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Louis Gossett Jr.


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  • High Lonesome
  • High Lonesome review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Powerful and warm drama 27 December 2004
    ...To my surprise, this is a powerful and yet warm drama, wonderfully acted by Louis Gossett Jr. Honesty and resilience drive Gossett?s character and allows him to face in the most...   Read customer review
  • Enemy Mine
  • Enemy Mine review by majortom2001 from Worthing, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars a remarkable piece of acting by Louis Gossett Jr. 29 May 2010
    ...Quaid plays Quaid in this movie - the undoubted star of this movie is the great Louis Gossett Jr. who plays the alien. The plot in this movie goes a bit awray and gets a bit maw...   Read customer review
  • Iron Eagle 4
  • Iron Eagle 4 review by from Ealing, London
    Rated - 1.0 stars Nothing Close to I.E 1 or I.E.II 27 January 2006
    ...hough. The film seems to be very slow and extremely boring. I am a big fan of Louis Gossett Jr. but I must say DON'T WATCH THIS FILM...WASTE OF TIME !!! ...   Read customer review

Louis Gossett Jr. - filmography


  • The Grace Card on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Michael Joiner,  Mike Higgenbottom,  Louis Gossett Jr.
    Director: David G. Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Everything can change in an instant ... and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about everyone else. Mac's rage stonewalls his career in the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 81 members
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  • Daddy's Little Girls on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Gabrielle Union,  Idris Elba,  Louis Gossett Jr.
    Director: Tyler Perry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Monty (Idris Elba) is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet while raising his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia (Gabrielle Union), a beautiful, Ivy League-educated attorney. Monty ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 628 members
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  • Cover (2007)
    Starring: Vivica A. Fox,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  Christopher Michael Holley
    Director: Bill Duke
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a man is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of 15 years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keeps the family alive as a deadly disease threatens to destroy all that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4 members
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  • All In on DVD (2006)
    Starring: James Russo,  Dominique Swain,  Louis Gossett Jr.
    Director: Nick Vallelonga
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An experienced female gambler tries to leave the card tables and high-risk lifestyle behind her by going to medical school. Mounting debts soon force her back into the betting world--but this time she has a grand scheme in mind that should allow her to win enough money to live comfortably for the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 23 members
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  • Left Behind - World At War (2005)
    Starring: Arnold Pinnock,  Janaya Stephens,  Chelsea Noble
    Director: Craig R. Baxley
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The third installment in this Christian science-fiction series, based on the books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, stars Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. (TOY SOLDIERS, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN) as Gerald Fitzhugh, president of the United States. U.N Secretary General Nicolae Carpathia (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 579 members
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  • Momentum (2003)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Teri Hatcher,  Grayson McCouch
    Director: James Seale
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    MOMENTUM -- not be confused with MEMENTO -- is a throwback to flicks like SCANNERS and BLADE RUNNER, wherein a group of telepathic mutants is on the run from a hostile government. At moments, the film even plays like a bush-league X-MEN, as the leader of a wandering mutant colony threatens to ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 6 members
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  • Deceived on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Judd Nelson,  Michelle Nolden
    Director: Andre Van Heerden
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a top secret Pentagon experiment intended to release paranormal powers goes out of control at the same time that a Sierra Nevada observatory receives an apparently extraterrestrial signal, it's believed that the two are connected. Colonel David Garrett (Louis Gossett, Jr.) heads out for the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 78 members
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  • Bram Stoker's Legend Of The Mummy on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Lloyd Bochner,  Richard Karn
    Director: Jeffrey Obrow
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The daughter of a famous Egyptologist enlists the aid of her father's colleague to discover the cause of his mysterious coma. Little do they realize that her father's prized possession is possessed by a different entity entirely. A modern translation of Bram Stoker's tale of horror.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 234 members
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  • High Lonesome on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Joseph Mazzello,  William Fichtner
    Director: Jeff Bleckner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Walter Osgood is the only black man left in the 1930s racially-prejudiced town of High Lonesome in the Ozark Mountains. Having lost everything, including his wife and son, he faces being driven out himself by the townsfolk, until a small boy named Charlie befriends him...
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 75 members
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  • Iron Eagle 4 on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Jason Cadieux,  Al Waxman
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    General 'Chappy' Sinclair starts a school for young offenders. Whilst in training the youngsters discover a group of Air Force officers moving canisters containing toxic substances. So enraged by the potential dangers, the youngsters decide to take action.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 278 members
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  • Flashfire on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Billy Zane,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  Kristin Minter
    Director: Elliott Silverstein
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jack Flinder turns his back on family wealth to become an L.A. detective. When his partner is murdered in cold blood whilst working on a murder case he realises his only chance of solving the case is a longshot. He receives help from his murdered partner's girlfriend and they have to make the final ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 36 members
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  • Midnight Sting on DVD (1992)
    Starring: James Woods,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Michael Ritchie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Michael Ritchie turns in another crowd-pleasing sports picture with DIGGSTOWN, featuring James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a con artist who has just been released from prison. Based on a tip by his cellmate, Wolf Forrester (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Caine heads for Diggstown, Georgia, a small town ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 616 members
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  • Carolina Skeletons on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Bruce Dern,  Melissa Leo
    Director: John Erman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where years ago, his brother was exucuted for the murder of two white girls. He believes his brother was innocent and sets out to prove it. But there are some people in town who will stop at nothing to keep their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 15 members
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  • Cover Up on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Dolph Lundgren,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  John Finn
    Director: Manny Coto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A new wave of terrorist attacks - that's the official story behind a swift, fierce attack on a U.S. Naval compound near Tel Aviv. But the more an American journalist investigates, the more a U.S. official appears to stonewall the facts...and the more dangerous and mysterious the dilemma becomes.
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 184 members
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  • Iron Eagle 2 on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Stuart Margolin,  Mark Humphrey
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When an outlaw nation takes the world hostage, America's oldest enemy becomes her newest ally. Brigadier General 'Chappy' Sinclair is back in the skies with a band of Russian and American misfits, a band that must be moulded into a crack aerial assault unit, ready to face an enemy bent on nuclear ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 200 members
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  • The Principal on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  Rae Dawn Chong
    Director: Christopher Cain
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When hard-drinking, motorbike-riding Rick Latimer (James Belushi) gets thrown out of the upscale high school where he teaches after drunkenly trashing a car with a baseball bat, he gets "promoted" to the position of principal--at the worst high school in the city. This is the kind of drug-infested ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 423 members
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  • Iron Eagle (1986)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Jason Gedrick,  David Suchet
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The incredible story of a hot-shot teenage pilot who, with the help of a former Air Force ace, steals an F-16 fighter jet and uses it to help him rescue his father from an enemy Mideast country. Starring Louis Gossett, Jr.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 908 members
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  • Enemy Mine on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  Brion James
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    During a bloody battle, two warring ships crash on a barren planet, with only one survivor from each ship. At first, the human pilot and the lizardlike Drac continue to fight, but the planet's harsh climate and the need to survive force them to form a tense alliance. Over time, they put old ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,816 members
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  • An Officer And A Gentleman on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Debra Winger,  David Keith
    Director: Taylor Hackford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.). Mayo --or Mayonnaise, as he is dubbed by the irascible ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 8,125 members
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  • Jaws 3 on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Bess Armstrong,  Simon MacCorkindale
    Director: Joe Alves
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The third film in the successful JAWS franchise follows yet another great white shark with an appetite for humans, this time invading the opening ceremonies of a marine park in Florida. The brand new complex offers visitors the chance to view the undersea kingdom from the safety of glass tunnels on ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 3,838 members
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  • The Deep - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: Robert Shaw,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 22 members
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  • The Deep on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Robert Shaw,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 970 members
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  • The River Niger (1976)
    Starring: James Earl Jones,  Cicely Tyson,  Louis Gossett Jr.
    Director: Krishna Shah
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto.
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 3 members
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  • The Rockford Files - Season 3 (6 discs) on DVD (1976)
    Starring: James Garner,  Noah Beery Jr.,  Joe Santos
    Director: Reza Badiyi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In the spirit of James Garner's other famous small-screen character, Bret Maverick, Rockford is the kind of guy who'd rather avoid the fight and go fishing instead. An ex-con pardoned for an armed robbery he didn't commit, Jim usually finds that the cases he takes on turn out to be must more ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 67 members
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  • Travels with My Aunt (1972)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Alec McCowen,  Louis Gossett Jr.
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings, who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure, as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 11 members
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Louis Gossett Jr. facts

5 most recent films

The Grace Card - 3.5 stars
Shannon's Rainbow - 1.0 stars
Daddy's Little Girls - 3.5 stars
Cover - 3.5 stars
All-In - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Rockford Files - Season 3 - 4.0 stars
Midnight Sting - 3.5 stars
Daddy's Little Girls - 3.5 stars
An Officer And A Gentleman - 3.5 stars
The Principal - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The River Niger - 0.5 stars
Shannon's Rainbow - 1.0 stars
Momentum - 1.5 stars
All-In - 2.0 stars
All In - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michael Madsen - 3 times - show films
Robert Shaw - 2 times - show films
Rae Dawn Chong - 2 times - show films
Terri J. Vaughn - 2 times - show films
James Russo - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Reza Badiyi - 7 times - show films
Sidney J. Furie - 3 times - show films
Taylor Hackford - 3 times - show films
Tyler Perry - 2 times - show films
David G. Evans - 2 times - show films