Yaphet Kotto

Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 56 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI have had no success it locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin, a rival bounty hunter.
Freddy Krueger returns once again to haunt both the dreams of his daughter and Springwood's last surviving teenager. (imdb)
A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. (imdb)
When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running... (imdb)
007 is sent to stop a brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their wives to have some fun they get the idea to rob the local union's bureau safe (imdb)
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man. (imdb)
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty. (imdb)
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared. (imdb)
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that _last_ job, which involves stealing a valuable painting... (imdb)
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one. (imdb)
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police? (imdb)
Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry and she puts a hit on Truck. The man who agrees to kill Truck is named Blue. The question is whether Truck can survive with Blue and his gang on his trail. (imdb)
Strange aliens land in the Midwest, taking over people's minds in order to spread their dominion. Sam Nivens (Eric Thal) and Andrew Nivens (Donald Sutherland), aided by Mary Sefton (Julie Warner), are part of a government agency who must stop the the aliens before the aliens get to them... (imdb)
The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her. (imdb)
In an ultra secret laboratory for the developing of biological weapons, covered as "Biotek", a research center for agriculture, a serious accident occurs, spreading a sinister bacteria in the laboratory. The security guard of the complex, closes and seals the building, with all the personnel inside, making very difficult the struggle for survival, not to mention the actions that the relatives of the enclosed people are thinking to do. (imdb)
The tale is a familiar one for American moviegoers; devil-may-care young man drawn to a grounded young woman, they part, he realizes he prefers stability to freedom, they reconcile. interest for viewers now as well as 40 years ago lies in the protagonists' skin color...
Detective DaVonzo and his young partner Elliott are putting together a murder mystery with the help of a jigsaw puzzle but will all the pieces be together in time to save DaVonzo's daughter? (imdb)
After the Shock (1990) - TV Movie
On October 17 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked San Francisco. Presented here are some of the stories of the brave members of the public and emergency services who rescued people who were trapped in the rubble in houses or on the freeway. (imdb)
The young jazz saxophonist Morris Poole is at the height of his career. When his wife dies he is almost overcome by grief and blames himself. When after a while he finds a new love, he ends up in a situation that reminds him of his wife's mysterious death. (imdb)
Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
Gary Busey plays Buck, an ex-con recently released from the state prison. He returns to the small Midwest town where he grew up only to discover the place overrun by a large motorcycle gang bent on causing trouble. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his young daughter, Busey, with the help from a fellow Vietnam vet, as well as his former cell-mate, a drug kingpin living in Miami, Buck arms himself to the teeth and wages a war against the motorcyclists. (imdb)
Raid on Entebbe (1976) - TV Movie
Second of a series of dramas about a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. (imdb)
Badge of the Assassin (1985) - TV Movie
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans. (imdb)
Drum is the 1976 sequel to the movie Mandingo, and released by United Artists. Starring Warren Oates and Ken Norton, it parodies on nineteenth century American slavery like its predecessor. (Wikipedia.org)
Chrome Soldiers (1992) - TV Movie
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother. (imdb)
A Southern lawyer uncovers the truth about a slain undertaker. (imdb)
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time. (imdb)
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder. (imdb)
A young NYPD detective learns (the hard way) about the politics that govern a big-city police department. He kills a lady-detective/colleague whose undercover garb concealed her profession and he gets caught up in a department cover-up. (imdb)
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violence and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination. (imdb)
Intent to Kill (1992) - Direct-to-Video
A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agenda for his drug distribution empire. (imdb)
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party. (imdb)
Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure off the coast of Honduras. (imdb)
A terrorist (Warner) and an FBI agent (Knox) fight out a personal feud with one another. (imdb)
A town has been taken hostage. Who will win the battle? Only the mighty will survive. (imdb)
The Park Is Mine (1986) - TV Movie
A vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War. (imdb)
The USA are attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of high school kids has hacked the password and gained access. They believe it's a game and unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists. (imdb)
Harem (1986) - TV Movie
Jessica, a young British girl, goes off to Arabia with her father to be with her fiancé when he's called there suddenly on diplomatic duty. On a tourist journey she's kidnapped by what appears to be a Beduion tribe and sold into the harem of the Sultan. The man that took her captive is not actually a Beduion but an Oxford educated revolutionary who traded Jessica for the release of his friends from the Sultan's prison. (imdb)
Desperado (1987) - TV Movie
Desperado was the first of several made-for-TV movies revolving around the exploits of itinerant cowboy Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). This time around, McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. As the only honest man in the territory (comparatively speaking), our hero is ripe for a double-cross. Framed for the murder of Sheriff Whaley (Robert Vaughn), McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him. (allmovie.com)
In this biker flick, an L.A. policeman becomes friends with another officer and the tough black leader of a biker gag. Conflict ensues, especially when the biker leader's ambitious and vengeful second in command beats up his girlfriend and abducts the leaders pregnant girl. He takes her on a wild ride that almost kills her and the child. He is pursued by the cop who eventually captures him, but not before the badguy slits his throat. Surprisingly, he does not die. (allmovie.com)
Minister's family is killed by Arab terrorists, he takes revenge. (imdb)
The Defenders: Payback (1997) - TV Movie
E.G. Marshall returns as the head of the law firm that he portrayed in the 1961 to 1965 tv series. This time his partners are his son (Bridges) and his granddaughter (Plimpton). This is projected to be the first of a series of films. In this episode a man (Larroquette) murders the man who assaulted and raped his young daughter years before and was released from prison after serving just a few years. (imdb)
Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) - TV Series
A police homicide investigation unit investigates violent crimes in the city of Baltimore. (imdb)
In Self Defense (1987) - TV Movie
A witness (Linda Purl) is terrorized by the killer (Billy Drago) against whom she testified.
Night Chase (1970) - TV Movie
A man fleeing the scene of his wife's shooting forms an unexpected relationship with the tough cab driver he hires to drive him to the Mexican border.
A feature length documentary on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen (BLACK CAESAR, GOD TOLD ME TO, Q THE WINGED SERPENT, THE STUFF, PHONE BOOTH) (imdb)
Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1982) - TV Movie
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
The Ride (2000) - TV Movie
Prizefighter turned cabbie Carter Hicks (Yaphet Kotto) and four other drivers at Toronto's City Cab reexamine their lives over the course of one life-changing weekend.
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1994) - TV Movie
A tough Miami criminal journalist played by Elizabeth Montgomery investigates the disappearance of 16 year-old Alice Nicholson.