1961-07-30 Augusta, Georgia, USA
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award and Tony Award winner known for his roles on stage and screen. He has frequently portrayed forceful, militant, and authoritative characters. Some of Fishburne's best-known roles are Morpheus in The Matrix series (1999–2003), Jason "Furious" Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood (1991), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now (1979), and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series (2017–present). For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello on film when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. He has also received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination for his performance in Deep Cover (1992). Other film credits of Fishburne include Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990), Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017). He has also gained a wider audience with the blockbuster films Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). On television, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011) and as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and had a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022).
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Untitled The Exorcist Film | 2027-03-11 | |
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Gatto | Rocco (voice) | 2027-03-03 |
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The Astronaut | General William Harris | 2025-09-26 |
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The Amateur | Henderson | 2025-04-09 |
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Wick Is Pain | Self | 2025-05-08 |
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Megadoc | Self | 2025-09-19 |
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Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2025-04-17 |
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Slingshot | Captain Franks | 2024-08-30 |
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Transformers One | Alpha Trion (voice) | 2024-09-11 |
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Cellar Door | Emmett | 2024-10-31 |
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Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | 2024-09-25 |
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John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-21 |
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The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
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Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
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black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | 2022-04-19 |
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Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
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All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
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The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-12-16 |
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Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
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Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
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The Ice Road | Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
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Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Self | 2020-05-30 |
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Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
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Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | 2020-05-23 |
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Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
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Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
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The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
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John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
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Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
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The Snowy Day | Narrator (voice) | 2016-11-25 |
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Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
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Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
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Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | 2015-12-08 |
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August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Self | 2015-02-20 |
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 2015-08-18 |
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Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
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Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
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The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
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Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
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Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel | 2013-11-12 | |
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Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
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The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
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Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | 2012-02-11 |
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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
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The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
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Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
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Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
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Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
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Predators | Noland | 2010-07-07 |
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Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (voice) | 2010-10-19 |
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Predators: The Chosen | 2010-01-01 | |
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The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
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Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
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21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
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Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
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Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 2008-09-17 |
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
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America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | 2007-04-23 |
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TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | 2007-01-16 |
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America's Game: 1986 New York Giants | Narrator | 2007-01-19 |
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Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
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The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
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Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
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Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
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Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-14 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
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On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' | Self (archive footage) | 2005-09-13 |
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Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
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Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
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Mystic River: Beneath the Surface | Self | 2004-06-08 |
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The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
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Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 2003-09-02 |
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Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 2003-06-24 |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
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MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 |
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A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
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Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
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The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
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Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-10-08 |
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The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
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Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | 2003-10-31 |
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The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
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Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
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Undercover Brother | Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited) | 2002-05-31 |
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Spooge | Self | 2001-11-10 |
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The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
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Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
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Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
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Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
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Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 2000-10-27 |
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Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2000-06-03 |
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The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-31 |
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Making "The Matrix" | Self | 1999-09-21 |
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Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
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Black Hollywood | Self | 1997-12-29 |
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Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
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Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
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Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
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Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
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The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
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Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
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Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
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Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
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Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
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What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
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Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
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Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | 1991-07-12 |
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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 1991-01-01 |
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Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
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Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
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Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
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King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
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Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
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Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
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School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
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Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
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Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
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Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
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Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
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The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
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The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
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I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 |
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Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-09 |
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Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
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Willie & Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
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Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-05-19 |
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Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
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Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |
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Interference | ||
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Inheritance | ||
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Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn | Self | |
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The Little Bedroom | ||
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The Blacksmith | Mather | |
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Blacksmith | Mather | |
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Crimson Blues | Mills |
