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Acting
Winston Stona
Born November 14, 1939 · Kingston, Jamaica
Died August 23, 2022 · aged 82
No biography available.
Known For
Cool Runnings · 1993Cool Runnings
★ 7.01993
MovieComedyAdventure
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
The Harder They Come · 1972The Harder They Come
★ 6.61972
MovieCrimeDrama
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
One Love · 2003One Love
★ 5.42003
MovieDramaRomance
Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile the record boss organizing the contest, tries to get Kassa's band to sign to his label on his terms not theirs. By using heavy tactics, he pushes the band to fight back.
No Place Like Home · 2006No Place Like Home
★ 5.62006
MovieDrama
When Susan, a film producer from NYC, goes to Jamaica to shoot a shampoo commercial, she finds herself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, drifting further and further away from the world she knows and into the life of the island, a strange alternative reality that turns many of her previously held assumptions upside down.
The Lunatic · 1991The Lunatic
★ 8.11991
MovieComedy
A Jamaican comedy, the story of a village madman, Aloysious, who has the amazing ability to talk to anything, including trees, cows and cricket balls.
Ten Bob in Winter · 1963Ten Bob in Winter
★ 5.01963
MovieDrama
An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.
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