Credits include: In the Heat of the Night, Drugstore Cowboy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Miracle Worker and Beloved

Inducted into the "Black Filmmakers Hall Of Fame" [1973]Was the first African-American to "star" in a film.Died four days before the release of his final film, The Black Stallion (1979).Holding a law degree from Pennsylvania's Dickerson University, Clarence requested that he be addressed as Dr. Muse in later years.In his salad days, Muse appeared as an opera singer, a minstrel performer and a vaudeville actor. He also composed songs and wrote plays and sketches, and was considere

After arriving in Hollywood with $12 in his pocket, he was first employed as a sweeper for $1 a day. He was an American author and actor whose career spanned three decades beginning around 1960. He was sometimes billed as Harry Rhodes and appeared in sixty-six films or television programs, such as ABC's medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. Most of his appearances were in minor roles, according to IMDB. Rhodes first television role was in a 1957 episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey

Credits include: RoboCop, RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3, Nashville and Coffy

Quite opinionated, he lobbied hard for better parts and working conditions for his fellow African-American performers, and was gratified to see some progress in the early 1970s.

African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Imitation of Life (1959), a glossy updating of a once controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racism. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent seve

Actress. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts she did not come into acting until quite late. She made her television debut in "Run For Your Life" in 1966 at the age of 74. She appeared in character roles through out the 1960 and 1970 in such television series as "Night Gallery," "Days of Our Live," and "The Mod Squad." Her best remembered role, however, was that of Mother Jefferson who was introduced in a 1974 episode of "All in the Family." She reprised the role once more before the spinoff series,

Credits include: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Written on the Wind, Airport '77, A Star Is Born and Susan Slept Here

Credits include: Show Boat, Man of a Thousand Faces, Magnificent Doll, The Black Klansman and Three Secrets

Credits include: Shadows, The Vanishing, Legal Eagles, Lady Sings the Blues and Sanford and Son

Credits include: The Biscuit Eater, A Dream for Christmas, The Wish and Crossfire

Credits include: New York, New York, When a Stranger Calls, To Sleep with Anger, One Good Cop and The Night Before