Bernie Hamilton
Date of Birth: 12 Jun 1928
Country: USA
Biography: He played the station boss in "Starsky & Hutch." He made his film debut in 1950 as a baseball player in The Jackie Robinson Story, a biopic about the African-American sportsman who broke the baseball colour bar, with Robinson in the title role. Throughout the 1950s and 60s Hamilton was a regular on television, though, inevitably, many of his roles were as stereotyped Africans, notably in Jungle Jim adventures (features and the TV series) starring the ex-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller. In the film, J
Total Credits at Criticker: 18 (Actor)
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The vampire Manuwalde (Blacula) is stirred by African voodoo, and is forced to kill again. (imdb)
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. (imdb)
Game warden Miller lives on an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The only other inhabitant is Evvie, an naive young girl to whom Miller is attracted. Traver, a black musician on the run from a lynch mob after falsely being accused of rape, lands on the island. Miller wants to turn him in and remove him from the tryst, but Evvie likes Traver and protects him... (imdb)
A dock worker becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won't listen. His manager, who is also a drug dealer, tells him that he has to take a dive during an important fight, and to ensure his cooperation, his girlfriend is kidnapped. (imdb)
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano. (IMDb)
A small group of ordinary citizens team up to topple over a drug ring called The Organization. They ask Lt. Virgil Tibbs to join as they need his expertise. Lt. Virgil Tibbs is reluctant as they are amateurs and have already committed several crimes in order to stop them. In order to help them he must do so without the knowledge of the police department. However, after a colleague suspected to be on the take commits suicide Lt. Tibbs joins them. (imdb)
Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor plating, and storm the enemy camp. (imdb)
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local redneck policemen are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. (imdb)
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era. (imdb)
Like a tale spun by Schehrazade, Kismet follows the remarkable and repeated changes of fortune that engulf a poor poet. It all happens in one incredible day when Kismet (Fate) takes a hand. (imdb)
Attractive Louise Whitman catalyzes action and adventure in an African country that offers haven to foreign fugitives. (imdb)
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. (imdb)
Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe. (imdb)
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle." (imdb)
Starsky and Hutch (1975) - TV Series
Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red-and-white Ford Torino, with the help of police snitch, Huggy Bear. (imdb)
A young black theological student battles against his heroin addiction and alcoholism.
