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Charles McGregor is a Actor American born on 1 september 1922 at New York City (USA)
Charles McGregor (September 1, 1922 – August 11, 1996) was an African American actor, best known for his role as Fat Freddie in Super Fly. In his youth, he spent a number of years in prison. During the 1970s, he became an actor and played supporting roles in several blaxploitation films. After his film career, he toured the United States and went to junior high schools and high schools, counseling children on the dangers of crime, drugs, and prison. In 1980, he married Carolyn Pryor. He wrote his autobiography, called Up From the Dead: The Charles McGregor Story with Sharon Sopher. He died on August 11, 1996.
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Birth name Charles McGregor
Nationality USA
Birth 1 september 1922 at New York City (USA)
Death 11 august 1996 (at 73 years) at Santa Clara (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 1 september 1922 at New York City (USA)
Death 11 august 1996 (at 73 years) at Santa Clara (USA)
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Filmography of Charles McGregor (12 films)
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Bad (1977)
, 1h45Directed by Jed Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell, Charles McGregor, Cyrinda Foxe, Stefania Casini
Roles Detective Hughes
Rating60%
The film focuses on Hazel Aiken (Carroll Baker), a hairdresser who runs a beauty salon in her house and makes extra money by providing hitmen with hit jobs. The narrative includes multiple side-plots pertaining to characters involved in these crimes.
Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
, 1h39Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Actors Moses Gunn, Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Robert Hooks, Charles McGregor, Gordon Parks, Jr.
Roles Duke
Rating58%
Aaron Loves Angela is about two teenagers living in the slums of New York City who are deeply in love with each other. Angela (Irene Cara), who is Puerto Rican, falls in love with Aaron (Kevin Hooks), who is black. Their relationship is not approved by either of their parents. They both rebel against their parents' prejudices, but soon find out that their friends and neighbors share the same prejudices as their parents.
That's the Way of the World (1975)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Harvey Keitel, Ed Nelson, Michael Dante, Jimmy Boyd, Bert Parks, Philip Bailey
Roles Mantan
Rating60%
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
, 1h43Directed by Antonio Margheriti, Hal Needham
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Western
Actors Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly, Barry Sullivan, Dana Andrews
Roles Cloyd
Rating56%
Pike (Jim Brown), the right-hand man of cattle rancher Bob Morgan (Dana Andrews), is entrusted with a mission to deliver $86,000 across the border to the Morgan Ranch in Sonora, Mexico after his boss dies. Pike teams up with dishonest gambler Tyree (Fred Williamson) and they are forced to trust each other while being pursued by various outlaws and gunmen trying to possess the money, including the ruthless bounty hunter Kiefer (Lee Van Cleef) and corrupt sheriff Kane (Barry Sullivan).
Blazing Saddles (1974)
, 1h29Directed by Mel Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about films
Actors Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks
Roles Charlie
Rating76%
In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle (Burton Gilliam) runs into quicksand. The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of "Johnson" (including a "Howard Johnson," a "Dr. Samuel Johnson," a "Van Johnson" and an "Olson N. Johnson"). The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) – who constantly has to correct people who call him "Hedy", the name of a movie star, instead of "Hedley" – wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople. He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky assistant Taggart (Slim Pickens), to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J. Le Petomane (Mel Brooks) appoint a new sheriff. Lamarr persuades the dim-witted Le Petomane to select Bart (Cleavon Little), a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged, as he believes a black lawman will so offend the townspeople that they will either abandon Rock Ridge or lynch the new sheriff, with either result paving the way for him to take over the town.
Three the Hard Way (1974)
, 1h33Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about racism
Actors Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Jay Robinson, Sheila Frazier, Howard Platt, Charles McGregor
Roles Charley
Rating61%
Three The Hard Way was released in 1974 and is considered one of the classic action movies of the blaxploitation genre. Directed by the acclaimed Gordon Parks Jr., son of Gordon Parks (Shaft 1971) and director of Super Fly (1972), the film stars the three biggest black action stars of the era; Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, El Condor, Slaughter) as record producer Jimmy Lait, Fred Williamson (Black Caesar, Bucktown) as entrepreneur Jagger Daniels, and Jim Kelly (Enter the Dragon, Black Samurai, Black Belt Jones, One Down Two to Go) as martial arts master Mister Keyes.
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 Jim
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.
Across 110th Street (1972)
, 1h42Directed by Barry Shear
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Antonio Fargas, Ed Bernard
Roles Chink
Rating69%
This film is set in Harlem, of which 110th Street is an informal boundary line. By-the-book African-American Lieutenant William Pope (Kotto) has to work with crude, racist but streetwise Italian-American Captain Frank Mattelli (Quinn) in the NYPD's 27th precinct. They are looking for three black men who slaughtered seven men—three black gangsters and two Italian gangsters, as well as two patrol officers—in the robbery of $300,000 from a Mafia-owned Harlem policy bank. Mafia lieutenant Nick D'Salvio (Franciosa) and his two henchmen are also after the hoods. In one of many violent scenes, D'Salvio finds getaway driver Henry J. Jackson (Antonio Fargas) and brutalizes him in a Harlem whorehouse.
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Percy Rodriguez, Jonelle Allen, Leonardo Cimino, Charles McGregor
Roles Fatback
Rating63%
Coffin Ed Johnson & Gravedigger Jones are confounded by a string of strange murders in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York. The murders themselves aren't nearly as bizarre as the calling card left by the murderer: a blue steel straight razor. Legend has it that this was the calling card of Charleston Blue, a vigilante who tried to rid the neighborhood of all criminal elements using a straight razor. Blue, having disappeared years ago after he went after Dutch Schultz (with his trusty straight razor) was considered dead by all except his girlfriend, who kept his razors locked away until his "come 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 Fat Freddie
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.
The French Connection (1971)
, 1h44Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale
Roles "Baldy" (uncredited)
Rating76%
In Marseille, an undercover detective is following Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), a wealthy French criminal who runs the largest heroin-smuggling syndicate in the world. The policeman is assassinated by Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi). Charnier plans to smuggle $32 million worth of heroin into the United States by hiding it in the car of his unsuspecting friend, French television personality Henri Devereaux (Frédéric de Pasquale).
Born to Win (1971)
, 1h28Directed by Ivan Passer
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black, Héctor Elizondo, Robert De Niro, Burt Young
Roles Lethal Messenger
Rating57%
The film follows Jay Jay (Segal), a former hair dresser who has become a drug addict. He lives his new life by doing deals for Vivian (Elizondo) from time to time. One day he meets Parm (Black), a free spirited girl. The two fall in love. Jay Jay's drug habit grows, and he soon resorts to robbery. On the threat of arrest, he works alongside two dirty policemen by becoming a narc, and reports on his former fellow junkies. Yet, as the movie continues, Jay Jay sinks deeper into turmoil with feelings of self-hatred.