
A pioneering television actor, writer, and director who emerged in the 1960s just as things were opening up for African American artists in front of and behind the camera.
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The impacts of having loved never leave you. A mother struggles with the loss of her son on Thanksgiving.

Following a family tragedy, an idealistic hospital chief of staff dumps his high-paying job to open a storefront inner-city clinic.

Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.

American TV-Comedy pilot

Two ex-GIs, a fast-talking hustler from Detroit and an Oklahoma hayseed, just returned from WWII, team up with the latter's bubble-headed fiancée to make a killing racing on the Southern dogtrack circuit they had bought. An unsold series pilot.

A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.

Two teenagers set out on a 2000-mile sailboat journey from California to Hawaii and en route combat the natural challenges and their inner shortcomings.
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