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Godfrey Cambridge is a Actor American born on 26 february 1933 at New York City (USA)
Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was an American stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time magazine in 1965 as "one of the country's four most celebrated Negro comedians."
Cambridge married actress Barbara Ann Teer in 1962; the couple divorced three years later. During the 1970s he remained in semi-retirement, making few public appearances and marrying Audriano Meyers in 1972.
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Birth name Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge
Nationality USA
Birth 26 february 1933 at New York City (USA)
Death 29 november 1976 (at 43 years) at Burbank (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 26 february 1933 at New York City (USA)
Death 29 november 1976 (at 43 years) at Burbank (USA)
Biography
Cambridge, along with writer Maya Angelou and actor Hugh Hurd, organized one of the first benefits for Martin Luther King, Jr. held in New York City; according to Angelou, it was held at the Village Gate in the late 1950s and raised $9,000 for King's civil rights movement. (On his 1964 album Ready Or Not, Cambridge joked he was supporting Barry Goldwater, saying that the GOP presidential nominee had "come flat out against slavery...in principle!")Cambridge married actress Barbara Ann Teer in 1962; the couple divorced three years later. During the 1970s he remained in semi-retirement, making few public appearances and marrying Audriano Meyers in 1972.
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Scott Joplin (1977)
, 1h36Directed by Jeremy Kagan
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Seymour Cassel, Godfrey Cambridge, Art Carney
Roles Tom Turpin
Rating64%
In the late 19th century, Scott Joplin, a young African-American musician, moves to Missouri and to make ends meet finds a job as a piano teacher. He befriends Louis Chauvin, who plays piano in a brothel.
Whiffs (1975)
, 1h31Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Harry Guardino, Jennifer O'Neill, Godfrey Cambridge, Richard Masur
Roles Dusty
Rating46%
Friday Foster (1975)
, 1h29Directed by Arthur Marks
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Pam Grier, Carl Weathers, Eartha Kitt, Paul Benjamin, Thalmus Rasulala, Yaphet Kotto
Roles Ford Malotte
Rating60%
Friday Foster (Grier) is a ex-magazine model turned magazine photographer who refuses to heed her boss's admonitions against becoming involved in the stories to which she is assigned. After witnessing an assassination attempt on the nation's wealthiest African American Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala) and then seeing her best friend Cloris Boston (Miles) murdered, Friday finds herself targeted for death. She teams up with private detective Colt Hawkins (Kotto) to investigate, and soon the two are hot on the trail of a plot to eliminate the country's African-American political leadership.
Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Godfrey Cambridge, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin
Roles Godfrey Cambridge
Rating63%
During the weekend of her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Gladys Ann Brooks, a meek wife (played by Clarice Taylor) and her three children; Gideon Brooks (Glynn Turman), Booker T. Washington-Brooks (D'Urville Martin), and Gail Brooks (Bonnie Banfield) finally decides to stand up to their overbearing husband and father Mr. John Henry Brooks Jr. (Leonard Jackson) who displays retrogressive behavior.
The Biscuit Eater (1972)
, 1h30Directed 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 Willie Dorsey
Rating57%
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.
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 Gravedigger Jones
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."
Beware! The Blob (1972)
, 1h31Directed by Larry Hagman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Carol Lynley, Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Marlene Clark
Roles Chester Hargis
Rating41%
Left off after the events of the first movie The Blob, an oil pipeline layer named Chester (Godfrey Cambridge) returns to his suburban Los Angeles home from the North Pole, bringing with him a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site. Prior to taking the blob to a lab to be analyzed, he places the storage container with the substance in his freezer, but he and his wife (Marlene Clark) accidentally let it thaw, releasing "the Blob". It starts by eating a fly, then a kitten, Chester's wife, and then Chester himself (while he is watching a television broadcast of the film The Blob).
Watermelon Man (1970)
, 1h40Directed by Melvin Van Peebles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Melvin Van Peebles, Howard Caine, Mae Clarke, D'Urville Martin
Roles Jefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber
Rating66%
Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) lives in an average suburban neighborhood with his seemingly liberal housewife Althea (Estelle Parsons), who tolerates her husband's character flaws out of love. Every morning when Jeff wakes up, he spends some time under a tanning machine, hits the speedbag, drinks a health drink, and races the bus to work on foot.
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
, 1h37Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, John Anderson
Roles Gravedigger Jones
Rating63%
Reverend Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) arrives to fanfare at a rally in Harlem. Meanwhile, two Harlem detectives, Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and "Coffin" Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) catch a pickpocket, Early Riser, among the crowd and run him off. O'Malley is selling shares in a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. Uncle Budd (Redd Foxx) doesn't have the $100 minimum down payment, but O'Malley accepts his $20 for a share. Some men from the District Attorney's office arrive and ask O'Malley to come downtown. O'Malley agrees to leave as several masked gunman jump out a meat truck and begin shooting. They steal $87,000 in cash from the back of an armored car. O'Malley and two assistants chase the meat truck in the armored car; the detectives chase them both in their car. A bale of cotton falls out of the during the chase. The detectives lose them avoiding some youngsters in the street. Riser is hit by the meat truck while fleeing a pickpocketing attempt, which causes the truck and armored car to crash.
, 1h25Directed by Ken Annakin, Víctor Merenda
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Robert Wagner, Raquel Welch, Godfrey Cambridge, Francesco Mulé, Edward G. Robinson, Vittorio De Sica
Roles Benjamin 'Benny' Brownstead
Rating52%
American gangster Cesare Celli, hiding out in Italy, is kidnapped by Harry Price and his gang. Much to everyone's surprise, none of Cesare's friends or associates is willing to pay a ransom to get him back.
Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
, 1h34Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman, Jessica Walter, Sorrell Booke, Godfrey Cambridge
Roles Taxi Driver
Rating56%
When idealistic minor author Leslie Braverman dies suddenly from a heart attack at the age of 41, his four best friends decide to attend his funeral. The quartet of Jewish intellectuals drawn from the four corners of Manhattan consists of public relations writer Morroe Rieff from the Upper East Side, poet Barnet Weinstein from the Lower East Side, book reviewer Holly Levine from the Lower West Side, and Yiddish writer (and chronic complainer) Felix Ottensteen from the Upper West Side.
The Busy Body (1967)
, 1h41Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar, Robert Ryan, Anne Baxter, Kay Medford, Jan Murray
Roles Mike
Rating55%
George Norton is a low-level bumbler who works for Chicago crime boss Charley Barker. A well-dressed mama's boy, George is in good standing with Barker, even gaining a promotion, until an incident that costs the mob a million dollars.
The President's Analyst (1967)
, 1h43Directed by Theodore J. Flicker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Pat Harrington, Jr., Eduard Franz, Will Geer
Roles Don Masters
Rating67%
Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn), a psychiatrist, is chosen by the U.S. Government to act as the President’s top-secret personal psychoanalyst, through Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge), a Central Enquiries Agency (CEA) assassin who vetted Dr. Schaefer while undergoing psychoanalysis. The decision to choose Schaefer is against the advice of Henry Lux (Walter Burke), the director of the all-male, under-five-foot-six-inch Federal Bureau of Regulation (FBR). (Lux, like Hoover, was once a famous line of vacuum cleaner.) Dr. Schaefer is given a home in affluent Georgetown and assigned a comfortable office connected to the White House by a tunnel. From this location he is to be on call at all hours to fit the President's hectic schedule. However, the President's Analyst has one problem: There is no one to whom he can talk about the President's ultra-top-secret and personal problems. As he steadily becomes overwhelmed by stress, Schaefer begins to feel that he is being watched everywhere — which is actually true — until he becomes clinically paranoid; he even suspects his sweet girlfriend Nan (Joan Delaney) of spying on him — also true — as an agent of the CEA.
The Troublemaker (1964)
, 1h20Directed by Theodore J. Flicker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Tom Aldredge, James Frawley, Buck Henry, Theodore J. Flicker, Godfrey Cambridge, Michael Currie
Roles Fire Inspector
Rating63%
A young, naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee shop.
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
, 2h4Directed by Elia Kazan, Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Joanna Roos, Gary Lockwood
Roles Chauffeur (uncredited)
Rating76%
1928 Kansas: Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis (Natalie Wood) is a teenage girl who follows her mother's advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend, Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty), the son of one of the most prosperous families in town. In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father, Ace (Pat Hingle), who suggests that he find another kind of girl with whom to satisfy his desires.