Richard Roundtree
Popularity:1.229
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1942-07-09
Place of Birth:New Rochelle, New York, USA
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Shaft (2000)
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...

Shaft (1971)
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Shaft in Africa (1973)
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

Wild Seven (2006)
In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus...

Se7en (1995)
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film...

George of the Jungle (1997)
Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable...

Earthquake (1974)
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Al's Lads (2002)
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.

Young Warriors (1983)
After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up arms by night with a gang of like-minded...

Speed Racer (2008)
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the...

Steel (1997)
When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome...

Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a strange old mirror. Immediately struck by it for...

Brick (2006)
After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he...

Antitrust (2001)
A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of...

The Banker (1989)
High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at...

Q (1982)
New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat...

Opposing Force (1986)
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group parachutes onto a remote island, where their...

Escape to Athena (1979)
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an...

Theodore Rex (1995)
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other...

Maniac Cop (1988)
Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the...

An Eye for an Eye (1981)
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He...

The Confidant (2010)
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are...

City Heat (1984)
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye...

Ladies of the House (2008)
When three women are asked to refurbish a house for their church, they find that they must break down their own self-perception in order to build...

BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather...

Corky Romano (2001)
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to...

Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988)
Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she...

Jocks (1986)
When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college tennis tournament in fun-filled Las Vegas, all...

Crack House (1989)
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have...

The Baron and the Kid (1984)
Johnny Cash heads the cast in this sentimental drama, which follows a famed pool hustler (Cash) whose reunion with his long-lost son (Greg Webb) sets...

Hawaiian Gardens (2001)
A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax,...

Portrait of a Hitman (1979)
A professional hitman is hired to kill a brain surgeon. However, it turns out that not only are he and the surgeon old friends, but they are both in...

Painkiller Jane (2005)
Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while...

Charley-One-Eye (1973)
A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats...

A Time to Die (1991)
A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her...

Man Friday (1975)
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But...

Christmas in Connecticut (1992)
Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who...

Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992)
Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.

One Down, Two to Go (1982)
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.

Night Visitor (1989)
A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.

The Big Score (1983)
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry,...

Diamonds (1975)
Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built...

Men Cry in the Dark (2003)
The future has never looked better for Derrick Reed. Bachelorhood is great, he has a group of guys he can really call friends, and he's the publisher...

Party Line (1988)
A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the...

Bad Jim (1990)
A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.

Getting Even (1988)
After being betrayed by a fellow Marine and spending five years in a POW camp, homeless Vietnam vet Roy Evans reunites with his commander, Dundee,...

Moving On (2023)
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.

Joe and Max (2002)
True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.

Inchon (1981)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

The Fifth Missile (1986)
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is...

Set Apart (2009)
Four troubled, inner city kids get a western-style shot at redemption when a cowboy pastor invites them to his country ranch and offers them a chance...

Sins of the Night (1993)
Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works for an P.I. firm, run by Ted Quincy. Quincy's ex-lover is Roxie, now wife to godfather Tony Falcone....

Gypsy Angels (1990)
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.

Day of the Assassin (1979)
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document...

Game for Vultures (1979)
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.

Undercover Brother (2002)
An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization "The Man" defending the values of the...

Killpoint (1984)
An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent...

Blind Man's Bluff (1994)
A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. The business is managed by Anna and her beautiful...

Deadly Rivals (1993)
A physicist involved in classified military research meets a woman who he begins to suspect is a spy. Her sister is involved with the mob and one of...

What Do You Say to a Naked Lady (1970)
Candid Camera's Allen Funt secretely tapes people's reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity in unusual situations, such as when a naked young...

Original Gangstas (1996)
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police...

All The Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo...

Whatever She Wants (2010)
Whatever She Wants is the story about one woman s determination to rediscover who she really is... Vivian Wolf (Vivica A. Fox) has suffered one...

Thelma (2024)
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to...

Max Havoc: Curse Of The Dragon (2004)
A former kickboxer returns to his fighting ways when he encounters a gang in Guam.

Embassy (1972)
A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1996)
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up...

Body of Influence (1993)
A successful psychiatrist has his world turned upside-down by the appearance of a mystery woman who cannot recall her own past...

Harlem to Hollywood (2019)
An insider's look at the most famous person most people have never heard of: singer-songwriter Billy Vera.

Boat Trip (2002)
Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they've mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise.

Retreat! (2012)
Inspired by war films from the 1950's, Retreat! tells the story of nine U.S. Soldiers who were forced to retreat into unknown territories deep in the...

Daddy Can't Read (1988)
Teenage girl doesn't understand why her father is against her campaign to promote literacy at his factory. Until she discovers that her father can't...

Mind Twister (1994)
Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend.

Point of Entry (2007)
A young woman named Katherine Alden becomes the unwanted victim of her new handsome next door neighbor Caleb, after her and her husband and son moves...

Just an Overnight Guest (1983)
A family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her.

Soul in Cinema: Filming 'Shaft' on Location (1971)
A behind the scenes look at the filming of the movie Shaft (1971). The movie's director, Gordon Parks is seen directing a couple of fight scenes...

Firehouse (1973)
Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave...

Shadows of Desire (1994)
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.

Shaft (2019)
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely...

Miami Cops (1989)
Richard Roundtree takes on thugs on the streets of Miami.

Bonanza: The Return (1993)
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.

Bonanza: Under Attack (1995)
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the...

Collar (2015)
While his life begins to crumble, TJ Williams's fast fading future is bartered for political gain by his former best friend and boss, a mayor with...

Black as the Heart (1994)
Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray who submits to him the case of his son who...

What Men Want (2019)
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.

A Family Reunion Christmas (2019)
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.

Diary of a Single Mom (2009)
Ocean (Monica Calhoun), a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the...

Nationtime (1972)
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the...

Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020)
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for...

Final Approach (2008)
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage...

Vegas Vampires (2003)
A series of brutal murders at several top nightclubs have left the Las Vegas police department baffled. But when they discover that the killers are a...

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021)
This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic...

Ballistic (1995)
Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a...

A Different World (1987)
A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a...

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

Magnum, P.I. (1980)
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank...

CHiPs (1977)
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two...

Rescue 77 (1999)
Rescue 77 is an American television series about the professional and personal lives of paramedics in Los Angeles, California. The show aired in the...

Lincoln Heights (2007)
Eddie Sutton is a dedicated police officer, his wife Jenn, a devoted nurse, but their most important job is as parents to their three teenage...

The Closer (2005)
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile...

Desperate Housewives (2004)
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the...

L.A. Law (1986)
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West...

Heroes (2006)
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.

Alias (2001)
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization...

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
Will, a street-smart teenager, moves from the tough streets of West Philly to posh Bel-Air to live with his Uncle Philip, Aunt Vivian, his cousins...

The Wayans Bros. (1995)
The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The series starred real-life brothers Shawn and Marlon...

Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a...

Family Reunion (2019)
Family Reunion follows a family of six who travel from Seattle, Washington to Columbus, Georgia for the McKellan Family Reunion and decide to stay to...

Soul Food (2000)
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George...

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....

Profiler (1996)
Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task...

Outlaws (1986)
Outlaws is a short-lived action-adventure American television series which aired Saturday nights on CBS. Five cowboys are sent forward through time...

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

Blade: The Series (2006)
Blade is a half-man, half-vampire who employs his extraordinary powers in a crusade to save mankind from the demonic creatures who walk the night....

Close to Home (2005)
Close to Home is an American crime drama television series co-produced by Warner Bros. Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television for CBS.

Shaft (1973)
Shaft is a series of TV movies that aired along with Hawkins during 1973-74 television season on The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. The series was...

Amen (1986)
Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman...

Buddies (1996)
Two pals---one black, one white---go into business over the protests of their elders, who worry about their racial differences. But the friends just...

Hollywood Beat (1985)
Hollywood Beat is a mid-1980s American television police drama starring Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, Edward Winter, and John Matuszak. The series aired...

413 Hope St. (1997)
413 Hope Street is the physical address of a crisis center, catering to inner city youth and their families. The doctors, surgeons, psychologists,...

Renegade (1992)
Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after...

Masquerade (1983)
Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.

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...

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

The Mentalist (2008)
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes...

The Player (2015)
An action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an...

Chicago Fire (2012)
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and...

Private Practice (2007)
Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier...

The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

Dinah! (1974)
Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured...

Vicki! (1992)
Singer-actress Vicki Lawrence hosted this talk and entertainment show.

Roots (1977)
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was...

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

Roc (1991)
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...

A.D. (1985)
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992)
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992 to 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson. The...

Lethal Weapon (2016)
A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep...

Touched by an Angel (1994)
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

The Love Boat (1977)
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation...

Dream On (1990)
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from...

Star (2016)
Star is a tough-as-nails young woman who came up in the foster care system and decides one day to take control of her destiny. She tracks down her...

GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event (2020)
Worlds collide in this special event featuring familiar faces, surprise cameos and stories of spirited competition from four different comedy series.

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1973)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials...

21 Jump Street (1987)
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers...

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)
A landmark four-part series exploring segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Lynchings and...

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992)
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992 to 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson. The...

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...