LeVar Burton
Date of Birth: 16 Feb 1957
Country: USA
Biography: Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. professionally known as LeVar Burton, is a German-born African American actor, director, producer and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. He is also well known for his portrayal of Geordi La Forge on the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation and as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 43 (Actor), 4 (Director)
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The ninth film in the Star Trek series. A Federation investigation of a planet is actually a cover for an insidious plot to destroy its people and steal their secret for longevity. (Paramount)
The Federation is about to encounter its greatest challenge - The Romulans want peace. Conceived in the regal senate halls of Romulus and forged in the dilithium mines of Remus, comes a nemesis bent on destroying Picard and the Federation... exactly in that order.
Capt. Picard, with the help of supposedly dead Capt. Kirk, must stop a madman willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix (imdb)
Capt. Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Earth from initiating first contact with alien life. (imdb)
Roots (1977) - TV Mini-Series
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendents' liberation. (imdb)
Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations completely at odds with her daytime commitment to her children. (imdb)
Based upon the true story of Jim Jones, a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people, who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities, they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges, Jim Jones committed suicide, and convinced virtually All of his followers to do the same. (imdb)
Most people have had at least one conversation about the historical usage, current meaning and potential for rehabilitation of the harsh derogatory term that takes center stage in The N Word. Todd Williams' documentary transplants that conversation to film, and casts a wide array of relevant personalities as the conversationalists. (All Movie Guide)
In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph 'Papa' Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches. Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he's forced to extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And then again, there are other moments when his own life is on the line. It's all enough to make Thorson question what he has done with his life. (imdb)
Taken in Broad Daylight (2009) - TV Movie
The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her captor, engineering her own rescue and negotiating her safe release after 6 days of hell. (imdb)
The Midnight Hour (1985) - TV Movie
Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchford Cove will never be the same again....or will it? (imdb)
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009) - Direct-to-Video
Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite asteroid to frame Superman for the "pending destruction of the planet" and declares a $1 billion bounty on him and Batman.
An army squad is conducting training exercises in a remote wooded area of Alabama that was once the site of the deaths of Confedrate soldiers who were forced to walk through a mine field. The rebels now stalk the woods as the undead, seeking vengeance.
Dummy (1979) - TV Movie
A deaf and dumb young man is accused of murdering a prostitute and defended by a deaf lawyer. (imdb)
The Jesse Owens Story (1984) - TV Movie
Spanning over forty years, this powerful docudrama traces Jesse's life- from his days as a sharecropper's son, through his incredible record-breaking college years, his marriage to his high school sweetheart, his monumental victories in the 1936 Olympics, and his thirty-year struggle to survive in a prejudiced country that he loved so deeply. (runningmovies.com)
Yesterday's Target (1996) - TV Movie
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past. (imdb)
Rise of the Zombies (2012) - TV Movie
A group of survivors hide on Alcatraz Island to escape from rising zombie hordes. When their refuge is overrun, and upon hearing that a scientist may have discovered a cure, they leave the island to seek him out. (Wikipedia)
True story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball.
Roots: The Gift (1988) - TV Movie
The characters of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler from Roots are back in this movie. In this movie the two of them accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time and they learn that the son of the owner helps slaves escape. And the two of them try to help him and also see this as an opportunity to escape themselves.
This is the story of a black teenager named Miles, who has to go on a class field trip to the museum of learning what Martin Luther King Jr. did for humanity, he thinks that he'd rather play baseball. But the trip turns into an exciting adventure when he and his best friend, Randy, who's white, are sent back in time meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr at several points during his life. (imdb)
Grambling's White Tiger (1981) - TV Movie
A young white goes to a historically-black college for the chance to be the starting quarterback. There he encounters considerable resentment and learns what it's like to be in the minority.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) - TV Series
Set decades after Captain James T. Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers in a new Enterprise set off on their own mission to go where no one has gone before. (imdb)
Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990) - TV Series
A quintet of teenagers work together to encourage environmentally responsible behavior and can summon a superhero to deal with ecological disasters. (imdb)
Perception (2012) - TV Series
Dr. Daniel Pierce is an eccentric neuropsychiatrist who uses his unique outlook to help the federal government solve complex criminal cases.
Reading Rainbow (1983) - TV Series
Levar Burton introduces young viewers to illustrated readings of children's literature and explores their related subjects.
And the Children Shall Lead (1985) - TV Movie
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
Reading Rainbow's Kickstarter campaign is currently underway. Here's a sneak peek at the show's powerful new theme song, coming soon to every child, everywhere! (Funny or Die)
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977) - TV Movie
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Christy (1994) - TV Series
Based on the bestseller by Catherine Marshall, Christy tells the story of an idealistic nineteen year old who leaves the comforts of her city home to teach school in the impoverished Appalachian community of Cutter Gap, Tennessee in 1912. Strength, determination, and faith guide young Christy Huddleston through unforeseen difficulties, help her to gain understanding of the proud mountain people, and win her mentorship, friendship, and the love of two men. (imdb)
Weird City (2019) - TV Series
A look at the life and people living in a futuristic town called Weird.
Almos' a Man (1976) - TV Special
Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930's, this 15 year-olds problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.
- Encounter at Farpoint (1987) - Season 1
- The Naked Now (1987) - Season 1
- Code of Honor (1987) - Season 1
- The Last Outpost (1987) - Season 1
- Where No One Has Gone Before (1987) - Season 1
- Lonely Among Us (1987) - Season 1
- Justice (1987) - Season 1
- The Battle (1987) - Season 1
- Hide and Q (1987) - Season 1
- 11001001 (1988) - Season 1
- A Hero for Earth (1990) - Season 1
- Rain of Terror (1990) - Season 1
- Tree of Life (1990) - Season 1
- Beast of the Temple (1990) - Season 1
- Volcano's Wrath (1990) - Season 1
- Skumm Lord (1990) - Season 1
- Deadly Ransom (1990) - Season 1
- The Conqueror (1990) - Season 1
- Last of Her Kind (1990) - Season 1
- The Dead Seas (1990) - Season 1
- Littlest Planeteer (1990) - Season 1
A former Scribbs Spelling Bee champion must reconcile with her estranged brother when he returns home to help care for their sick mother. (imdb)
Chronicles the journeys of broadcasters, educators and filmmakers who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading.
Tom Swift (2022) - TV Series
Tom is a billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father. (imdb)
Battered (1978) - TV Movie
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse abuse by their husbands.