Movies by D'Urville Martin
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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The Big Score (1983)
Cast: Fred Williamson, Nancy Wilson, John Saxon …
Directed by: Fred Williamson
Chicago narcotics detective Frank Hooks (Fred "The Hammer" Williamson) goes after the thugs who framed him in this action-packed crime tale. Hooks is kicked off the force after he's…
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Kung Fu Theater: Black Samurai (1977)
Cast: Jim Kelly, D'Urville Martin, Marilyn Joi …
Directed by: Al Adamson
When a gang of voodoo practitioners kidnaps his girlfriend -- the daughter of a powerful ambassador -- special agent Robert Sand (Jim Kelly) must call on all his martial arts skills to rescue…
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Dolemite (1975)
Cast: Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Jerry Jones …
Directed by: D'Urville Martin
Stand-up comic Rudy Ray Moore turns in a dynamic performance as the title character, a self-absorbed pimp and poseur sent to lockup on phony drug and theft charges in this blaxploitation cult…
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Sheba, Baby (1975)
Cast: Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin …
Directed by: William Girdler
Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier), a tough-talking Chicago private eye, returns to her Kentucky roots to help her father fight a hostile business takeover. But when the mob brutally murders him, Sheba…
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Boss (1975)
Cast: Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, William Smith …
Directed by: Jack Arnold
When African-American bounty hunters Boss (Fred Williamson) and Amos (D'Urville Martin) pursue an outlaw into a remote frontier settlement, Boss stirs up a hornet's nest of protest…
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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Cast: Kwasi Badu, Godfrey Cambridge, Leonard Jackson …
Directed by: Oscar Williams
Gladys and John Henry Brooks (Clarice Taylor and Leonard Jackson) try to keep their family together in the midst of the changing social, political and sexual mores of the 1970s. Produced in…
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Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Cast: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry …
Directed by: Larry Cohen
The 1973 film Black Caesar proved so popular that the gangster from that movie, Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson), was resurrected from the dead for a sequel released later that same year. Gibbs…
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Book of Numbers (1973)
Cast: Freda Payne, D'Urville Martin, Philip Michael Thomas …
Directed by: Raymond St. Jacques
With zero luck making money as waiters, Blueboy (Raymond St. Jacques) and Dave (Philip Michael Thomas) decide to set up a numbers racket in their rural Arkansas town. But when their new…
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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 Final Comedown (1972)
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, R.G. Armstrong, D'Urville Martin …
Directed by: Oscar Williams
When Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) learns that a job offer has been rescinded because he's black, he initiates a crusade against white America. Johnny and his followers take to the…
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Watermelon Man (1970)
Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, D'Urville Martin …
Directed by: Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles's comedy-drama centers on white-bread racist Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge), who's doing just fine as long as the blacks don't move in and ruin his…
As a director:
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Dolemite (1975)
Cast: Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Jerry Jones …
Directed by: D'Urville Martin
Stand-up comic Rudy Ray Moore turns in a dynamic performance as the title character, a self-absorbed pimp and poseur sent to lockup on phony drug and theft charges in this blaxploitation cult…