Top Results for Fred Williamson

Boss Nigger is a 1975 American Western film associated with the blaxploitation cycle. It was directed by Jack Arnold and stars Fred Williamson as a former bounty hunter who becomes sheriff in a frontier town where racism and violence shape local power. The film combines Western conventions with the...

Bucktown is a 1975 American action and crime film directed by Arthur Marks. Fred Williamson plays a man who becomes involved in a small town after discovering that corrupt police officers control and terrorize the community. Pam Grier also stars in the film. Its story uses the conflict between resid...

Mr. Scarface is a 1976 crime film associated with the blaxploitation cycle of American cinema. Jack Palance plays a powerful underworld figure whose criminal organization faces pressure from competing criminals and law-enforcement authorities. The film is intended for viewers interested in 1970s cri...

Original Gangstas is a 1996 American action film directed by Larry Cohen. The film brings together established performers associated with blaxploitation cinema, including Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Pam Grier. Its story centers on a struggle against violent local street gangs, combining crime dr...

Hammer is a 1972 American action film directed by Bruce D. Clark and starring Fred Williamson. Williamson plays B.J. Hammer, a boxer whose career is threatened by fixed fights, criminal interests, and pressure from the mob. The film combines boxing drama with crime and action elements, and it is ass...

The Big Score is a 1983 American crime film directed by and starring Fred Williamson. The story follows a group drawn into a robbery scheme that becomes increasingly dangerous as competing interests and betrayal disrupt the plan. It belongs to the independent blaxploitation tradition, a cycle of act...

This 1972 American western was directed by Martin Goldman and stars Fred Williamson as Charley. Its story follows Charley, an enslaved blacksmith in Virginia whose promised freedom is revoked after he resists an abusive overseer; he escapes west with two companions while pursued by a slave catcher....

One Down, Two to Go is a 1982 action film directed by Fred Williamson and featuring Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree, and Williamson in its central ensemble. Its plot centers on a confrontation with the mob, placing the film within the crime-oriented side of the 1980s blaxploitation cycle. Th...

Joshua is a 1976 blaxploitation Western directed by Larry Spangler and starring Fred Williamson in the title role. Williamson plays a Black Civil War veteran who tracks the white men responsible for murdering his mother. The film uses a revenge plot and a frontier setting to place a Black protagonis...

Adios Amigo is a 1976 Western directed by and starring Fred Williamson, with Richard Pryor in a comedic supporting role. Pryor plays a bumbling con man in the frontier Southwest, giving the film a comic counterpoint to its Western action and outlaw setting. It is commonly grouped with 1970s blaxploi...

Mean Johnny Barrows is a 1976 crime-action film directed by and starring Fred Williamson. Its central character is a dishonorably discharged Vietnam veteran who becomes entangled with rival Mafia factions, so the story turns on the collision between a returning serviceman and organized crime. The fi...

A 1976 blaxploitation action film starring Fred Williamson as a man pursued across the country after witnessing a crime, one of several vehicles Williamson produced independently.

The Soul of Nigger Charley is a 1973 American Western and a sequel to The Legend of Nigger Charley. Fred Williamson returns as Charley in a story about escaped slaves seeking freedom as they move through the frontier West. The film combines a Western setting with the Black-centered action and histor...

Mr. Mean is a 1977 action-crime film written, directed, and produced by Fred Williamson, who plays the title character. The story follows a professional killer hired to eliminate a Mafia leader whose fraudulent charitable organizations have angered organized-crime families; after accepting the assig...

[Death Journey](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137458/) is a 1976 action-crime film written and directed by Fred Williamson, who also plays former police officer and private detective Jesse Crowder. Crowder is hired by a New York district attorney to escort a key witness from Los Angeles to New York...

Adios Amigo, also listed as Adiós Amigo, is an American Western comedy from the mid-1970s. Fred Williamson wrote, directed, produced, and stars in the film, which features Richard Pryor as his partner and James Brown in the cast. The story follows a frontier con man whose schemes leave his companion...

Fist of Fear, Touch of Death is a 1980 American martial-arts exploitation film directed by Matthew Mallinson. Presented in a pseudo-documentary style, it frames a tournament at Madison Square Garden as a search for Bruce Lee's successor and intercuts interviews, fictional claims about Lee's life and...