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Coffy
''Coffy'' is a 1973 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier who seeks violent revenge against a heroin dealer responsible for her sister's addiction.Gary A. Smith, ''The American International Pictures Video Guide'', McFarland 2009 p 40 This was the third Jack Hill film to star Grier after ''The Big Doll House'' and ''The Big Bird Cage''. Grier would go on to boost her career as the leading "femme fatale" of blaxploitation for the rest of the 1970s. The film's tagline in advertising was "They call her 'Coffy' and she'll you!" Plot An Emergency Room nurse, named Flower Child Coffin, but usually referred to as 'Coffy', seeks revenge against the people responsible for her younger sister Lubelle's cocaine addiction and the widespread violence in her city. Under the guise of a prostitute willing to do anything for a drug fix, she lures a drug pusher and a mob boss to their residences, killing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star (although, there are some who dispute that claim and believe Cheng Pei-pei actually holds that distinction), she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films ''Coffy'' (1973) and '' Foxy Brown'' (1974); her other major films during this period included ''The Big Doll House'' (1971), ''Women in Cages'' (1971), ''The Big Bird Cage'' (1972), ''Black Mama, White Mama'' (1973), ''Scream Blacula Scream'' (1973), '' The Arena'' (1974), ''Sheba, Baby'' (1975), '' Bucktown'' (1975) and ''Friday Foster'' (1975). She portrayed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaxploitation
Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, the president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. He claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in crime. The genre does rank among the first after the race films in the 1940s and 1960s in which black characters and communities are the protagonists and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks, antagonists or victims of brutality. The genre's inception coincides with the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally aimed at an urban African-American audience but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines. Hollywood realized the potential profit of expanding the audiences of bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert DoQui
Robert DoQui (April 20, 1934 – February 9, 2008) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He is best known for his roles as King George in the 1973 film ''Coffy'', starring Pam Grier; as Wade in Robert Altman's 1975 film ''Nashville''; and as Sgt. Warren Reed in the 1987 science fiction film ''RoboCop'', the 1990 sequel ''RoboCop 2'', and the 1993 sequel ''RoboCop 3''. He starred on television and is also known for his voice as Pablo Robertson on the cartoon series ''Harlem Globetrotters'' from 1970 to 1973. Early life DoQui was born on April 20, 1934, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He served in the U.S. Air Force before heading to Hollywood in the early 1960s. DoQui was married to Janee Michelle from 1969 until 1978. Career He is best known for his roles as the flashy pimp King George in the 1973 blaxploitation film ''Coffy''. He starred in the miniseries ''Centennial'' in 1978, and the television film ''The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson'' in 1990. He st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk. He is a key figure in the acid jazz movement, and has been dubbed "The Godfather of Neo Soul". He is best known for his compositions "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", "Searchin", and "Running Away". At one time, he was said to have more sampled hits by rappers than any other artist. Biography Early life Ayers was born on September 10, 1940, in Los Angeles. He grew up in a musical family, where his father played trombone and his mother played piano. At the age of five, he was given his first pair of vibraphone mallets by Lionel Hampton. The area of Los Angeles that Ayers grew up in, South Park (later known as South Central) was at the center of the Southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Arbus
Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer. He was the former husband of photographer Diane Arbus. He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the CBS television series ''M*A*S*H''. Early life Arbus was born in New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of stockbroker Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (). He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play. Also a music lover, before becoming an actor, he was reportedly so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet. Photography career During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army. In 1946, after he completed his military service, he and his first wife, photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov, whom he had married in 1941), started a photographic advertising business in Manhattan. Arbus was primarily known for advertising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Haig
Sidney Eddie Mosesian (July 14, 1939 – September 21, 2019), known professionally as Sid Haig, was an American actor, film producer, and musician. He was known for his roles in several of Jack Hill's blaxploitation films from the 1970s, as well as for his appearances in horror films, most notably his role as Captain Spaulding in the Rob Zombie films ''House of 1000 Corpses'', ''The Devil's Rejects'' and '' 3 from Hell''. Haig's Captain Spaulding, and Haig himself, have been called icons of horror cinema. Haig had a leading role on the television series ''Jason of Star Command'' as the villain Dragos. He appeared in many television programs, including ''The Untouchables'', ''Batman'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'', ''Star Trek'', ''Get Smart'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Charlie's Angels'', ''Fantasy Island'', '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''The A-Team'', ''MacGyver'', and ''Emergency!''. Early life Haig w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Hill
Jack Hill (born January 28, 1933) is an American film director in the exploitation film genre. Several of Hill's later films have been characterized as feminist works. Early life Hill was born in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Mildred (née Pannill, b. February 1, 1907; death date n.a.), was a music teacher. His father, Roland Everett Hill (February 5, 1895 – November 10, 1986),Stone (1995),Roland Everett Hill. Retrieved November 1, 2014from the original on November 1, 2014. worked as a set designer and art director for First National Pictures and Warner Bros.Jack Hill interview, on films including ''The Jazz Singer'', '' Captain Blood'', ''Action in the North Atlantic'', and ''Captain Horatio Hornblower'', and as well was an architect who designed the centerpiece Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in California. Hill attended UCLA, which he attended, he said, for "a couple of years" before leaving to get married and then returning to earn a degree in music. While a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Locatell
Carol Locatell (born December 13, 1940) is an American actress. She is known for her role in the 1985 slasher film, '' Friday the 13th: A New Beginning'' as the foul-mouthed mean lady Ethel. Career Locatell's first movie role was in the 1973 film ''Coffy''. She also appeared in the Burt Reynolds films ''Paternity'', '' Best Friends'' and ''Sharky's Machine''. She also has made guest appearances on many television shows, including ''Bonanza'', ''M*A*S*H'', '' ER'', ''The Practice'', '' 7th Heaven'', ''Touched by an Angel'', ''Without a Trace'', and ''Grey's Anatomy''. In 2014 she appeared in season four, episode six of Shonda Rhimes' political drama series, ''Scandal'' as former First Lady Bitsy Cooper. Personal life Locatell is married to musician/songwriter composer Gregory Prestopino. They divide time between residences in New York City and Thousand Oaks, California, their primary residence. Filmography Films Television {, class="wikitable sortable" ! colspan="4" , Televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Bradshaw
Booker T. Bradshaw (May 21, 1940– April 1, 2003), born in Richmond, Virginia, was an American record producer, film and TV actor, and Motown executive. Early life Bradshaw worked for his father, Booker T. Bradshaw Sr., president of Virginia Mutual Life Insurance Company; a former member of the Richmond School Board and a trustee of Virginia Union and Virginia State. Bradshaw, disillusioned and working at his father's life insurance company, went on to study at Harvard to earn a degree in English. There he honed his acting skills, and met folk singer/musician Joan Baez. In 1961, while a junior at Harvard, he applied his singing talents on ''The Original Amateur Hour'' television show with Ted Mack as a singer of folk songs, becoming a three-time winner, and participated in the national finals at Madison Square Garden. He graduated from Harvard in 1962 and had learned to speak three languages. Bradshaw then went on to play at Carnegie Hall, and in the early sixties he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Haynes
Linda Haynes (born November 4, 1947) is an American actress who appeared in several films in the 1970s and early 1980s before retiring from the business and becoming a legal secretary. A life member of The Actors Studio, Haynes is best known for her roles in ''Coffy'', ''The Nickel Ride'' and '' Rolling Thunder''. Career Haynes' first film was '' Latitude Zero'' in 1969, which also starred Cesar Romero, Richard Jaeckel, and Joseph Cotten. She then went on to appear in films such as ''Coffy'' (1973), ''The Nickel Ride'' (1974), '' The Drowning Pool'' (1975), '' Rolling Thunder'' (1977), ''Human Experiments'' (1979), '' Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones'' (1980), and ''Brubaker'' (1980). She also appeared in the episode of the 1974 television series '' Paper Moon'', portraying Bonnie Parker. She mysteriously left the acting world in 1980 and was found in 1995 by director Quentin Tarantino and author Tom Graves. In 2015 Graves published a long profile about her titled ''Blonde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lee Minor
Robert Lee Minor or Bob Lee Minor (born January 1, 1944) is an American stunt performer, television and film actor, best known for doubling many African-American celebrities such as: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Bernie Mac, Danny Glover, Carl Weathers, Roger E. Mosley and John Amos. Minor was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and made his first television appearance in 1973 on the television program, '' Search'', then appeared in tons of shows such as: '' McCloud'', ''Barnaby Jones'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Wonder Woman'', ''Eight is Enough'', ''Magnum, P.I.'' and '' Starsky and Hutch'' among other popular television programs. Filmography Stunt Performing Here is a list of stunt performances Bob Minor has done: * ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' (1970) * ''Blacula'' (1972) * '' Hammer'' (1972) * ''Come Back, Charleston Blue'' (1972) * '' Black Gunn'' (1972) * '' Black Caesar'' (1973) * '' Live and Let Die'' (1973) * ''Cleopatra Jones'' (1973) * ''Detroit 9000'' (1973) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee De Broux
Lee de Broux (born May 7, 1941) is an American character actor of film and television who is best known for his roles in such films and television series as '' Chinatown'', '' RoboCop'', '' The Gun'', '' Geronimo: An American Legend'', ''Norma Rae'', ''Cannon'' and '' Gunsmoke''. Filmography *'' Run, Angel, Run!'' (1969) - Pappy *''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here'' (1969) - 'Meathead' *''Sometimes a Great Notion'' (1970) - Willard Eggleston *''Wild Rovers'' (1971) - 'Leaky' *''Evel Knievel'' (1971) - Wrangler #1 *'' The Dirt Gang'' (1972) - Jesse *''Coffy'' (1973) - Nick *'' The Outfit'' (1973) - Walter Kinney (uncredited) *''The Nickel Ride'' (1974) - Harry *'' The Terminal Man'' (1974) - Reporter *'' Chinatown'' (1974) - Policeman #2 *''The Klansman'' (1974) - Reverend Alverson *''Hawmps!'' (1976) - Fitzgerald *''The Incredible Hulk'' (1978-1982) - Mike Evans / Leo *''Norma Rae'' (1979) - Lujan *'' Back Roads'' (1981) - 'Red' *''Frances'' (1982) - 'Flowing Gold' Director *''Voy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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