Known for Acting
Born
February 24, 1948
Died
November 30, 2005 (age 57)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
22 films, 4 shows


The Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa
2002 · 42m · US
Ricky wants to give his crush Nicole a Christmas gift, but when he does she angrily rejects it as "cheap." She later regrets her mistake and decides to find it.
Erasable You
Erasable You
1998 · 1h 25m · US
A man hires an assassin to kill his money-grabbing first wife.


Doppelganger
1993 · 1h 44m · US
After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.


Candyman
1992 · 1h 40m · US
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.


Catchfire
1990 · 1h 56m · US
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.


Bad Dreams
1988 · 1h 26m · US
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.


Nuts
1987 · 1h 56m · US
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.


Student Confidential
1987 · 1h 39m · US
A millionaire in the midst of a personal crisis becomes a high school guidance counselor and encourages four students to reach their potential... through unorthodox methods.


Jimmy the Kid
1982 · 1h 25m · US
Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.


Money on the Side
1982 · 1h 30m · US
Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982 · 1h 40m
A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.


The Howling
1981 · 1h 31m · US
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.


A Matter of Life and Death
1981 · 1h 44m · US
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.


A Guide for the Married Woman
1978 · 1h 44m · US
A seriocomic look at the life of Julie Walker. Bored with her marriage, and encouraged by her friends, she contemplates an affair. Fantasy and reality mix often, leading to complications and headaches.


Ring of Passion
1978 · 1h 38m · US
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.


Coma
1978 · 1h 53m · US
When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.


Car Wash
1976 · 1h 37m · US
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.


The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
1976 · 1h 51m · US
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.


Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975 · 1h 35m · US
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.


The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
1974 · 1h 16m · US
Fritz, now married and a father, is desperate to escape the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one to provide a pleasant distraction. The drug-induced journeys he takes include spells as an astronaut, Hitler's psychiatrist, a courier travelling in hostile territory during a race war, and as a pupil of an Indian guru in the sewers of New York.


A Dream for Christmas
1973 · 2h · US
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.


The Hospital
1971 · 1h 43m · US
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.