Yaphet KottoFilmography

Homicide: The Movie

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher

Synopsis: Some six months after the cancellation of the popular, hard-hitting TV cop series Homicide, most of the cast members were reunited for a two-hour TV movie, which deftly (and somewhat surprisingly) combines stark, raw realism with Sartre-esque flights of fantasy. Several members past and present of Read More

The Ride

Actors: Yaphet Kotto, Al Waxman, Rachel Crawford, Ron White

Synopsis: The miscreant drivers at City Cab drift through the darkened streets on a bizarre mission of hope and longing in this soul searching tale from director Steve Di Marco. Yaphet Kotto stars. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Case of Do or Die

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A woman is found dead at the bottom of a cliff the day before her wedding. It is up to Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) to determine if the woman killed herself, or if she was murdered. In another investigation, Sheppard (Michael Michele) and Mike (Giancarlo Esposioto) find Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Zen and the Art of Murder

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: While investigating the beating death of a Buddhist monk, Lewis (Clark Johnson) worries that his born-again-Buddhist partner, Bayliss (Kyle Secor), will not be able to remain objective -- thus Lewis teams with the prickly Munch (Richard Belzer). In another case, a street shooting investigated by Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Truth Will Out

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: All her life, Josephine Pitt (Brooke Smith) has been told that she was responsible for the death of her brother in 1972, when she was only three years old. Now she wants to know for certain -- and to do that, she appeals to Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), who handled the original case. Meanwhile Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Sideshow

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street is the conclusion of a two-part story introduced on its "sister" series Law & Order. Newly appointed to a district court bench, ADA Danvers (Zeljko Ivanek) brings the Baltimore homicide unit into the investigation of the death of governmental official Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Bones of Contention

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A case that has remained unsolved for two decades is reopened when the decomposed body of an unidentified woman is found buried at a construction site. Meanwhile, a convalescing Sheppard (Michael Michele) is confined to desk duty until further notice. And the romance between Falsone (Jon Seda) and Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Shades of Gray

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A riot erupts in the Little Jamaica section of Baltimore when a white bus driver strikes a black pedestrian. In the ensuing fracas, both the driver and a Jamaican man are killed -- and without credible witnesses, it looks as if the killings were racially motivated. Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Homicide.com

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A ritual murder is played out on the Internet, but the homicide detectives aren't certain whether the killing is real or an elaborate hoax. Whatever the case, the detectives "stake out" the Web when it is announced that another murder will occur at midnight. In the course of the investigation, the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Same Coin

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: The hit-and-run death of a Vietnam veteran prompts Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety) to once again flash back to his own wartime experiences. Fed up with Gharty's ramblings, Munch (Richard Belzer) tells his colleagues that he has serious doubts about Stuart's war record. Ultimately, the two men have a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Luke Ryland (Benjamin Busch), the demented "Internet killer" first seen on the previous episode "Homicide.com," is freed from prosecution on a technicality -- sending arresting officer Bayliss (Kyle Secor) off the deep end. Meanwhile, Giardello's (Yaphet Kotto) daughter Teresa (Audra McDonald) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 07

Synopsis: In the seventh and final season of Homicide: Life on the Street, Baltimore detectives Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) have resigned in the wake of the bloody shoot-out between the homicide cops and the minions of criminal mastermind Georgia Rae Mahoney (though Kellerman Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Why Chromosone

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Sheppard (Michael Michele) and Ballard (Callie Thorne) have trouble sustaining their objectivity as they investigate the death of a teenaged member of an all-girl street gang. Meanwhile, Billie Lou (Ellen McElduff) prevails upon her fiancé, Munch (Richard Belzer), to mediate in her neighbors' Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Self Defense

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) is fed up with the liberties taken by the homicide squad's FBI liaison -- never mind that his own son Mike (Giancarlo Esposito) is himself an FBI agent. Elsewhere, the detectives resent the preferential treatment afforded ADA Eleanor Burke (Haviland Morris), who intends Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Identity Crisis

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A man is found murdered -- with his nose removed -- in his own backyard. To solves this case, Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) plumbs the depths of the Federal Witness Protection program, only to conclude that his FBI bosses aren't being up-front with him. Elsewhere, a bartender at a strip club Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Full Court Press

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: A pager number is the only clue in the death of a "perfect" high school athlete. While chasing down the wrong path to find a possible suspect, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) stumbles upon details of another crime -- one that will ultimately earn him and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) a commendation. Meanwhile Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Mercy

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Alfre Woodard reprises her St. Elsewhere role as Dr. Roxanne Turner in this episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. The homicide detectives are called in when a woman insists that her cancer-ridden brother was euthanized by Dr. Turner. In the interrogation room, Turner admits that she has Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Abduction

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Falsone (Jon Seda) is the primary investigator when a four-year-old boy is abducted from a merry-go-round right under his mother's nose. Before long, the precinct gets a call from a man claiming to be the kidnapper -- and another call from the publicity-conscious host of the crime-solving TV show Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Finnegan's Wake

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Bayliss (Kyle Secor) has never gotten over his first homicide case, the unsolved murder of young Adena Watson. His memories are jarred once again when an old man comes into the precinct house, announcing that his father committed the notorious, never-solved killing of an eight-year-old girl in Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Secrets

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Two prominent members of the same exclusive country club have apparently committed suicide. Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Munch (Richard Belzer) investigate one of the deaths, while Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Bayliss (Andre Braugher) investigate the other -- whereupon both teams unearth evidence Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Strangled, Not Stirred

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Gharty (Peter Gerety) run up against a wall of confusion as they investigate the murders of two women who were felled by a stun gun and strangled after accepting drinks from a kinky married couple. Things get more and more curious when one of the suspects makes a full Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Pit Bull Sessions

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: The department swings into action when an old man is apparently killed by his grandson's three pit bulls -- who are now on the loose. Kellerman (Reed Diamond) smells something fishy when the judge presiding over Georgia Rae Mahoney's wrongful-death suit insists that the case go before a jury. And Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Closet Cases

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: After spending the night with Cox (Michelle Forbes), Bayliss (Kyle Secor) returns her earrings -- just as she's arrived at the scene of a murder in which the victim's body was deposited in a restaurant dumpster. This murder may be tied in with a case being worked by Munch (Richard Belzer), wherein Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Sins of the Father

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: The homicide unit investigates the whipping and lynching of a wealthy white advertising executive in a historic black section of Baltimore. It turns out that the killing may have been payback for race-related crimes committed by the dead man's ancestor, a Civil War-era slavery advocate. Elsewhere Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Shaggy Dog, City Goat

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: Honored at a testimonial by her fellow medical examiners, Julianna Cox (Laura Ballard) relates the curious tale of Mr. and Mrs. Cochran (Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows), who, during one of their violent arguments, may very well have spared their son the trouble of committing suicide -- by killing him Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Lies and Other Truths

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: A case of road rage results in the deaths of both drivers. As Kellerman (Reed Diamond) and Munch (Richard Belzer) investigate this tragedy, medical examiner Julianna Cox (Michelle Forbes, in her final series appearance) receives orders from "higher up" to falsify her autopsy report. Meanwhile, the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Something Sacred, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, originally telecast as a two-hour special, has since been edited into two hour-long installments for syndication. In part two, the homicide unit has been ordered to concentrate exclusively on the murders of a priest and monsignor. Bayliss (Kyle Secor) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Something Sacred, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, originally telecast as two-hour special, has since been edited into two hour-long installments for syndication. In part one, Lewis (Clark Johnson) completely drops out of sight after being suspended for a heated confrontation with litigious drug dealer Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Fallen Heroes, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the first episode of Homicide: Life on the Street's two-part season six finale, Judge Gibbons, who presided over the Mahoney wrongful-death suit, is found murdered -- and before long, three cops are killed in drive-bys that may be related to Gibbons' death. The FBI joins the homicide unit to Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Kellerman, P.I. Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, former homicide detective Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond) returns to Baltimore. Now a private detective, Kellerman has been hired by a prominent family to prove that their daughter Debbie (Jena Malone) did not murder her newborn baby. It so happens that Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Wanted Dead or Alive, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) has physically recovered from the car accident that claimed the lives of two senior citizens, but emotionally it is a different story. Despite their resentment of the two bounty hunters who have arrived in Baltimore in Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Wanted Dead or Alive, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, bounty hunters Knoll (Christopher Meloni) and Lichte (Vic Noto) descend upon Baltimore in search of fugitive killer Joe Errico -- and promptly shoot and kill the wrong man. Elsewhere, Al and Mike Giardello (Yaphet Kotto, Giancarlo Esposito) find Read More

Fatherhood USA: Dedicated, Not Deadbeat

Actors: Bill Bradley, Yaphet Kotto

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 06

Synopsis: There's quite a shakeup at Baltimore PD's homicide division as Homicide: Life on the Street begins its sixth season. Detective Kay Howard and videographer J.H. Brodie are gone, while the others are rotated. Paul Falsone (Jon Seda) has moved to homicide from auto-theft, and former beat cop Stuart Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Kellerman, P.I. Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Debbie Straub (Jena Malone), teenaged client of homicide detective-turned-private-eye Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond), plea-bargains her way out of a murder charge by naming her boyfriend, Craig (Chris Gunn), as the killer of her newborn baby. Not satisfied Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Brotherly Love

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: The twin brother of a murder victim insists that the dead man's girlfriend is responsible, but the men and women of Homicide have their doubts. Elsewhere, several of the male detectives are moonstruck by attractive new arrival Rene Sheppard (Michael Michele); Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: La Famiglia

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Season seven of Homicide: Life on the Street begins not long after the Baltimore homicide unit's squad room has been renovated as a means of expunging all memory of the Mahoney shoot-out. Fully recovered from their wounds, detectives Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor), Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety), and Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Fallen Heroes, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Homicide: Life on the Street's two-part season six finale, the Baltimore police declares all-out war against the Mahoney drug operation after a shoot-out in the homicide unit's interrogation chamber which left detectives Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Gharty (Peter Gerety) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Twenty Percent Solution

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Patti D'Arbanville guest stars as Darlene Everett, who shows up at the squad room with a videotape that "proves" that her husband, a bestselling author of espionage thrillers, was killed by his agent. Trouble is, there's no corpse -- and for the moment at least, it looks like there was no crime. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Red, Red Wine

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Coroner Griscom (Austin Pendleton) alerts the homicide unit to the fact that several recent deaths have been caused by a poison named phospozine. FBI agent Mike "McGee" Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) is put in charge of investigating this possible act of terrorism, whereupon tension develops Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Just an Old Fashioned Love Song

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Mike "McGee" Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) and Laura Ballard (Callie Thorne) investigate when a famous sports doctor "accidentally" kills his sister-in-law. Joining the investigation is Falsone (Jon Seda), who in the course of events finds time to show off his prowess in the boxing ring. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Valentine's Day

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Munch (Richard Belzer) is convinced that a student has committed suicide. Brodie (Max Perlich), however, thinks that the boy's death was caused by his drug-dealing classmate Alan Schack (a decidedly cast-against-type Neil Patrick Harris) -- and Brodie ends up risking his life to prove this theory. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Wu's on First?

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Pembleton (Andre Braugher) is impressed by reporter Elizabeth Wu (Joan Chen), who is covering his investigation of a drug-related cop killing. He is, however, less than impressed when the inquisitive Wu proves to be a monumental nuisance. Elsewhere, Kellerman's (Reed Diamond) wild country-boy Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Kaddish

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Munch (Richard Belzer) suffers a crisis in faith when a middle-aged woman whom he had pined over in high school is found murdered. As he investigates the case, Munch flashes back to his mixed-up youth, yielding few answers but plenty of questions. Meanwhile, Mary Pembleton (Ami Brabson) walks out Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Deception

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: When one of drug kingpin Luther Mahoney's "heroin mules" is found dead, Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) mount an elaborate sting operation to bring down Mahoney (Erik Todd Dellums) once and for all. Elsewhere, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) finally patches up his differences with Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Double Blind

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Memories of his late colleague Steve Crosetti continue to haunt Lewis (Clark Johnson), as well as former cop Chris Thormann (Lee Tergesen), who was blinded by a gunman in one of Homicide's first-season story arcs. Thormann's agony intensifies when the man who robbed him of his sight comes up for Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Documentary

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The highlight of the homicide unit's New Year's party is the unreeling of "Back Page News," a documentary produced by the unit's in-house video photographer Brodie (Max Perlich). Some of the events covered by Brodie's camera prove to be embarrassing, especially when the identity of the infamous Read More

Law & Order: Baby, It's You

Synopsis: In the second of Law & Order's three "crossovers" with the Baltimore-based NBC crime series Homicide: Life on the Street, a teenaged model dies on the streets of New York, apparently the victim of toxic-shock syndrome. An autopsy reveals that the girl had been raped, a crime that would have to Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Betrayal

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The battered body of a 12-year-old girl found beside highway I-95 opens a new case for Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) -- and also sparks a bitter quarrel between the two partners, centered around Bayliss' childhood memories of being sexually abused by an older relative. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Diener

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Still shaken from his recent brush with federal investigators, Kellerman (Reed Diamond) takes time off to seek counseling. As for the others in the homicide unit, Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) investigate the murder of a wealthy woman, only to have their chief suspect accuse Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Have a Conscience

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Having been exonerated by the federal grand jury, Kellerman (Reed Diamond) is upset that the media has stopped covering him now that he is no longer suspected of corruption. So unnerved is Kellerman by his recent traumatic experiences that he may very well mess up the homicide squad's latest Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Narcissus

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: An armed murder suspect takes refuge in the headquarters of the African Revival Movement, a pro-social organization headed by a former Baltimore cop. In their investigation of the case, Munch (Richard Belzer) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) are roadblocked every inch of the way -- even though the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Baby It's You

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street is the conclusion of a two-part story begun on its "sister" series Law & Order. The man accused of stalking Brittany Janaway (Rachel Jane Sacrey), a teenaged model who'd been raped in Baltimore before dying of toxic shock syndrome in New York City Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Birthday

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: Homicide's Falsone (Jon Seda) and Lewis (Clark Johnson) team up with the sex-crime division's Stivers (Toni Lewis) to track down the rapist responsible for savage attacks on three women. Bayliss (Kyle Secor) offers a unique method to speed up the delivery of Frank and Mary Pembleton's (Andre Braugher Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Saigon Rose

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: The children of a Vietnamese couple who were killed in their own restaurant along with several other people tell the authorities that one of the victims -- and one of the killers -- were both cops. The officer suspected of pulling the trigger, Antoinette Perry (Camille McCurty Ali), may have been Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 05

Synopsis: Another Homicide: Life on the Street regular bids goodbye to the Baltimore PD homicide division as the series enters its fifth season: Megan Russert (Isabella Hofmann) has decided to leave for Europe to pursue a romance (though she will make a handful of return visits in subsequent episodes). In Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: All is Bright

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: While investigating the possibility that an HIV-positive man was murdered by an embittered AIDs victim, Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Gharty (Peter Gerety) inadvertently dig up more information on the Luther Mahoney shooting. Elsewhere, the Waterfront Bar gears up for a big Christmas party, to which Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Blood Ties, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: Season six of Homicide: Life on the Street is marked by several changes in the Baltimore homicide unit, not least of which is the exit of two main characters, Sgt. Kay Howard (Melissa Leo) and videographer J.H. Brodie (Max Perlich). Several of the remaining unit members are still being rotated to Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Strangers and Other Partners

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the final episode of Homicide: Life on the Street's fifth season, a grieving Howard (Melissa Leo) wants to be primary investigator of the death of her former colleague (and intimate) Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin), but Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) insists upon placing a more objective individual in Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Partners and Other Strangers

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson, Scott William Winters

Synopsis: In the first episode of Homicide: Life on the Street's two-part season five finale, word comes through that former homicide detective Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin) has committed suicide. As investigating detective Paul Falsone (Jon Seda, in his first series appearance) assembles the evidence Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Blood Ties, Part 3

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story arc, civic leader Felix Wilson (James Earl Jones) goes on TV to offer a reward for information pertaining to the murder of the Wilson family's maid -- never mind that both Felix and his son Hal (Jeffrey Wright) are prime suspects. An embarrassed Col. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Blood Ties, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story arc, the investigation of the murder of civic leader Felix Wilson's (James Earl Jones) housekeeper yields two possible suspects -- one of them a member of Wilson's immediate family. The rest of the homicide unit begins to suspect that Giardello (Yaphet Kotto Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Scene of the Crime

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: A Black Muslim civilian patrol group, hired to maintain law and order in a Baltimore federal housing project, resents the presence of homicide detectives Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) when a drug dealer is killed in the project. The two cops also face resistance from one of Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Stakeout

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The entire Baltimore homicide squad quietly surrounds the apartment of a suspected serial killer, with all the detectives taking 24-hour stakeout shifts. Forced into closer proximity than usual with one another, the cops begin to unload their pent-up feelings and bare their souls. At least two of Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Requiem for Adena

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Although several years have passed, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) continues to be haunted by his first case on the Baltimore homicide unit: the unsolved rape and murder of young Adena Watson. When a 12-year-old girl is assaulted and killed in a manner resembling the Watson incident, Bayliss becomes Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Wedding

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: A radio talk show host who "dared" his audience to seek revenge for his volatile opinions is found murdered. Investigating the case, Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) and Howard (Melissa Leo) come up with a likely suspect -- or do they? Elsewhere, Kellerman (Reed Diamond) reacts strongly when he is told Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Damage Done

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The unit's investigation of six unsolved homicides involves the detectives in a violent drug turf war. Things get worse when a peace demonstration proves to be anything but, and Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) begins showing signs of being close to a total breakdown. And in a more lighthearted Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Map of the Heart

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: An attorney found floating in a swimming pool appears to have suffered a heart attack. Before long, however, a man confesses to killing the attorney, giving up himself and an incriminating videotape to homicide detectives Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor). Further complicating Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Justice, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Baltimore cop Jake Rodzinski (Bruce Campbell) is the prime suspect in the murder of Kenny Damon, who had been acquitted on the charge of killing Jake's father. Kellerman (Reed Diamond) investigates the case, but withholds details of his findings from Jake's Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Hat

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: While traveling to Harrisburg, PN, to extradite suspected murderer Rose Halligan (Lily Tomlin), Baltimore homicide detectives Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) bide their time and relax as much as possible. Their lethargy proves to be their undoing when Halligan slips through the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Sniper, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, a serial sniper is still at large -- and now there's a copycat killer on the loose. While the city is in full panic mode, the men and women of the homicide department work 24-hour shifts to track down the killers. Elsewhere, Howard (Melissa Leo) recovers from Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Sniper, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Jay Leno makes a brief uncredited appearance in this first episode of a two-part story , in which the homicide unit "celebrates" the new year by going after a serial sniper who strikes every eight hours. Having already claimed nine victims, the elusive killer taunts the cops by leaving behind Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Justice, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, a retired Baltimore police officer named Rodzinski is found murdered near his wife's tombstone. Rodzinski's son Jake (Bruce Campbell), also a cop, begs Lewis (Clark Johnson) to conduct a personal investigation of the killing. When key evidence fails to Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: For God and Country

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street is the conclusion of "Charm City," a two-part story introduced on the TV series Law & Order. Baltimore homicide detectives Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) have gone to New York to investigate a subway bombing which may be linked to a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: I've Got a Secret

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: An ER doctor (Mimi Kennedy) is suspected of withholding vital evidence in the mysterious shooting of a burglar. An enormous man who has gone on a rampage proves to be a major challenge for Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) -- and also indirectly exposes a number of skeletons in Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The True Test

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) investigate the murder of a 15-year-old student at an exclusive prep school. Complications arise when the prime suspect turns out to be the son of a powerful Baltimore judge -- and the detectives can't shake the feeling that the boy is guilty even Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Heart of a Saturday Night

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Three homicide investigations -- involving a carjacking, a rape, and a bar fight -- are unfolded in a series of flashbacks from the viewpoint of both the homicide detectives and the victims' families, the latter having formed a support group. A surprise development occurs when the group welcomes a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: White Lies

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The ongoing investigation of Kellerman's (Reed Diamond) possible involvement in corruption in the arson unit hits the front page of The Baltimore Sun. Even worse, Kellerman may be suspended from duty on the word of an unsavory federal witness -- and not even a polygraph test can determine who is Read More

Two If by Sea

Actors: Denis Leary, Sandra Bullock, Stephen Dillane, Yaphet Kotto, Wayne Robson

Synopsis: Co-star Denis Leary co-wrote the script for this romantic comedy-drama. Leary plays Frank O'Brien, a no-class, small-time hood who is the boyfriend of Roz (Sandra Bullock), a cashier with a New York Jewish background who dreams of settling down and having kids. Roz wants out of the relationship Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Blood Wedding

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The fiancée of assistant district attorney Ed Danvers (Zeljko Ivanek) is shot and killed while shopping for her wedding ensemble. Already unnerved by the killing, and by his own self-doubts regarding his opposition to the death penalty, Danvers is none too happy that his perennial nemesis Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Control

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: For his first case after returning to active duty, Pembleton (Andre Braugher) joins Bayliss (Kyle Secor) in investigating the murder of a divorced woman and her two children, with the woman's ex-husband, an Annapolis naval officer as chief suspect. In other developments Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Hostage, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Homicide: Life on the Street's two-part season five opener, a tense hostage crisis at a Baltimore middle school enters the second day. It soon develops that the deranged man who is holding several teachers and students at gunpoint is connected to an earlier murder in which a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Hostage, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Season five of Homicide: Life on the Street begins with the departure of Captain Megan Russert, who has abruptly moved to Europe after falling for a French diplomat, and with the ascension to full "regular" status of former recurring character J.H. Brodie (Max Perlich), the Baltimore homicide Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Work Related

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Pembleton (Andre Braugher) is now a father, but he hasn't got much time to celebrate his baby's birth. Lewis (Clark Johnson) returns from his honeymoon and delivers a startling confession to Kellerman (Reed Diamond). And Giardello's (Yaphet Kotto) career is on the line when the state attorney Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: M.E., Myself and I

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: This episode introduces Michelle Forbes in the role of new chief medical examiner Julianna Cox. Descending upon a murder scene being investigated by Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor), the outspoken Cox makes no secret of her contempt for the detectives' methods of investigation. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Bad Medicine

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Both Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) have been exiled to desk duty -- Pembleton because he has not fully recovered from his stroke, and Kellerman because he is one of the targets of a federal grand jury's investigation of corruption in the arson unit. In other developments Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Prison Riot

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: This episode would seem to be the precursor to producer Tom Fontana's gritty cable TV series Oz. Most of the homicide detectives are dispatched to a maximum security prison, where two inmates have been killed in a riot. Surrounded by several of the criminals whom they put away in earlier episodes Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Fire, Part 2

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Homicide: Life on the Street's two-part season-four opener, the discovery of a second body at an arson scene suggests that the fire was started to cover up a double homicide. With Bayliss (Kyle Secor) sidelined by illness, his partner, Pembleton (Andre Braugher), is Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Autofocus

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: A gas leak at homicide headquarters forces the detectives to temporarily pitch camp at an old bank building, where several bad moods are quickly exacerbated. The many story developments this evening include the negative effect that Howard's (Melissa Leo) promotion has on her colleagues, and Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Gas Man

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Bruno Kirby guest stars as Victor Helms, a former plumber's assistant who was convicted of murder after causing the deaths of an entire family in a gas explosion. Newly released from prison, Helms has sworn vengeance against the Baltimore homicide cop who put him away: Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Fire, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Homicide: Life on the Street's fourth season, the viewer is informed that Baltimore homicide detectives Bolander and Felton have been suspended without pay for 22 weeks after their misbehavior at a D.C. police convention -- thereby neatly explaining away the departures of Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Thrill of the Kill

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The homicide detectives team up with the FBI to track down a serial killer who is moving progressively northward on I-95. The combined law officers manage to capture a man (Jeffrey Donovan) who fits the description of the killer perfectly -- only to find out that they might have the wrong person Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Heartbeat

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The sudden exhumation of the remains of a person who was obviously walled up alive reopens a ten-year-old unsolved crime. Howard (Melissa Leo) and Munch (Richard Belzer) follow the trail of clues to a fanatical devotee of Edgar Allan Poe (this is, after all, in Baltimore). Elsewhere, the entire Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 03

Synopsis: The first full season of Homicide: Life on the Street (in its third year on the ABC prime-time schedule) features a new addition to the Baltimore PD homicide unit: night-shift commander Megan Russert (Isabella Hofmann), whose blunt manner rubs everyone -- especially her day-shift counterpart Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Hate Crimes

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Not all is what it seems as the detectives investigate a hate crime perpetrated by skinheads in a gay community. In other developments, Howard (Melissa Leo) displays an unattractive case of envy when Lewis (Clark Johnson) begins to make headway in an unsolved case left behind by the late Steve Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Doll's Eyes

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: When a ten-year-old is rendered brain-dead by a random shooting in a mall, Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) are assigned to investigate the child's "murder." Not unexpectedly, both detectives become emotionally involved in the plight of the youngster's anguished family. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Colors

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: A serious rift develops between Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher) when Tim's cousin Jim (David Morse) shoots a Turkish exchange student whom he thinks is breaking into his house. Upset that Bayliss is willing to accept Jim's self-defence plea, Pembleton becomes Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Partners

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Russert (Isabella Hoffman) suspects that her new partner is at the end of his rope -- and is abusing his wife as a result of his frustration. In other developments, Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) try to talk Pembleton (Andre Braugher) out of resigning; Lewis (Clark Johnson) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The City That Bleeds

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: In the first episode of a three-part story arc, Bolander (Ned Beatty), Howard (Melissa Leo), and Felton (Daniel Baldwin) are ambushed and shot down when attempting to serve a warrant. In his efforts to track down the suspect, Pembleton (Andre Braugher) is partnered with a detective who prefers to Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Cradle to Grave

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: As a personal favor, Deputy Commissioner Harris (Al Freeman Jr.) asks Pembleton (Andre Braugher) to conduct an unofficial investigation of a case involving a congressman. As a result of his generosity, Pembleton finds himself part of a wide-ranging coverup, in which he may wind up as the "fall Read More

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

Homicide: Life on the Street: Every Mother's Son

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: As Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) investigate the killing of a 14-year-old boy, the mother of the victim has an unexpected meeting with the mother of the killer. The plans drawn up by Bayliss, Munch (Richard Belzer), and Lewis (Clark Johnson) to renovate their new bar are Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Dead End

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story arc, the detectives continue tracking down the pedophile who may or may not have seriously wounded Bolander (Ned Beatty), Howard (Melissa Leo), and Felton (Daniel Baldwin) in a bloody ambush. Meanwhile, Felton begins to recover from his wounds, but his Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: In Search of Crimes Past

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: When an aging convicted murderer is slated to be executed after 16 years on death row, the condemned man's daughter takes Col. Barnfather (Clayton LeBouef) hostage, demanding that her father's case be reopened. While Bolander (Ned Beatty) races against time to find any shred of evidence that might Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Nothing Personal

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: As indicated by its opening caption, this episode was shown out of sequence with the rest of season three when it originally aired on April 21, 1995. While adjusting to the news that their former colleague Steve Crosetti committed suicide, the homicide detectives divvy up Steve's huge caseload. In Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Old and the Dead

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: NBC news commentator Tim Russert makes a cameo appearance as himself in this episode, wherein detectives Felton (Daniel Baldwin), Bolander (Ned Beatty), and Howard (Melissa Leo) continue to recover from their physical and emotional wounds as they return to active duty. Tonight's case roster Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: End Game

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story arc, public anger over the shooting that left three homicide detectives seriously wounded and the killer at large results in an ultimatum: Either Homicide solves the case within 48 hours, or it will be turned over to another department. Making matters worse Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Law and Disorder

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Investigating the highly suspicious death of the person suspected of ambushing three of his fellow homicide detectives, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) runs up against a wall of departmental silence. Meanwhile, wounded detective Felton (Daniel Baldwin) returns to work, though he hasn't recovered emotionally Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Bop Gun

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Robin Williams guest stars on the first of Homicide's four second-season episodes. Williams is cast as tourist Robert Ellison, who can't cope with the fact that his wife was killed in a holdup right in front of him and their children. Angrily demanding justice, Ellison may well get it when the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: See No Evil

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: A childhood friend of Detective Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin) plans to assist in the suicide of his terminally ill father. When Felton hides his knowledge of this action, he runs afoul of investigating detectives Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Crosetti (Jon Polito). Elsewhere, Pembleton (Andre Braugher) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Many Splendored Thing

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Hoping to make Bolander (Ned Beatty) less self-conscious about their first date, Linda (Melissa Leo) agrees to double-date with Howard (Melissa Leo) and Danvers (Zeljko Ivanek) -- but the jealous Munch (Richard Belzer) messes things up. Back on the job, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) investigates when a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Black and Blue

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) would rather not hear Pembleton's (Andre Braugher) theory that drug dealer C.C. Cox was murdered by a cop. One of the suspects in the killing is Sgt. Jimmy Tryon (Michael S. Kennedy), a former lover of Kay Howard (Melissa Leo) -- and a man who seems too eager to confess. Read More

The Puppet Masters

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton

Synopsis: Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters comes to the screen 43 years later. Sharp-eyed viewers will recognize similarities to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Heinlein's book came first. Parasitic space aliens invade the Midwest, taking over the bodies of humans and manipulating Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 02

Synopsis: Enjoying critical success but only so-so ratings during its nine-episode inaugural season in 1993, Homicide: Life on the Street tentatively returned to the airwaves for four additional episodes in January of 1994. The opener features a poignant guest-star turn by Robin Williams as a tourist whose Read More

Dead Badge

Actors: Brian Wimmer, M. Emmet Walsh, Yaphet Kotto, James B. Sikking, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: In this police drama, a police detective must wear the badge previously owned by a deceased colleague. Following a terrifying shoot-out, the shaken gumshoe begins investigating the circumstances surrounding the slain officer's demise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Out of Sync

Actors: Victoria Dillard, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A love affair with a drug dealer's squeeze lands an L.A. dee-jay (rap artist LL Cool J) in a heap of trouble. Soon he finds himself not only running from the crooks, but the cops as well. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Happy to Be Here

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Giardello's (Yaphet Kotto) activist friend Sam Thorne (Joe Morton) is shot down after blowing the whistle on a high-scale cocaine operation. The squad searches for the husband of a woman who is still receiving fresh flowers every day, even though she's been dead for two weeks. Munch's (Richard Belzer Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Model Citizen

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: The serial killer responsible for the recent spate of "white glove" murders sues Pembleton (Andre Braugher) for violating her civil rights -- but that's only the beginning of his troubles. Elsewhere, Munch (Richard Belzer) is forced to attend an alcohol awareness seminar; Felton's (Daniel Baldwin) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Crosetti

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: After the body of former homicide detective Steve Crosetti is found floating in a river, Bolander (Ned Beatty) arrives at the sad conclusion that his late colleague has committed suicide. Crosetti's ex-partner Lewis (Clark Johnson) refuses to accept this verdict, and launches an after-hours Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: All Through the House

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Christmas is just another day on the calendar for the acerbic Munch (Richard Belzer), especially when he is handed a case involving the murder of a man in a Santa Claus suit. Elsewhere, Lt. Russert (Isabella Hoffman) decides to get back into the hands-on aspects of detective work by joining Lewis (Clark Johnson Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Last of the Watermen

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Depressed by the unsavory aspects of her most recent murder case, Kay Howard (Melissa Leo) takes a leave of absence and returns to her home town -- only to be promptly swept up into the investigation of a local environmentalist's death. Making things uncomfortably personal is the fact that Kay's Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Fits Like a Glove

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: The one linking factor between three murders is a pair of white gloves found at the scene of each crime. This factor not only results in an error of judgment by Roger Gaffney (Walt MacPherson), forcing Pembleton (Andre Braugher) to take full charge of the case, but also arouses the interest of a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Nearer My God to Thee

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Season three of Homicide: Life on the Street finds the day and night shifts of the Baltimore homicide squad uneasily working in tandem to solve the murder of the winner of the city's Samaritan of the Year award. The case is particularly irksome for Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher), whose Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Extreme Unction

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: The homicide department is besieged by demands that details of the three "white glove" murders be made public. Complicating matters is the possibility that prime suspect Mary Maude Wiggs (Lucinda Jenney), who suffers from multiple-personality disorder, may very well beat the rap. And in other Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Night of the Dead Living

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: This final episode of Homicide's first season was originally telecast out of sequential order, requiring an opening title explaining that the action takes place "One Night Last September" (a title still retained in all syndication prints). The air conditioning in the squad room has broken down on Read More

It's Nothing Personal

Almost Blue

Actors: Michael Madsen, Lynette Walden, Garrett Morris, Gale Mayron, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Flung into a deep depression following his wife's accidental death, jazzman Morris Poole (Michael Madsen) borders on suicide, punishing himself for the tragedy. They had been in the middle of a violent argument when she accidentally fell from an upper-story window. Eventually he gets involved with Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 01

Synopsis: Beginning its first (short) season just after ABC's telecast of the 1993 Super Bowl, Homicide: Life on the Street gets under way as rookie detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) joins the Baltimore, MD, police department's homicide division. Almost immediately, Bayliss is teamed with veteran cop Frank Read More

Arthur Miller's The American Clock

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Loren Dean, Mary McDonnell, Joanna Miles, Kelly Preston, David Strathairn, Darren McGavin, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This made-for-cable version of Arthur Miller's play The American Clock was adapted for television by Frank Galati. Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Miller's own recollections, the film is set at the beginning of the Depression. When the stock market crashes Read More

Extreme Justice

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Filmed just before the Rodney King incident, Extreme Justice is a violent tale of "police procedure" gone bonkers. Troublesome LAPD cop Jeff Powers (Lou Diamond Phillips) is assigned to an elite squad headed by his old friend Dan Vaughn (Scott Glenn). Ostensibly organized to collar violent repeat Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Three Men and Adena

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A suspect, Risley Tucker (Moses Gunn), has been hauled in for the murder of 11-year-old Adena Watson. Having pursued this case for weeks, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) are anxious for a chance to wrest a confession from Tucker. Unfortunately, it will be their last chance: If Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Shot in the Dark

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Worn out by the dead-end investigation of the Watson killing, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) turns on the obstreperous Capt. Barnfather (Clayton LeBouef) and calls him a "butthead." As his ex-partner Thormann (Edie Falco) recovers from her wounds, Crosetti (Jon Polito) closes in on the man whom he thinks Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Dog and Pony Show

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Still frustrated by the unsolved Watson murder, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) are in no mood to tackle the murder of a police dog -- but they must, since the Baltimore municipal code dictates that any police killing in the line of duty must be given first priority. Meanwhile Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Giordello (Andre Braugher) is upset when neither he nor his detectives are forewarned of the arrival of an asbestos-removal team. To get vital evidence on a gang leader's murder -- and to find out why the victim waited several days after his beating to get medical help -- Bolander (Ned Beatty) and Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: And the Rockets Dead Glare

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Crosetti (Jon Polito) run afoul of the Feds while investigating the murder of a Chinese student, who turns out to have been one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square protest. Elsewhere, Munch (Richard Belzer) and Bolander (Ned Beatty) investigate when a body is found in Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Gone for Goode

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Originally telecast in the prime time slot following the 1993 Super Bowl, episode one of Homicide: Life on the Street wastes no time getting started, introducing the viewer to a myriad of characters and no fewer than three murder cases. Newly arrived at the Baltimore PD homicide division from the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Ghost of a Chance

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) continue their investigation of the murder of 11-year-old Adena Watson. Bolander (Ned Beatty) and Munch (Richard Belzer) are confronted with a murder victim who is not entirely dead. And despite the skepticism of her partner Felton (Daniel Baldwin Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Son of a Gun

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Crossetti (Jon Polito) insists upon handling the case of his ex-partner Thormann (Edie Falco), who was shot in the head on assignment. Bayliss (Kyle Secor) is becoming increasingly frustrated by the dead ends in the Watson killing, the most recent being a raid on the dead girl's house. Felton (Daniel Baldwin Read More

Intent to Kill

Actors: Traci Lords, Angelo Tiffe

Synopsis: Traci Lords stars as Vicki Stewart, an undercover cop on the trail of drug kingpin Salvador (Angelo Tiffe). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Chrome Soldiers

Actors: Gary Busey, Ray Sharkey, William Atherton, Yaphet Kotto, Norm Skaggs

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable actioner a quintet of Vietnam vets team up and hop on their Harleys to round up a no-good gang of drug dealers from their tiny home town. They also take on the town's crooked politicians. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Rick Logan

Synopsis: The producers insisted that this sixth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series marked the last; no points for guessing that additional sequels followed. This time, homicidal wraith Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) decides to extend his reign of terror past Elm Street. His agent-on-earth is his Read More

Hangfire

Actors: Brad Davis, Kim Delaney, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ken Foree, George Kennedy, Lee de Broux

Synopsis: This Peter Maris action begins at New Mexico State Penitentiary, where a spew of toxic gas from the crash of a tanker truck leads to the evacuation of the prison by the warden (George Kennedy). In the ensuing confusion, anti-social cons Kuttner (Lee De Broux) and Patch (James Tolkan) kidnap prison Read More

Tripwire

Actors: Terence Knox, David Warner, Isabella Hoffman, Charlotte Lewis, Andras Jones

Synopsis: An obsessed government agent and a ruthless terrorist have some grudges to settle in this intense actioner. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

After the Shock

Actors: Yaphet Kotto, Rue McClanahan, Jack Scalia, Scott Valentine

Synopsis: A welcome exception to the slasher-stalker-kidnapper films usually seen on the USA cable network, After the Shock is a tribute to the courage and heroism of Bay Area residents following the San Francisco earthquake of October 17, 1989. Director Gary A. Sherman opts for a "cinema verite" approach Read More

Ministry of Vengeance

Actors: John Schneider, Ned Beatty, James Tolkan, Yaphet Kotto, George Kennedy

Synopsis: A Vietnam War veteran (John Schneider) renounces the military for a priest's habit, but after his wife and daughter are killed by terrorists in Rome (and the government does nothing), the hero returns to violent means. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Prime Target

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a NYPD detective looks into the deaths of several policewomen and discovers that she is to be the killer's next victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Jigsaw Murders

Midnight Run

Actors: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the Read More

A Whisper to a Scream

Actors: Nadia Capone, Silvio Oliviero, Yaphet Kotto, Lawrence Bayne

Synopsis: An actress practices her characterization skills by working for a phone sex operation. However, when a mysterious killer begins murdering women who fit the descriptions that the actress has concocted, she becomes understandable concerned. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Running Man

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown

Synopsis: Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn satirized American entertainment, mocking pro wrestling, game shows, and law-and-order reality programming. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop in the totalitarian America of Read More

Prettykill

Actors: David Birney, Season Hubley, Susannah York, Yaphet Kotto, Suzanne Snyder

Synopsis: In this grim exploitation outing, a luckless detective begins working for a worried madam who wants him to find one of her hookers, a woman suffering from a dual personality, one of whom is a cold-blooded killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Terminal Entry

Actors: Edward Albert, Yaphet Kotto, Paul L. Smith, Kabir Bedi, Heidi Helmer, Mazhar Khan

Synopsis: Unknowingly, a group of computer-hacking teens tamper with a federal system program in what they think is an innocent enough game of strategy. After they begin relaying deadly instructions, they find it is not merely a virtual game they are playing. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Steal Me a Story

Synopsis: No sooner has Jessica (Angela Lansbury) shipped her latest book to the publisher than someone plagiarizes its plotline for an episode of a TV crime series. Arriving in Hollywood to track down the culprit, Jessica crosses the path of an unscrupulous producer who specializes in stealing other Read More

Desperado

Actors: Alex McArthur, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Desperado was the first of several made-for-TV movies revolving around the exploits of itinerant cowboy Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). This time around, McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. As the only honest man in the territory (comparatively speaking), our Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, David Ogden Stiers, Susan Wilder

Synopsis: The last of the four Perry Mason movies telecast in 1987, The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel rounds up veterans Raymond Burr (as Mason) and Barbara Hale (as Della Street), with comparative newcomers William Katt (as Paul Drake Jr.) and David Ogden Stiers (as the "Hamilton Burger"-style Read More

In Self Defense

Harem

Actors: Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Nancy Travis

Synopsis: The classy made-for-TV Harem managed to get away with plot devices that dated back to the days of Rudolph Valentino. Nancy Travis heads the cast as Jessica Gray, a turn-of-the-century American woman who is kidnapped and ensconced in the harem of Turkish sultan Hasan (Omar Sharif). Jessica Read More

Eye of the Tiger

Actors: Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen, William Smith

Synopsis: The budget may be loftier, but Eye of the Tiger is essentially an up-to-date AIP motorcycle flick. Ex-convict Buck Mathews (Gary Busey) lives as quietly as possible in his old home town. The corrupt local sheriff (Seymour Cassel) would give anything to drive Buck out of town: thus, the sheriff Read More

The Park Is Mine

Synopsis: In this taut action drama, an unbalanced Vietnam vet goes off the beam and takes over Central Park in this made for cable outing that was filmed entirely in Toronto. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Badge of the Assassin

Actors: James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, David Harris

Synopsis: Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, this made-for-TV crime drama centers on assistant district attorney Robert Tanenbaum's desperate search for a trio of cop killers. Tanenbaum (James Woods) is assisted by an equally determined detective (Yaphet Lau Kotto). ~ Sandra Read More

Adventures: Past, Present and Future Featurettes

Synopsis: Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are some of the trailers and coming attractions seen in movies like Airport 77, Futureworld, Alien and Doc Savage. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Warning Sign

Actors: Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story about germs going berserk in a sealed-off lab, giving rise to infected humans more berserk than the germs. The lab is secretly developing weapons of biological warfare Read More

Playing With Fire

Synopsis: In this drama, a disturbed teenager turns to arson in order to vent his anger and frustration over his parent's upcoming divorce. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The A-Team: The Out-of-Towners

Synopsis: This week the A-Team shows up in New York, where they champion the cause of a group of Delancy Street shopkeepers who are being terrorized by a vicious protection racket. The team quickly discerns that the man behind the racket is a flamboyant nightclub owner, which of course obligates our heroes Read More

For Love and Honor

Synopsis: First telecast September 23, 1983, For Love and Honor was the opening episode of the same-named TV series. Cliff Potts heads the cast as First Sergeant Gene Allard, assigned to a small "army town." His brothers (and sisters) in khaki include Shelley Smith as medical corps Captain Carolyn Engel, Gary Grubbs Read More

The Star Chamber

Actors: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Read More

Women of San Quentin

Synopsis: In this drama, a crack corps of female prison guards are assigned to watch over the men in the most dangerous cell-block. Mayhem ensues as the physical and emotional pressures the women face begin to take their toll. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fighting Back

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto, David Rasche

Synopsis: An Italian deli owner (Tom Skerritt) gets fed up with the petty hoodlums in his south Philadelphia neighborhood who have been terrorizing his friends. He decides to form a neighborhood watch group to fight off the crooks. While his intentions are the very best, the group of vigilantes he forms Read More

Brubaker

Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More

Rage

Synopsis: Husband, father, rapist. All three succinctly describe the character portrayed by David Soul in the made-for-TV Rage. Though he would seem to be a hopeless case, Soul is subjected to prison therapy sessions, on the theory that he might be curable. As the sessions continue under the guidance of Read More

Alien

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm

Synopsis: "In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the Read More

Blue Collar

Actors: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley, Jr., Harry Bellaver

Synopsis: Paul Schrader's directorial debut examines the trials of Detroit autoworkers living at the mercy of a heartless corporation and a corrupt union. Surviving from paycheck to paycheck, Checker Cab assembly linemen Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto) scrape by and Read More

Raid on Entebbe

Actors: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in Entebbe, Uganda, where President-for-life Idi Amin (Yaphet Kotto Read More

Drum

Actors: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: It is hard to get more deliriously fever-pitched than the ending of Mandingo -- in which a plantation master is shot and his main slave gets boiled in oil -- but Drum (Mandingo's mangy sequel) certainly tries. Hammond Maxwell (Warren Oates), the late slave-owner's son (from Mandingo), is trying to Read More

The Monkey Hustle

Actors: Yaphet Kotto, Rudy Ray Moore, Rosalind Cash, Randy Brooks, Debbi Morgan

Synopsis: An inner-city Chicago community comes together to save their neighborhood from destruction in this '70s era blaxploitation-comedy. The construction of a proposed expressway would tear up their urban home, so a massive block party is planned to protest the action. Meanwhile, fast-talking scam Read More

Crunch

Synopsis: In this detective move, a black sleuth in Manhattan breaks up a drug ring and catches a psycho jewel thief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Friday Foster

Actors: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala, Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: A woman looking for adventure finds romance, excitement and danger in her viewfinder in this action-packed comedy-drama. Friday Foster (Pam Grier) is a beautiful and ambitious young photographer who is working as an assistant at Glance Magazine, edited by the hard-boiled Monk Riley (Julius Read More

Sharks' Treasure

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Yaphet Kotto, John Neilson, Cliff Osmond, David Canary

Synopsis: When a group of treasure hunters attempt to locate a sunken fortune, they enlist the help of an adventure-hungry fisherman (Cornel Wilde). This film was written, directed, and produced by Cornel Wilde, who has the starring role as well. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Truck Turner

Actors: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role as hard-case bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner, three years after composing the legendary score for Shaft (1971). Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when Read More

Report to the Commissioner

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Hector Elizondo, William Devane

Synopsis: A young NYPD detective learns (the hard way) about the politics that govern a big-city police department. He kills a lady-detective/colleague whose undercover garb concealed her profession and he gets caught up in a department cover-up. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Live and Let Die

Actors: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris

Synopsis: Roger Moore makes his first appearance as "Bond...James Bond" in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is dispatched to the States to stem the activities of Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), who plans to take over the Western Hemisphere by converting everyone into heroin addicts. The woman in the case is Solitaire Read More

Bone

Synopsis: When their lavish home is invaded by a violent and unstable black criminal, a high-living white Beverly Hills couple is forced to confront their worst nightmares in filmmaker Larry Cohen's satirical black comedy. Famous car dealer Bill (Andrew Duggan) and his wife, Bernadette (Joyce Van Patten) Read More

Across 110th Street

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Across 110th Street is a violent urban thriller about a corrupt, older white cop (Anthony Quinn) and an honest, young African-American cop (Yaphet Kotto) chasing three robbers-cum-murderers who ran away with $300,000 that belonged to the Italian mob. The police must find them before the sadistic Read More

The Limit

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: In this biker flick, an L.A. policeman becomes friends with another officer and the tough black leader of a biker gag. Conflict ensues, especially when the biker leader's ambitious and vengeful second in command beats up his girlfriend and abducts the leaders pregnant girl. He takes her on a wild Read More

Man and Boy

Actors: Leif Erickson, Gloria Foster, George Spell, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black Civil War Veteran who just wants to clear out his Arizona homestead and live in peace with his neighbors. Instead, he and his son (George Spell) have to track his stolen Read More

The Time Is Now

Synopsis: In this drama, a radical student and a college dean have a heated argument. The trouble really begins when afterward, the dean is found dead. The story was taken from the Name of the Game television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana, Lee Majors

Synopsis: Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after marrying his sweetheart Nella (Barbara Hershey), takes a position with a law firm in a small Southern town, run by his uncle Oman Hedgepath (Lee J. Cobb). L.B. Jones (Roscoe Read More

Night Chase

Synopsis: Will David Janssen never stop being a fugitive? In the made-for-TV Night Chase, he's a Los Angelino on the lam after shooting his wife's lover. Believing he's killed the man, Janssen boards Yaphet Kotto's taxi and orders Kotto to head for Mexico. The film's level of suspense holds up until the Read More

A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion was filmed where it happened, in Charleston South Carolina. Yaphet Kotto plays Vessey, a former slave who has bought his freedom and is working as a carpenter. In 1822, Vessey organizes a slave rebellion in Charleston. Planning Read More

Five Card Stud

Actors: Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Katherine Justice

Synopsis: Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum play deadly adversaries in this curious mixture of the western and mystery genres. During a poker game in Rincon, Colorado, a stranger in the game is lynched for cheating. One of the gamblers, Van Morgan (Dean Martin), tries to prevent the lynching but is rebuffed Read More

The Thomas Crown Affair

Actors: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack Weston) leads the cast of crooks who never actually Read More

Bonanza: Child

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Unbeknownst to Hoss Cartwright, the horse he has just purchased previously belonged to a murdered millionaire. As a result, Hoss is railroaded into jail on a murder-theft charge. Threatened with lynching by a band of townsfolk eager to get their hands on the dead man's missing money, Hoss breaks Read More

Nothing But a Man

Actors: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster, Martin Priest

Synopsis: A landmark independent film, Nothing but a Man is the first dramatic story featuring a largely black cast created for an integrated audience (the work of black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux was intended for audiences who patronized black-only theaters). White filmmakers Michael Roemer and Read More

4 for Texas

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono

Synopsis: In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most of the film battling over who will control the gambling and wenching in 1870 Galveston. Though they'd as soon cut each other's throats than cooperate, Zack and Joe are Read More