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Vonetta McGee
Born: 14th Jan 1945 San Francisco, California, USA - Died 9th Jul 2010
Dept: Acting
Vonetta Lawrence McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010) was an American actress. She debuted in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence and went on to appear in blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000, and 1974's Thomasine & Bushrod alongside her then-boyfriend Max Julien. In 1975, she was Clint Eastwood's co-star in The Eiger Sanction. She was a regular on the 1987 Universal Television situation comedy Bustin' Loose, starring as Mimi Shaw for its only season (1987–88).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 42
Film: 32 (76%)
Television: 10 (24%)
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Filmography
2017
Featurette about the making of Sergio Corbucci's 'Il grande silenzio' consisting mostly of footage from 'Western Italian Style'. ... view
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(archive footage)
2007
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. Geor ... view
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Georgia Jackson
1998
In an effort to impress the girl he loves, an amnesiac small time hustler uncovers political corruption. ... view
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Lidia
1996
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area. ... view
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Rapists' Rehabilitator
1994
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms. ... view
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Claudia Petrie
1992
Sleazy talk show host Ted Mayne writes a tell-all book, which enrages and embarrasses several very prominent women. One of them, actress Roxanne Shiel ... view
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Annie Bollin
1992
Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into th ... view
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1992
An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers hi ... view
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Brenda
1991
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt. ... view
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Mortilla
1990
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA. ... view
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Pat
Sep 1987 (first aired)
Bustin' Loose is an American situation comedy that was loosely based on the 1981 film of the same name starring Richard Pryor. The series premiered in ... view
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Mimi Shaw (26 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.
Created by Steven B ... view
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Jackie Williams (6 ep.)
Sep 1985 (first aired)
Hell Town is an American drama series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1985 to December 25, 1985. The series features former Baretta star Robert Bl ... view
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Sister Indigo (15 ep.)
1985
In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish. ... view
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Sister Indigo
1984
Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in ... view
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Self
1984
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revo ... view
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Marlene
Mar 1982 (first aired)
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to ... view
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Claudia Petrie (4 ep.)
1981
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owne ... view
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Francine
Dec 1980 (first aired)
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar ... view
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Inez Stuart/Josephine Baker (1 ep.)
Nov 1978 (first aired)
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Pa ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1978
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied ... view
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Sonny
1977
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target. ... view
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Toni Hill
1977
Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was o ... view
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Paula Jones
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the street ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1975
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend. ... view
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Jemima Brown
Sep 1974 (first aired)
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob gi ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1974
A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans ... view
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Thomasine
1973
After a fundraiser for a Black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one Black, on the case, who try to work together ... view
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Roby Harris
1973
After an aging voodoo priestess dies, her arrogant son Willis Daniel's believes he is next in line to lead. He is outraged when Lisa, his mother's ado ... view
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Luva (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring. ... view
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Aleme
1973
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes te ... view
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Mme. Jeckiel
1972
An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various r ... view
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Tina
1972
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she ... view
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Melinda
1972
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffl ... view
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Lois
Original title: Io monaca... per tre carogne e sette peccatrici
1972
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out. ... view
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Claire
1970
After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercove ... view
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The Negress
1969
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle." ... view
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Diane Lawrence
Original title: Il grande silenzio
1968
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters. ... view
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Pauline
1968
Faustina, the offspring of a black G.I. and a Roman woman who met during the conflict of World War II, must choose between two Italian men who despera ... view
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Faustina Ceccarelli
1968
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that p ... view
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Self