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Le Tari is a Actor American born on 21 april 1946 at Ohio (USA)
Le Tari (April 21, 1946 – April 4, 1987) was an American actor who appeared in movies and on television.
Distinctive for his imposing physical stature, broad mustache and lantern jaw, Tari landed a starring role in the 1976 blaxploitation film Brotherhood of Death. In the late 1970s, he would make guest appearances on such television programs as The Jeffersons, Starsky and Hutch and Happy Days, as well as appear in such feature films as Fast Break and The Onion Field.
Tari's widest exposure would come in the early 1980s, with a recurring role on the television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. On that show, Tari played Ted Ramsey, the adoptive father of Arnold Jackson's best friend, Dudley (Shavar Ross). After Diff'rent Strokes, Tari went on to further television guest appearances, and near the end of his life, he returned to film work, appearing in the 1987 films Hollywood Shuffle and Amazon Women on the Moon. He also appeared in What's Happening Now!! as Dr. Blood, a reformed gang banger trying to help the youth center, in the episode "That Old Gang Of Mine".
Tari died of a heart attack in 1987, at the age of 40. He was buried at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 april 1946 at Ohio (USA)
Death 4 april 1987 (at 40 years) at Los Angeles County (USA)
Birth 21 april 1946 at Ohio (USA)
Death 4 april 1987 (at 40 years) at Los Angeles County (USA)
Le Tari (April 21, 1946 – April 4, 1987) was an American actor who appeared in movies and on television.
Distinctive for his imposing physical stature, broad mustache and lantern jaw, Tari landed a starring role in the 1976 blaxploitation film Brotherhood of Death. In the late 1970s, he would make guest appearances on such television programs as The Jeffersons, Starsky and Hutch and Happy Days, as well as appear in such feature films as Fast Break and The Onion Field.
Tari's widest exposure would come in the early 1980s, with a recurring role on the television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. On that show, Tari played Ted Ramsey, the adoptive father of Arnold Jackson's best friend, Dudley (Shavar Ross). After Diff'rent Strokes, Tari went on to further television guest appearances, and near the end of his life, he returned to film work, appearing in the 1987 films Hollywood Shuffle and Amazon Women on the Moon. He also appeared in What's Happening Now!! as Dr. Blood, a reformed gang banger trying to help the youth center, in the episode "That Old Gang Of Mine".
Tari died of a heart attack in 1987, at the age of 40. He was buried at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
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Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
, 1h25Directed by Joe Dante, John Landis, Peter Horton, Carl Gottlieb, Robert K. Weiss
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about television, Sur la Lune, Comedy science fiction films, Space opera
Actors Arsenio Hall, Lou Jacobi, Griffin Dunne, Steve Forrest, Robert Colbert, Michelle Pfeiffer
Roles Pimp (segment "Blacks Without Soul")
Rating61%
Fictional television station WIDB-TV (channel 8) experiences problems with its late-night airing of science-fiction classic Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1950s B movie in which Queen Lara (Sybil Danning) and Captain Nelson (Steve Forrest) battle exploding volcanoes and man-eating spiders on the moon. Waiting for the film to resume, an unseen viewer begins channel surfing—simulated by bursts of white noise—through late night cable, with the various segments and sketches of the film representing the programming found on different channels. The viewer intermittently returns to channel 8, where Amazon Women continues to resume airing before faltering once more.
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
, 1h18Directed by Robert Townsend
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about television
Actors Anne-Marie Johnson, Robert Townsend, Helen Martin, John Witherspoon, Grand L. Bush, Starletta DuPois
Rating68%
Bobby Taylor (Robert Townsend) is a middle class black male aspiring to become an actor. He practices his lines in the bathroom, with his younger brother Stevie (Craigus R. Johnson) watching as he plays a stereotypical “jive” character for the audition for "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge", a movie about street gangs. Bobby's grandmother (Helen Martin) overhears the “jive talk” and shows her disapproval. His mother (Starletta DuPois), is more supportive, telling Bobby that he is going to be late for the audition. Bobby assures his mother that if he lands the part, everything will change. As Bobby is about to leave the house, he finds his grandmother on the couch.
Fire and Ice (1983)
, 1h28Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Erotic, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Susan Tyrrell, Maggie Roswell, Steve Sandor, Leo Gordon, William Ostrander, Le Tari
Roles Subhuman (voice)
Rating65%
From their stronghold in Icepeak, the evil Queen Juliana (Eileen O'Neill) and her son, Nekron (Stephen Mendel), send forth a wave of glaciers, forcing humanity to retreat south towards the equator. Nekron sends a delegation to King Jarol (Leo Gordon) in Firekeep to request his surrender, but this is a ruse orchestrated by Queen Juliana for Nekron’s sub-humans to kidnap Jarol’s daughter, Princess Teegra (Cynthia Leake), a 15-year-old, barefoot, microkini-wearing teenage girl; Queen Juliana feels that Nekron should take a bride to produce an heir.
Fast Break (1979)
, 1h47Directed by Jack Smight
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Laurence Fishburne, Randee Heller, Reb Brown, Michael Warren
Roles Thompson
Rating60%
David Greene (Gabe Kaplan) is a basketball fanatic living in Brooklyn, NY, who alternates his time between playing in neighborhood pick-up games and managing a delicatessen. He dreams of making his living coaching basketball (David was once a junior high school basketball coach) and has sent numerous letters to colleges in the hope of fulfilling that dream—much to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife Jan (Randee Heller), who wants only to buy a home and start a family. This is a challenge for him.
The Onion Field (1979)
, 2h2Directed by Harold Becker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox, David Huffman
Roles Emmanuel McFadden
Rating67%
The film focuses on an actual 1963 event in which Los Angeles Police Department detectives Karl Hettinger and Ian Campbell were kidnapped by criminals Greg Powell and Jimmy Smith (aka "Jimmy Youngblood") in Hollywood and driven to an onion field near Bakersfield, where Campbell was shot and killed and Hettinger managed to escape.
Brotherhood of Death (1976)
, 1h18Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films, Political films
Actors Le Tari
Roles Ned Tiese
Rating53%
In the mid-to-late 1960s, three young African-American men leave their small Southern hometown to join the United States Army and fight in the Vietnam War. Upon their return home, they take up the cause of battling the racial injustices prevalent in the town. When the town's Ku Klux Klan members offer a murderously violent reaction to their efforts, the trio uses the lessons they learned in the army, fighting the Vietcong, to conduct an all-out war against the Klan.