Joel Fluellen

Joel Fluellen

Birthday: 1907-12-02

Place of Birth: Monroe, Louisiana, USA

Biography: Joel Fluellen was an actor, known for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), The Great White Hope (1970) and Friendly Persuasion (1956). He died on February 2, 1990 in Los Angeles, California.

Movies

You're in the Navy Now
You're in the Navy Now

When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim...

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Skin Game
Skin Game

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Norther...

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Riot in Cell Block 11
Riot in Cell Block 11

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...

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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with...

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Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

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Monster from Green Hell
Monster from Green Hell

A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and rad...

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Man Friday
Man Friday

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man...

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Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull

Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with vi...

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The Decks Ran Red
The Decks Ran Red

A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind....

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Buccaneer's Girl
Buccaneer's Girl

A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father....

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Duffy of San Quentin
Duffy of San Quentin

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse....

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Jasper's Paradise
Jasper's Paradise

Jasper goes to heaven in this George Pal Puppetoon....

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Family Honeymoon
Family Honeymoon

Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machina...

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Thomasine & Bushrod
Thomasine & Bushrod

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white cap...

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Who's Minding the Mint?
Who's Minding the Mint?

A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the U...

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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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Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper ano...

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Freedom Road
Freedom Road

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional co...

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The Chase
The Chase

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town....

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Monster from British Hell
Monster from British Hell

A pair of scientists accidentally create mayhem in the North West of England by unleashing a swarm o...

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Without Reservations
Without Reservations

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...

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The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager,...

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Jungle Gents
Jungle Gents

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys ar...

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No Time for Romance
No Time for Romance

A talented young Black songwriter gets his big break in a New York Musical. His adversary tried to p...

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Affair in Trinidad
Affair in Trinidad

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer....

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White Pongo
White Pongo

Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fra...

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Heart of the Golden West
Heart of the Golden West

Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ...

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A Dream for Christmas
A Dream for Christmas

A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting aw...

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He Rides Tall
He Rides Tall

A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gu...

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The Burning Cross
The Burning Cross

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another ...

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Lord of the Jungle
Lord of the Jungle

The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants....

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist ar...

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Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black...

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Roustabout
Roustabout

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his...

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Perils of the Jungle
Perils of the Jungle

On an African safari with his friend Grant, Clyde Beatty plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions...

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Cabin in the Sky
Cabin in the Sky

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where h...

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The Opposite Sex
The Opposite Sex

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair w...

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House of Numbers
House of Numbers

Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison....

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Walk Softly, Stranger
Walk Softly, Stranger

A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter....

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The Great Jewel Robber
The Great Jewel Robber

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the noto...

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The Negro Sailor
The Negro Sailor

US Navy produced short stars Joel Fluellen as a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper t...

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Hit the Ice
Hit the Ice

After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain r...

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Jungle Drums of Africa
Jungle Drums of Africa

In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work. Before l...

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The Jackie Robinson Story
The Jackie Robinson Story

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Trac...

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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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Casey's Shadow
Casey's Shadow

Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey's Sh...

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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, ali...

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Black Hollywood
Black Hollywood

Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black ...

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Good Neighbor Sam
Good Neighbor Sam

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. Th...

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Congo Maisie
Congo Maisie

Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, cro...

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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he for...

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Uptight
Uptight

Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants build...

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His Kind of Woman
His Kind of Woman

Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself...

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