Leslie Uggams

Leslie Uggams
Date of Birth: 25 May 1943
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 24 (Actor)
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Sugar Hill
Hardened, uncomprimising drug dealer Roemello Skuggs decides to quit his scumbag profession so he may start a new life with his girlfriend... (imdb)
Two Weeks in Another Town
The film depicts the shooting of a peplum movie in Rome by a team of decadent Hollywood stars. It contains several references to a previous and successful Minnelli's movie, The Bad and the Beautiful, starring also Kirk Douglas, and the story was seen by many somehow as a reelaboration of the past relationship between actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian and producer Darryl Zanuck. (Wikipedia)
Skyjacked
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia. (imdb)
Toe to Toe
A story about two lacrosse teammates from opposite sides of the track.
Poor Pretty Eddie
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator. (imdb)
Black Girl
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter. (imdb)
Sizzle
Sizzle (1981) - TV Movie
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, Forsythe plays a cold-hearted gangster who succumbs to the innocent charms and curvaceous body of a small-town girl.
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Leslie Uggams is celebrating Christmas on Sesame Street. But since Oscar the Grouch is being a right old Scrooge, she decides to teach him a lesson by imploring Anne Murray, Imogene Coca and Dickie Smothers to pose as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
Backstairs at the White House
Mini series based on Lillian Rogers Parks's memoir, My Thirty Years at the White House, a real-life American Upstairs/Downstairs that chronicles her family's tenure on the White House servant staff through eight presidential administrations. (amazon.com)
Empire
Empire (2015) - TV Series
A father, who runs a successful music business, is diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and has to choose one of his three sons to take over when he dies. (imdb)
Sing Along with Mitch
The main part of the show was Mitch leading the chorus in old songs. Mitch conducted the audience with his famous up-and-down motion as "the bouncing ball" illustrated the words being sung. Was this the inspiration for Karaoke? These were mostly traditional songs, but he made them sound brand new.
Deadpool
A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers and adopts the alter ego Deadpool. (imdb)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s. (imdb)
The Leslie Uggams Show
A variety show consisting of singing, dancing, and skits
The Apollo
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment. (imdb)
Nanny
AISHA, an immigrant Nanny, piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.
Roots - Season 1
The Bite - Season 1
Extrapolations - Season 1
American Fiction
English professor and author Thelonious "Monk" Ellison writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, with the intent to expose the hypocrisies of the publishing industry (imdb.com).
Deadpool & Wolverine
Wolverine joins the "merc with a mouth" in the third installment of the Deadpool film franchise (imdb.com).
Fallout
Fallout (2024) - TV Series
In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants, and bandits after nuclear annihilation. (imdb)
Fallout - Season 1
The Ravine
Inspired by a true story. An unthinkable tragedy rocks a tight-knit community, leaving survivors to navigate the darkness in search of understanding and solace. The Ravine is a story of faith, forgiveness, and the restoration of hope. (imdb)