Howard Rollins
A Soldier's Story (1984)
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American mystery drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play. Fuller had said Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd inspired the play. It is a story about racism in a segregated regiment of the U.S Army commanded by White officers and train...
Starring: James Cagney•Pat O'Brien•Donald O'Connor
Ragtime (1981)
Ragtime is a 1981 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. The film is set in and around turn-of-the-century New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film stars James Cagney, Mary Steenburgen, H...
Starring: James Olson•Norman Mailer•Moses Gunn•Brad Dourif•Denzel Washington•Fran Drescher•Mary Steenburgen•Kenneth McMillan•Howard Rollins•Adolph Caesar