Movies by Vonetta McGee
As part of the cast:
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Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema (2008)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Diahnne Abbott, Rosalind Cash …
Directed by: Howard Johnson
Filmed on location in Hollywood in 1984, this probing documentary examines the ever-changing state of African-American cinema via the increasing visibility of black actors and directors, and…
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994)
Cast: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, James Naughton …
Directed by: James Frawley
Emmy winners Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly return to prime time as Christine Cagney-Burton and Mary Beth Lacey, respectively, in this made-for-television special that finds the former partners…
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You Must Remember This (1992)
Cast: Tim Reid, Vonte Sweet, Vonetta McGee …
Directed by: Helaine Head
Budding basketball star Ella (Maria Celedonio) discovers that her much-loved great-uncle (Robert Guillaume), who now works days as a barber, was one of the early great black film directors…
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To Sleep With Anger (1990)
Cast: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Walter Nixon …
Directed by: Charles Burnett
Harry (Danny Glover) shows up at the home of his old pal Gideon (Paul Butler) looking for a place to stay. Gideon takes him in, annoying his wife, Suzie (Mary Alice), who already has her…
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The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy …
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this action adventure as a former hit man summoned from retirement to "sanction" (assassinate) an enemy spy. With government secrets stolen and a U.S.…
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Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
Cast: Max Julien, Vonetta McGee, George Murdock …
Directed by: Gordon Parks Jr.
Blaxploitation's answer to Bonnie and Clyde, Thomasine (Vonetta McGee) and Bushrod (Max Julien) are a pair of African American criminals who set out to rob from the rich and give to the…
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Shaft in Africa (1973)
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee …
Directed by: John Guillermin
In this follow-up to Shaft's Big Score, private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) heads to Africa, where he poses as an Ethiopian tribesman to bust the leaders of a modern slave trade.…
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Detroit 9000 (1973)
Cast: Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco, Ella Edwards …
Directed by: Arthur Marks
An interracial pair of cops investigating a jewel heist uncovers more than they bargained for as they navigate an urban underworld of call girls and corrupt politicians in this blaxploitation…
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The Norliss Tapes (1973)
Cast: Claude Akins, Angie Dickinson, Hurd Hatfield …
Directed by: Dan Curtis
When investigative reporter David Norliss (Roy Thinnes) disappears while writing a book about paranormal phenomena, the tapes onto which he's dictated his findings hold the only clues to…
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Blacula (1972)
Cast: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas …
Directed by: William Crain
Highly sophisticated African Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) gets bitten by Count Dracula, and his fate is sealed forevermore as a vampire. Two centuries later, Mamuwalde is unwittingly…
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Hammer (1972)
Cast: Fred Williamson, Bernie Hamilton, Vonetta McGee …
Directed by: Bruce D. Clark
Fred "The Hammer" Williamson struts his macho stuff in the classic blaxploitation film from the early 1970s that gave him his moniker. B.J. Hammer (Williamson) gets discovered for his boxing…
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The Great Silence (1968)
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff …
Directed by: Sergio Corbucci
A group of greedy bounty hunters led by the brutal Loco (Klaus Kinski) pursues a band of outlaws who have escaped and are hiding out in the hills of the Utah frontier. After an innocent man…