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Carl Lee is a Actor and Writer American born on 22 november 1926
Carl Lee (November 22, 1926 – April 17, 1986), born Carl Vincent Canegata, was an American actor. He was also the son of actor/professional boxer Canada Lee (1907–1952).
In a 2000 interview, filmmaker James Toback stated, "In the sort of hip world of New York, Carl Lee was the hip-black-actor icon. He was for hip people what Sidney Poitier was for mainstream people."
Lee played a heroin dealer, the title role in the Obie Award-winning play The Connection. He later appeared in the film version.
Lee, who made his first film appearance in the 1954 film Human Desire, went on to appear in such films as A Man Called Adam (1966) opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. and Cicely Tyson, and the now classic blaxploitation film Superfly (with the late Ron O'Neal) in 1972. He also appeared in various television roles in such shows as The Defenders, Mannix, and Good Times ("Willona's Surprise", 1977) in a memorable performance in which he portrayed Willona Woods's conniving ex-husband Ray, who makes sexual advances towards Thelma (Bernadette Stanis).
Lee suffered a heroin overdose which led to his death.
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Carl Lee
Birth name Carl Vincent Canegata
Nationality USA
Birth 22 november 1926
Death 17 april 1986 (at 59 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 22 november 1926
Death 17 april 1986 (at 59 years)
In a 2000 interview, filmmaker James Toback stated, "In the sort of hip world of New York, Carl Lee was the hip-black-actor icon. He was for hip people what Sidney Poitier was for mainstream people."
Lee played a heroin dealer, the title role in the Obie Award-winning play The Connection. He later appeared in the film version.
Lee, who made his first film appearance in the 1954 film Human Desire, went on to appear in such films as A Man Called Adam (1966) opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. and Cicely Tyson, and the now classic blaxploitation film Superfly (with the late Ron O'Neal) in 1972. He also appeared in various television roles in such shows as The Defenders, Mannix, and Good Times ("Willona's Surprise", 1977) in a memorable performance in which he portrayed Willona Woods's conniving ex-husband Ray, who makes sexual advances towards Thelma (Bernadette Stanis).
Lee suffered a heroin overdose which led to his death.
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Exposed (1983)
, 1h40Directed by James Toback, Alain Tasma
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel, Ian McShane, Iman, Bibi Andersson
Roles Duke
Rating50%
A college girl from Wisconsin whose professor has romantic designs on her, Elizabeth Carlson packs up and moves to New York City, finding a job as a waitress while she attempts to launch a career as a fashion model.
Gordon's War (1973)
, 1h30Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Paul Winfield, Carl Lee, David Downing, Gilbert Lewis, Carl Gordon, Grace Jones
Roles Bee Bishop
Rating63%
A Vietnam veteran returns home to find drug dealers and addicts now rule his old neighborhood, and that even his own wife has fallen victim to drugs. Together with three of his buddies from Vietnam, he fights back.
Super Fly (1972)
, 1h33Directed by Gordon Parks, Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Musical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Carl Lee, Julius Harris, Charles McGregor, John Williams
Roles Eddie
Rating63%
Priest (Ron O'Neal) is an up-and-coming cocaine dealer in New York City. On his way to a meeting point in Harlem early one morning he is mugged by two junkies. Priest beats one up and gives chase to the other, beating him until he gets the money back. Afterwards, Fat Freddie and Nate Adams, Priest's main dealers, turn up at his apartment to make their payments.
Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Road movies
Actors Billy Gray, Severn Darden, Carl Lee
Rating43%
As a group of bikers moves across the desert, they come across an old church that a satanic cult has taken over. The cultists give them drugged food, and the bikers soon fall asleep. That night the cultists cast a curse on the biker leader's girlfriend, that makes her turn into a werewolf after nightfall; she soon infects her boyfriend. The bikers leave the church, and begin to be killed off whenever they stop for the night. Things come to a climax when the couple changes in front of the bikers, who quickly kill the beasts. The bikers return to the church to have their revenge, but stop when they see themselves in the cult-procession.
The Landlord (1970)
, 1h52Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett Jr., Walter Brooke
Roles Carl
Rating68%
Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges), a man who lives off his parents' wealth, buys himself an inner-city tenement, in the transitional neighborhood of 1970 Park Slope, Brooklyn, planning to evict all the occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. However, once he ventures into the tenement, he gradually grows fond of the low-income black residents who dwell there. Enders decides to remain as the landlord, and help fix the apartment building. He rebels against his WASP upbringing, and to his parents' dismay, he romances two black women.
Pound (1970)
, 1h32Directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Corinne Calvet, Charles Dierkop, Mariclare Costello, Antonio Fargas, Don Calfa, Marshall Efron
Roles Thief
Rating58%
Portrait of Jason (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Shirley Clarke
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about prostitution, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Carl Lee, Shirley Clarke
Roles Interviewer #2 (voice)
Rating70%
A gay African-American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer, Jason is the sole on-screen presence in the film. He narrates his troubled life story to the camera, behind which Clarke and her partner at the time, actor Carl Lee, provoke and berate Jason with increasing hostility as the film progresses. The film employs avant-garde and cinéma vérité techniques to reach the tragedy underlying Jason's theatrical, exaggerated persona.
A Man Called Adam (1966)
, 1h39Directed by Leo Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Peter Lawford, Johnny Brown, Mel Tormé
Rating65%
Adam Johnson is a talented African-American jazz cornetist, plagued by ill health, racism, alcoholism and a short temper, as well as guilt over the deaths years before of his wife and child. The result is a caustic personality that wears even on those who care the most about him, such as his best friend Nelson, and Vincent, a young Caucasian trumpeter whom Adam mentors. Arriving unexpectedly at his New York home drunk after walking out on his jazz quintet, Adam finds prominent Civil Rights worker Claudia Ferguson and her grandfather, Willie, who is himself a well-known jazz trumpeter, in his apartment. The two have been given access to the apartment by Nelson, but despite having authorized this, the drunken Adam is rude to both, that including making a vulgar pass at Claudia.
The Cool World (1963)
, 2h5Directed by Shirley Clarke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Crime
Actors Antonio Fargas, Carl Lee, Clarence Williams III, Gloria Foster, Richard Ward, Val Bisoglio
Roles Priest
Rating64%
Un regard sur les horreurs du ghetto de Harlem, touché par la drogue, la violence, et la misère, ainsi que par le désespoir dû à la ségrégation raciale de la société américaine.
The Connection (1961)
, 1h50Directed by Shirley Clarke
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Jazz films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Warren Finnerty, William Redfield, Garry Goodrow, Carl Lee, James Anderson, Roscoe Lee Browne
Roles Cowboy
Rating69%
Conçu comme un "documentaire fictif", la caméra suit les pas d'un jeune réalisateur tournant un film avec des musiciens de jazz et des artistes toxicomanes qui attendent chacun leur dealer d'héroïne : celui-ci se trouve être une même et unique personne, formant donc le lien (the connection) entre tous les protagonistes.
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The Cool World (1963)
, 2h5Directed by Shirley Clarke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Crime
Actors Antonio Fargas, Carl Lee, Clarence Williams III, Gloria Foster, Richard Ward, Val Bisoglio
Roles Writer
Rating64%
Un regard sur les horreurs du ghetto de Harlem, touché par la drogue, la violence, et la misère, ainsi que par le désespoir dû à la ségrégation raciale de la société américaine.