Dorian Harewood
Dorian Harewood (born August 6, 1950) is an African American actor. He first garnered attention for his portrayal of Simon Haley (father of author Alex Haley) in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations. He is also known for his roles in Full Metal Jacket and The Jesse Owens Story, and for his co-starring role in the ABC Television series Strike Force. In 1994, he was awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie, for his recurring role as jazz/blues saxophonist Clarence "Cool Papa" Charleston on the NBC drama series I'll Fly Away.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.844 |
| Birthday | 1950-08-06 |
| Place of Birth | Dayton, Ohio, USA |
| Also Known As |
1987
Full Metal Jacket
8.128/10493
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the...
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Full Metal Jacket
1996
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
6.9/63
Clark Kent, the last survivor of the dead planet Krypton, uses his amazing powers to defend people of his adopted world, Earth, and become Superman.
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Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
1990
Pacific Heights
6.238/364
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Pacific Heights
1984
Tank
5.8/76
After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local she...
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Tank
1976
Sparkle
7.6/20
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
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Sparkle
1984
Against All Odds
5.7/211
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love he...
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Against All Odds
2002
The Christmas Shoes
6.9/47
Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a p...
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The Christmas Shoes
1978
Gray Lady Down
6.4/79
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a pote...
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Gray Lady Down
1997
12 Angry Men
7.7/364
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result...
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12 Angry Men
1995
Sudden Death
5.976/716
When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he franticall...
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Sudden Death
2002
Framed
5.2/14
New York detective Mike Santini is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness...
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Framed
1998
Evasive Action
6.4/9
When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking for a new home. Several of the most dangerous, all k...
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Evasive Action
1994
The Pagemaster
6.383/737
Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehous...
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The Pagemaster
2003
Levity
6.2/101
Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at h...
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Levity
2007
Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
7.541/158
When the Boogey Man causes Grim to lose his powers, rank, and title in the Underworld Court for misusing his powers, he plots to seek out Horror's Han...
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Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
1989
Kiss Shot
6.308/13
A struggling, single mom with a precocious young daughter also has an unpaid mortgage. She falls back on her pool-playing skills to pay off her debts....
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Kiss Shot
1994
Shattered Image
2.5/2
An FBI agent investigating the kidnap then apparent murder of a wealthy businessman, has his suspicions. The authorities believe Ben to be dead, but t...
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Shattered Image
1979
An American Christmas Carol
6.059/34
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is vis...
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An American Christmas Carol
1989
Polly
8.179/14
An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
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Polly
2003
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
2.5/2
A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two frie...
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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
1998
Change of Heart
5.3/7
Beneath Jim Marshall's veneer as the all-American father and husband, lies a long suppressed desire that is about to ruin his idyllic family. When Ela...
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Change of Heart
2005
A History of God
0/0
For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world's monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, ba...
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A History of God
2001
Glitter
4.3/144
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
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Glitter
2006
Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
6.5/6
Jane must get to the truth when a breakfast cereal magnate takes a tragic spill from his private yacht and drowns.
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Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
1990
The Easter Story
7.5/6
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is a television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that tells of three young adventurers—Derek, Margo, an...
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The Easter Story
1982
I, Desire
5.8/5
A coroner's assistant, who is also a law student, gets involved in a strange case involving his girlfriend's place of employment (a hospital), prostit...
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I, Desire
1978
Siege
5.2/4
A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because th...
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Siege
1996
Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
0/0
Inspired by the theatrical magicians Siegfried and Roy, this animated adventure transplants the stage personalities into a fantastical world called Sa...
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Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
1998
Archibald the Rainbow Painter
0/0
Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright is a house painter hired to work on a Beverly Hills mansion where he becomes involved in the life of the resident fam...
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Archibald the Rainbow Painter
1984
The Jesse Owens Story
7.9/4
The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama wo...
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The Jesse Owens Story
1987
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
0/0
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought tha...
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Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1977
Panic in Echo Park
5.4/6
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
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Panic in Echo Park
2008
Grave Misconduct
4.2/4
A fledgling mystery writer sees an opportunity to advance her career after the death of a novelist/friend but faces dire consequences when a series of...
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Grave Misconduct
1997
When The Cradle Falls
6/1
An adoption service is kidnapping healthy white babies an adopting them to infertile couples for a price. Meanwhile Brian and Donna have a bouncing ba...
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When The Cradle Falls
1990
Polly: Comin' Home!
8.5/7
Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial und...
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Polly: Comin' Home!
2005
Assault on Precinct 13
6.171/1079
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and crim...
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Assault on Precinct 13
1992
Getting Up and Going Home
0/0
A middle-aged lawyer struggles to face his inner demons as he finds himself embroiled in affairs with three separate women.
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Getting Up and Going Home
2003
Gothika
6.103/2279
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that...
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Gothika
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
6.468/155
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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The Falcon and the Snowman
1982
The Ambush Murders
9/1
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims t...
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The Ambush Murders
2000
Hendrix
6.3/18
Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to hi...
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Hendrix
2006
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
5.8/9
Get ready for all of the laughs, adventure and hip-hopping good times in this all-new imaginative and modern retelling of Uncle Remus' best-loved tale...
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The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
1984
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
0/0
Don't Ask Me, Ask God is a TV Special starring Michael J. Fox.
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Don't Ask Me, Ask God
2011
Mayor Cupcake
5.4/14
A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. With no formal experience or education to speak of, sh...
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Mayor Cupcake
2001
The Triangle
4.6/38
This made-for-TV movie follows a group of friends as they try to find a boat lost for 50 years in the Bermuda Triangle.
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The Triangle
1988
God Bless the Child
6.3/6
Single mother, Theresa Johnson, becomes homeless, loses her job and tries to survive with her young daughter, Hillary, through charities and public sh...
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God Bless the Child
2003
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
7.4/114
Spider-Man and Daredevil team up to fight Kingpin.
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Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
1992
Solar Crisis
4.4/28
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial...
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Solar Crisis
2008
Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem
0/0
This historical documentary chronicles the 18-month period from mid-1933 to late 1934 when John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Machine...
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Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem
2000
The Last Debate
0/0
A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away,...
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The Last Debate
2001
Walter and Henry
8.5/4
Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a...
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Walter and Henry
1981
Looker
6.1/118
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding...
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Looker
2004
Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!
3.98/25
Kangaroo Jack is back but this time he's animated! Three Teenagers go to the Outback, and find themselves back in Vegas - trying to get Jack home!
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Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!
2015
The Making of the Wiz Live!
0/0
Go behind the curtain in The Land of Oz with NBC's "The Making of The Wiz Live!" The hour-long special will give an exclusive backstage look at this h...
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The Making of the Wiz Live!
1990
Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II
7/1
This special has the band hiring a slick-talking new manager in an attempt to make a comeback. Under his guidance, the Raisins try their hand at vario...
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Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II
1981
God's Trombones
0/0
A trilogy of African-American poems that applies artistic interpretation to religious parables. Narrated by James Earl Jones.
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God's Trombones
2015
The Right Girl
6.1/26
A young woman learns valuable lessons while developing a relationship with her new boss and his young son.
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The Right Girl
1996
Space Jam
6.819/6001
With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordon to win a basketball game against a team of moronic alie...
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Space Jam
1985
Dirty Work
0/0
An unsold TV pilot starring Kerrie Keane and Louis Giambalvo.
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Dirty Work
1990
The Knife and Gun Club
0/0
Failed drama series pilot about events at a trauma center run by two doctors struggling to keep the Emergency Room open.
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The Knife and Gun Club
1975
Foster & Laurie
0/0
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down...
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Foster & Laurie
1980
High Ice
5.8/4
A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share com...
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High Ice
2007
Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
7.5/6
Follow Stanley Kubrick as he creates his savage and brilliant Vietnam film, hewing closely to the theme that dominated his creative life for four deca...
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