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Bill Duke

Highest Rated: 92% No Sudden Move (2021)

Lowest Rated: 0% Foolish (1999)

Birthday: Feb 26, 1943

Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Actor-director-writer whose work ranges from primetime TV and film to theater and literature. Duke began his film acting career in Michael Schultz's boisterous comedy "Car Wash" (1976), shortly after he started writing for the TV series "Good Times." A prolific TV director with scores of primetime episodes to his credit, including "Knots Landing," "Falcon Crest," "Hill Street Blues," "Spenser: For Hire," "A Man Called Hawk," "City of Angels," "New York Undercover" and the miniseries "Miracle's Boys," he won acclaim for his award-winning PBS film "The Killing Floor" (1984), about WWI stockyard workers, and "The Meeting" (1989), about a hypothetical encounter between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

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Highest rated movies

92% 59% No Sudden Move Watchlist 91% 49% High Flying Bird Watchlist
91% 100% The Killing Floor
Watchlist 90% 68% Mandy Watchlist
87% 78% Deep Cover
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86% 59% Car Wash
Watchlist 84% 93% Menace II Society Watchlist 80% 87% Predator Watchlist
73% 50% American Gigolo
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69% 74% Red Dragon
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Bill Duke

Bill Duke Bill Duke CAR WASH, Ivan Dixon, Bill Duke, 1976 CAR WASH, Bill Duke (l), Richard Brestoff, Ivan Dixon, 1976 BIRD ON A WIRE, from left: David Carradine, Bill Duke, 1990, © Universal CAR WASH, Bill Duke, Richard Brestoff, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, 1976 HIGH FLYING BIRD, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH, BILL DUKE, ANDRE HOLLAND, ON SET, 2019. PH: JOSEPH MALLOCH/© NETFLIX HIGH FLYING BIRD, FROM LEFT: BILL DUKE, ANDRE HOLLAND, DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH, CALEB MCLAUGHLIN, ON SET, 2019. PH: JOSEPH MALLOCH/© NETFLIX NO MAN'S LAND, D.B. Sweeney, Bill Duke, 1987. PREDATOR, Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, 1987. TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved.. View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Premonition Donald Carter (Character) - 2023
92% 59% No Sudden Move Aldrick Watkins (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Vandal Harold (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet 83% In Search of the Last Action Heroes Self - 2019
No Score Yet 23% Hollow Point Senior Guard James (Character) - 2019
91% 49% High Flying Bird Spencer (Character) - 2019
90% 68% Mandy Caruthers (Character) $1.2M 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Created Equal Director - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Restored Me Officer Brantley (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beyond the Silence Unknown (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Preying for Mercy Director - 2015
No Score Yet 41% Bad Country Nokes (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 18% Battledogs President Donald Sheridan (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 86% Freaky Deaky Wendell (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 77% Dark Girls Director,
Producer,
Executive Producer 		- 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kiss and Tell: The History of Black Romance in Movie Unknown (Character) - 2011
19% 25% The Big Bang Drummer (Character) - 2010
43% 25% Henry's Crime Frank (Character) $101.9K 2010
31% 67% Not Easily Broken Director,
Producer 		$10.6M 2009
0% 79% Cover Director,
Producer 		$62.2K 2007
No Score Yet 91% Prince Among Slaves Director - 2006
No Score Yet 71% Yellow Miles Emory (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pact Executive Producer - 2006
17% 70% Get Rich or Die Tryin' Levar (Character) $31.0M 2005
No Score Yet 89% Deacons for Defense Director - 2003
11% 45% National Security Lieutenant Washington (Character) $35.8M 2003
69% 74% Red Dragon Police Chief (Character) $92.9M 2002
30% 66% Never Again Earl (Character) $295.5K 2001
34% 45% Exit Wounds Chief Hinges (Character) $51.8M 2001
No Score Yet 67% Who Killed Atlanta's Children? Chirumenga Jenga (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery Director - 2000
57% 34% Fever Det. Glass (Character) $4.1K 1999
0% 70% Foolish Studio Producer (Character) $6.0M 1999
56% 69% Payback Det. Hicks (Character) $81.5M 1999
No Score Yet 21% Susan's Plan Detective Scott (Character) - 1998
43% 65% Hoodlum Director,
Executive Producer 		$23.5M 1997
No Score Yet 83% Frank Capra's American Dream Unknown (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 88% America's Dream Director - 1996
19% 61% Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Director $57.0M 1993
84% 93% Menace II Society Detective (Character) $27.7M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet World Beat Self - 1993
57% 30% The Cemetery Club Director $5.6M 1992
87% 78% Deep Cover Director $16.6M 1992
68% 52% A Rage in Harlem Director $8.8M 1991
23% 41% Bird on a Wire Eugene Sorenson (Character) $68.8M 1990
No Score Yet 71% Street of No Return Lieutenant Borel (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Meeting Director - 1989
19% 35% Action Jackson Capt. Earl Armbruster (Character) $19.6M 1988
50% 61% No Man's Land Malcolm (Character) $1.1M 1987
80% 87% Predator Mac (Character) $54.4M 1987
No Score Yet 86% Dallas: The Early Years Seth Foster (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI Director - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Johnnie Gibson Story Director - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Flag Director - 1986
68% 68% Commando Cooke (Character) $34.9M 1985
91% 100% The Killing Floor Director - 1984
73% 50% American Gigolo Leon (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Palmerstown, U.S.A. Luther Freeman (Character) - 1980
86% 59% Car Wash Duane (Abdullah) (Character) - 1976

TV

Credit
92% 49% Black Lightning Agent Odell (Guest Star) 2018-2019
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
47% No Score Yet CHAOS Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Phil Guest 2009
No Score Yet 95% Cold Case Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
86% 89% Lost Warden Harris (Guest Star) 2006
95% 94% Battlestar Galactica Phelan (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Miracle's Boys Director 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet 1-800-Missing Director 2004
95% No Score Yet Karen Sisco Unknown (Character) 2003-2004
47% No Score Yet Fastlane Unknown (Guest Star),
Director 		2002-2003
57% 80% Legacy Director 1998
100% No Score Yet Brewster Place Director 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tour of Duty Director 1988
71% 89% Miami Vice Director 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matlock Director 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fame Director 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cagney & Lacey Director 1983-1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Palmerstown Luther Freeman (Character) 1980-1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie's Angels Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Starsky and Hutch Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Sylk (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Good Times Writer