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Black Caesar (stylized as Black Cæsar and released in UK cinemas as Godfather of Harlem) is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry and Julius Harris.
He starred as Tommy Gibbs in the 1973 crime drama film Black Caesar and its sequel Hell Up in Harlem. [2] Williamson also had roles in other 1970s blaxploitation films such as Hammer (1972), That Man Bolt (1973) [2] and Three the Hard Way (1974).
In 1973, Duggan had a cameo appearance in the blaxploitation film Black Caesar. In 1974, he portrayed General Maxwell D. Taylor in the TV docudrama The Missiles Of October . He appeared as FBI Inspector Ryder in the 1975 NBC-TV movie Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan , and had roles in the 1976 TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man and ...
Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949) [5] [6] is an American actress and former model. [7] Hendry is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film Live and Let Die; [7] and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film Black Caesar, [7] and the sequel, Hell Up in Harlem.
One of those agents connected her with director, producer and self-proclaimed "King of the B's" Roger Corman, who cast her in director Jack Hill's 1971 women in prison movie, The Big Doll House ...
Hell Up in Harlem is a 1973 blaxploitation American neo-noir film, [2] starring Fred Williamson and Gloria Hendry. Written and directed by Larry Cohen , it is a sequel to the film Black Caesar . The film's soundtrack was recorded by Edwin Starr and released by Motown Records in January 1974.
As movies like Coffy, Friday Foster and Sheba, Baby shot up the box office charts, Grier became Hollywood's leading Black female action star, and attracted attention off-camera as well via a ...
Black Caesar: American International Pictures / Largo: Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin, Julius Harris, Minnie Gentry, William Wellman Jr., Val Avery, Don Pedro Colley, Myrna Hansen, Philip Roye, James Dixon, Patrick McAllister, Omer Jeffery, Michael Jeffery The Train Robbers