Moses Gunn
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Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 17, 1993) was an American actor. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company in the 1960s. His 1962 Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks. He was nominated for a 1976 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for The Poison Tree and played Othello on Broadway in 1970.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.229 |
| Birthday | 1929-10-02 |
| Place of Birth | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Also Known As |
1971
Shaft
6.4/358
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Shaft
1972
Shaft's Big Score!
6/64
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
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Shaft's Big Score!
1986
Heartbreak Ridge
6.861/1011
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad...
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Heartbreak Ridge
1984
Firestarter
6.301/680
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the...
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Firestarter
1975
Carter's Army
4.3/11
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their...
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Carter's Army
1987
Leonard Part 6
2.8/63
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his da...
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Leonard Part 6
1981
Ragtime
7/159
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...
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Ragtime
1984
The NeverEnding Story
7.195/3979
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverendi...
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The NeverEnding Story
1973
The Iceman Cometh
6/25
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props...
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The Iceman Cometh
1975
Cornbread, Earl and Me
7.2/7
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adapta...
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Cornbread, Earl and Me
1980
The Ninth Configuration
6.5/142
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusio...
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The Ninth Configuration
1968
Of Mice and Men
0/0
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
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Of Mice and Men
1974
Amazing Grace
6.7/3
A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumben...
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Amazing Grace
1964
Nothing But a Man
7.4/30
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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Nothing But a Man
1978
Remember My Name
6.2/31
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent...
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Remember My Name
1987
Bates Motel
4.3/51
A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility, inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attem...
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Bates Motel
1985
Certain Fury
5.2/17
Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a courtroom shoot-out.
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Certain Fury
1991
Perfect Harmony
6.2/8
During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegregation. Can a love of music help ease the pain?
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Perfect Harmony
1989
The Women of Brewster Place
6.9/16
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
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The Women of Brewster Place
1972
Haunts of the Very Rich
5.7/10
A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves wondering...
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Haunts of the Very Rich
1975
Aaron Loves Angela
5/3
Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the wa...
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Aaron Loves Angela
1972
Eagle in a Cage
5/2
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
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Eagle in a Cage
1991
Brother Future
6/4
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
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Brother Future
1975
Rollerball
6.243/525
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy tho...
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Rollerball
1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
0/0
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners f...
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1974
Legacy of Blood
0/0
An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.
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Legacy of Blood
1970
The Great White Hope
6/30
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
1992
Memphis
0/0
Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to st...
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Memphis
1972
The Hot Rock
6.5/106
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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The Hot Rock
1988
Dixie Lanes
3.2/4
Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in lieu of serving time in prison. Chaos and confusion...
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Dixie Lanes
1984
The House of Dies Drear
0/0
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 run...
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The House of Dies Drear
1989
The Luckiest Man in the World
0/0
New York City garment manufacturer Sam Posner is a liar, a bully and a cheat who makes life unpleasant for his wife, mistress and everyone else around...
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The Luckiest Man in the World
1973
Moving Target
0/0
A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been murdered, and suspicion arises the killer is a fellow officer.
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Moving Target
1976
Law of the Land
3.7/3
A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
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Law of the Land
1971
Wild Rovers
6.3/43
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too ol...
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Wild Rovers
1984
The Killing Floor
8/2
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the orga...
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The Killing Floor
1971
The Sheriff
6/5
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman rape...
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The Sheriff
1976
The First Breeze of Summer
0/0
A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a...
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The First Breeze of Summer
1972
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
0/0
Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Gr...
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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
1982
Amityville II: The Possession
5.648/344
Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of par...
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Amityville II: The Possession
1970
WUSA
5.7/23
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's rea...
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WUSA
1990
Murder Times Seven
0/0
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the un...
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