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List Of LGBT-related Films Of 1976
This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films released in 1976. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device. Films {{1976 films *LGBT 1976 in LGBT history 1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ... *1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesbian
A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction. The concept of "lesbian" to differentiate women with a shared sexual orientation evolved in the 20th century. Throughout history, women have not had the same freedom or independence as men to pursue homosexual relationships, but neither have they met the same harsh punishment as homosexual men in some societies. Instead, lesbian relationships have often been regarded as harmless, unless a participant attempts to assert privileges traditionally enjoyed by men. As a result, little in history was documented to give an accurate description of how female homosexuality was expressed. When early sexologists in the late 19th century began to categorize and describe homosexual behavior, hampere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Duke
William Henry Duke Jr. (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke works primarily in the action and crime drama genres often as a character related to law enforcement. Frequently a character actor, he has starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in ''Commando'' and ''Predator'', and has appeared in films like ''American Gigolo'', ''No Man's Land'', '' Bird on a Wire'', ''Menace II Society'', ''Exit Wounds'', ''Payback'', '' X-Men: The Last Stand'', and ''Mandy''. In television, he is best known as Agent Percy Odell in ''Black Lightning''. He has directed episodes of numerous television series including ''Cagney & Lacey'', ''Dallas'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Miami Vice'', ''The Twilight Zone,'' and ''American Playhouse''. He has also directed the crime films ''Deep Cover'' and '' A Rage in Harlem'', for which he was nominated for a Palme d'Or, as well as the comedy ''Sister Act 2''. Early life and education Duke w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Reed (American Actress)
Tracy Reed is an American actress and former model. Reed was born in Fort Benning, Georgia. She is the daughter of David Reed, a retired Army major, and Anne Reed, a teacher. She majored in English at UCLA and planned to write children's books for a profession. While she was a student, a tryout led to her becoming a blackout gag player in the TV series ''Love, American Style'' (1969–70, 1972–74). Reed co-starred in the 1970 TV series ''Barefoot in the Park'' and played Virginia Tyndall in the 1979 TV miniseries ''Women in White''. Her most memorable film roles include '' No Way Back'' (1976), ''Car Wash'' (1976), '' A Piece of the Action'' (1977), '' ...All the Marbles'' (1981) and '' Running Scared'' (1986). In 1971, the California Press Photographers Association named Reed the Most Beautiful Face in Television. Filmography *'' Trouble Man'' (1972) - Policewoman *'' The Great American Beauty Contest'' (1973 - TV Movie) - Pamela Parker, Miss New Jersey *'' The Take'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. He won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.The 50 Best Stand-up Comics of All Time . Rollingstone.com, retrieved February 15, 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters are an American pop and R&B singing group from Oakland, California, that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, jazz, electronic music, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country, and rock. The Pointer Sisters have won three Grammy Awards and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. The group had 13 US top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985. The group had its origins when sisters June and Bonnie Pointer began performing in clubs in 1969 as "Pointers, a Pair". The line-up grew to a trio when sister Anita joined them. Their record deal with Atlantic Records produced several unsuccessful singles. The trio grew to a quartet when sister Ruth joined in December 1972. They then signed with Blue Thumb Records, recorded their debut album, and began seeing more success, winning a Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Country Vocal Performance for "Fairytale" (1974). Bonnie left the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Muse
Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, singer, and composer. He was the first African American to appear in a starring role in a film, 1929's ''Hearts in Dixie''. He acted for 50 years, and appeared in more than 150 films. He was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Life and career Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Alexander and Mary Muse, he studied at Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for one year in 1908. He left because he believed he could not make a living in law as an African American. He later received an honorary doctorate of laws from Dickinson School of Law in 1978. By the 1920s Muse was acting in New York during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrett Morris
Garrett Isaac Morris (born February 1, 1937) is an American actor, comedian and singer. He was part of the original cast of the sketch comedy program ''Saturday Night Live'', appearing from 1975 to 1980, and played Jimmy on ''The Jeffersons'' (1983–1984). Morris also had a role as Junior "Uncle Junior" King on the sitcom ''The Jamie Foxx Show'', which aired from 1996 to 2001. Morris had a starring role as Earl Washington on the CBS sitcom ''2 Broke Girls'', from 2011 to 2017. He is also known for his role in the sitcom ''Martin'' as Stan Winters, from 1992 to 1995, and the film ''Cooley High''. He played Slide in ''Car Wash'' (1976), and Carl in '' The Census Taker'' (1984). Early life and career Morris was born on February 1, 1937, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in the poverty-stricken Gert Town neighborhood in its 17th Ward. A church-choir singer from his youth, he trained at the Juilliard School of Music and graduated from Dillard University in 1958. Early in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Mayron
Melanie Joy Mayron is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for her role as photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama ''thirtysomething'' for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989. In 2018, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Mayron for her outstanding contributions to film and television. Personal life Mayron was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Norma (née Goodman), a real estate agent, and David Mayron, a pharmaceutical chemist. Her family is Jewish; her father is from a Sephardic background (the original surname was "Mizrahi"), while her mother is of Russian Jewish descent.‘Slap’ Happy Actor-director Melanie Mayron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kingi
Henry Kingi (born December 2, 1943) is an American stuntman and actor. As a stuntman he has worked in films like ''Fast Five'' (2011). His acting roles include Goody in ''Car Wash'' (1976), Shell in ''Earth Star Voyager'' (1988), the mean Indian in ''Far Out Man'' (1990), Kungai Demon in ''Parting Gifts'', an episode of ''Angel'' (1999), and George in ''From Mexico with Love'' (2009). As a miscrew he worked in films like ''The Assault'', '' From Paris with Love'', '' Patriots Day'' and '' Colt 45''. Background Henry Kingi was born in Los Angeles on December 2, 1943. He is of Native American, African American, European, and Japanese descent. He has a son, Henry Kingi Jr. who was born in 1970 and also a stuntman. He married actress Lindsay Wagner in May 1981, divorcing in 1984. Together they have sons Dorian (1982) and Alexander (1986). Both sons are also stuntmen. In her book, ''Art of Men (I Prefer Mine Al Dente)'', Kirstie Alley referred to him as the most gloriously cool-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Kehoe
Jack Kehoe (November 21, 1934 – January 14, 2020) was an American film actor appearing in a wide variety of films, including the crime dramas ''Serpico'' (1973), ''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' (1984) and Brian De Palma's ''The Untouchables'' (1987), as well as the cult favorites ''Car Wash'' (1976) and ''Midnight Run'' (1988), the popular western ''Young Guns II'' (1990), and ''On the Nickel'' (1980). Kehoe was born in Astoria, New York. After serving in the Air Force, he studied acting under Stella Adler. On Broadway, Kehoe appeared in ''The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'' (1963) and ''The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel'' (1977). Kehoe appeared in several Academy Award-winning films, including Jonathan Demme's ''Melvin and Howard'' (1980) and Best Picture winner ''The Sting'' (1973), in which Kehoe (as grifter Joe Erie, ''alias'' The Erie Kid). His various TV credits included roles in ''The Twilight Zone'', '' Murder, She Wrote'' and ''Miami Vice''. After appearing alongside Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeWayne Jessie
DeWayne Jessie (a.k.a. "Otis Day"; born September 21, 1951) is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of Otis Day in ''National Lampoon's Animal House''. In the movie, the songs "Shama Lama Ding Dong" and " Shout" were sung by Lloyd G. Williams and lip-synched by Jessie. In the 1980s, Jessie purchased the rights to the band name Otis Day and The Knights from Universal Studios and formed a real-life version of the band with some members of his family and toured the country for years afterward, with Jessie assuming the identity of Otis Day. The group released a concert video, ''Otis My Man'', in 1987 and recorded an album, produced by George Clinton, that came out in 1989 titled ''Shout'' which flopped. It included updated versions of "Shout" and "Shama Lama Ding Dong" sung by Jessie. Jessie and the rest of the band members were initiated as honorary members of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the University of Central Oklahoma in 1985. He lives with three of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Jackson (actor)
Leonard Jackson (February 7, 1928 – December 22, 2013) was an American stage, film, and television actor, perhaps most widely known for his roles in several PBS television series for children as well as his roles in films such as ''The Brother from Another Planet'', ''Car Wash'', and ''The Color Purple''. Early years and stage career Jackson, in his early years known as L. Errol Jaye, was born February 7, 1928, in Jacksonville, Florida. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. After attending Fisk University, his professional acting debut was on the stage, in New York Shakespeare Festival's 1965 off-Broadway production of ''Troilus and Cressida''. In March 1968, he played Mr. Carpentier, the title character, in ''The Electronic Nigger'', part of a trio of one-act plays by Ed Bullins, during The American Place Theatre production of the play's premiere. He played a pastor in the Broadway premiere of ''The Great White Hope'', which ran for over 500 performanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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