N' Roll Dad

Synopsis: The "perfect" family life of rock star Jon Mateos (A Martinez) is shattered when his Evie (Rosalind Allen) dies in a car accident while rushing to make a TV appearance with her husband. Now Jon must shoulder the burden of looking after his three children, whom Evie had raised all by herself while Read More

Buddies [TV Series]

Actors: Dave Chappelle, Christopher Gartin

Synopsis: Long before he headlined his own cutting-edge Comedy Central sketch series, African-Amercian comedian Dave Chappelle was the co-star of the conformist ABC sitcom Buddies. Chappelle and Christopher Gartin were cast as black Chicagoan Dave Carlisle and Dave's lifelong white pal John Butler, who ran Read More

Seven

Actors: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a Read More

Bonanza: The Return

Actors: Ben Johnson, Michael Landon, Jr., Emily Warfield

Synopsis: None of the original cast members of the long-running (1959-73) TV western series Bonanza are on hand for the 1993 TV movie Bonanza: The Return. However, Michael Landon Jr., son of the series' "Little Joe," shows up as Joe's son Benj Cartwright; and Dirk Blocker, son of Dan "Hoss" Blocker, has a Read More

Fist of Justice

Actors: Marjean Holden, Cory Everson, Joel Beeson, Sam Jones, Charles Napier

Synopsis: When crooks kill her partner and a protected witness, a vengeful policewoman becomes a vigilante who is hell-bent on bringing the wrong-doers to final justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shadows of Desire

Synopsis: Set in Utah (but filmed in Texas), the made-for-TV Shadows of Desire will probably seem fresh and original to anyone who hasn't seen the old Katharine Hepburn-Robert Taylor-Robert Mitchum theatrical feature Undercurrent--or, for that matter, to anyone unfamiliar with the Biblical story of Cain and Read More

Sins of the Night

Synopsis: In this exceedingly complex erotic thriller, a hard-nosed gumshoe uses his expertise as an ex-cop to untangle a convoluted insurance scam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gypsy Angels

Actors: Vanna White

Synopsis: Gypsy Angels stars Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White -- sort of. The title characters are a group of Atlanta-based stunt pilots in search of adventure and romance. What they find is several impressively constructed stripteasers. Most of the film -- including White's fleeting topless scenes -- was Read More

Amityville: A New Generation

Actors: Ross Partridge

Synopsis: This tired, pointless sequel (the sixth in the creatively bankrupt series) continues the premise explored in both Amityville: The Evil Escapes and later used in Amityville 1992: It's About Time, in which the demonic forces occupying the infamous haunted Long Island spook-house reside within Read More

Body of Influence

Actors: Nick Cassavetes, Richard Roundtree, Shannon Whirry

Synopsis: Softcore porn auteur Gregory Hippolyte directed this thriller featuring plenty of female nudity and starring Nick Cassavetes, son of famed indie director John Cassavetes. Beverly Hills shrink Dr. Jonathan Brooks (Cassavetes) seemingly has everything to lose: wealth, a successful practice, and a Read More

Mind Twister

Actors: Richard Roundtree, Fred Olen Ray, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: From the evidence at hand, it seems apparent that the inexpensive Mind Twister was the last cinematic stand for the late Telly Savalas. There's a wacko killer at large, murdering at random. A courageous cop offers himself as bait to stop the murderer. This proves difficult, as who knows where the Read More

Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Richard Roundtree, Greg McKinney, Rick Dean, Richard Paul

Synopsis: Action hero Don "The Dragon" Wilson appears in this third, quickie sequel to Bloodfist. Wilson plays Jimmy Boland, who has been sentenced to a California maximum-security prison for a murder that he didn't commit. When he sees some black prison inmates sodomizing his friend, he flies into a rage Read More

Getting Even

Synopsis: When an Vietnam War vet falls into a life of murder, drug selling, and illegal arms dealing, the FBI sends out two former Marine buddies to stop him and settle an old score. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Christmas in Connecticut

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Made for cable television, a TV-show homemaker (Dyan Cannon) invites a local hero (Kris Kristofferson) over for a live-broadcast Christmas dinner, but her lack of cooking skills could cause a problem. The film was directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Rivals

Synopsis: In this thriller, an introverted laser-research scientist journeys to Miami to attend a weapons conference and finds himself romantically entangled with a gorgeous model. A confirmed bookworm, the scientist is puzzled and flattered by her interest. He becomes more puzzled when FBI agents contact Read More

A Time to Die

Synopsis: In this thriller, a free-lance photographer is falsely convicted of possessing cocaine and is sentenced to jail time and 400 hours of community service. For the latter she must work with the LAPD and take favorable pictures of them doing their jobs for a public relations campaign. She willingly Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Clubba Hubba

Synopsis: While paying his first visit to the Banks' country club, Will (Will Smith) falls for attractive Mimi Mumford (Victoria Rowell), who happens to be the daughter of a snobbish--and rather menacing--physician (played by Richard Roundtree) of "Shaft" fame). Terrified of "Dr. No", Will turns to cousin Read More

Crack House

Actors: Jim Brown, Anthony Geary, Richard Roundtree, Cheryl Kay, Gregg Thomsen

Synopsis: A drama involving the world of inner-city drug dealing, Crack House concerns two students (Gregg Gomez Thomsen, Cheryl Kay) trying to attend school while living with the pressures of ghetto life. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Night Visitor

Actors: Elliott Gould, Richard Roundtree, Allen Garfield, Michael J. Pollard, Derek Rydall

Synopsis: A teenager puts his life in jeopardy when he tries to convince authorities that his high school's most unpopular teacher is a murderous Satanist who likes to torture and murder hookers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Different World: Great Expectations

Synopsis: Defying the wishes of her policeman father (guest star Richard Roundtree), Kim (Charnele Brown) attends the Freaknic music festival--only to be caught in the act when dear old dad shows up for the Hillman homecoming celebration. Kim is outraged by her father's strictness, but Whitley (Jasmine Guy) Read More

A Different World: Answered Prayers

Synopsis: Just before midterms, Kim (Charnele Brown) receives word that her policeman father (Richard Roundtree) has been seriously wounded on the job. As Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Freddie (Cree Summer) accompany Kim to the hospital, Freddie does her best to bolster Kim's faith in God. But her Read More

Bad Jim

Actors: James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, John Clark Gable, Harry Carey, Jr., Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Clyde Ware handled the directing chores in Bad Jim. The film is worth noting as the cinematic debut of John Clark Gable, the son of guess who. Gable, James Brolin, and Richard Roundtree play three soft-hearted bandits who purchase a horse from Billy the Kid. They use Read More

The Banker

Actors: Robert Forster, Duncan Regehr, Shanna Reed, Jeff Conaway, Leif Garrett, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: John Garfieldesque leading man Robert Forster plays a cop in The Banker. The title character is above-suspicion financier Duncan Regehr, whom Forster suspects of being a serial killer of prostitutes. Such is the banker's power that Forster is threatened with unemployment, or death, or both if he Read More

Miami Cops

Synopsis: An Italian film, Miami Cops follows the adventures of a cop whose father was killed by drug smugglers. With the help of his partner, the officer must follow the murderer and break up the ring. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Maniac Cop

Actors: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith

Synopsis: A maniacal murderer is stalking New York City cops in this urban crime thriller. Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) is suspected of being the killer until Lieutenant McCrae (Tom Atkins) is found dead. Jack takes over the case after McCrae's death with help from undercover cop and sweetheart Theresa (Laurene Landon Read More

Party Line

Actors: Richard Hatch, Shawn Weatherly, Leif Garrett, Greta Blackburn, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: In this slasher film, the exuberant young participants upon a party-line, a fad during the '80s in which young people called a special number and talked to many others in hopes of making a love connection, have no idea that there are two serial killers in their midst. Fortunately, a veteran police Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

Synopsis: During the Korean War, Frank Fletcher, late husband of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), was forced to bail out of the "Dixie Damsel", a crippled C97 cargo plane. Now, 36 years later, the wreckage of the "Dixie Damsel" has been found--with the remains of a murdered man inside! An Read More

Angel III: The Final Chapter

Actors: Mitzi Kapture, Mark Blankfield, Emile Beaucard, Maud Adams, Kin Shriner

Synopsis: In this the third in the "Angel" series, former hooker Angel is reunited with her mom just long enough to make friends (her mom left when Angel was a baby) and learn that she has a half-sister somewhere. Mom is soon the victim of some sort of hit squad and Angel decides to find her half-sister and Read More

Jocks

Actors: Scott Strader, Perry Lang, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Roundtree, R.G. Armstrong, Stoney Jackson

Synopsis: Richard Roundtree stars as tennis-coach Chip Williams in this uneven adolescent comedy. Coach Williams must whip his players into shape for the big tournament in Las Vegas. The Kid (Scott Strader) and his cohorts run wild in Vegas on and off the court as the coach tries to keep the star players