Louis Gossett Jr.
The Color Purple (2023)
The Color Purple is an upcoming American musical coming-of-age period drama film directed by Blitz Bazawule and adapted for the screen by Marcus Gardley from the 2005 stage musical of the same name, which is in turn based on Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following S...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Pearl Bailey•Lee Grant•Anne Bancroft•Walter Matthau•James Garner•Robert Loggia•Woody Strode•Warren Oates•Denholm Elliott
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Why Did I Get Married Too? is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Tyler Perry and starring Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, Tasha Smith, Jill Scott, Louis Gossett Jr., Malik Yoba, Michael Jai White, Sharon Leal, Richard T. Jones, Lamman Rucker, and Cicely Tyson. Produced by Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios, it is the sequel to Why Did I Get M...
Starring: Maggie Smith•Malinda Williams•Burt Reynolds•Beau Bridges•Cicely Tyson•Bruce Dern•John Vernon•Barbara Rhoades•Lisa Eilbacher•Sally Kellerman
The Perfect Game (2010)
The Perfect Game is a 2009 American drama film directed by William Dear, based on the 2008 book of the same name written by W. William Winokur. The film is based on the events leading to the 1957 Little League World Series, which was won by the first team from outside the United States, the Industrial Little League of Monterrey, Mexico, who defeate...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Diana Sands•Malcolm McDowell•Timothy Bottoms•Perry King•James Woods
Delgo (2008)
Delgo is a 2008 American computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Marc F. Adler and Jason Maurer, written by Scott Biear, Patrick J. Cowan, Carl Dream, and Jennifer A. Jones. It stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Chris Kattan, Louis Gossett Jr., Burt Reynolds, Eric Idle, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Ripa, Val...
Starring: Glynn Turman•Joanna Cassidy•Cathy Lee Crosby•Phyllis Davis•Malinda Williams•Charles Durning•Will Sampson•Richard Gere•Ernie Hudson•Joan Pringle
Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
Daddy's Little Girls is a 2007 American film written and directed by Tyler Perry and produced by Perry and Reuben Cannon. The film stars Idris Elba, Gabrielle Union, Louis Gossett Jr., and Tracee Ellis Ross. It tells the story of a lawyer who helps a mechanic in a custody battle against his mean-spirited ex-wife over who will get custody of their d...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Chuck Norris•Barbara Rhoades•Beverly D'Angelo•Lisa Eilbacher•Bruce McGill•Dennis Quaid•Cheech Marin•Melody Anderson•Michael O'Keefe
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Lackawanna Blues is a drama television film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. It aired on HBO on February 12, 2005. It is based on the play of the same name by Santiago-Hudson. Wolfe had commissioned the stage version.
Starring: Malinda Williams•Holly Hunter•Bess Armstrong•John Rhys-Davies•James Belushi•Sonny Landham•Lisa Blount•David Alan Grier•Rae Dawn Chong•Wil Wheaton
Diggstown (1992)
Diggstown, is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Steven McKay, based on the 1978 novel The Diggstown Ringers by Leonard Wise. It stars James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Heather Graham, Oliver Platt and Randall "Tex" Cobb.
Starring: Val Kilmer•Malinda Williams•Jason Gedrick•Eric Idle•Dolph Lundgren
Toy Soldiers (1991)
Toy Soldiers is a 1991 American action film directed by Daniel Petrie Jr., with a screenplay by Petrie and David Koepp. It stars Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Louis Gossett Jr., Andrew Divoff, Mason Adams and Denholm Elliott.
Starring: Andrew Divoff•Malinda Williams•Keith Coogan•Jeroen Krabbe•Mark Humphrey•Heather Graham
The Punisher (1989)
The Punisher is a 1989 American action film directed by Mark Goldblatt, written by Boaz Yakin, and starring Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr. Based on the Punisher character from Marvel Comics, the film changes many details of origin, and eliminates the signature T-shirt skull logo and instead has the knife with the skull. It was shot in Sydney,...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Rosie Perez•Kim Miyori•Patricia Wettig
Iron Eagle II (1988)
Iron Eagle II is a 1988 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and written by Furie and Kevin Alyn Elders. It is the first sequel to the 1986 film Iron Eagle, with Louis Gossett Jr. reprising his role as Charles "Chappy" Sinclair, alongside newcomers Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Maury Chaykin, Alan Scarfe, Colm Feore, and Clark Johnson. An uncr...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Janet Jackson
A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
A Gathering of Old Men is a 1987 American-German television drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and based on the novel of the same name. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released as television film in the US. For his performance actor Louis Gossett Jr. was nominated at the Emmy Aw...
Starring: Liev Schreiber•Jeffrey Wright•Malinda Williams•Richard T. Jones
The Principal (1987)
The Principal is a 1987 crime thriller action film starring Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr. and Rae Dawn Chong. Written by Frank Deese and directed by Christopher Cain, it was filmed in Oakland, California, and at Northgate High School in nearby Walnut Creek and distributed by TriStar Pictures on Panavision. Belushi reprised his role as Rick Latimer...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Michael Clarke Duncan•Malik Yoba
Firewalker (1986)
Firewalker is a 1986 American action-adventure comedy film starring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Will Sampson in his final feature film role, and Melody Anderson. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson and written by Norman Aladjem, Robert Gosnell and Jeffrey M. Rosenbaum. This was the first comedic role for Norris, giving him a chance to poke fun ...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Gabrielle Union•Julie Benz•Dwayne Johnson•Deon Cole•Tasha Smith
Iron Eagle (1986)
Iron Eagle is a 1986 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie who co-wrote the screenplay with Kevin Alyn Elders, and starring Jason Gedrick and Louis Gossett Jr. While it received negative reviews, being unfavorably compared to the similarly-themed Top Gun released the same year, the film earned $24,159,872 at the U.S. box office. Iron Eagle was fo...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Aunjanue Ellis
Enemy Mine (1985)
Enemy Mine is a 1985 American science fiction action drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Edward Khmara, based on Barry B. Longyear's novella of the same name. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. as a human and alien soldier, respectively, who become stranded together on an inhospitable planet and must overcome thei...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Sierra Aylina McClain
Finders Keepers (1984)
Finders Keepers is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring Michael O'Keefe, Beverly D'Angelo, Brian Dennehy, and Louis Gossett Jr., with an early performance by Jim Carrey. The film was adapted from Charles Dennis' 1974 novel The Next-to-Last Train Ride. The film opened on May 18, 1984, earning $865,207 during its first ...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Victor Webster•Idris Elba
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Jaws 3-D is a 1983 American thriller film directed by Joe Alves and starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Lea Thompson and Louis Gossett Jr. It is the second sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws and the third installment in the Jaws franchise. The film follows the Brody children from the previous films to SeaWorld, a Florida marine park with underwat...
Starring: Malinda Williams•Sierra Aylina McClain•Lauryn Alisa McClain
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film directed by Taylor Hackford from a screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart, and starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Louis Gossett Jr. It tells the story of Zack Mayo (Gere), a United States Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who is beginning his training at Aviation Officer Candidate Scho...
Starring: Emilie de Ravin•Malinda Williams•Elizabeth Marvel•Patricia Manterola•Corey Hawkins•Colman Domingo•Danielle Brooks
The Choirboys (1977)
The Choirboys is a 1977 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Christopher Knopf and Joseph Wambaugh based on Wambaugh's 1975 novel of the same name. It features an ensemble cast including Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Randy Quaid, and James Woods. The film was released to theaters by Universal Pictures on December ...
Starring: Halle Bailey•Malinda Williams•Pearl Bailey•Lee Grant•Walter Matthau•James Garner•Warren Oates
J. D.'s Revenge (1976)
J. D.'s Revenge is a blaxploitation horror film released in 1976. It starred Glynn Turman and Lou Gossett. The main character becomes an unwilling host for the restless spirit of J.D. Walker, a hustler killed 30 years earlier when he was wrongfully accused of killing his sister.
Starring: Malinda Williams•Maggie Smith•James Earl Jones
The River Niger (1976)
The River Niger is a 1976 film adaptation of the 1972 Joseph A. Walker play of the same title. The film was directed by Krishna Shah, and starred James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and Louis Gossett Jr. The film had a limited commercial release in 1976 and has rarely been seen in later years. The soundtrack is by War, including the theme song "River N...
Starring: Beau Bridges•Maggie Smith•Malinda Williams
The White Dawn (1974)
The White Dawn is a 1974 Canadian-American drama film directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, and Louis Gossett Jr. It portrays the conflict between aboriginal peoples' traditional way of life and Europeans' eagerness to take advantage of them. The film employs authentic Inuit language dialogue. It is based on the 197...
Starring: Susan Clark•Malinda Williams•Diana Sands
The Laughing Policeman (1973)
The Laughing Policeman is a 1973 American neo-noir thriller film loosely based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm to San Francisco. It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and features Walter Matthau as Detective Jake Martin.
Starring: Timothy Bottoms•Val Kilmer•Malinda Williams•Perry King•Glynn Turman
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor, written by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler, and starring Maggie Smith. The film is loosely based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene. The film's plot retains the book's central theme of the adventurous, amoral aunt and her respectable middle class nephe...
Starring: Joanna Cassidy•Malinda Williams
Skin Game (1971)
Skin Game is a 1971 American independent comedy western directed by Paul Bogart and Gordon Douglas, and starring James Garner and Lou Gossett. The supporting cast features Susan Clark, Edward Asner, Andrew Duggan, Parley Baer and Royal Dano.
Starring: Cathy Lee Crosby•Phyllis Davis•Malinda Williams
The Landlord (1970)
The Landlord is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted by Bill Gunn from the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter. The film stars Beau Bridges in the lead role of a privileged and ignorant white man who selfishly becomes landlord of an inner-city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income, streetwise re...
Starring: Burt Young•Charles Durning•Joan Pringle•Malinda Williams•Barbara Rhoades