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Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle
Born on 29 November 1963 in Kansas City, Don Cheadle first became well-known for his part in the TV series 'Fame' in 1982.

His recent hits include the Danny Ocean trilogy as well as Oscar-winning Crash and Oscar-nominated Hotel Rwanda. Following his performance in Hotel Rwanda, he was for several months an activist working to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur.




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Don Cheadle - news / articles


  • Don Cheadle replaces Howard in Iron Man 2 - 15 October 2008
    d Jim Rhodes, a character who transformed into War Machine.-However, the Hollywood Reporter has claimed that Oceans Eleven star Don Cheadle will now take the role after talks with Howard fell through due to financial differences.-Jon Favreau has confirmed he will ret


  • Don Cheadle set to star in five new films - 15 March 2007
    Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve star Don Cheadle - who adopted a cockney accent for the stylish heist movies - is set to be a busy man this year having lined up five forthcoming projects.-A biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis is on the cards, according to Variety, wi

Don Cheadle - what members say


  • The Family Man
  • The Family Man review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 4 stars Tea for Two 16 May 2007
    ...s Tea Leoni as the love interest, Jeremy Piven as the oldest and best buddy and Don Cheadle as the catalystic character who gives Cage a glimpse into his alternative futur...  
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Ocean's Eleven review by Pronk from Norwich
    Rated - 3 stars Okay 3 April 2005
    ...er.She was just a sub plot that the film would have been better off without.And Don Cheadle's mockney character was also pointless.It was amusing in a way but if they wrot...  
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Hotel Rwanda review by from London, UK
    Rated - 4 stars Heart Wrenching Drama 17 April 2005
    ...nnot comment on the film's bias. What I can comment on is the power with which Don Cheadle plays his role. He brings wonderful humanity and warmth to his character and i...  

Don Cheadle - filmography


  • Traitor on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Don Cheadle,  Guy Pearce,  Neal McDonough
    Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations Officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,815 members
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  • Hotel for Dogs on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Emma Roberts,  Jake T. Austin,  Lisa Kudrow
    Director: Thor Freudenthal
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In this family film, NANCY DREW's Emma Roberts leads a star-filled cast that includes Kyla Pratt, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, and Don Cheadle. A pair of orphaned siblings (Roberts and Jake T. Austin) are forced to give up their beloved dog when they move into a foster home. But since they can't ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 4,587 members
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  • Hotel For Dogs - BLU-RAY Version (2009)
    Starring: Kyla Pratt,  Jake T. Austin,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Thor Freudenthal
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In this family film, NANCY DREW's Emma Roberts leads a star-filled cast that includes Kyla Pratt, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, and Don Cheadle. A pair of orphaned siblings (Roberts and Jake T. Austin) are forced to give up their beloved dog when they move into a foster home. But since they can't ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 394 members
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  • Traitor - BLU-RAY Version (2008)
    Starring: Neal McDonough,  Don Cheadle,  Said Taghmaoui
    Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born,..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 647 members
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  • Crash on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Don Cheadle,  Matt Dillon
    Director: Paul Haggis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Crash is a powerful, moving and provocative drama following the intersecting lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles. Using a sophisticated, layered structure to tell the stories of a multi-racial group of characters as their lives inter-connect through a sequence of events around a car ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 100,168 members
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  • Manic on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,  Don Cheadle,  Michael Bacall
    Director: Jordan Melamed
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Jordan Melamed's directorial debut is a strikingly honest depiction of life in a juvenile mental ward. Following a disturbing and violent fight at school, Lyle (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is admitted--against his will--to Northwoods Mental Institution. There he joins a group of troubled teens: withdrawn ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 480 members
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  • Rush Hour 2 on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Chris Tucker,  John Lone
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Crime fighting has never been so hazardous--or funny. Chopsocky action star Jackie Chan reteams with motormouth Chris Tucker in this RUSH HOUR sequel as the mismatched cop duo investigate several bombings in Hong Kong attributed to Chinese gang leader Ricky Tan (John Lone) and an assassin (Zhang ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,651 members
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  • Swordfish on DVD (2001)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Hugh Jackman,  Halle Berry
    Director: Dominic Sena
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Star John Travolta revisits the grinning villain territory he explored in BROKEN ARROW and FACE/OFF with this stylish, supercharged techno-thriller. He plays Gabriel, a charismatic, fast-living mystery man who, with help from his right-hand woman, Ginger (Halle Berry), recruits ex-con and former ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 20,558 members
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  • Rush Hour 2 - BLU-RAY Version (2001)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Chris Tucker,  John Lone
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Crime fighting has never been so hazardous--or funny. Chopsocky action star Jackie Chan reteams with motormouth Chris Tucker in this RUSH HOUR sequel as the mismatched cop duo investigate several bombings in Hong Kong attributed to Chinese gang leader Ricky Tan (John Lone) and an assassin (Zhang ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 926 members
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  • The Family Man on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Tea Leoni,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nicolas Cage stars as Jack Campbell, a career-driven workaholic who has everything: an exciting job, a Ferarri, a closetful of Zegna suits, and the attention of any woman he wants. His life changes when, after working a full day on Christmas Eve, he intervenes in a convenience store holdup. The ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,671 members
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  • Bulworth on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Halle Berry,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Warren Beatty
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A surprisingly entertaining political comedy that features a funny and magnetic Beatty as the discouraged politician Bulworth, who has organized his own assassination but, after a three day bender of not sleeping, decides that he wants to live after all. He begins to tell the complete truth at all ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,558 member
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  • The Rat Pack on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ray Liotta,  Joe Mantegna,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Rob Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    They had the world on a string; Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop--collectively known as 'The Rat Pack'. These cool cats set the style and pace for 1950s America as the nation hurtled towards the swinging 60s. But as they learn, all good things must ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 295 members
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  • Volcano on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tommy Lee Jones,  Anne Heche,  Gabby Hoffman
    Director: Mick Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When an earthquake triggers a giant burst of lava from the La Brea Tar Pits, sending great spews of lava all over various Los Angeles neighborhoods and causing all manner of flaming magma mayhem, dedicated Emergency Management director Mike Roark rushes to the rescue, with help from a plucky ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,620 members
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  • Lush Life on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jeff Goldblum,  Forest Whitaker,  Kathy Baker
    Director: Michael Elias
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jazz musicians Al Gorky and Buddy Chester live the bohemian life, but Al's devil-may-care attitude is affecting his marriage and his music. Buddy discovers he is dying and the two realise that they should face up to their own mortality as they plan to have one last session.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 52 members
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  • Hamburger Hill - BLU-RAY Version (1987)
    Starring: Anthony Barrile,  Tim Quill,  Michael Dolan
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    On the 11th of May in 1969, troops of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division engaged the enemy at the base of Hill 937 in the Ashau Valley. Ten days and eleven bloody assaults later--which resulted in 70 per cent casualties--the troops who fought there called it 'Hamburger Hill'. Based on a true story.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 27 members
    Due for release on 7th December 2009
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  • Hamburger Hill on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Anthony Barrile,  Tim Quill,  Michael Dolan
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Because Hamburger Hill was released less than a year after Oliver Stone's Platoon and within months of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, this exceptionally well-made film about one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War was largely overshadowed and overlooked. It's a pity, because in some ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,290 members
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Don Cheadle - watch online


  • Hotel For Dogs to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Emma Roberts,  Lisa Kudrow,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Thor Freudenthal
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 100 minutes
    Hotel For Dogs is a funny, heartwarming and inspiring animal adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When 16-year old, Andi (Roberts), and her younger brother Bruce (Austin) find themselves in a foster home with a strict "no pets" policy, they must use their quick wit to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5 members
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  • Traitor to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Don Cheadle,  Guy Pearce,  Neal McDonough
    Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 110 minutes
    When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations Officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3 members
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  • Manic to Watch Now (2004)
    Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,  Don Cheadle,  Zooey Deschanel
    Director: Jordan Melamed
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 98 minutes
    First time director Jordan Melameds's powerful debut is a searing, visceral gaze at teen violence and the sometimes heart-breaking alienation prevalent among today's youth. Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, he is committed to a juvenile mental ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Hamburger Hill to Watch Now (1999)
    Starring: Anthony Barrile,  Don Cheadle,  Dylan McDermott
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 109 minutes
    The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill... up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 27 members
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Don Cheadle facts

5 most recent films

Brooklyn's Finest - 2.5 stars
Traitor - 3.5 stars
Hotel for Dogs - 3.5 stars
Hotel For Dogs - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Traitor - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Hotel Rwanda - 4.0 stars
Ocean's Eleven - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Ocean's Eleven - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Crash - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Eleven - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Brooklyn's Finest - 2.5 stars
Things Behind The Sun - 3.0 stars
Rosewood - 3.5 stars
Talk to Me - 3.5 stars
Hamburger Hill - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

George Clooney - 10 times - show films
Brad Pitt - 7 times - show films
Andy Garcia - 7 times - show films
Matt Damon - 7 times - show films
Bernie Mac - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Steven Soderbergh - 11 times - show films
Brett Ratner - 4 times - show films
Dominic Sena - 3 times - show films
Jeffrey Nachmanoff - 3 times - show films
John Irvin - 3 times - show films


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