Brother John 1971  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd, Paul Winfield, Ramon Bieri, Warren J. Kemmerling, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Richard Ward, Lois Smith
John Kane (Sidney Poitier) returns to his small Southern town where he appears as a Messiah, stirs up the gentry, and is an enigma to his old friends.
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The Bucket List 2007  PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Sean Hayes, Alfonso Freeman, Rowena King, Rob Morrow, Serena Reeder, Jonathan Mangum, Christopher Stapleton, Annton Berry Jr., Verda Bridges, Alex Trebek
Billionaire, four-times-divorced Edward Perryman Cole (Jack Nicholson) has terminal cancer and is sharing a hospital room with happily married mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) who is also suffering from terminal cancer. They form a friendship, and Edward convinces Carter to join him on a trip to fulfill the bucket list of adventures they want to accomplish before dying. And off they go on a joy ride that includes skydiving, racing cars, and visits to the far corners of the world.
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Exquisite Tenderness 1994  R, 99 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Surgeon
Director: Carl Schenkel
Cast: Isabel Glasser, James Remar, Sean Huberle, Peter Boyle, Beverly Todd, Malcolm McDowell, Charles Dance, Walter Olkewicz, Gregory West, Walter Olkewicz
This surgeon, bent on revenge from the killing of his brother when he was a boy, uses his scalpel for things other than surgery.
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Having Babies III 1978 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jackie Cooper
Cast: Susan Sullivan, Patty Duke, Kathleen Beller, Rue McClanahan, Richard Mulligan, Beverly Todd, Mitch Ryan, Phil Foster, Michael Lembeck, Jamie Smith-Jackson
It's the third time around for the soaper in the delivery room. This was a pilot for the "Julie Farr, M.D." TV series, with Susan Sullivan as the good doctor. Patty Duke received an Emmy nomination for her performance.
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Homework 1982  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Beshears
Cast: Joan Collins, Michael Morgan, Shell Kepler, Lee Purcell, Carrie Snodgress, Wings Hauser, Mel Welles, Beverly Todd, Betty Thomas, Lanny Horn, Erin Donovan
Tommy (Michael Morgan) is a young teenager who experiences his sexual awakening thanks to the services of Diana (Joan Collins), a woman old enough to be his mother.
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 Lean on Me 1989  PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Lynne Thigpen, Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins, Karen Malina White, Alan North, Robin Bartlett, Michael Beach, Regina Taylor
This is the true story of high-school principal Joe Clark and how he turned Patterson, New Jersey's Eastside High from a den of drugs into a model school where students could expect to get a good education.
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The Lost Man 1969 PG, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Alan Arthur
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr., Leon Bibb, Richard Dysart, David Steinberg, Paul Winfield, Michael Tolan, Beverly Todd, Bernie Hamilton
This remake of "Odd Man Out" is about criminal Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) who gets involved with social worker Cathy Ellis (Joanna Shimkus) and civil rights leader Dennis (Al Freeman Jr.). Higgs finds unorthodox means to take care of children of jailed activists.
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Moving 1988  R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Dave Thomas, Dana Carvey, Randy Quaid, Rodney Dangerfield, Stacey Dash, Gordon Jump, Morris Day, Raphael Harris
A family's move from New Jersey to Boise, Idaho is fraught with difficulties in this film featuring Richard Pryor as the hapless dad.
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Roots 1977  TV, 573 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses
Cast: LeVar Burton, John Amos, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, Maya Angelou, O.J. Simpson, Ben Vereen, Moses Gunn, Leslie Uggams, Lynda Day George, Beverly Todd, Edward Asner, Madge Sinclair, Louis Gossett Jr., Lorne Greene
Alex Haley's classic story of his family history involving Kunta Kinte's (LeVar Burton) abduction in 18th-century Africa and then being sold into slavery and sent to America is the focus of Chapter 0ne in this six-part made-for-TV epic. The mini-series received 37 Emmy nominations and won nine. Chapters continue through Kunta's (now played by John Amos) marriage to Bell (Madge Sinclair) and the birth of their daughter Kizzie. Then the saga follows with the birth of Kizzie's (Leslie Uggams) son Chicken George (Ben Vereen) who grows up to buy his freedom and pave the way for future generations to live in freedom following the Civil War.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs 1970 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Martin Landau, David Sheiner, Anthony Zerbe, Jeff Corey, Edward Asner, Norma Crane, Juano Hernandez, Beverly Todd
Police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is once again out on the street solving crimes, but his real personality comes through in his father/son relationship. Follows "In the Heat of the Night" and is followed by "The Organization."
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Vice Squad 1982 R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gary Sherman
Cast: Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Joseph DiGiroloma, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna, Beverly Todd, Maurice Emmanuel, Wayne Hackett, Michael Ensign, Jonathan Haze
Season Hubley stars as a prostitute who helps the police track down a sadistic pimp, Ramrod (Wings Hauser).
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| 1. Brother John (1971)
2. The Bucket List (2007)
3. Exquisite Tenderness (1994)
aka: The Surgeon
4. Having Babies III (1978)
5. Homework (1982)
6. The Ladies Club (1986)
7. Lean on Me (1989)
8. The Lost Man (1969)
9. Moving (1988)
10. Roots (1977)
11. They Call Me Mister Tibbs (1970)
12. Vice Squad (1982)
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