Steve James

The Luckiest Guy in the World

Follows the life of Bill Walton, from his earliest days as a high school basketball phenom to some of his wildly successful years at UCLA.

Release Date: 2023-06-06

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

Release Date: 2016-01-21

Character: Bus Driver

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2346

M.A.N.T.I.S.

A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.

Release Date: 1994-01-24

Character: Antoine Pike

Vote Count: 3

Bloodfist V: Human Target

Don "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.

Release Date: 1994-01-19

Character: Marcus / Drew Washington

Vote Count: 14

Cinema of Vengeance

A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favourite Chow Yun Fat.

Release Date: 1994-01-01

Character: Self (interviewee)

Vote Count: 5

Weekend at Bernie's II

Everybody's favorite stiff is back! Working fools Larry Wilson and Richard Parker have uncovered a dirty, little secret: Their former boss, Bernie Lomax, embezzled $2 million and placed it in a safe deposit box in the Caribbean. Now, the boys are ready to go after the loot, but they can't do it alone -- they need poor Bernie's help. Can the buddies give their ex-boss new life?

Release Date: 1993-07-09

Character: Henry

Vote Count: 302

The Player

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Release Date: 1992-05-08

Character: Steve James

Vote Count: 854

McBain

Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.

Release Date: 1991-09-20

Character: Eastland

Vote Count: 46

Mister Johnson

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.

Release Date: 1991-03-22

Character: Aliu

Vote Count: 29

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.

Release Date: 1990-12-15

Character: Kung Fu Joe

Street Hunter

Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh.

Release Date: 1990-11-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Logan Blade

Vote Count: 10

Riverbend

A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorizing the black population. Together with one strong-willed woman they formulate a bold plan to fight for freedom and human rights.

Release Date: 1989-05-01

Character: Maj. Samuel Quentin

Vote Count: 3

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

Jackson is back, and now he has a new partner, karate champion Sean, as they must face a deadly terrorist known as "The Cobra", who has infected Sean with a virus. Sean and Jackson have no choice but to fight the Cobra and his bands of ninjas.

Release Date: 1989-02-24

Character: Curtis Jackson

Vote Count: 173

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.

Release Date: 1988-11-10

Character: Kung Fu Joe

Vote Count: 194

Hero and the Terror

Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.

Release Date: 1988-08-26

Character: Robinson

Vote Count: 96

C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf

The Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad investigates a spy who is supplying plutonium to the Sjambok, a racist South African paramilitary group that is working on a nuclear bomb. The American government, too, is investigating Sjambok, using the top-secret spy plane Python Wolf. When one of the members of the C.A.T. Squad is shot down over South Africa during another mission, his squad leader undertakes a rescue operation to bring his friend back home.

Release Date: 1988-05-23

Vote Count: 1

Johnny Be Good

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?

Release Date: 1988-03-22

Character: Coach Ned Sanders

Vote Count: 135

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.

Release Date: 1987-05-01

Character: Sgt. Curtis Jackson

Vote Count: 289

Hollywood Shuffle

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.

Release Date: 1987-03-20

Character: Hood #3

Vote Count: 89

Avenging Force

Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their grandfather Jimmy. Larry Richards, a black man running for the Senate, is one of Matt's best friends. Larry has become the target of The Pentangle, a racist organization led by a man named Glastenbury, and Glastenbury doesn't want Larry to be elected. In an attempt on Larry's life during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, The Pentangle kills one of Larry's sons. Matt lets Larry, his wife Daisy, and his other son move to the remotely located farm so they can hide from Glastenbury and the Pentangle, but the Pentangle strikes again, setting the farmhouse on fire. Matt and Sara escape as the only survivors. Then the Pentangle kidnaps Sara, sending Matt on a mission to rescue Sara from Glastenbury and the Pentangle

Release Date: 1986-09-12

Character: Larry Richards

Vote Count: 81

C.A.T. Squad

When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense program, an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad, is brought in to stop the killers.

Release Date: 1986-07-27

Character: Bud Raines

Vote Count: 3

P.O.W. The Escape

Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.

Release Date: 1986-04-01

Character: Johnston

Vote Count: 26

The Delta Force

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

Release Date: 1986-02-14

Character: Bobby

Vote Count: 444

To Live and Die in L.A.

When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.

Release Date: 1985-11-01

Character: Jeff Rice

Vote Count: 685

American Ninja

Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.

Release Date: 1985-08-30

Character: Cpl. Curtis Jackson

Vote Count: 442

Weird Science

Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.

Release Date: 1985-08-01

Character: Guy at Table (uncredited)

Vote Count: 1430

Mask

A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Release Date: 1985-03-08

Character: Hospital Intern

Vote Count: 458

Moonlighting

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Release Date: 1985-03-03

Character: Mohammed 'Boogaloo' Brown

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 356

The Atlanta Child Murders

The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Release Date: 1985-02-10

Character: Policeman #1

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 10

The Flamingo Kid

Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.

Release Date: 1984-12-21

Character: Renaldo

Vote Count: 84

Fatal Vision

A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters. Based on the Fatal Vision controversy, and the book of the same name, about the murders of the wife and daughters of U.S. Army officer Jeffrey R. MacDonald at Fort Bragg in 1970.

Release Date: 1984-11-18

Character: U.S. Marshal

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 10

The Brother from Another Planet

An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.

Release Date: 1984-09-07

Character: Odell

Vote Count: 86

Abuse

Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse. The two fall in love, and the elder is faced with the decision of either running away with Thomas or focusing on his career and thereby letting the boy possibly be beaten to death.

Release Date: 1983-04-15

Character: Dr. Bennett

Vote Count: 5

The Soldier

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Release Date: 1982-06-01

Character: Soldier's Force

Vote Count: 38

Vigilante

New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, he goes berserk and vows revenge.

Release Date: 1982-05-18

Character: Ptl. Gibbons

Vote Count: 102

T. J. Hooker

Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.

Release Date: 1982-03-13

Character: Coach Cassius Isley

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 84

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

Release Date: 1982-02-25

Character: Park Slasher - Rapist

Arthur

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Release Date: 1981-07-17

Character: Man Outside Tie Store (uncredited)

Vote Count: 441

Times Square

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.

Release Date: 1980-10-17

Character: Dude

Vote Count: 38

The Exterminator

When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.

Release Date: 1980-09-10

Character: Michael Jefferson

Vote Count: 132

He Knows You're Alone

A reluctant bride-to-be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard-boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt the killer down before it is too late.

Release Date: 1980-08-29

Character: Young Man

Vote Count: 73

Dressed to Kill

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

Release Date: 1980-07-25

Department: Crew

Job: Stunts

Vote Count: 996

The Wanderers

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

Release Date: 1979-07-13

Department: Crew

Job: Stunts

Vote Count: 202

The Warriors

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Release Date: 1979-02-01

Character: Baseball Fury

Vote Count: 2208

Enter the Game of Death

It's approaching World War 2 and China is expecting to be invaded by Germany and Japan. Mr Ang is hired by a Chinese group who are after a "secret document." Many other groups want to get their hands on it as well. It's on the top floor of a tower and Ang must fight his way to the top.

Release Date: 1978-11-02

Character: Black Martial Artist

Vote Count: 17

Obsessed

A psycho stalks and violates women at gunpoint. One woman is determined to stop him.

Release Date: 1977-01-01

Character: Police Officer

Vote Count: 3

The Land That Time Forgot

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British passenger ship and takes the survivors aboard. After getting lost in fog, the submarine surfaces near the unknown island of Caprona, a lost world where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals.

Release Date: 1974-08-13

Character: First Sto-Lu

Vote Count: 174