
Otis Young
Oyuncu · 1932 – 2001 · Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Otis E. Young (July 4, 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island – October 11, 2001) was an African-American actor. He was only the second African-American actor to co-star in a television Western, The Outcasts (1968-1969), with Don Murray, the first being Raymond St Jacques who had co-starred on the final season of Rawhide in 1965, as cattle drover Simon Blake. Young played another memorable role as Jack Nicholson's shore-patrol partner in the 1973 comedy-drama film The Last Detail. Young, one of 14 children, joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 17 and served in the Korean War. He then enrolled in acting classes at New York University School of Education where his classmate was the young Louis Gossett, Jr.. He trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and worked off-Broadway as an actor and writer in the early 1960s. (He appeared on Broadway in James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr. Charlie," with such notables as Diana Sands, and Al Freeman, Jr..) His first movie appearance was in Murder in Mississippi (1965). In 1983 Young earned his bachelor's degree from L. I. F. E. Bible College in Los Angeles and became an ordained pastor, eventually serving as senior pastor of Elim Foursquare Gospel Church in Rochester, New York, from 1986-1988. He taught acting classes at School Without Walls, a college-like alternative public high school in Rochester, from 1987 through 1991. In 1989 he joined the faculty at Monroe Community College in Rochester; he remained there as a Professor of Communications and head of the Drama Department until his retirement in 1999. Otis Young suffered a stroke in Los Angeles and died in 2001. He was survived by his (second) wife, Barbara, and his children, Saudia Young, Lovelady Young, El Mahdi Young, and Jemal Young. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otis Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film7.0DramKomediThe Last Detail, her daim başarılı performanslara imza atmış Jack Nicholsonın çarpıcı oyunculuğuyla öne çıkan güçlü bir film. Filmde küçük bir hırsızlığa teşebbüs suçu yüzünden 8 yıla mahkum olan genç bir asker ile onu cezaevine götürmekle görevli iki denizcinin yaşadıklarını anlatıyor. Denizciler, ona güzel bir macera yaşatmak isterken, hiç de tahmin etmedikleri bir noktaya sürüklenirler.
Film4.8Bilim KurguKorkuSomething or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.
Blood Beach
1980 · 86 votes
Film5.8KomediLed by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
The Hollywood Knights
1980 · 71 votes
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Counterpoint
1967 · 23 votes
Film7.0SuçKomediIn exchange for helping writer-adventurer Lawrence Colby smuggle 300 watch parts into Paris from Switzerland, Martine Randall asks Colby to help solve a complicated situation involving her friend Sabine Manning, a well-known author of sex novels.
Don't Just Stand There
1968 · 3 votes
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Twin Detectives
1976 · 2 votes
Film4.7MaceraKorkuA small town has made an industry out of Bigfoot sightings and ancillary merchandising. All this may come to an end very soon though, as a local businessman hopes to trap Bigfoot once and for all, in order to get all the publicity gravy.
The Capture of Bigfoot
1979 · 10 votes
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Dinner guests of a wealthy millionaire must justify their own existence or face the penalty of death.
Survival
1976 · 1 votes
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Valley of Mystery
1967 · 2 votes
Film4.6AksiyonBilim KurguA scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
The Clones
1973 · 8 votes
Film4.4GerilimDramJoe McCormack, polis için suç mahalli fotoğrafları çeker. Laura, sağır ve dilsiz bir genç kadındır ve geleceği gören vizyonlara sahiptir. Bir dizi korkunç cinayet, aynı psikopat katilin işi gibi görünür ve bu olaylar Joe ile Laura’yı bir araya getirir. Birlikte, zamana karşı korkutucu bir yarışta, katilin yeniden cinayet işlemesini engellemeye çalışırlar.
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Dizi8.1SuçDramKomiser Kolombo'da sherlokyan teğmen-dedektif rolünde Peter Falk var. Kirli pardesüsü, eski arabası, sempatik tavrıyla cinayet davalarını çözüyor. Katile yapışıyor, kızdırıcı sorularla köşeye sıkıştırıyor, ipuçlarını zekice buluyor, birleştiriyor. 70'lerin favori dizisiydi. 2 Golden Globes ödülü. 20 farklı ödül ve 45 adaylık.
Columbo
1971 · 860 votes
Dizi7.6DramSuçA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
Hill Street Blues
1981 · 130 votes
Dizi5.6SuçDramThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
The F.B.I.
1965 · 25 votes
Dizi6.7DramAksiyon ve MaceraCannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
Cannon
1971 · 42 votes
Dizi7.0Aksiyon ve MaceraWesternDaniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
Daniel Boone
1964 · 34 votes
Dizi7.5GizemDramEllery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
Ellery Queen
1975 · 42 votes
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The Outcasts
1968 · 4 votes
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Partners in Crime
1984 · 6 votes
Dizi8.4SuçDramAdventures of sexy & sassy black undercover cop Christie Love.
Get Christie Love!
1974 · 6 votes