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Beah Richards
Beah Richards was an American actress, poet, and playwright. She was known for her roles in films such as "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "In the Heat of the Night" and won an Emmy Award for her role on the TV series "Frank's Place." She was also a civil rights activist and a member of the Black Panther Party. Richards passed away in 2000 at the age of 80.
Titles credited to Beah Richards
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at the AFI Los Angeles Int...
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
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Drugstore Cowboy
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital m...
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Take a Giant Step
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class whit...
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Mahogany
Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice be...
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The Biscuit Eater
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. Tennesse...
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Homer and Eddie
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
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