Bill Cosby, Himself 1983  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bill Cosby
Cast: Bill Cosby
The master comedian is shown in performance in Toronto, giving his usual hysterical ideas on family, raising children, alcohol, drugs, and dentists.
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California Suite 1978  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Maggie Smith, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, Herb Edelman, Denise Galik, Gloria Gifford, Sheila Frazier, Kelly Harmon, David Sheehan, Michael Boyle
Based on Neil Simon's Broadway play, there are four stories about couples visiting a Beverly Hills Hotel. In this film version of the play, the stories are interwoven. First, divorced couple Bill and Hannah Warren (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda) rent a suite to talk to each other about the custody of their child. Then, Hollywood stars Sidney Cochran and Diana Barrie (Michael Caine and Maggie Smith) use the suite while waiting for the Academy Awards and use sex to fill their time. In the next episode, Willis Panama and Chauncy Gump (Bill Cosby and Richard Prior) bring their families to the hotel for a great vacation that turns out to be anything but. Finally, Marvin Michaels' (Walter Matthau) wife Millie (Elaine May) catches him in the suite with a hooker, and he is placed in the impossible position of explaining his behavior. The cast is great, and the film is worth watching. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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Ghost Dad 1990  PG, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cast: Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas, Ian Bannen, Christine Ebersole, Barry Corbin, Arnold Stang, Salim Grant
A box office flop, this film stars Bill Cosby as a father who dies and is reincarnated as a ghost. Unfortunately, the film dies soon after the novelty of the father as the ghost wears off. There are plenty of special effects, which may be enough to keep kids entertained.
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Hickey & Boggs 1972  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Culp
Cast: Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Rosalind Cash, Sheila Sullivan, Isabel Sanford, Ta-Ronce Allen, Lou Frizzell, Nancy Howard, Bernard Nedell, Carmen, Louis Morino, Robert Mandan
Less-than-successful L.A. private eyes Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are hired to search for a missing woman. On the trail, they uncover a drug deal and end up tracking down thugs responsible for a $40,000 robbery when they learn that the missing girl is trying to sell the bills from the robbery.
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Jack 1996  PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Bill Cosby, Fran Drescher, Adam Zolotin, Todd Bosley, Seth Smith, Allan Rich, Don Novello, Mario Yedidia
Robin Williams plays 10-year-old Jack who suffers from a disease that ages his physical body at an excessive rate. While touted as a comedy, this film is really a drama about acceptance in a civilization that does not always understand people different from themselves.
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Let's Do It Again 1975 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Jimmie Walker, Ossie Davis, Denise Nicholas, Mel Stewart, Julius Harris, Val Avery
Two Atlanta members (Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby) of a fraternal lodge find a way to con gamblers by using the occult to turn Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) into a winning prizefighter. This film follows "Uptown Saturday Night" and is followed by "A Piece of the Action."
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Man and Boy 1972 G, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Cast: Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, Leif Erickson, George Spell, Douglas Turner Ward, John Anderson, Henry Silva, Dub Taylor, Yaphet Kotto, Shelley Morrison, Richard Bull
Caleb (Bill Cosby) obtains a homestead in Arizona and plans to settle down. But when his horses are stolen, he and his son (George Spell) take off across the Southwest in pursuit, encountering bigotry and other hardships along the way. Cosby's feature film debut.
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The Meteor Man 1993 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Townsend
Cast: Robert Townsend, Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Roy Fegan, Don Cheadle, Bill Cosby, Frank Gorshin, Sinbad
After mild-mannered schoolteacher Jefferson Reed (Robert Townsend) is struck by a meteor, he obtains superhuman powers and uses them to end crime in his city.
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Mother, Jugs & Speed 1976 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, Larry Hagman, L.Q. Jones, Bruce Davison, Dick Butkus, Milt Kamen, Severn Darden
Los Angeles ambulance drivers compete for accident victims in this very funny black comedy.
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A Piece of the Action 1977 PG, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas, Hope Clark, Tracy Reed, Titos Vandis, Marc Lawrence, Frances Foster, Sheryl Lee Ralph
This sequel to "Uptown Saturday Night" has Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby again teamed, but this time around they are determined to help ghetto kids improve their lot in life.
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 Uptown Saturday Night 1974 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Rosalind Cash, Roscoe Lee Browne, Paula Kelly, Johnny Sekka, Calvin Lockhart
Two sequels, "Let's Do It Again" and "A Piece of the Action," followed this comedy about Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) and Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) who are robbed at a gambling club and then try to regain their losses. Richard Pryor plays an unforgettable character, Sharp Eye Washington. 1 User Review
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| 1. Bill Cosby, Himself (1983)
2. California Suite (1978)
3. The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
4. Ghost Dad (1990)
5. Hickey & Boggs (1972)
6. Jack (1996)
7. Leonard Part 6 (1987)
8. Let's Do It Again (1975)
9. Man and Boy (1972)
10. The Meteor Man (1993)
11. Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
12. A Piece of the Action (1977)
13. Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
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