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Leonard Jackson (February 7, 1928 – December 22, 2013) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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7.8

1985

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

The Color Purple

1985 Drama History

6.7

1984

An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. ...

The Brother from Another Planet

1984 Comedy Sci-fi

7.3

1987

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on ...

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987 Comedy

5.8

1973

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable ...

Ganja & Hess

1973 Drama Fantasy

5.6

1978

Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandso...

King of the Gypsies

1978 Drama

4.4

1989

Wills is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby, a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Age...

Second Sight

1989 Comedy

6.6

1996

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Basquiat

1996 Drama History

8

1972

A black radical activist and a young White woman find themselves drawn to one another during the pol...

Together for Days

1972 Drama

6.6

1997

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be t...

Conspiracy Theory

1997 Action Drama

5.5

1991

A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware...

A Rage in Harlem

1991 Crime Comedy

5.7

1990

Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks....

Basket Case 2

1990 Horror Comedy

5.8

1995

Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of...

Palookaville

1995 Comedy Crime

6.5

1968

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one ...

Uptight

1968 Drama Thriller

0

1995

Mr. Conductor's sister and Kara's grandfather come for a visit. He builds a go-kart for Kara and wan...

Shining Time Station: One of the Family

1995 Comedy Family

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1975

'If Shaft Cant' Do It And The Hammer Won't, Then Super Spook Will!' - so says the tagline of the fir...

Super Spook

1975 Crime Comedy

7.5

1973

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American f...

Five on the Black Hand Side

1973 Comedy

4.7

1977

A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borr...

The Baron

1977 Drama Action

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1976

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in ...

Car Wash

1976 Comedy

5.7

1992

Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company...

Boomerang

1992 Comedy Romance

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1990

A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate...

Murder in Black and White

1990 Crime Drama

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1985

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1984

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1987

5.8

1973

5.6

1978

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1989

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1996

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1972

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1997

5.5

1991

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1990

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1995

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1968

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7.5

1973

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1977

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1976

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1992

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