Moses Gunn

Moses Gunn

Birthday: 1929-10-02

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 17, 1993) was an American actor. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company in the 1960s. His 1962 Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks. He was nominated for a 1976 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for The Poison Tree and played Othello on Broadway in 1970. Description above from the Wikipedia article Moses Gunn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Shaft
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's Big Score!
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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Heartbreak Ridge
Heartbreak Ridge

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he t...

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Firestarter
Firestarter

Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic ...

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Carter's Army
Carter's Army

A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowin...

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Leonard Part 6
Leonard Part 6

After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurate...

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Ragtime
Ragtime

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...

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The NeverEnding Story
The NeverEnding Story

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fan...

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The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the...

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Cornbread, Earl and Me
Cornbread, Earl and Me

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political an...

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The Ninth Configuration
The Ninth Configuration

Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With...

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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depressio...

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Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace

A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers th...

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Nothing But a Man
Nothing But a Man

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America....

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Remember My Name
Remember My Name

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stal...

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Bates Motel
Bates Motel

A mentally disturbed man who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility inherits th...

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Certain Fury
Certain Fury

Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a cour...

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Perfect Harmony
Perfect Harmony

During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegrega...

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The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home....

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Haunts of the Very Rich
Haunts of the Very Rich

A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing ...

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Aaron Loves Angela
Aaron Loves Angela

Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love ...

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Eagle in a Cage
Eagle in a Cage

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon...

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Brother Future
Brother Future

A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself...

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Rollerball
Rollerball

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, a...

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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands o...

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Legacy of Blood
Legacy of Blood

An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die....

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The Great White Hope
The Great White Hope

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing est...

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Memphis
Memphis

Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black famil...

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The Hot Rock
The Hot Rock

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only th...

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Dixie Lanes
Dixie Lanes

Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in li...

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The House of Dies Drear
The House of Dies Drear

A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil W...

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The Luckiest Man in the World
The Luckiest Man in the World

New York City garment manufacturer Sam Posner is a liar, a bully and a cheat who makes life unpleasa...

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Moving Target
Moving Target

A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been murdered, an...

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Law of the Land
Law of the Land

A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes....

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Wild Rovers
Wild Rovers

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods ...

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The Killing Floor
The Killing Floor

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaug...

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The Sheriff
The Sheriff

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate...

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The First Breeze of Summer
The First Breeze of Summer

A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly gra...

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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blin...

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Amityville II: The Possession
Amityville II: The Possession

Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityvi...

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WUSA
WUSA

Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New O...

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Murder Times Seven
Murder Times Seven

For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal...

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The Secret of the Pond
The Secret of the Pond

A spoiled city youngster learns the hard way that there may be some truth to the legend of a mysteri...

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