Yaphet Kotto
Witless Protection (2008)
Witless Protection is a 2008 American crime comedy film written and directed by Charles Robert Carner, and starring Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy. Distributed by Lionsgate, the film was theatrically released on February 22, 2008 to extremely negative reviews and commercial failure, grossing $4.1 million. It was the final film appearance of...
Starring: Richard Bull•Anthony Quinn•Lee J. Cobb•Cornel Wilde•Peter Finch•Charles Bronson•Eartha Kitt•Roger Moore•John Saxon•Jack Warden
The Puppet Masters (1994)
The Puppet Masters is a 1994 American science fiction horror film, adapted by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio and David S. Goyer from Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel of the same title, in which a trio of American government agents attempts to thwart a covert invasion of Earth by mind-controlling alien parasites. The film was directed by Stuart Orme and s...
Starring: Richard Bull•Henry Silva•Robert Loggia•Horst Buchholz
Midnight Run (1988)
Midnight Run is a 1988 American road action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, and Philip Baker Hall play supporting roles.
Starring: Richard Bull•Andrew Duggan•Robert Redford•Veronica Cartwright•Roscoe Lee Browne
The Running Man (1987)
The Running Man is a 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura.
Starring: Richard Bull•Ivan Dixon•Yaphet Kotto•Charles Grodin
Eye of the Tiger (1986)
Eye of the Tiger is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Richard C. Sarafian, and stars Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Denise Galik, Seymour Cassel, William Smith, and Judith Barsi.
Starring: Richard Bull•Richard Pryor•Donald Sutherland
The Park Is Mine (1986)
The Park Is Mine is a Canadian-American drama television film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen Peters. The film focuses on Vietnam War veteran, Mitch, who takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War and draw attention to veterans' issues.
Starring: Richard Bull•Seymour Cassel•Robert De Niro
Warning Sign (1985)
Warning Sign is a 1985 American science fiction-horror film directed by Hal Barwood and starring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Richard Dysart.
Starring: Richard Bull•Hal Holbrook•Michael Douglas•John Hurt•Richard Dysart•Jane Alexander•Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Star Chamber (1983)
The Star Chamber is a 1983 American crime thriller film starring Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking, and Joe Regalbuto. The film was written by Roderick Taylor and Peter Hyams and directed by Hyams. Its title is taken from the name of the Star Chamber, the notorious 15th−17th-century English court.
Starring: Richard Bull•Tom Skerritt•Pam Grier
Brubaker (1980)
Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W. D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom M...
Starring: Bill Cosby•Richard Bull•Sam Waterston
Alien (1979)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who, after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an uncharted planetoid, find themselves up against an aggressive and deadly extraterr...
Starring: Quinn K. Redeker•Richard Bull•Susan Blakely•Richard Dawson•Michael Moriarty•Jane Seymour•Isaac Hayes
Blue Collar (1978)
Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader in his directorial debut. Written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class Rust Belt enclave.
Starring: Richard Bull•Héctor Elizondo•Gary Busey
Raid on Entebbe (1977)
Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 NBC television film directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The portrayal of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was Peter Finch's final performance; he died five days after the film's release.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones•Kathleen Quinlan•Thomas Carter•Helen Shaver•Eric Roberts•Jerry Hardin•Sigourney Weaver•Richard Bull
The Monkey Hustle (1976)
The Monkey Hustle is a 1976 American blaxploitation film written by Odie Hawkins and Charles Eric Johnson. It stars Yaphet Kotto as Chicago con-man and "hustler" Daddy Foxx and Kirk Calloway as his teenage apprentice. Co-stars include Thomas Carter, Rudy Ray Moore, and Rosalind Cash.
Starring: Richard Bull•G.W. Bailey•John Ashton
Friday Foster (1975)
Friday Foster is a 1975 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Arthur Marks and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred. It is an adaptation of the 1970-74 syndicated newspaper comic strip of the same name, scripted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón...
Starring: María Conchita Alonso•Richard Bull•Dennis Farina
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Report to the Commissioner is a 1975 American crime drama film based on James Mills' 1972 novel. It involves a rookie cop in the New York City Police Department who is assigned a special missing person case, which in fact is meant to be a wild-goose chase to back up an undercover female police officer's role as the girlfriend of a drug dealer.
Starring: Richard Bull•J. David Moeller•Peter Stormare•Jenny McCarthy
Sharks' Treasure (1975)
Sharks' Treasure is a 1975 American adventure film written, produced and directed by Cornel Wilde and starring Cornel Wilde and Yaphet Kotto.
Starring: Larry the Cable Guy•Ivana Miličević•Richard Bull
Report to the Commissioner (1974)
Report to the Commissioner is a 1975 American crime drama film based on James Mills' 1972 novel. It involves a rookie cop in the New York City Police Department who is assigned a special missing person case, which in fact is meant to be a wild-goose chase to back up an undercover female police officer's role as the girlfriend of a drug dealer.
Starring: Richard Bull•J. David Moeller•Peter Stormare
Truck Turner (1974)
Truck Turner, also known as Black Bullet, is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Leigh Chapman, and Oscar Williams. Hayes also scored the music for the soundtrack. The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature ...
Starring: Richard Bull•Leif Erickson•Anthony Quinn
Live and Let Die (1973)
Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy film. It is the eighth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Guy Hamilton and produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, while Tom Mankiewicz wrote the script. Although the producers had approached ...
Starring: Lee J. Cobb•Richard Bull•Roger Moore
Across 110th Street (1972)
Across 110th Street is a 1972 American action-crime film directed by Barry Shear and starring Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Franciosa and Paul Benjamin. The film is set in Harlem, New York and takes its name from 110th Street, the traditional dividing line between Harlem and Central Park that functioned as an informal boundary of race and cl...
Starring: Tony Franciosa•Henry Silva•Richard Bull
Bone (1972)
Bone is a 1972 American black comedy crime film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen in his directorial debut. It stars Yaphet Kotto, Joyce Van Patten, and Andrew Duggan. The film tells the story of a home invasion perpetrated by Kotto's character, who soon realizes that his victims are less wealthy and far unhappier than they initially a...
Starring: Andrew Duggan•Richard Bull•Roscoe Lee Browne
Man and Boy (1971)
Man and Boy is a 1971 American western film directed by E.W. Swackhamer and starring Bill Cosby.
Starring: Lola Falana•Bill Cosby•Richard Bull•Quinn K. Redeker
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones is a 1970 American neo noir film directed by William Wyler, his final project in a career that spanned 45 years.
Starring: Virgil Frye•Jane Seymour•Richard Bull•Isaac Hayes
Nothing But a Man (1964)
Nothing but a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln, and directed by Michael Roemer, who also co-wrote the film with Robert M. Young. The film tells the story of Duff Anderson, an African-American railroad worker in the early 1960s who tries to maintain his dignity in a small racist town near Birmingham...
Starring: Annazette Chase•Richard Bull