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Beah Richards is a Actor American born on 12 july 1920 at Vicksburg (USA)

Beah Richards

Beah Richards
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Birth name Beulah Elizabeth Richardson
Nationality USA
Birth 12 july 1920 at Vicksburg (USA)
Death 14 september 2000 (at 80 years) at Vicksburg (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award

Beah Richards (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000) was an American actress of stage, screen and television. She was a poet, playwright and author. During her career, Richards was nominated for a Tony and an Academy Award, and received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances on television.

Best films

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(1967)
(Actress) Mahogany
Mahogany
(1975)
(Actress)

Usually with

Don Bluth
Don Bluth
(1 films)
Wayne Fitzgerald
Wayne Fitzgerald
(2 films)
Lisa Gay Hamilton
Lisa Gay Hamilton
(2 films)
Diana Ross
Diana Ross
(2 films)
John Korty
John Korty
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Beah Richards (20 films)

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Actress

Beloved
Beloved (1998)
, 2h52
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton
Roles Baby Suggs
Rating59% 2.998752.998752.998752.998752.99875
Sethe is a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati shortly after the Civil War. An angry poltergeist terrorizes Sethe and her three children, causing her two sons to run away forever. Eight years later, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives alone with her daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise). Paul D. (Danny Glover), an old friend from Sweet Home, the plantation Sethe had escaped from years earlier, finds Sethe's home, where he drives off the angry spirit. Afterwards, Paul D. proposes that he should stay and Sethe responds favorably. Shortly after Paul D. moves in, a clean, mentally handicapped young woman (Thandie Newton) named Beloved stumbles into Sethe's yard and also stays with them.
Out of Darkness
Out of Darkness (1994)
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Diana Ross, Beah Richards, Carl Lumbly, John Marshall Jones, Stack Pierce, Juanita Jennings
Roles Mrs. Cooper
Rating74% 3.730063.730063.730063.730063.73006
In the film, Ross played the character of Paulie Cooper, a former med student who becomes ill with paranoid schizophrenia and loses 18 years of her life due to the sickness. After her release from a mental ward Paulie struggles to rebuild her life with help from doctors, nurses and a new experimental-medicine drug that would help aid her back to health. Throughout the movie, Paulie seeks to better herself in a world that she felt had shunned her.
Drugstore Cowboy
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
, 1h40
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham, James Remar, Max Perlich
Roles Drug Counselor
Rating71% 3.5991153.5991153.5991153.5991153.599115
The story follows Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) and his crew of drug addicts as they travel across the U.S. Pacific Northwest in 1971, supporting their habit by robbing pharmacies and hospitals. After a tragedy strikes the group, Bob decides to try to "go straight", but finds that there is more to extricating himself from the drug user's lifestyle than just giving up drugs.
Homer and Eddie
Homer and Eddie (1989)
, 1h40
Directed by Andreï Kontchalovski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, James Belushi, Robert Glaudini, Anne Ramsey, John Waters, Karen Black
Roles Linda Cervi
Rating53% 2.6559952.6559952.6559952.6559952.655995
A homicidal escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live meets a childlike mentally challenged traveling companion for a cross-country car trip that brings unexpected meaning to both their lives.
Big Shots
Big Shots (1987)
, 1h34
Directed by Robert Mandel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Robert Prosky, Paul Winfield, Jerzy Skolimowski, Brynn Thayer
Roles Miss Hanks
Rating57% 2.855422.855422.855422.855422.85542
An 11-year-old boy from Hinsdale, Illinois named Obie Dawkins (Ricky Busker) is out fishing with his father, who tells him about the birds and the bees. All the while Obie shows interest in his dad's watch, who eventually gives it to him. Later that morning Obie is in school when his mom arrives to tell him that his dad is in the hospital. The family learns that he suffered a massive heart attack, which he dies from days later. After the funeral, Obie lingers to the memory of him and his father, the day his dad gave him his watch, as he and his family tries to move forward.
A Christmas Without Snow
A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
, 1h35
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, James Cromwell, Valerie Curtin, Ruth Nelson
Roles Wendell's Grandma
Rating57% 2.8574552.8574552.8574552.8574552.857455
A divorcee, Zoe Jensen (Michael Learned), moves to San Francisco from Omaha in an effort to rebuild her life. She has reluctantly left her young son back home with his grandmother until she is more financially secure. She joins a local church choir which has just gained a new, demanding choirmaster-- retired music conductor Ephraim Adams (John Houseman). Adams challenges the choir to dramatically improve, creating discomfort for some of the members, particularly when he sets the high goal of performing Handel's Messiah for a Christmas concert. Meanwhile, the choir overcome personal setbacks as they all deal with personal issues.
Banjo the Woodpile Cat
Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1979)
, 27minutes
Directed by Don Bluth
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Animation
Actors Sparky Marcus, Scatman Crothers, Beah Richards, Ken Sansom, Sally Stevens
Roles Zazu (voice)
Rating64% 3.2370553.2370553.2370553.2370553.237055
In a woodpile in Payson, Utah during the 1940s, a kitten named Banjo (voiced by Sparky Marcus) decides to chase chickens around. His sisters, Emily and Jean, tell their parents and Banjo's father (voiced by veteran voice actor, Ken Sansom) soon stops him and makes him promise not to do it again. But Banjo continues to be mischievous in many ways. After getting in trouble for jumping off the roof of a chicken coop, Banjo decides to run away from home and hitches a ride on a feed truck to Salt Lake City.
Mahogany
Mahogany (1975)
, 1h49
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes La mode, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Anthony Perkins, Beah Richards, Nina Foch
Roles Florence
Rating60% 3.049283.049283.049283.049283.04928
Tracy Chambers is a sassy industrious young woman living in the projects of Chicago who dreams of becoming a fashion designer. She has worked her way up from salesgirl to secretary and assistant to the head buyer at a luxury department store (modeled after, and filmed at, Marshall Field's on State Street, Chicago).
Outrage
Outrage (1973)

Directed by Richard T. Heffron
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Robert Culp, Beah Richards, Jacqueline Scott, Ramon Bieri, Mark Lenard, Ivor Francis
Roles Thelma
Rating70% 3.525993.525993.525993.525993.52599
Jim Kiler, a suburbanite, finds himself and his family at the mercy of a group of young men from neighboring families who have singled out the Kilers after running roughshod over the greater community. While Kiler attempts at first to reason with the youths, their response is to step up the attacks on the family, which grow more emboldened and dangerous as the film continues. Kiler and his wife eventually feel that in addition to their personal safety, the youths are also trying to tempt their young daughter into situations that would harm her.
The Biscuit Eater
The Biscuit Eater (1972)
, 1h30
Directed by Vincent McEveety, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films
Actors Earl Holliman, Johnny Whitaker, Pat Crowley, Lew Ayres, Beah Richards, Clifton James
Roles Charity Tomlin
Rating57% 2.8589452.8589452.8589452.8589452.858945
The story revolves around a German wirehair pointer named Moreover who has a strong relationship with a red-headed boy named Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) despite his mishaps. Moreover is dealt to Willie Dorsey (Godfrey Cambridge), a gas station clerk, but Lonnie and his best friend Text regain possession of the dog. They train Moreover to be a prize-winning bird pointer, entering him in a field trial.
The Great White Hope
The Great White Hope (1970)
, 1h43
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Théâtre, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Films based on plays, Le boxe anglaise, Children's films
Actors James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Moses Gunn, R.G. Armstrong
Roles Mama Tiny
Rating68% 3.444073.444073.444073.444073.44407
Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones; patterned after real-life boxer Jack Johnson) going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and racists announce the search for a "great white hope", a boxer who will defeat Jefferson for the heavyweight title. Meanwhile, Jefferson prepares for a few more matches, but he lets his guard down by courting the beautiful (and very white) Eleanor Bachman (Jane Alexander), and when everyone, including Jack's black "wife", discover this, the tensions grow to fever pitch. Jack's close black friends become scared over his pushing the envelope of success and the white authorities conspire to frame him with unlawful sexual relations with Eleanor and thereby take away his title. It leads to jealousy, a run from the law, and finally, disaster.
In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
, 1h49
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about racism
Actors Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, William Schallert
Roles Mama Caleba
Rating78% 3.947973.947973.947973.947973.94797
Mr. Colbert, a wealthy man from Chicago who was planning to build a factory in Sparta, Mississippi, is found murdered. White police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) comes under pressure to quickly find his killer. African-American northerner Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), passing through town, is picked up at the train station between trains with a substantial amount of cash in his wallet. Gillespie, prejudiced against blacks, jumps to the conclusion that he has his culprit but is embarrassed to learn that Tibbs is an experienced Philadelphia homicide detective who is simply passing through town after visiting his mother. After the racist treatment that he receives, Tibbs wants nothing more than to leave as quickly as possible, but his own chief, after questioning whether Tibbs himself is prejudiced, has him stay and help. Leslie Colbert (Lee Grant), the victim's widow, already frustrated by the ineptitude of the local police, is impressed by Tibbs's expertise when he clears another wrongly accused suspect whom Gillespie has arrested on circumstantial evidence. She threatens to stop construction on the much needed factory unless Tibbs leads the investigation. Unwilling to accept help, but under orders from the town's mayor, Gillespie talks a reluctant Tibbs into working on the case.