Al Freeman Jr.
- Birthday
- Mar 21, 1934
Bio: The son of African American stage actor Al Freeman (1884-1956), Al Freeman Jr. made his film debut in 1960's The Rebel Breed. In 1967, Freeman co-starred with Shirley Knight in the film version of Leroi Jones' off-Broadway play Dutchman, earning excellent notices for his portrayal of a black subway passenger victimized by a crazed white woman. Three years later, he… More Bio: The son of African American stage actor Al Freeman (1884-1956), Al Freeman Jr. made his film debut in 1960's The Rebel Breed. In 1967, Freeman co-starred with Shirley Knight in the film version of Leroi Jones' off-Broadway play Dutchman, earning excellent notices for his portrayal of a black subway passenger victimized by a crazed white woman. Three years later, he co-starred with Patty Duke in the landmark TV movie My Sweet Charlie (1970), playing a volatile New York City lawyer stranded in a jerkwater Texas town with a white unwed mother (Duke). Freeman is best known to daytime-drama fans for his lengthy stint as Lt. Ed Hall on One Life to Live a role that won him an Emmy in 1978. Freeman wrote the screenplay for director Ivan Dixon's Countdown at Kusini (1976), and directed the 1971 feature A Fable. More recently, Al Freeman Jr. portrayed Elijah Muhammed in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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Down in the Delta (1998)
- Earl
- 78%
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Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored (1996)
- Poppa
- 71%
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Assault at West Point (1994)
- Old Whittaker
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Malcolm X (1992)
- Elijah Muhammad
- 91%
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Defense Never Rests (1990)
- Actor
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Al Freeman Jr. Videos
Malcolm X
3 minutes 57 seconds
Once Upon A Time, When We Were Colored
2 minutes 16 seconds
Seven Hours To Judgement
2 minutes 8 seconds
My Sweet Charlie
2 minutes 39 seconds
Finian's Rainbow
3 minutes 2 seconds
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