Helen Martin
Date of Birth: 23 Jul 1909
Country: USA
Biography: Martin moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. She was chiefly a Broadway character actress for many decades, debuting in Orson Welles' production of Native Son in 1941. She appeared in at least a dozen Broadway shows, including Jean Genet's The Blacks, the musical Raisin from 1973 to 1975, Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious (and later the musical version, which was called Purlie), The Amen Corner and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment. She was an original member of the American Negro
Total Credits at Criticker: 21 (Actor), 2 (Writer)
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Eight kidnapped women. All beautiful. All talented. All in danger of having their lives cut cruelly short if police detective Alex Cross (Freeman) and key witness Kate McTiernan (Judd) can't locate the elusive "collector" who calls himself Casanova.
Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result. (imdb)
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks.
"Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of a lot of Afro-American movies... (imdb)
When Kid's college money is stolen by a crooked music promoter, Play's solution is to stage the 'mutha' of all pajama parties. Starring Kid 'n Play and Martin Lawrence. Produced and directed by Doug McHenry and George Jackson.
A young doctor causes a traffic accident in a small town and is sentenced to work for some days at the town hospital. (imdb)
An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood. (imdb)
The Pitch (1993) - Short Film
Every year in Hollywood thousands of screenplay ideas are presented, or "pitched," to studio executives. Sadly, less than one percent of these ideas will ever become a feature film. Here's why. (IFilm.com)
Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
An evil spirit assumes the disguise of a beautiful young woman, so it can seduce and kill men. (imdb)
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest technological weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors, not to mention the imminent financial collapse of one of the companies if they don't make this sale. (imdb)
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale. (imdb)
Dummy (1979) - TV Movie
A deaf and dumb young man is accused of murdering a prostitute and defended by a deaf lawyer. (imdb)
Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year old Benjie turns to heroin to escape. (imdb)
Lawman Without a Gun (1979) - TV Movie
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
The Jerk, Too (1984) - TV Movie
Navin Johnson, the consummate idiot, returns in this remake of Steve Martin's popular 1979 film The Jerk. As in the first, Johnson, the lily white adoptee of a black sharecropper sets out across the country in search of true love.
Better Late Than Never (1979) - TV Movie
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
227 (1985) - TV Series
This series took place in an apartment building, numbered 227. The cast would frequently be found sitting outside on a large set of stone stairs, in some discussion that would unfold into the weekly plot line.
