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Vonetta McGee is a Actor American born on 14 january 1945 at San Francisco (USA)

Vonetta McGee

Vonetta McGee
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Birth name Lawrence Vonetta McGee
Nationality USA
Birth 14 january 1945 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 9 july 2010 (at 65 years) at Berkeley (USA)

Lawrence Vonetta McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010) was an American actress. She is best known for her roles during the 1970s, which included blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa and 1974's Thomasine & Bushrod alongside her then-boyfriend Max Julien. She was a regular on the 1987 Universal Television situation comedy Bustin' Loose, starring as Mimi Shaw for its first and only season (1987-1988).

Biography

Vonetta McGee est née à San Francisco, de Alma et Lawrence McGee. Elle est diplômée du Lycée polytechnique de San Francisco et fait ses débuts en 1968 dans le cinéma italien, en jouant le rôle principal de la comédie Faustina. La même année, elle joue Pauline aux côtés de Jean-Louis Trintignant et Klaus Kinski dans le western atypique Le Grand Silence, puis retourne dans son pays natal où elle apparaît dans les films de Blaxploitation Melinda et Hammer. En 1975, elle tient le rôle féminin principal de La Sanction, de et avec Clint Eastwood.

En 1987, elle épouse l'acteur Carl Lumbly ; ils ont eu un enfant, Brandon.
Elle est décédée d'un arrêt cardiaque le 9 juillet 2010.

Usually with

John Huston
John Huston
(1 films)
James Fargo
James Fargo
(2 films)
Alex Cox
Alex Cox
(1 films)
Max Julien
Max Julien
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Vonetta McGee (19 films)

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Actress

Black August, 1h56
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Dourdan, Kathy Garver, Vonetta McGee
Roles Georgia Jackson
Rating63% 3.1901353.1901353.1901353.1901353.190135
The movie covers the last 14 months of George Jackson's life as well as the conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a $70 gas station robbery crime in 1960. He was 18 years of age when the sentence of one year-to-life was handed down to him.
Brother Future, 1h43
Directed by Roy Campanella II
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Time travel films
Actors O'Neal Compton, Carl Lumbly, Akosua Busia, Phill Lewis, Moses Gunn, Vonetta McGee
Roles Mortilla
Rating60% 3.0019753.0019753.0019753.0019753.001975
The movie begins with TJ (Phill Lewis), a high school student from Detroit, selling stolen items to other members of his neighborhood. Upon returning to class, TJ finds he has to write a paper on a famous black person for his Black History class. TJ is later seen selling more stolen material while talking to his friend, but a police officer starts to chase him. While running, TJ gets hit by a car and is knocked unconscious.
To Sleep with Anger, 1h42
Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Danny Glover, Richard Brooks, Mary Alice, DeVaughn Nixon, Reina King, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Roles Pat
Rating71% 3.5923253.5923253.5923253.5923253.592325
Harry (Danny Glover), an enigmatic old friend from the South, comes to visit Gideon (Paul Butler) and his wife Suzie (Mary Alice), who haven't seen him for many years, who are delighted to see him again, and who insist that he stay with them for as long as he would like. Gideon and Suzie live in South Central Los Angeles, though they retain some of their rural southern ways, including raising chickens in the backyard. Harry has a charming, down-home manner, but his presence brings to a crisis the simmering trouble that is already in the family—especially as regards the younger son, Samuel or "Baby Brother," and his relation to his parents, wife, and older brother, Junior (Carl Lumbly). His disruptive presence is dangerous (his influence threatens to break up Samuel's marriage and seems to be related to the illness that puts Gideon in bed in serious condition for a couple weeks), but ultimately purgative: Gideon's extended family is much more cohesive as a result of Harry's visit. The storm accompanying the wound Suzie suffers when she grasps the knife that Samuel and Junior are struggling over during their climactic fight clears while the two brothers quietly reconcile (during a long wait in an emergency room) and, similarly, the simmering anger that Harry seemed to bring to a boil is also dissipated. Harry's death just before the end of the film suggests, ambiguously, that he has been to a degree a self-sacrificing savior of the family.
Repo Man
Repo Man (1984)
, 1h32
Directed by Alex Cox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Comic science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films
Actors Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Zander Schloss, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Tracey Walter
Roles Marlene
Rating68% 3.448393.448393.448393.448393.44839
The film opens outside of Goffs, California, in the Mojave Desert. A 1964 Chevrolet Malibu driven by Dr. J. Frank Parnell (Fox Harris) is pulled over by a policeman. The cop opens the trunk, sees a blinding flash of white light, and is instantly vaporized, leaving only his boots behind.
Superdome
Superdome (1978)
, 1h37
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors David Janssen, Edie Adams, Clifton Davis, Peter Haskell, Ken Howard, Susan Howard
Roles Sonny
Rating30% 1.5174551.5174551.5174551.5174551.517455
At the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, both team's star quarterbacks are preoccupied. Wolecki is having marital difficulties, while McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm. Meanwhile, a national gambling syndicate attempts to find a way to stop the heavily favored Cougars from winning the game. All these plots are connected by a police chase of a killer who has attempted to evade law enforcement by ducking into the crowd.
The Eiger Sanction, 2h3
Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Alpinisme
Actors Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, Vonetta McGee, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott
Roles Jemima Brown
Rating63% 3.197473.197473.197473.197473.19747
College art history professor Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a retired government assassin who performed "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings. He also has a reputation as one of the world's top mountaineers.
Thomasine & Bushrod
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Max Julien, Glynn Turman, Juanita Moore, George Murdock, Vonetta McGee, Jason Bernard
Roles Thomasine
Rating59% 2.9520452.9520452.9520452.9520452.952045
Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine and Max Julien plays Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.
Shaft in Africa, 1h52
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Films about terrorism, La précarité
Actors Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Neda Arnerić, Vonetta McGee, Frank McRae, Spiros Focás
Roles Aleme
Rating59% 2.9519352.9519352.9519352.9519352.951935
At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa (much of the movie was filmed in Ethiopia), assuming the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker. His job is to help break a criminal ring that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.
Detroit 9000, 1h46
Directed by Arthur Marks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Rudy Challenger, Scatman Crothers, Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco, Vonetta McGee, Herbert Jefferson, Jr.
Roles Roby Harris
Rating62% 3.1416753.1416753.1416753.1416753.141675
Street-smart white detective Danny Bassett (Alex Rocco) teams with educated black detective Sgt. Jesse Williams (Hari Rhodes) to investigate a theft of $400,000 at a fund-raiser for Representative Aubrey Hale Clayton (Rudy Challenger).
The Norliss Tapes, 1h12
Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins, Michele Carey, Vonetta McGee
Roles Mme. Jeckiel
Rating62% 3.146743.146743.146743.146743.14674
David Norliss envoie des enregistrements sur bande du roman fantastique qu'il écrit à son éditeur Sanford Evans. Ce dernier ne parvenant pas à joindre son ami se décide à écouter les enregistrements. Intrigué par l'histoire d'une femme, Ellen Sterns Cort, persuadée d'avoir rencontré son défunt mari James Raymond Cort, sculpteur réputé, revenir des morts, David se rend dans la ville côtière de Carmel. Il va découvrir que le mari, devenu vampire s’attelle à la création d'une statue en glaise représentant le démon Sargoth afin de lui donner l'immortalité.
Blacula
Blacula (1972)
, 1h33
Directed by William Crain
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors William Horace Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent, Thalmus Rasulala, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Tina
Rating56% 2.848792.848792.848792.848792.84879
In 1780, Prince Mamuwalde (William H. Marshall), the ruler of the Abani African nation, seeks the help of Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula refuses to help, and transforms Mamuwalde into a vampire, whom he names Blacula and imprisons in a sealed coffin. Mamuwalde's wife, Luva (Vonetta McGee), is also imprisoned and dies in captivity. In 1972, the coffin has been purchased as part of an estate by two interior decorators, Bobby McCoy (Ted Harris) and Billy Schaffer (Rick Metzler) and shipped to Los Angeles. Bobby and Billy open the coffin and become Prince Mamuwalde's first victims. At the funeral home where Bobby McCoy's body is laid, Mamuwalde spies on mourning friends Tina Williams (Vonetta McGee), her sister Michelle (Denise Nicholas), and Michelle's boyfriend, Dr. Gordon Thomas (Thalmus Rasulala), a pathologist for the Los Angeles Police Department. Mamuwalde believes Tina is the reincarnation of his deceased wife, Luva. On close investigation of the corpse at the funeral home, Dr. Thomas notices oddities with Bobby McCoy's death that he later concludes to be consistent with vampire folklore.
The Big Bust Out, 1h35
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Vonetta McGee, Tony Kendall, William Berger, Gordon Mitchell, Nuccia Cardinali
Roles Claire
Rating44% 2.2423252.2423252.2423252.2423252.242325
It tells the story of seven beautiful women who escape from a high-security prison. After the breakout, Rebecca (Karen Carter) and her fellow escapees find they are in more trouble than they had imagined as they become the victims of Miller Drake (Gordon Mitchell), who is involved in white slavery.
Hammer
Hammer (1972)
, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Fred Williamson, Bernie Hamilton, Vonetta McGee, William Smith, Mel Stewart, Stack Pierce
Roles Lois
Rating55% 2.753912.753912.753912.753912.75391
B.J. Hammer is a boxer who rises up the ranks with help from the Mafia. However, Hammer doesn't realize that the help comes with a price: He is asked to throw a fight. Gangsters threaten to harm his girlfriend in an attempt to force him to go through with their plan. Hammer is forced to figure out a way to save his dignity and the life of his girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by gangsters.
Melinda
Melinda (1972)
, 1h49
Directed by Hugh A. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee, Paul Stevens, Rockne Tarkington, Ross Hagen
Roles Melinda
Rating58% 2.904142.904142.904142.904142.90414
Frankie J. Parker is a Los Angeles radio disc jockey. In his spare time, Frankie takes karate lessons at a school run by his friend Charles Atkins.