
D'Urville Martin
Actor · 1939 – 1984 · New York City, New York
D'Urville Martin (February 11, 1939 – May 28, 1984) was an American actor and director in both film and television. He appeared with regularity in numerous 1970s movies in the blaxploitation genre of films. Born in New York City, D'urville began his career in the mid 1960s, soon becoming a prominent recurring figure in the genre. Martin acted in several movies of the time, including Black Like Me and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Among his partners was the famous blaxploitation actor Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, playing his partner Toby in the Black Charley. Martin also directed films in his career, including Dolemite, starring Rudy Ray Moore. His career ended in 1984 with a heart attack at age 45 likely caused by his hard-partying lifestyle.
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Movie7.8DramaHorrorA young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · 4.5K votes
Movie7.6DramaRomanceA couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · 939 votes
Movie6.2WesternActionA trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.
The Legend of Nigger Charley
1972 · 20 votes
Movie6.7WesternComedyTwo black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
Boss Nigger
1975 · 70 votes
Movie5.5ActionThrillerA Harlem gangster must rescue his ex-wife, who's been kidnapped by the Mafia.
Hell Up In Harlem
1973 · 50 votes
Movie5.9ActionCrimeRaised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
Black Caesar
1973 · 94 votes
Movie5.7ActionDramaSheba, a Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.
Sheba, Baby
1975 · 47 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
Watermelon Man
1970 · 62 votes
Movie7.2ComedyLeonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Five on the Black Hand Side
1973 · 6 votes
Movie5.2ActionCrimeAfter the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to reignite the Confederacy.
The Soul of Nigger Charley
1973 · 10 votes
Movie6.0DramaActionA narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are looking for him. A ruthless hit man, played by Bruce Glover, will stop at nothing to get what his boss wants; the money!
The Big Score
1983 · 3 votes
Movie6.2DramaBlack Like Me is the true account of journalist and author John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Black Like Me
1964 · 12 votes
Movie6.5DramaMusicA young farmer becomes a singer against the wishes of his uncle.
A Time to Sing
1968 · 2 votes
Movie5.8ActionComedyDolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did to him.
Dolemite
1975 · 138 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaTwo waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
Book of Numbers
1973 · 2 votes
Movie7.1DramaBiopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama
The Bear
1984 · 4 votes
Movie5.4ActionDramaHotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Hammer
1972 · 17 votes
Movie6.5DramaActionPrejudice transforms a young black man into an armed militant leader, who believes the only answer to racism is violent revolution.
The Final Comedown
1972 · 12 votes
Movie5.2ActionCrimeFive friends get together and decide to plan an operation to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs, however, is that all five men are blind.
Blind Rage
1976 · 11 votes
Movie5.2DramaActionFearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance, including automobile, train, and airplane.
Death Journey
1976 · 10 votes
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TV7.0Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyThe Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
The Name of the Game
1968 · 13 votes
TV6.8Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyThe Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
The Invaders
1967 · 63 votes
TV6.5ComedyFamilyMicky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.
The Monkees
1966 · 56 votes