Richard Roundtree
Birthday: 1942-07-09
Place of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Biography: Richard Roundtree (July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023) was an American actor. He is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019. For his performance in the original film, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972. He reprised the role of Shaft in the movie Shaft (2019), starring Samuel L. Jackson.
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Shaft
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But t...
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Shaft
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daught...
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Shaft in Africa
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring....
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Shaft's Big Score!
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client....
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Wild Seven
In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious do...
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Se7en
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "s...
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George of the Jungle
Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by go...
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Earthquake
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits ...
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Al's Lads
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al C...
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Young Warriors
After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up a...
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Speed Racer
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his ...
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Steel
When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes S...
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Amityville: A New Generation
Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a ...
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Brick
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the di...
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Antitrust
A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers h...
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The Banker
High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre So...
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Q
A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating fl...
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Opposing Force
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group...
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Escape to Athena
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They...
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Theodore Rex
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosau...
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Maniac Cop
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York Cit...
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An Eye for an Eye
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he ...
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The Confidant
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond...
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City Heat
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer....
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Ladies of the House
When three women are asked to refurbish a house for their church, they find that they must break dow...
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BaadAsssss Cinema
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period...
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Corky Romano
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangst...
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Angel III: The Final Chapter
Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar wo...
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Jocks
When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college ...
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Crack House
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the p...
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The Baron and the Kid
Johnny Cash heads the cast in this sentimental drama, which follows a famed pool hustler (Cash) whos...
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Hawaiian Gardens
A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicat...
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Portrait of a Hitman
A professional hitman is hired to kill a brain surgeon. However, it turns out that not only are he a...
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Painkiller Jane
Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. ...
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Charley One-Eye
A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in ...
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A Time to Die
A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who fr...
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Man Friday
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man...
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Christmas in Connecticut
Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her man...
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Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight
Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he m...
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One Down, Two to Go
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy...
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Night Visitor
A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it....
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The Big Score
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down...
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Diamonds
Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twi...
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Men Cry in the Dark
The future has never looked better for Derrick Reed. Bachelorhood is great, he has a group of guys h...
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Party Line
A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and mu...
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Bad Jim
A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself....
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Getting Even
After being betrayed by a fellow Marine and spending five years in a POW camp, homeless Vietnam vet ...
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Moving On
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who ...
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Joe and Max
True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship....
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Inchon
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationshi...
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The Fifth Missile
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken b...
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Set Apart
Four troubled, inner city kids get a western-style shot at redemption when a cowboy pastor invites t...
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Sins of the Night
Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works for an P.I. firm, run by Ted Quincy. Quincy's ex-lo...
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Gypsy Angels
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash....
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Day of the Assassin
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, ...
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Game for Vultures
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. Th...
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Any Place But Home
A businessman's son is kidnappped, but the kidnapper's sister-in-law and her husband are opposed to ...
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Undercover Brother
An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white org...
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Killpoint
An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang th...
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Blind Man's Bluff
A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. T...
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Deadly Rivals
A physicist involved in classified military research meets a woman who he begins to suspect is a spy...
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What Do You Say to a Naked Lady
Candid Camera's Allen Funt secretely tapes people's reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity i...
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Original Gangstas
The Rebels rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. They shoot storekeeper Marvin Bookman for giving the p...
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All The Days Before Tomorrow
Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who co...
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Whatever She Wants
Whatever She Wants is the story about one woman s determination to rediscover who she really is... V...
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Thelma
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets o...
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Max Havoc: Curse Of The Dragon
A former kickboxer returns to his fighting ways when he encounters a gang in Guam....
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Embassy
A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defec...
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the d...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters ...
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Body of Influence
A successful psychiatrist has his world turned upside-down by the appearance of a mystery woman who ...
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Harlem to Hollywood
An insider's look at the most famous person most people have never heard of: singer-songwriter Billy...
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Boat Trip
Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately...
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Retreat!
Inspired by war films from the 1950's, Retreat! tells the story of nine U.S. Soldiers who were force...
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Daddy Can't Read
Teenage girl doesn't understand why her father is against her campaign to promote literacy at his fa...
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Mind Twister
Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend....
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Point of Entry
A young woman named Katherine Alden becomes the unwanted victim of her new handsome next door neighb...
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Just an Overnight Guest
A family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her....
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Soul in Cinema: Filming 'Shaft' on Location
A behind the scenes look at the filming of the movie Shaft (1971). The movie's director, Gordon Park...
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Firehouse
Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recrui...
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Shadows of Desire
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother....
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Shaft
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the tr...
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Bonanza: The Return
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to tak...
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Bonanza: Under Attack
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outla...
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Collar
While his life begins to crumble, TJ Williams's fast fading future is bartered for political gain by...
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Black as the Heart
Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray...
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What Men Want
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the t...
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A Family Reunion Christmas
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant...
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Diary of a Single Mom
Ocean a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartme...
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Nationtime
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event...
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Haunting of the Mary Celeste
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of ...
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Final Approach
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months l...
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Vegas Vampires
A series of brutal murders at several top nightclubs have left the Las Vegas police department baffl...
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A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for...
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Ballistic
Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial ...
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