A Rage in Harlem
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Cast & Crew
Bill Duke
Forest Whitaker
Gregory Hines
Robin Givens
Zaeks Mokae
Danny Glover
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Synopsis
Set in 1956, the story revolves around two step-brothers, their elaborate plans to get rich, and the woman the younger brother falls for.
Director
Bill Duke
Cast
Forest Whitaker
Gregory Hines
Robin Givens
Zaeks Mokae
Danny Glover
Badja Djola
John Toles-bey
Ron Taylor
Stack Pierce
George Wallace
Reynaldo Rey
T K Carter
Wendell Pierce
Leonard Jackson
Helen Martin
Tyler Collins
Tasha O'bryant
Willard E Pugh
Samm-art Williams
Clebert Ford
John Seitz
William L Schwarber
Jack Beatty
Arthur Burghardt
Birdie M Hale
Olivette Miller-briggs
Beatrice Winde
John W Hardy
Anthonia Dotson
Ernest Perry
James Spinks
Cornelius Stafford
Tracy A Taylor
Eugene Robinson
Kipp Cochran
James Copeland
Jonathan Booker
Robert Woods
Kevin Ruthven
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Leslie Dockery
Edgar Godineaux
Kimberly Hester
Hajna O Moss
Joni Palmer
John Parks
Herbert Rawlins
Romelle Reaux
Mike Roscoe
Kiki Shepard
Wynonna Smith
Crew
Tabatha Adkins
Joe Bachelor
Greg Baxley
Eric Bellamy
Jeanne Berney
Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
Angela Boone
Brian Boyle
Kerry Boyle
Steven Brittingham
G W Brown
Sylvi Brown
Tony Brubaker
William D Carl
Carroll Cartwright
Aleta Chappelle
Curtiss Clayton
Barry Congrove
Melanie Cook
H. H. Cooper
Elizabeth Cooper-smokler
Elonzo Coppins
Paul Cote
Christina Counelias
Bobby Crawford
Gina Crutchfield
Ajay Date
Dane A. Davis
Craig Denton
Joann Drennan
Amy E Duddleston
Hillard Elkins
Crystal Emery
Thom Fant
Scott Frank
Michael Garland
Ralph Garner
Chris Gipple
Stephanie Givens
Terry Glinwood
Warren D Gray
Tom Hammond
Tom Hammond
Michael Harker
Craig Hayes
Patricia Doherty Hess
Eric L Hiles
Chester Himes
Judy Hofflund
Larry Holt
William Horberg
Cendi Horton
Roberta A Hunter
Maureen Iser
Kevin Jackson
Pirty Lee Jackson
Kini Kay
Christina Kumi Kimball
Christina Kumi Kimball
Henry Kingi
Henry M. Kingi Jr.
Toyomichi Kurita
John Kwiatkowski
Steven Legler
Topper Lilien
Rebecca Long
Tommy Louie
Michael-lamon Lytle
Amanda Marashinsky
Miska Matthews
Michael Mccormick
Katy Mcguinness
Perry Meigs
Risa Morley
Angela Morrison
Hajna O Moss
Hajna O Moss
Margo Myers
Rupert Nadeau
Debra Nathin-solomons
Sonja Nelson
Stewart Nelson
John Nicolella
Sylvia Ostendorf
Andy Paley
Nik Powell
Thomas A Razzano
Thomas A Razzano
Von Roddy
Otis Sallid
Nile Samples
Emily Schweber
Mark S Scott
Christopher Sheldon
Toukie Smith
Anna Southall
Debra Spencer
Seymour Stein
Seymour Stein
Andy Sydney
Ron Thompson
Douglas Tirola
Sarah D Todd
Jock Toles
John Toles-bey
Todd Toon
Joey Tureaud
Anthony Turner
Randy Vandegrift
Laura Viederman
Jeanpierre Vincent
Kimberly Lowe Voight
Philip Alan Waters
Bob Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein
Forest Whitaker
Brian Whitley
Stephen Woolley
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Gregory Hines, 1946-2003
Born Gregory Oliver Hines on February 14, 1946, in New York City, he began taking dance lessons at age three and by the time he was six he and his brother Maurice were performing jazz tap at Harlem's Apollo Theater. By 1954, Hines was already on Broadway when he joined the cast of the Broadway musical The Girl in Pink Tights. He then spent the next 20 years perfecting the craft and art of tap dancing as he toured with his brother and father Maurice Sr. in a nightclub circuit act called "Hines, Hines and Dad", before he left in 1973 to form a rock band called Severance in Southern California.
Itching to put his dancing shoes on again, Hines made it back to New York a few years later and in 1978, scored his first Broadway success with Eubie, and earned a Tony nomination. With his vitality, charm and grace, Hines became one of the leading lights on Broadway for the next few years, as exemplified by two more Broadway hits in Comin' Uptown (1980) and Sophisticated Ladies (1981), for which he received two more Tony nominations for his performances.
His charismatic presence made him natural for films, and he notched his first film role as a last minute replacement for Richard Pryor in Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I (1981), where he immediately displayed his sharp comic abilities. Other solid roles followed over the next decade: an unorthodox coroner in Michael Wadleigh's urban thriller Wolfen (1981); a nightclub dancer in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984); an American defector to the Soviet Union in Taylor Hackford's overheated melodrama White Nights (1985); a wise-cracking cop in Peter Hyam's Running Scared (1986), and as the fast-talking con artist Goldy in Bill Duke's underrated A Rage in Harlem (1991).
He returned to Broadway in 1992 for his biggest triumph, a portrayal of Jelly Roll Morton, the famed jazz composer, in Jelly's Last Jam and earned a Tony Award in the process. A few more film appearances came in the '90's, most memorably in Forest Whitaker's Waiting to Exhale (1995), but Hines found a new lease on his career when he appeared on the small screen. He played a single father in a fine, if short-lived sitcom The Gregory Hines Show (1997-98); was popular as Ben Doucette, a love interest for Grace in the hugely popular show Will & Grace for two seasons (1999-2001); and received strong critical notice for his moving take as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the television film Bojangles (2001) that he also produced. His last televised appearance was in June 2002, when he co-hosted the Tony Awards with Bernadette Peters. In addition to his father and brother, he is survived by his fiancee Negrita Jayde; a daughter, Daria Hines; a son, Zach; a stepdaughter, Jessica Koslow; and a grandson.
by Michael T. Toole
Gregory Hines, 1946-2003
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Released in United States Spring May 3, 1991
Released in United States on Video November 20, 1991
Released in United States 1991
Released in United States April 29, 1991
Released in United States August 1991
Released in United States November 1991
Released in United States 1993
Shown at Deauville Film Festival August 30 - September 9, 1991.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 25 - May 9, 1991.
Shown at Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund August 18-24, 1991.
Shown at Stockholm Film Festival November 15-24, 1991.
Feature directorial debut for actor-director Bill Duke.
Began shooting April 23, 1990.
Completed shooting June 24, 1990.
Earlier adaptations of Chester Himes' work include "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (USA/1970) and "Come Back, Charleston Blue" (USA/1972).
Released in United States Spring May 3, 1991
Released in United States on Video November 20, 1991
Released in United States 1991 (Shown at Deauville Film Festival August 30 - September 9, 1991.)
Released in United States 1991 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 25 - May 9, 1991.)
Released in United States April 29, 1991 (Premiered at Apollo Theater, New York City April 29, 1991.)
Released in United States 1993 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Tribute to Miramax) June 10 ¿ July 1, 1993.)
Released in United States November 1991 (Shown at Stockholm Film Festival November 15-24, 1991.)
Released in United States August 1991 (Shown at Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund August 18-24, 1991.)