Known for Acting
Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) was an American actress, most known for her stage performances both on and off Broadway, including her acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career. In films, she was perhaps best known as the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003), the latter film being her last. Gloria Foster also played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the mini series The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985.
Born
November 15, 1933
Died
September 29, 2001 (age 67)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography
18 films, 12 shows


The Matrix Resurrections
2021 · 2h 28m
country: United States
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.


A History of God
2005 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world's monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, based on Karen Armstrong's acclaimed book of the same name, traces that elusive and fascinating quest.


Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
2004 · 1h 1m
country: Unknown
An hour long discussion on the philosophical concepts that inspired, and are presented in the trilogy. This is one of the two feature-length documentaries on disc number 8 of the 10-Disc Ultimate Set.


The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · 2h 18m
country: United States
The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.


The Matrix
1999 · 2h 16m
country: United States
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.


Percy & Thunder
1993 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.


City of Hope
1991 · 2h 9m
country: United States
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.


Separate but Equal
1991 · 3h 6m
country: United States
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.


Leonard Part 6
1987 · 1h 25m
country: United States
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.


The House of Dies Drear
1984 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.


Coriolanus
1979 · 2h 40m
country: Unknown
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.


Top Secret
1978 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium in Italy before it can be used by terrorists.


To All My Friends on Shore
1972 · 1h 14m
country: United States
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.


Man and Boy
1971 · 1h 38m
country: United States
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.


The Angel Levine
1970 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?


The Comedians
1967 · 2h 32m
country: United States
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.


Nothing But a Man
1964 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.


The Cool World
1964 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.