Bill Duke

Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Actor), 17 (Director)
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Seagal stars as maverick Detroit police detective Orin Boyd, whose take-no-prisoners approach to domestic terrorism gets him booted downtown to the city's toughest precinct. (Warner Bros.)
Nick Parker (Thomas), a struggling young artist, is suffering from a mental and physical breakdown. When a violent murder occurs in his apartment building, Nick begins to suspect that he may have committed the crime himself. From this event begins a downward spiral of paranoia and illness that can only end with the discovery of his guilt or innocence. (Lions Gate Films)
Acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh's latest film follows the exploits of Wilson (Stamp), a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. (Artisan Entertainment)
A Watts teenager becomes so immersed in his violent world, he can't get out. (New Line Cinema)
Earl and Hank have only one thing in common: they're both L.A.P.D. rejects. One just got kicked out, the other can't even get in. After confronting each other on opposite sides of the law during a traffic stop that escalates out of control, these two luckless individuals end up partnered as lowly security guards. Despite being damned to the lowest rung of the law enforcement ladder, Earl and Hank uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation led by Nash and his band of thugs... (imdb)
This romantic comedy takes a ribald yet compassionate look at two lovelorn fifty-something New Yorkers. (USA Films)
Dutch (Schwarzenegger) and his elite military unit are recruited to rescue hostages held by guerrillas in the Latin American jungle. But once there, they encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth! (20th Century Fox)
This hard-hitting drama stars 50 Cent as an orphaned street kid who makes his mark in the drug trade but finally dares to leave the violence behind and become the rap artist he was meant to be.
A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator
Susan wants her reprehensible ex-husband dead and, in several bungled attempts by henchmen, tries to accomplish the deed. First her boyfriend hires two dim-witted hitmen. Then she hires a former biker boyfriend to smother him in the hospital where he is recuperating from the first attempt. Then Zane's former wife figures out what is going on and wants a part of the action.
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle... (imdb)
A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Car Wash is about a close-knit group of black employees who one day have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt, including Richard Pryor as a preaching 'wonder-man' who is loved by most but loathed by one. (imdb)
Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition. (imdb)
Directed by Samuel Fuller, this tense thriller tells the story of a failed pop star played by Keith Carradine. Carradine's life takes a wrong turn when he falls for a girl with gangster connections, almost resulting in his untimely demise. His life descends into amnesia, depression and anxiety, but just as he can't go any lower he begins to piece his life back together again. (RottenTomatoes.com)
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs. (imdb)
Family: a necessary burden. Amaryllis Campos is young and beautiful, a classically trained dancer delivering pizzas in Puerto Rico... (imdb)
Payback: Straight Up (2006) - Direct-to-Video
Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.
Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists. (imdb)
Battledogs (2013) - TV Movie
When a werewolf virus threatens to decimate New York City -- and the world -- a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super soldiers. (imdb)
Dallas: The Early Years (1986) - TV Movie
Prequel to the popular "Dallas" TV series focuses on the origins of the Ewing-Barnes feud during the 1930's. Larry Hagman provides the opening narration for the film. The story opens at a 1951 barbecue with "Digger" Barnes firing a shot at "Jock" Ewing. Immediately flashing back to the depression, the two men first meet in a boxcar as both are hoboing. Their original friendship is built on their desires to find oil. (imdb)
Detective Bud Carter's investigations lead to the arrest of Jesse Weiland, a contract killer from a criminal syndicate. Weiland, facing life in prison and losing his family, puts his trust in Carter and becomes an informant. (imdb)
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated. (imdb)
A troubled ex-con joins the colorful crew of an old movie theater and begins to rebuild his life, only to find his faith in God tested when he learns the theater he has grown to love is not what it seems.
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs (imdb)
Karen Sisco (2003) - TV Series
Smart. Sexy. Tough. Karen Sisco is a United States marshal on Miami's Gold Coast. In pursuit of dangerous fugitives, Karen must pick her way through the dark underbelly of South Beach nightlife and the sunshine and glitz of Palm Beach highlife while she struggles to win the respect of her supervisor and fellow officers. (imdb)
A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams. (imdb)
Mandy is set in the primal wilderness of 1983 where Red Miller, a broken and haunted man hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life. (imdb)
A sports agent pitches a rookie basketball client on an intriguing and controversial business opportunity during a lockout.
"In Search of the Last Action Heroes" the most comprehensive retrospective of the '80s action film genre ever made.
A group of criminals that are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways. (imdb)
- The Book of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies (2018) - Season 2
- The Book of Consequences: Chapter Two: Black Jesus Blues (2018) - Season 2
- The Book of Consequences: Chapter Three: Master Lowry (2018) - Season 2
- The Book of Secrets: Chapter Two: Just and Unjust (2019) - Season 2
- The Book of Secrets: Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire (2019) - Season 2
- The Book of Secrets: Chapter Four: Original Sin (2019) - Season 2
- The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha (2019) - Season 2
- The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega (2019) - Season 2
- The Book of Occupation: Chapter One: Birth of the Blackbird (2019) - Season 3
- The Book of Occupation: Chapter Two: Maryam's Tasbih (2019) - Season 3
- The Book of Occupation: Chapter Three: Agent Odell's Pipe-Dream (2019) - Season 3
- The Book of Occupation: Chapter Four: Lynn's Ouroboros (2019) - Season 3
- The Book of Occupation: Chapter Five: Requiem for Tavon (2019) - Season 3
- The Book of Resistance: Chapter One: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2019) - Season 3
- The Book of Resistance: Chapter Four: Earth Crisis (2019) - Season 3
- The Book of Markovia: Chapter One: Blessings and Curses Reborn (2020) - Season 3
- The Book of Markovia: Chapter Two: Lynn's Addiction (2020) - Season 3
- The Book of War: Chapter One: Homecoming (2020) - Season 3
- The Book of War: Chapter Two: Freedom Ain't Free (2020) - Season 3
- The Book of War: Chapter Three: Liberation (2020) - Season 3
The Vandal (2021) - Short Film
Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, THE VANDAL centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure "turns his mind inside out" and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold's desperate search intensifies. (imdb)