Beah Richards
Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards, was an American actress and writer.
Richards was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her supporting role in the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1968, as well as winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest roles in the television series Frank's Place in 1988 and The Practice in 2000. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1965 production of The Amen Corner.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.358 |
Birthday | 1920-07-12 |
Place of Birth | Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA |
Also Known As | Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, |
1967
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
7.56/803
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
In the Heat of the Night
7.634/1032
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Spar...
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In the Heat of the Night
1975
Mahogany
5.9/21
An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambi...
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Mahogany
1972
Footsteps
0/0
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the tea...
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Footsteps
1991
One Special Victory
0/0
A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He i...
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One Special Victory
1990
Zora is My Name!
0/0
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portr...
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Zora is My Name!
1989
Homer and Eddie
5.674/46
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
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Homer and Eddie
1998
Beloved
5.665/94
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...
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Beloved
1987
Inside Out
6.3/3
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
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Inside Out
1979
Banjo the Woodpile Cat
6.3/32
Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump off a roof of a chicken coup to see if he can lan...
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Banjo the Woodpile Cat
1973
Outrage
6.1/7
One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.
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Outrage
1987
Big Shots
6.3/13
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...
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Big Shots
1967
Hurry Sundown
6.5/29
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major po...
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Hurry Sundown
1985
Generation
4.5/2
Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium f...
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Generation
1959
Take a Giant Step
5.2/6
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black...
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Take a Giant Step
1963
Gone Are the Days!
6.7/3
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convinci...
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Gone Are the Days!
1994
Out of Darkness
7.5/2
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.
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Out of Darkness
1986
As Summers Die
6.2/7
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threate...
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As Summers Die
1970
The Great White Hope
6.017/29
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
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The Great White Hope
1986
Acceptable Risks
5/3
The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made...
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Acceptable Risks
1962
The Miracle Worker
7.831/293
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard h...
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The Miracle Worker
1980
A Christmas Without Snow
6.1/7
A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leav...
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A Christmas Without Snow
2004
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
0/0
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it wo...
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
1972
The Biscuit Eater
6.2/15
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all...
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The Biscuit Eater
1989
Drugstore Cowboy
7.089/524
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, w...
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Drugstore Cowboy
1973
A Dream for Christmas
6/2
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demoliti...
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A Dream for Christmas
1985
And the Children Shall Lead
10/2
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease in...
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And the Children Shall Lead
1978
Ring of Passion
7/1
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies j...
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Ring of Passion
1976
Just an Old Sweet Song
0/0
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. E...
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Just an Old Sweet Song
1958
The Mugger
5.6/9
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
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