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Rudy Challenger is a Actor American born on 2 october 1928 at New York City (USA)
Rudolph "Rudy" Challenger (born October 2, 1928) is a retired African-American supporting actor who had a roles in various projects over the course of his thirty-four year career in films and television in Hollywood. He has appeared on such shows as Sanford And Son, Kojak, Lou Grant, and the Fall Guy. He also appeared in the 1970s blaxploitation flicks Detroit 9000 (1973) and the highly successful box office hit film Sheba Baby opposite actress Pam Grier (1975).
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Rudy Challenger
Birth name Rudolph M. Challenger
Nationality USA
Birth 2 october 1928 at New York City (USA)
Death 22 august 2012 (at 83 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 2 october 1928 at New York City (USA)
Death 22 august 2012 (at 83 years)
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Filmography of Rudy Challenger (8 films)
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Harlem Nights (1989)
, 1h56Directed by Eddie Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Richard Pryor, Michael Lerner, Della Reese
Rating60%
In Harlem, New York, 1918, Sugar Ray has a dice game. Nearly killed by an angry customer, Ray is saved when seven-year-old errand boy "Quick" shoots the man. After being told that his parents are dead, Ray decides to raise Quick.
Sole Survivor (1984)
, 1h25Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Brinke Stevens, Susan Jennifer Sullivan, Rudy Challenger
Roles Air Traffic Controller
Rating59%
TV commercial producer Denise (Anita Skinner) emerges unscathed as the sole survivor of an airliner crash and feels as if she's about to be caught by something. Her doctor/boyfriend (Ken Johnson) is convinced that she's experiencing "survivor's syndrome" in which sole survivors experience guilt and either commit suicide or put themselves in dangerous situations. Denise also receives some ambiguous warnings from psychic ex-actress Carla (Caren Larkey) who predicted the crash. A series of strange sightings and encounters of zombie-like people escalates until it is apparent that something is trying to kill her as people around her start dying as well. Her skeptical boyfriend thinks Denise is going crazy until he finds out that a number of recently dead people - including one that Denise claims attacked her - were found with all of the blood in their bodies drained into their legs as if they had died standing upright.
Sheba, Baby (1975)
, 1h30Directed by William Girdler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger
Roles Andy Shayne
Rating56%
In the film, Private investigator Sheba Shayne (Grier) returns from Chicago, Illinois to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to confront thugs who are trying to intimidate her father into dissolving or handing over his family insurance company business.
Detroit 9000 (1973)
, 1h46Directed by Arthur Marks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Rudy Challenger, Scatman Crothers, Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco, Vonetta McGee, Herbert Jefferson, Jr.
Roles Aubrey Hale Clayton
Rating62%
Street-smart white detective Danny Bassett (Alex Rocco) teams with educated black detective Sgt. Jesse Williams (Hari Rhodes) to investigate a theft of $400,000 at a fund-raiser for Representative Aubrey Hale Clayton (Rudy Challenger).
The Slams (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Judy Pace, Frank DeKova, Ted Cassidy, Dick Miller, Quinn K. Redeker, Jan Merlin
Rating59%
Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police after a heist. In jail, Curtis has to deal with people who want to know where he stashed the loot while also trying to get out of jail in time to get the money before its hiding place is demolished.
Hit Man (1972)
, 1h30Directed by George Armitage
Origin USA
Genres Action
Actors Bernie Casey, Pam Grier, Roger E. Mosley, Don Diamond, Timothy Brown, Marilyn Joi
Roles Julius Swift
Rating57%
Oakland hitman Tyrone Tackett (Bernie Casey) comes home to southern California for the funeral of his brother Cornell. Cornell left behind his wild daughter Rochelle (Candy All), who rejects Tyrone's offer to live with him. Tyrone befriends his late brother’s business partner, Sherwood Epps (Sam Laws), and stays in town to investigate his brother's death. He is threatened by gangsters who tell him to leave town, but they've threatened the wrong man.
Cool Breeze (1972)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Thalmus Rasulala, James Watkins, Julian Christopher, Judy Pace, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Raymond St. Jacques
Roles Roy Harris
Rating54%
Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a heist to steal $3 million worth of diamonds from the largest diamond brokerage on the Pacific Coast.
Change of Mind (1969)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about racism
Actors Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Oliver, Leslie Nielsen, Janet MacLachlan, Donnelly Rhodes, David Bailey
Roles Howard Culver
Rating61%
A married couple struggles to adjust when the husband's brain is transplanted into the skull of a black man.