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Nathan George is a Actor American born on 27 july 1936
Nathan George is an African-American supporting actor who was active from 1971-97. He co-won a 1969 Obie Award with Ron O'Neal for Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "No Place to be Somebody." This performance also received a Drama Desk Award. He acted in Brubaker (1980), Klute (1971), Serpico (1973), Harsh Light (1997), his last film, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and was one of the leads in Short Eyes (1977).
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Nathan George is an African-American supporting actor who was active from 1971-97. He co-won a 1969 Obie Award with Ron O'Neal for Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "No Place to be Somebody." This performance also received a Drama Desk Award. He acted in Brubaker (1980), Klute (1971), Serpico (1973), Harsh Light (1997), his last film, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and was one of the leads in Short Eyes (1977).
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Acteur de seconds rôles actif au cinéma de 1971 à 1997, Nathan George a partagé en 1970 avec Ron O'Neal le Obie Awards pour son rôle de Johnny Williams dans la pièce No Place to Be Somebody de Charles Gordone, lauréate du prix Pulitzer de l'œuvre théâtrale (Drama), créée le 2 mai 1969 au New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater, à New York. Cette performance lui a également valu de recevoir un Drama Desk Award. Il a joué notamment dans Brubaker de Stuart Rosenberg (1980), Klute d'Alan J. Pakula (1971), Serpico de Sidney Lumet (1973) etVol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou de Miloš Forman (1975).Usually with
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Brubaker (1980)
, 2h12Directed by Bob Rafelson, Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Morgan Freeman, David Keith, Everett McGill
Roles Leon Edwards - Prison Board
Rating70%
In 1969 a mysterious man (Robert Redford) arrives at Wakefield State Prison in Arkansas. As an inmate, he immediately witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, worm-ridden diseased food, insurance fraud and a doctor charging inmates for care. Brubaker eventually reveals himself—during a dramatic standoff involving a deranged prisoner who was being held in solitary confinement—to be the new prison warden to the amazement of both prisoners and officials alike.
Short Eyes (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Malcolm Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films based on plays
Actors Bruce Davison, Nathan George, Mark Margolis, Luis Guzmán, Shawn Elliott, Henry Judd Baker
Roles Ice
Rating69%
Short Eyes is set in an unnamed prison in New York City, whose inmates are predominantly black or Puerto Rican. One day, Clark Davis, a young, middle-class white man accused of raping a young girl, arrive. His fellow prisoners immediately turn on him — pedophiles are considered the lowest form of prison life — except for Juan, one of the institution's older prisoners, who treats him with dignity. While Davis insists he doesn't remember raping the girl, he admits that he has molested several other children.
To Kill a Cop (1977)
, 3h6Directed by Gary Nelson
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Joe Don Baker, Desi Arnaz Jr., Christine Belford, Scott Brady, George DiCenzo, Alan Fudge
Roles Charles
Rating65%
, 2h13Directed by Miloš Forman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
Roles Washington
Rating84%
In 1963 Oregon, Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a recidivist anti-authoritarian criminal serving a short sentence on a prison farm for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, is transferred to a mental institution for evaluation. Although he does not show any overt signs of mental illness, he hopes to avoid hard labor and serve the rest of his sentence in a more relaxed hospital environment.
, 1h44Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Héctor Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Dick O'Neill
Roles Ptl. James
Rating75%
In New York City, four men armed with submachine guns and using code names (Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown), wearing similar trenchcoat, glasses and mustache disguises, board the Pelham 123 subway train at different station stops. The men take hostage seventeen passengers and the conductor, isolate them in the train's first car and then separate the car from the rest of the train.
Serpico (1973)
, 2h5Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime, Politic
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Al Pacino, John Randolph, M. Emmet Walsh, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts
Roles Smith
Rating76%
Working as a uniformed patrolman, Frank Serpico excels at every assignment. He moves on to plainclothes assignments, where he slowly discovers a hidden world of corruption and graft among his own colleagues. After witnessing cops commit violence, take payoffs, and other forms of police corruption, Serpico decides to expose what he has seen, but is harassed and threatened by his peers. His struggle leads to infighting within the police force, problems in his personal relationships, and his life being threatened. Finally, after being shot in the face during a drug bust on February 3, 1971, he testifies before the Knapp Commission, a government inquiry into NYPD police corruption between 1970 and 1972. After receiving a New York City Police Department Medal of Honor and a disability pension, Serpico resigns from the force and moves to Switzerland.
Klute (1971)
, 1h54Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Nathan George
Roles Trask
Rating70%
The film begins with the disappearance of Pennsylvania executive Tom Gruneman (played by Robert Milli). The police reveal that an obscene letter was found in Gruneman's office, addressed to a prostitute in New York City named Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), who had received several similar letters from him. After six months of fruitless police work, Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi), an executive at Gruneman's company, hires family friend and detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) to investigate Gruneman's disappearance.