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Raymond St. Jacques is a Actor and Costumer American born on 1 march 1930 at Hartford (USA)

Raymond St. Jacques

Raymond St. Jacques
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 march 1930 at Hartford (USA)
Death 27 august 1990 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Raymond St. Jacques (March 1, 1930 – August 27, 1990) was an American actor. He was the first black actor to appear in a regular role on a western series, playing Simon Blake on Rawhide.

Biography

St. Jacques had adopted, though not legally, at least two "sons," Raymond St. Jacques Jr. and Sterling St. Jacques. Both boys were allegedly St. Jacques' lovers.
Sterling was said to have been found by St. Jacques in either Brazil or Jamaica and was later taken in by the actor. No official records exist of his life or death, except for a police report involving Sterling being at St. Jacques' home when two burglars broke in while Sterling was home alone and St. Jacques was away on set. Sterling was strikingly statuesque and was most famous for being a staple at Studio 54, often seen dancing with celebrities such as Grace Jones and Pat Cleveland (his later fiancee). He had bit acting roles and a few attempts at a music career in the early 80s. A woman named Allison Hobbs has stated that Sterling was actually her cousin and was from Salt Lake City, Utah. Sterling allegedly died in 1984 of AIDS-related complications, though no record of this has been found.
When St. Jacques' relationships ended with his "sons" he told interviewers that Raymond St. Jacques Jr. went to Boston, boarding school or even an Ivy League university, and that Sterling had gone to Düsseldorf to film a TV show.

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Filmography of Raymond St. Jacques (25 films)

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Timebomb
Timebomb (1991)
, 1h36
Directed by Avi Nesher
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Actors Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, Tracy Scoggins, Billy Banks, Robert Culp, Richard Jordan
Roles Det. Sanchez
Rating53% 2.6999652.6999652.6999652.6999652.699965
Mild-mannered watchmaker Eddy Kay (Michael Biehn) runs into a burning building to save a trapped woman and is featured in the news as a result. Watching the news, Colonel Taylor (Richard Jordan) is shocked to see Eddy, whom he had assumed to be dead. A game of cat and mouse begins as Eddy, with the help of psychiatrist Dr. Anna Nolmar (Patsy Kensit), tries to discover his past and why they want him dead.
Glory
Glory (1990)
, 2h2
Directed by Edward Zwick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Western
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, Cliff De Young
Roles Frederick Douglass
Rating77% 3.898223.898223.898223.898223.89822
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Shaw is injured in the Battle of Antietam and sent home to Boston on medical leave. He visits his family there, where he meets the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a former slave. Shaw is offered a promotion to the rank of Colonel to command the first all-black regiment in the Union Army, the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He accepts and asks his childhood friend, 2nd Lieutenant Cabot Forbes, to serve as his second in command, with the rank of major. Their first volunteer is another friend, Thomas Searles, a bookish free African American. Other recruits soon follow, including gravedigger John Rawlins, timid freeman Jupiter Sharts and Silas Trip, an escaped slave who does not trust Shaw. Trip instantly clashes with Searles and Rawlins must keep the peace.
Voodoo Dawn, 1h23
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Raymond St. Jacques, Tony Todd, Theresa Merritt, Gina Gershon, Kirk Baily, Jim Wiggins
Roles Claude
Rating35% 1.7588751.7588751.7588751.7588751.758875
The story is set in the Deep South, where a diabolical, machete-wielding voodoo priest (Tony Todd) is busily turning Haitian migrant farm workers into flesh-eating, zombie slaves. However, his plans are disrupted by the arrival of two college students searching for a missing colleague who turns out to have been one of the priest's earlier zombie experiments.
They Live
They Live (1988)
, 1h30
Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films
Actors Keith David, Meg Foster, Raymond St. Jacques, George Buck Flower, Peter Jason, Sy Richardson
Roles Street Preacher
Rating72% 3.6008153.6008153.6008153.6008153.600815
An unemployed drifter named John Nada (Roddy Piper) finds construction work in Los Angeles, and befriends fellow construction worker Frank Armitage (Keith David), who leads him to a local shantytown soup kitchen. There, Nada encounters strange activity around the church: a blind preacher (Raymond St. Jacques) loudly chastising others to wake up, a police helicopter scouts them overhead, and a drifter (George Buck Flower) complains that his TV signal is continually interrupted by a man warning everyone about those in power. Nada discovers the nearby church is a front; the choir heard outside is an audio recording and the building is filled with scientific equipment and cardboard boxes. Nada finds a box hidden in the wall, but flees when the preacher notices him. That night, the police attack and bulldoze the shantytown. Nada returns in the morning to find the church empty, but with the hidden boxes still in the wall. He takes one of the boxes and in an alley, he opens the box and finds it filled with sunglasses. Taking a pair, he hides the box in a garbage can.
The Evil That Men Do, 1h27
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, José Ferrer, René Enríquez, John Glover
Roles Randolph, Molloch's Bodyguard
Rating58% 2.9495752.9495752.9495752.9495752.949575
Holland is a former CIA assassin who lives quietly and peacefully on a West Indies island. He is persuaded out of retirement by the death of Jorge Hidalgo, a friend and dissident journalist. Hidalgo was murdered by Clement Molloch, a Welsh doctor who lives in Guatemala. Molloch has made a science of the practice of torture and sells his knowledge and skills to any government that can pay his price.
Born Again
Born Again (1978)
, 1h50
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors Dean Jones, Anne Francis, Jay Robinson, Dana Andrews, Raymond St. Jacques, Corey Feldman
Roles Jimmy Newsom
Rating51% 2.578422.578422.578422.578422.57842
L'implication de Charles Colson, conseiller à la Maison-Blanche du président Richard Nixon, dans le scandale du Watergate, sa conversion ultérieure au christianisme et sa peine de prison découlant de Watergate.
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, 1h52
Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Broderick Crawford, Michael Parks, José Ferrer, Rip Torn, Celeste Holm, Ronee Blakley
Roles Martin Luther King
Rating60% 3.044613.044613.044613.044613.04461
The film is a chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, starting first in the time of Prohibition, as he enforced the law on bootlegging and organized crime. Later, the director comes up against the Red Scare of the 1950s, the Kennedys, the wave of change in the 1960s, and his hatred of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Examined here is the allegation that he had an 'abnormal' sexual life, along with his obsession with his dead mother.
Roots (TV miniseries), 9h30
Directed by Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, David Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Georg Stanford Brown, Leslie Uggams
Rating83% 4.1986254.1986254.1986254.1986254.198625
In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750 Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala), a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta (Cicely Tyson). When Kunta (LeVar Burton) reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent boys take part in tribal manhood training, ending with a ceremony, after which they become recognized as men and Mandinka warriors. While trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother, Kunta is captured by black collaborators under the direction of white men. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny and to take over the ship.
Search for the Gods, 1h40
Directed by Jud Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Actors Kurt Russell, Stephen McHattie, Ralph Bellamy, Raymond St. Jacques, Albert Paulsen, John War Eagle
Roles Raymond Stryker
Rating53% 2.6716552.6716552.6716552.6716552.671655
Two young adventurers, Shan Mullins and Genera Juantez are searching for parts of a mysterious golden tablet, which brings to light evidence that ancient astronauts from another world visited Earth in ancient times and had a profound effect on the technological advancement of the human race.
Come Back, Charleston Blue, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Percy Rodriguez, Jonelle Allen, Leonardo Cimino, Charles McGregor
Roles Coffin Ed Johnson
Rating63% 3.193753.193753.193753.193753.19375
Coffin Ed Johnson & Gravedigger Jones are confounded by a string of strange murders in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York. The murders themselves aren't nearly as bizarre as the calling card left by the murderer: a blue steel straight razor. Legend has it that this was the calling card of Charleston Blue, a vigilante who tried to rid the neighborhood of all criminal elements using a straight razor. Blue, having disappeared years ago after he went after Dutch Schultz (with his trusty straight razor) was considered dead by all except his girlfriend, who kept his razors locked away until his "come back."
Cool Breeze, 1h41
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Thalmus Rasulala, James Watkins, Julian Christopher, Judy Pace, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Raymond St. Jacques
Roles Bill Mercer
Rating54% 2.710022.710022.710022.710022.71002
Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a heist to steal $3 million worth of diamonds from the largest diamond brokerage on the Pacific Coast.
Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1h37
Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, John Anderson
Roles Coffin Ed Johnson
Rating64% 3.2464053.2464053.2464053.2464053.246405
Reverend Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) arrives to fanfare at a rally in Harlem. Meanwhile, two Harlem detectives, Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and "Coffin" Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) catch a pickpocket, Early Riser, among the crowd and run him off. O'Malley is selling shares in a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. Uncle Budd (Redd Foxx) doesn't have the $100 minimum down payment, but O'Malley accepts his $20 for a share. Some men from the District Attorney's office arrive and ask O'Malley to come downtown. O'Malley agrees to leave as several masked gunman jump out a meat truck and begin shooting. They steal $87,000 in cash from the back of an armored car. O'Malley and two assistants chase the meat truck in the armored car; the detectives chase them both in their car. A bale of cotton falls out of the during the chase. The detectives lose them avoiding some youngsters in the street. Riser is hit by the meat truck while fleeing a pickpocketing attempt, which causes the truck and armored car to crash.