Acting

Godfrey Cambridge

Born February 26, 1933 · New York City, New York, USA

Died November 29, 1976 · aged 43

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Godfrey Cambridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass · 1961

Splendor in the Grass

MovieDramaRomance

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

The Biscuit Eater

The Biscuit Eater · 1972

The Biscuit Eater

MovieDramaFamily

Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl Holliman) tells his son Lonnie that his dog, Moreover, is a good-for-nothing "biscuit eater."

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem · 1970

Cotton Comes to Harlem

MovieActionComedy

Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.

Friday Foster

Friday Foster · 1975

MovieActionThriller

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

The President's Analyst

The President's Analyst · 1967

The President's Analyst

MovieComedyScience Fiction

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

The Biggest Bundle of Them All · 1968

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

MovieComedyCrime

A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.

Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man · 1970

A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.

The Busy Body

The Busy Body · 1967

MovieComedyCrime

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

Filmography

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Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass · 1961

Splendor in the Grass

MovieDramaRomance

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Chauffeur (uncredited)

The Biscuit Eater

The Biscuit Eater · 1972

The Biscuit Eater

MovieDramaFamily

Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl Holliman) tells his son Lonnie that his dog, Moreover, is a good-for-nothing "biscuit eater."

Willie Dorsey

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem · 1970

Cotton Comes to Harlem

MovieActionComedy

Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.

Gravedigger Jones

Friday Foster

Friday Foster · 1975

MovieActionThriller

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

Ford Malotte

The President's Analyst

The President's Analyst · 1967

The President's Analyst

MovieComedyScience Fiction

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.

Don Masters

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

The Biggest Bundle of Them All · 1968

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

MovieComedyCrime

A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.

Benjamin 'Benny' Brownstead

Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man · 1970

A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.

Jefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber

The Busy Body

The Busy Body · 1967

MovieComedyCrime

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

Mike

Beware! The Blob

Beware! The Blob · 1972

Beware! The Blob

MovieComedyHorror

A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!

Chester Hargis

Whiffs

MovieCrimeComedy

Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.

Dusty

Bye Bye Braverman

Bye Bye Braverman · 1968

Bye Bye Braverman

MovieComedyDrama

One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.

Taxi Driver

Gone Are the Days!

Gone Are the Days! · 1963

Gone Are the Days!

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.

Gitlow Judson

Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin · 1977

MovieMusicHistory

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

Tom Turpin

Come Back, Charleston Blue

Come Back, Charleston Blue · 1972

Come Back, Charleston Blue

MovieCrimeAction

Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.

Gravedigger Jones

Five on the Black Hand Side

Five on the Black Hand Side · 1973

Five on the Black Hand Side

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

Godfrey Cambridge

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men · 1975

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

MovieDramaTV Movie

Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.

Mr. Jenkins

The Troublemaker

The Troublemaker · 1964

The Troublemaker

A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.

Fire Inspector

Dead Is Dead

Dead Is Dead · 1974

MovieDocumentary

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

Producer

Love, American Style

Love, American Style · 1969

Love, American Style

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Harley

Naked City

Naked City · 1958

SeriesDramaCrime

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

George

Night Gallery

Night Gallery · 1970

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

Jackie Slater (segment "Make Me Laugh")

The Monkees

The Monkees · 1966

SeriesComedyFamily

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.

Mexican Parking Lot Attendant (uncredited)

Police Story

Police Story · 1973

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.