Margaret Avery
Popularity:0.464
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1944-01-20
Place of Birth:Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
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Also Known As:Margaret Avery (I), Margaret Jo Avery, Margret Avery

The Color Purple (1985)
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry....

Magnum Force (1973)
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When...

Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid...

The Set Up (1995)
Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from jail he is hired by a bank owner to design a fool...

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

The Return of Superfly (1990)
In this third entry in the Superfly films, Priest returns to New York from Paris to find who is responsible for his friend's murder. With a couple of...

Meet the Browns (2008)
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When...

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become...

Hell Up In Harlem (1973)
Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City....

Lord Help Us (2007)
Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation...

Cool Breeze (1972)
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.

Terror at Red Wolf Inn (1972)
College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can...

Scott Joplin (1977)
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

Exodus (2007)
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother...

Riverbend (1989)
A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff...

Waitin' to Live (2006)
Murdered because he refused to sell his land to a greedy opportunist, Bucko Cassidy (Lee Majors) returns as a ghost to help his grown son, Junior...

The Nana Project (2023)
Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip to support her rise to state championships.

Second to Die (2002)
Sara escapes a life of poverty and abuse to marry Jim Bratchett, but her joy is short-lived when she discovers that Jim intends her to be a full-time...

Block Party (2022)
Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for her dream job in Atlanta, but when Keke discovers...

We Are Gathered Here Today (2022)
The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols his family members are forced to say their goodbyes...

Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of...

White Man's Burden (1995)
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis...

Night Trap (1993)
A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality.

An Eye for an Eye (1973)
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get...

Love Kills (1999)
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

Blueberry Hill (1988)
In a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly turns away from her. She finds solace in wise jazz singer...

Heat Wave (1990)
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Proud Mary (2018)
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she...

Lightning in a Bottle (1993)
Charlotte Furber gets into an accident in which a man loses his life. She suffers amnesia and everybody thinks the man was drunk and therefore...

Something Evil (1972)
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants...

Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style (1976)
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout...

The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist,...

The Sky Is Gray (1980)
From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's...

Orpheus Star (2020)
Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to see Ezrela Mae Privett, the ailing grandmother...

Bones (2005)
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder...

Being Mary Jane (2013)
Mary Jane Paul is a one-woman-show: a successful TV news anchor, and an entirely self-sufficient powerhouse who remains devoted to a family that...

The Carmichael Show (2015)
From the comedy of Jerrod Carmichael and Nick Stoller ("Neighbors") comes an irreverent sitcom inspired by Jerrod's relationships with his...

The Librarians (2014)
A group of librarians set off on adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts. Based on the series of "The Librarian" movies.

Kojak (1973)
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

The Neighborhood (2018)
The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness....

Grey's Anatomy (2005)
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

MacGyver (1985)
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon....

Murder, She Wrote (1984)
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Genius (2017)
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships,...

The Cosby Show (1984)
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until...

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)
The history of the Jackson family and the early and successful years of the Motown group The Jackson 5.

A Man on the Inside (2024)
A retired professor gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home.

Snoops (1989)
Snoops is an American crime themed comedy-drama series which aired for one season from September 1989 to July 1990 on CBS. The series was created and...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago...

Being Mary Jane (1970)
Mary Jane must decide if Justin is the right man for her while hoping for the chance to start a family; only time will tell if Mary Jane has finally...

Ironside (1967)
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to...

T. J. Hooker (1982)
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to...