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  • Maniac Cop
  • Maniac Cop review by A customer from St Albans, England.
    Rated - 1 stars Oh Dear. 27 September 2007
    ...I'll be honest, I rented this because it had Bruce Campbell and Richard Roundtree in it. Ash from Evil Dead AND Shaft? Excellent 80s schlock poster? It'll be a blast! Not t...  
  • Shaft's Big Score
  • Shaft's Big Score review by A customer from Edinburgh, Scotland
    Rated - 3 stars And more again 19 July 2004
    ...pretty much more of the same, without the flair or originality of the original. Richard Roundtree and some decent action setpieces are working in its favour, but many of the rou...  
  • Shaft In Africa
  • Shaft In Africa review by from Edinburgh, Scotland
    Rated - 3 stars End of the road for Shaft 16 August 2004
    ... place was the gritty New York setting and the confrontational racial politics. Richard Roundtree still makes a good hero, however, and this is passable action fare. ...  

Richard Roundtree - filmography


  • Final Approach (2007)
    Starring: Dean Cain,  William Forsythe,  Tracey Gold
    Director: Armand Mastroianni
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon unless they receive ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 members
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  • Al's Lads on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Marc Warren,  Ralf Little,  Ricky Tomlinson
    Director: Richard Standeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    America, often seen as a land of opportunity, could offer no prosperity as the Roaring 1920s gave way to the Great Depression. The one field that excelled, of course, was the mafia and that is exactly where three British ship waiters turn when their boat lands in the States. Jimmy (Marc Warren) and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 195 members
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  • Corky Romano on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Christopher Penn,  Peter Berg,  Richard Roundtree
    Director: Rob Pritts
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Over the years, television's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has been the playground and jumping off point for an impressive number of comic superstars who nimbly made the transition from television to the big screen, including John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Steve Martin. Recently that tradition has continued ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 311 members
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  • Bad Jim on DVD (1989)
    Starring: James Brolin,  Richard Roundtree,  John Clark Gable
    Director: Clyde Ware
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When three cowhands, John T. (John Clark Gable), B.D. (James Brolin, Catch Me If You Can, Westworld, Traffic), and July (Richard Roundtree, Brick, Shaft), are offered a magnificent Sorrel stallion in exchange for one of their mangy cowponies, they are naturally suspicious. It all becomes clear, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Maniac Cop on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bruce Campbell,  Laurene Landon,  Tom Atkins
    Director: William Lustig
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    New York is being terrorised by a series of grim mutilation murders. The public is outraged when it is discovered that the killer is a cop. Innocent policemen are killed by a panic-stricken public. The city is in an uproar and needs to be rid of the menace...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 808 members
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  • Angel 3 - The Search on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Mitzi Kapture,  Maud Adams,  Richard Roundtree
    Director: Tom De Simone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Angel returns to the streets in an effort to find her missing sister. While undercover, she discovers that a high-powered madame runs a white slavery ring in partnership with a man named Mahajaan. When Angel discovers that her sister is in their hands and about to be sold she races desperately to ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 77 members
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  • Portrait Of A Hitman on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Jack Palance,  Richard Roundtree,  Rod Steiger
    Director: Allan A. Buckhantz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Portrait Of A Hitman A hitman is contracted to kill a surgeon who turns out to be an old friend. Hangmen Danny's daydreams of the rugged lifestyle of his estranged father turn to terrifying reality when he gets mixed up in a power struggle between his father (an undercover operative) and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 58 members
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  • Earthquake on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Ava Gardner,  George Kennedy
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This essential 1970s disaster epic, with a script co-authored by Mario Puzo (THE GODFATHER), centers around a devastating earthquake in Los Angeles and the shocking aftermath it causes. The all-star cast is led by Charleton Heston as a construction engineer whose marital problems supply him with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 715 members
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  • Shaft on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Richard Roundtree,  Moses Gunn,  Victor Arnold
    Director: Gordon Parks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of the first black action heroes blasts onto the Hollywood scene in this tale of John Shaft, a private eye who sets out to find the missing daughter of a Harlem gang kingpin. By modern standards, the edge might seem a little dull, but Isaac Hayes' score is fresh as ever. Based on the novel by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,257 member
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  • Man Friday
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Richard Roundtree,  Peter Cellier
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Adrian Mitchell's screenplay is a take-off on the Defoe classic, 'Robinson Crusoe'. This version finds Friday revolting against white supremacy and Crusoe losing the man-to-man conflict for human dignity.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 16 members
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  • Man Friday to Watch Now (1975)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Richard Roundtree,  Peter Cellier/ Christopher Cabot
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 109 minutes
    Adrian Mitchell's screenplay is a take-off on the Defoe classic, 'Robinson Crusoe'. This version finds Friday revolting against white supremacy and Crusoe losing the man-to-man conflict for human dignity.
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Richard Roundtree facts

5 most recent films

Speed Racer - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Final Approach - 2.5 stars
Closer, The - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Al's Lads - 2.5 stars
Anti-Trust - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Closer, The - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Anti-Trust - 3.0 stars
Shaft - 3.0 stars
George Of The Jungle - 3.0 stars
Escape To Athena - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fist Of Justice - 1.5 stars
Body Of Influence - 2.0 stars
The Baron And The Kid - 2.5 stars
Bloodfist 1-4 - 2.5 stars
Man Friday - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sonny Bono - 3 times - show films
David Niven - 3 times - show films
Roger Moore - 3 times - show films
Elliott Gould - 3 times - show films
Claudia Cardinale - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Pan Cosmatos - 3 times - show films
Jack Gold - 2 times - show films
Gordon Parks - 2 times - show films
James Duff - 1 times - show films
Larry Wachowski - 1 times - show films