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Louis Gossett Jr

Highest Rated:: 100% A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Lowest Rated:: 0% Iron Eagle III - Aces (1992)

Birthday:: May 27, 1936
Birthplace:: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Bio:: Louis Gossett Jr. ranks as one of the most respected African-American actors of stage, screen, and television. Tall, lanky, and bald-pated, Gossett was a basketball player in high school until a leg injury benched him and his interest turned toward acting. In 1953, at the age of 17, Gossett made his…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%

Number of Movies: 110

Box Office Since 2001: $83.8M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011		Dog Jack	Actor	--
2011	35%	The Grace Card	George Wright	$2.4M
2010	26%	Why Did I Get Married Too	Porter	$48.5M
2010		For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	Actor	--
2009		Buttermilk Sky	Actor	--
2009		The Least Among You	Samuel Benton	--
2009	54%	The Perfect Game	Cool Papa Bell	$1.0M
2009		Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement	Narrator	--
2009		Shannon's Rainbow	Actor	--
2008	12%	Delgo	King Zahn	$0.5M
2008	0%	Cover	Det. Hicks	--
2008		The Black List: Volume One	Actor	--
2007		Rwanda Rising	Actor	--
2007	26%	Daddy's Little Girls	Willie	$31.3M
2007		Louis Gossett Jr. - History and Heritage	Actor	--
2007		African Footprint	Actor	--
2006		All In	Actor	--
2006		All In	Caps	--
2005		Solar Strike (Solar Attack)	Actor	--
2005		Unspoken Truth	Actor	--
2005	71%	Lackawanna Blues	Old Lem Taylor	--
2005		Left Behind - World at War	President Gerald Fitzhugh	--
2003		Momentum	Actor	--
2003		Momentum	Raymond Addison	--
2003		Jasper, Texas	R.C. Horn	--
2003		Broadway Theatre Archive - Freeman	Actor	--
2002		Deceived	Actor Director	--
2002		What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away	Actor	--
2001		Terminal Countdown	Actor	--
2000		Dr. Lucille	Actor	--
2000		The Inspectors 2: A Shred Of Evidence	Hank Barnes	--
1999		The Highwayman	Actor	--
1999		Terminal Countdown	Actor	--
1999		Love Songs	Director Actor	--
1999		Y2K	Actor	--
1998		The Inspectors	Frank Hughes	--
1997		In His Father's Shoes	Producer Frank Crosby	--
1997		Legend of the Mummy (Bram Stoker's The Mummy)	Corbeck	--
1997		The Wall That Heals	Actor	--
1997		Managua	Actor	--
1997		Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood	Narrator	--
1996		Harlem Globetrotters - 6 Decades of Magic	Host	--
1996		Run For The Dream:the Gail Devers Story	Bob Kersee	--
1996		Iron Eagle IV (Iron Eagle on the Attack)	Chappy Sinclair	--
1996		Run for the Dream	Actor	--
1996		Inside	Questioner	--
1995		Zooman	Actor	--
1994		High Lonesome	Actor	--
1994		Flashfire (August Fires)	Ben Durand	--
1994	37%	Blue Chips	Father Dawkins	--
1994		Curse Of The Starving Class	Ellis	--
1994		Curse of the Starving Class	Actor	--
1993		Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (On the Streets of L.A.)	Actor	--
1993		Monolith	Capt. MacCandless	--
1993	11%	A Good Man in Africa	Prof. Sam Adekunle	--
1993		Abraham Lincoln - A New Birth of Freedom	Actor	--
1993		On the Streets of L.A.	Actor	--
1993		Goodbye, Miss 4th of July	Actor	--
1992		Carolina Skeletons	James Bragg	--
1992		Keeper of the City	Detective James Dela	--
1992	54%	Diggstown	Honey Ray Palmer	--
1992		Sadat	Actor	--
1992		Sudie and Simpson	Actor	--
1992	0%	Iron Eagle III - Aces	Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair	--
1991		Cover-Up	Actor	--
1991	38%	Toy Soldiers	Dean Parker	--
1991		Father and Son	Actor	--
1991		Gathering of Old Men	Actor	--
1990		The Josephine Baker Story	Sidney Williams	--
1990		Cover Up	Lou Jackson	--
1990		El Diablo	Van Leek	--
1990		Zora is My Name!	Actor	--
1990		Sudie and Simpson	Actor	--
1989		Straight Up	Actor	--
1989	24%	The Punisher	Jake Berkowitz	--
1989		A Raisin in the Sun	Actor	--
1988		Roots: The Gift	Fiddler	--
1988		Iron Eagle II	Charles Sinclair	--
1987		A Gathering of Old Men (Murder on the Bayou)	Mathu	--
1987		The Father Clements Story	Father Clements	--
1987	50%	The Principal	Jake Phillips	--
1986	0%	Firewalker	Leo Porter	--
1985	59%	Enemy Mine	Drac	--
1985		Iron Eagle	Chappy	--
1984		The Guardian	John Mack	--
1984		Finders Keepers	Century	--
1983	12%	Jaws 3	Calvin	--
1983		Sadat	Actor	--
1982	94%	An Officer and a Gentleman	Sgt. Emil Foley	--
1981		Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige	Leroy "Satchel" Paige	--
1979		Backstairs at the White House	Actor	--
1979		Lazarus Syndrome	Actor	--
1978		Roots: One Year Later	Actor	--
1978		He Who Walks Alone	Actor	--
1977	31%	The Deep	Henri Cloche	--
1977	60%	The Choirboys	Motts	--
1977		Little Ladies of the Night	Actor	--
1976		J.D.'s Revenge	Rev. Bliss	--
1976		The River Niger	Dr. Dudley Stanton	--
1974		The White Dawn	Portagee	--
1974		It's Good to Be Alive	Actor	--
1973	80%	The Laughing Policeman	James Larrimore	--
1972	40%	Travels with My Aunt	Wordsworth	--
1971		Skin Game	Jason O'Rourke	--
1970		WUSA	Actor	--
1970	92%	The Landlord	Copee	--
1970		Bushbaby	Tembo	--
1970		Leo the Last	Actor	--
1961	100%	A Raisin in the Sun	George Murchison	--
1931	17%	The Skin Game	Jason O'Rourke	--

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1. Sgt. Emil Foley: Mayonaise!
From An Officer and a Gentleman. Submitted by Jesse K (4 months ago)

1. Dean Parker: They're going to hunt you down, you know that, don't you? They'll eventually find you and then they will kill you.
2. Luis Cali: You Americans always say that, but you never actually do it.
From Toy Soldiers. Submitted by Pamela B (5 months ago)