Starring

Fred Williamson

Starsky & Hutch (2004)

Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Todd Phillips. The film stars Ben Stiller as David Starsky and Owen Wilson as Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and is a film adaptation of the original television series of the same name from the 1970s.

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Eli Wallach•John Saxon•Rip Torn•Paula Prentiss•Bernie Hamilton•Robert Duvall•Sally Kellerman•Jim Brown•Rosemary Forsyth

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 American action horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino from a concept and story by Robert Kurtzman. Starring Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Ernest Liu, and Juliette Lewis, the plot follows a pair of American criminal brothers who take a family as hostages in order t...

Starring: Donald Sutherland•Vince Vaughn•Harvey Keitel•Elliott Gould•Sally Kellerman•Peter Boyle•Tom Skerritt

Original Gangstas (1996)

Original Gangstas is a 1996 action-gangster film filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, and Richard Roundtree. It is the final film directed by Larry Cohen before his death in 2019, though he continued to write screenplays through 2010.

Starring: Chris Penn•Vince Vaughn•Cheech Marin

The Big Score (1983)

The Big Score is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Fred Williamson. The film has music composed by Jay Chattaway.

Starring: Roger Bowen•Vince Vaughn•D'Urville Martin

Vigilante (1983)

Vigilante, later released on video as Street Gang, is a 1982 American vigilante film directed by William Lustig and starring Robert Forster and Fred Williamson. Lustig came upon the idea for the film through a news article about "a group of blue collar workers in southern New Jersey who had organized to fight crime in their neighborhood".

Starring: Richard Roundtree•Vince Vaughn•Vonetta McGee

Warrior of the Lost World (1983)

Warrior of the Lost World is a 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic science fiction film written and directed by David Worth and starring Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, and Donald Pleasence. It was created and first released in Italy under the title Il Giustiziere della terra perduta in 1983 during the wide popularity of the Mad Max films, and many subse...

Starring: Paul Michael Glaser•Vince Vaughn•Julius Harris

Death Journey (1976)

Death Journey is a 1976 action crime film written by Abel Joney and directed by Fred Williamson, who also stars as Jesse Crowder.

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Jim Kelly•David Soul

Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)

Mean Johnny Barrows is a 1976 American crime drama film starring Fred Williamson, who also directed the film; Stuart Whitman; Luther Adler; Jenny Sherman; and Roddy McDowall also star.

Starring: Denise Nicholas•Vince Vaughn

Boss Nigger (1975)

Boss Nigger is a 1975 blaxploitation Western film directed by Jack Arnold, and stars former football player Fred Williamson, who both wrote and co-produced. Boss Nigger is the first film for which Williamson was credited as screenwriter or producer.

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Emil Farkas

Bucktown (1975)

Bucktown, USA is a 1975 American crime action blaxploitation film released by American International Pictures starring Fred Williamson.

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Cheech Marin•Persis Khambatta

Take a Hard Ride (1975)

Take a Hard Ride is a 1975 Italian-American Spaghetti Western film directed by Anthony Dawson and starring Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. This was the second of three films Brown, Williamson, and Kelly would star in, following Three the Hard Way and preceding One Down, Two to Go.

Starring: Rutanya Alda•Chris Penn•Vince Vaughn

Black Eye (1974)

Black Eye is a 1974 American neo-noir action and blaxploitation film produced by Pat Rooney, directed by Jack Arnold and starring Fred Williamson. The film was based on the 1971 novel Murder on the Wild Side by Jeff Jacks.

Starring: Ben Stiller•Vince Vaughn•Jason Bateman

Crazy Joe (1974)

Crazy Joe is a 1974 crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. The Italian-American co-production is a fictionalized retelling of the murder of Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, a mobster who was gunned down on April 7, 1972, at a restaurant in Little Italy. The screenplay by Lewis John Carlino is based on a series of articles...

Starring: Juliette Lewis•Salma Hayek•Owen Wilson•George Clooney•Vince Vaughn

Three the Hard Way (1974)

Three the Hard Way is a 1974 action blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks Jr., written by Eric Bercovici and Jerrold L. Ludwig and starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly.

Starring: Chris Penn•Vince Vaughn•Bernie Hamilton

Black Caesar (1973)

Black Caesar is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry and Julius Harris. It features a musical score by James Brown, his first experience with writing music for film. A sequel titled Hell Up in Harlem was released in late 1973.

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Emil Farkas•Sally Kellerman

Hell Up in Harlem (1973)

Hell Up in Harlem is a 1973 blaxploitation American neo-noir film, starring Fred Williamson and Gloria Hendry. Written and directed by Larry Cohen, it is a sequel to the film Black Caesar.

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Donald Sutherland•Sally Kellerman

The Soul of Nigger Charley (1973)

The Soul of Nigger Charley is a 1973 American blaxploitation Western film directed by Larry Spangler and starring Fred Williamson. It is the sequel to 1972's The Legend of Nigger Charley. It is followed by Boss Nigger. It is rated R in the United States.

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Emil Farkas•Tom Skerritt

That Man Bolt (1973)

That Man Bolt is a 1973 American action film directed by David Lowell Rich and Henry Levin. It stars Fred Williamson in the title role of a courier and Byron Webster. The film combined several genres: blaxploitation, the martial arts film, and James Bond superspy films. It was filmed in Hong Kong, Macau and the United States and featured several ma...

Starring: Vince Vaughn•Jo Ann Pflug•Jason Bateman

Hammer (1972)

Hammer is a 1972 blaxploitation film directed by Bruce D. Clark. The film was released following the successes of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Shaft, notable 1971 films that popularized black cinema. It starred Fred Williamson as B.J. Hammer. Williamson went on to become a staple of the genre.

Starring: John Schuck•Vince Vaughn•René Auberjonois

The Legend of Nigger Charley aka Legend of Black Charley (1972)

The Legend of Nigger Charley is a 1972 blaxploitation Western film directed by Martin Goldman and starring Fred Williamson in the title role. The story of a trio of escaped slaves, it was released during the heyday of blaxploitation. Shot in Charles City, Virginia, Eve's Ranch, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Jamaica, and Arizona, it received backlash for it...