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Badja Djola

Born April 9, 1948 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died January 8, 2005 · aged 56

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Badja Medu Djola (born Bernard Bradley; April 9, 1948 – January 8, 2005) was an American actor from Brooklyn, New York who worked primarily within Black film. He is best known for Mississippi Burning, Penitentiary, A Rage in Harlem, and Who's the Man? Description above from the Wikipedia article Badja Djola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors…

Known For

Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning · 1988

Mississippi Burning

MovieDramaCrime

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout · 1991

The Last Boy Scout

MovieActionThriller

Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

The Hurricane

The Hurricane · 1999

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow · 1988

The Serpent and the Rainbow

MovieHorrorThriller

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man · 1989

An Innocent Man

MovieCrimeDrama

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

The Lonely Guy

The Lonely Guy · 1984

MovieComedyRomance

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

The Players Club

The Players Club · 1998

The Players Club

MovieComedyDrama

Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.

The Brave

The Brave · 1997

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

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Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning · 1988

Mississippi Burning

MovieDramaCrime

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Agent Monk

The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout · 1991

The Last Boy Scout

MovieActionThriller

Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

Alley Thug

The Hurricane

The Hurricane · 1999

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Mobutu

The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow · 1988

The Serpent and the Rainbow

MovieHorrorThriller

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

Gaston

An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man · 1989

An Innocent Man

MovieCrimeDrama

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

John Fitzgerald

The Lonely Guy

The Lonely Guy · 1984

MovieComedyRomance

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

Native

The Players Club

The Players Club · 1998

The Players Club

MovieComedyDrama

Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.

The Doctor

The Brave

The Brave · 1997

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

Rider

Night Shift

Night Shift · 1982

A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.

Cleon

A Rage in Harlem

A Rage in Harlem · 1991

A Rage in Harlem

MovieCrimeComedy

A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.

Slim

Heaven's Prisoners

Heaven's Prisoners · 1996

Heaven's Prisoners

MovieDramaMystery

A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.

Batist

The Waterdance

The Waterdance · 1992

Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.

Decton

Butter

MovieActionThriller

Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her cousin/manager for the murder forcing him to go on the run and to try to get the goods on the real killers.

Roscoe

The Main Event

The Main Event · 1979

MovieComedyRomance

A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an idea her protégé isn't fond of.

Heavyweight In Gym

Deterrence

Deterrence · 2000

MovieActionDrama

The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.

Harvey

Gunshy

MovieActionCrime

When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.

Abel

First Time Felon

First Time Felon · 1997

First Time Felon

Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than he thought it would be. He braves it through and comes home a better man. He then has to deal with the real world, and never gives up no matter what the odds.

Disciple Leader

The Lightship

The Lightship · 1985

A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

Nate

Rosewood

Rosewood · 1997

MovieDramaHistory

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

John Bradley

Back in the Day

Back in the Day · 2005

Back in the Day

MovieCrimeDrama

A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.

Grant Brown

Penitentiary

Penitentiary · 1979

MovieActionDrama

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

'Half Dead' Johnson

Who's the Man?

Who's the Man? · 1993

MovieActionComedy

Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.

Lionel Douglas

Knight Rider 2010

Knight Rider 2010 · 1994

Knight Rider 2010

MovieTV MovieScience Fiction

Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".

Zeke

Marked for Murder

Marked for Murder · 1993

Marked for Murder

MovieTV MovieAction

Mace Moutron, The Sandman, is released from prison to take part in a project where convicts assist the police in their job. Mace isn't used to playing by the rules, and he's frustrated with the corruption and impotence of the police. When he takes action against a local drug lord, the conflict becomes personal.

The X-Files

The X-Files · 1993

SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Napoleon 'Neech' Manley

Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope · 1994

SeriesSoapDrama

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

Jean Baptiste Marche

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Mike Lembreaux

Brooklyn South

Brooklyn South · 1997

An American ensemble police drama series following the life of police officers from the 74th Precinct in southern Brooklyn, New York City.

Clude Miller

The Lone Gunmen

The Lone Gunmen · 2001

The Lone Gunmen

SeriesComedyDrama

After years of playing second fiddle to Agents Mulder and Scully on The X-Files, the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen are finally heading out on their own. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.

The Last Don

The Last Don · 1997

SeriesCrimeDrama

Spanning decades, a powerful Italian crime family battles internal strife when a ruthless grandson seeks control after a violent wedding sparks unintended chaos, testing loyalties as lines blur between family and criminal enterprise. Best selling author of Mario 'The Godfather' Puzo's blockbuster new novel comes to life in this epic saga of America's most powerful crime family.

Phil Sharkey

Roc

SeriesDramaComedy

Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor.

William Long