Al Freeman Jr. Trailers
Down in the Delta TrailerOnce Upon a Time... When We Were Colored TrailerAssault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker Trailer
Al Freeman, Jr. (March 21, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American actor and director. Freeman made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1985, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. He left the show briefly to appear in the network's controversial sitcom Hot L Baltimore. During that period, "Ed" was played by another actor, Arthur Pendleton. He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to direct a soap opera.
After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea. His portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations.
Freeman also taught acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C..
Most Popular Al Freeman Jr. Trailers
Total trailers found: 27
01 June 1958
A young white collegian and a fellow black student struggling for understanding come to realize that living together harmoniously is a two-way street.
22 June 1964
A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
01 January 1968
This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow.
26 February 1994
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Ties
18 November 1992
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam.
23 July 1969
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
20 January 1972
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
19 March 1960
To combat the problem of drug-dealing juvenile delinquents operating in racial gangs, two recent police academy graduates are sent to a local high school, posing as students.
11 July 1969
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
26 January 1996
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
01 December 1985
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
16 April 1976
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
28 May 1968
New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner.
20 May 1964
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
20 March 1971
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside their home.
31 July 1964
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front.
09 October 1968
An Irishman and his daughter arrive in the American South with a stolen pot of gold, hoping to make their fortune.
20 January 1970
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
01 February 1961
A combat unit under Capt. Tombol's command undertakes a perilous final patrol amidst heightened tensions, despite an imminent Korean War treaty.
24 October 1958
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
28 December 1966
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up.
04 October 1970
A BBC-produced docudrama reconstructing the trial of the Chicago Eight, using courtroom transcripts as its primary source.
24 October 1989
"Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice" documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period.
25 December 1998
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
01 January 1993
Sean, a twenty-something burned-out baseball player, returns home in an attempt to keep his parents' marriage together.
14 October 1966
"For Pete's Sake" is the heartfelt and inspiring story of a man (Robert Sampson) struggling to come to terms with his wife's (Pippa Scott) untimely death, while raising their young son (Johnny Jenson).
16 September 1988
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
