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Cleavant Derricks is a Actor American born on 15 may 1953 at Knoxville (USA)

Cleavant Derricks

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Birth name Cleavant Derricks, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 15 may 1953 (71 years) at Knoxville (USA)

Cleavant Derricks, Jr. (born May 15, 1953) is an American actor and Tony Award winning singer-songwriter, who is best known for his role of Rembrandt Brown on Sliders.

Biography

Derricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to a pianist mother and Baptist preacher/composer Cleavant Derricks, Sr. His twin brother is actor and musician Clinton Derricks-Carroll. Derricks began his career as a Nashville gospel songwriter. With his father, he wrote the gospel album Satisfaction Guaranteed. He was the musical director and composer for the musical When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate.

Derricks went to New York City to study acting with Vinnette Carroll at the Urban Arts Theatre. He received rave reviews for his performance in her Broadway shows, including But Never Jam Today. He also won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for creating the role of James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway he was in the William Finn musical Romance in Hard Times in 1989. He also starred in the Broadway musical Brooklyn as the Streetsinger.

Soon afterwards, Derricks appeared in films such as Moscow on the Hudson, Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife and recently, Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls. He was a series regular on the television series Thea with Thea Vidale and Brandy, and Good Sports with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. His role as Rembrandt Brown (known as the Crying Man) on Sliders with Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and John Rhys-Davies is notable because Derricks is the only original Sliders actor to appear throughout the entire series. In addition, Derricks has had numerous guest-starring roles in series such as Roseanne, A Different World, Miami Vice, Spenser: For Hire, Charmed and many others.

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Filmography of Cleavant Derricks (9 films)

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Rome & Jewel, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about suicide, Hip hop films, Musical films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Gangster films
Actors Nate Parker, Lindsey Haun, Elijah Kelley, Cleavant Derricks, John Rubinstein, Greg Siff
Rating41% 2.0795352.0795352.0795352.0795352.079535
Compton-native Rome (Nate Parker) is the son of Reverend Q (Cleavant Derricks) and has angst for Jewel (Lindsey Haun), the daughter of Los Angeles Mayor Capps (John Rubinstein) who lives in Beverly Hills. Using a reworked dialogue such as "deep inside I’m tender/sweeter than Splenda/and if you must know the truth/my heart's not bulletproof" and despite his father's wishes that he avoid upper-class white women, Rome meets Jewel at her sweet 16 party. They achieve love-at-first sight over bilateral rap discourse and have a quick wedding in Las Vegas. After the tragic ending befalls both teens, the fathers come to a realization that color should not distinguish humanity.
Basilisk: The Serpent King
Directed by Stephen Furst
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Jeremy London, Cleavant Derricks, Stephen Furst, Yancy Butler, Bashar Rahal, Đoko Rosić
Roles Col. Douglas
Rating35% 1.7784051.7784051.7784051.7784051.778405
In 20 BC in what is now Libya, the Basilisk, an ancient serpent reputed to be the king of serpents, attacks a Bedouin leader and his sons who make their way to the mountains where it lives. When it kills the leader's sons, it is turned to stone by the "Eye of Medusa", a long golden staff which contains the most beautiful diamond in both the human and the animal worlds. Once it becomes a statue, the Basilisk is then buried by a rockfall.
World Traveler, 1h43
Directed by Bart Freundlich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore, Francie Swift, Liane Balaban, David Keith, Karen Allen
Roles Carl
Rating52% 2.649592.649592.649592.649592.64959
The plot centers around restless thirtysomething New Yorker named Cal who one day drives off into the open road, leaving his wife and infant son behind and along the way, meets a number of unusual characters. The film uses numerous songs by Willie Nelson.
Carnival of Souls, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Bobbie Phillips, Shawnee Smith, Larry Miller, Paul Johansson, Cleavant Derricks, Henry G. Sanders
Roles Sid
Rating32% 1.613921.613921.613921.613921.61392
Although this film is a remake of 1962's Carnival of Souls, it bears little resemblance to the original aside from the ending. This film centers on Alex Grant (Bobbie Phillips) who witnesses a carnival clown named Louis Seagram (Larry Miller) raping and murdering her mother on January 24, 1977. Twenty years later, Seagram returns after being released from prison and attacks Alex in her car. She drives the car into the river, and as she struggles back to shore she has hallucinations of Seagram and the same carnival where she met him. Alex is then drawn into a ghoulish game of cat and mouse with Seagram at the carnival.
Off Beat
Off Beat (1986)
, 1h26
Directed by Carey Loftin, Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy
Actors Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Harvey Keitel, Joe Mantegna, Fyvush Finkel
Roles Abe Washington
Rating51% 2.5561952.5561952.5561952.5561952.556195
Joe Gower is a likable librarian who glides around his job on roller skates. He has a strict boss, Mr. Pepper, and a good friend who's a cop, Abe Washington.
The Slugger's Wife, 1h45
Directed by Hal Ashby
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, Randy Quaid, Cleavant Derricks, Martin Ritt, Lisa Langlois
Roles Manny Alvarado
Rating44% 2.2080152.2080152.2080152.2080152.208015
Darryl Palmer is a baseball player for the Atlanta Braves. He enjoys the fame and fringe benefits of bachelor life until he meets rock singer Debby Huston, falls in love and decides to settle down.
Moscow on the Hudson, 1h55
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Circus films, Films about immigration, Films about music and musicians, Politique, La précarité, Jazz films, Political films
Actors Robin Williams, María Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Elya Baskin, Alejandro Rey, Paul Mazursky
Roles Lionel Witherspoon
Rating64% 3.2482953.2482953.2482953.2482953.248295
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and Soviet political repression of the early 1980s prior to perestroika, Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams), a saxophonist with the Moscow circus, lives in a crowded apartment with his extended family. He stands in lines for hours to buy toilet paper and shoes. When the apparatchik assigned to the circus (Kramarov as Boris) criticizes Vladimir for being late to rehearsal and suggests Vladimir may miss the approaching trip to New York, Vladimir gives Boris a pair of shoes from the queue that made Vladimir late.
Fort Apache, the Bronx, 2h5
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Newman, Edward Asnere, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, Kathleen Beller
Roles Suspect #4
Rating66% 3.3478253.3478253.3478253.3478253.347825
Police officers face many challenges in the decayed South Bronx region of New York City. Among them are NYPD officers Murphy (Newman) and Corelli (Wahl), who work out of the 41st precinct, nicknamed "Fort Apache" because to those who work there, it feels like an army outpost in foreign territory (an allusion to Fort Apache out of the Old West).
Cindy
Cindy (1978)
, 1h38
Directed by William A. Graham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Charlayne Woodard, Mae Mercer, Nell Carter, Alaina Reed Hall, Scoey Mitchell, Clifton Davis
Roles Michael Simpson
Rating70% 3.522133.522133.522133.522133.52213
After World War II, Cindy (Woodard) has moved from the south to live in Harlem with her newly blended family. She finds herself constantly abused by her stepmother and stepsisters. Her father (Mitchell) provides some comfort but cannot prevent the abuse entirely. One night, she meets Captain Joe Prince (Davis) and is swept off her feet. Soon after, a romance ensues.