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Godfrey Cambridge

Highest Rated: 88% Watermelon Man (1970)

Lowest Rated: 77% The President's Analyst (1967)

Birthday: Feb 26, 1933

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Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Began his career off-Broadway in "Take a Giant Step" (1956) and won acclaim, and an OBIE Award, for his performance in the all-star production of Jean Genet's "The Blacks" (1961) in which he played a black man who is transformed into an aged white woman. Adept at both ironic comedy and serious drama, Cambridge often starred in films with racial themes including the satirical "Watermelon Man" (1970) as a white bigot who wakes up to find himself suddenly turned into a black man. Cambridge, who was also memorable in "The President's Analyst" (1967), and "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970), died of a heart attack on the set of a TV movie in which he was playing Idi Amin Dada.

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Highest rated movies

88% 70% Watermelon Man
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77% 78% The President's Analyst
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Whiffs
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20% Son of Blob
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33% The Biggest Bundle of Them All
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54% The Last Angry Man
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41% Friday Foster
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50% Come Back, Charleston Blue
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78% Scott Joplin
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45% Five on the Black Hand Side
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Godfrey Cambridge

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 78% Scott Joplin Tom Turpin (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Whiffs Dusty (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 41% Friday Foster Ford Malotte (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Cut Man Caper The Cut Man (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 45% Five on the Black Hand Side Self - 1973
No Score Yet 20% Son of Blob Chester Hargis (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 48% The Biscuit Eater Willie Dorsey (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 50% Come Back, Charleston Blue Gravedigger Jones (Character) - 1972
88% 70% Watermelon Man Jeff Gerber (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 67% Cotton Comes to Harlem Gravedigger Jones (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 33% The Biggest Bundle of Them All Benjamin `'Benny'` Brownstead (Character) - 1968
77% 78% The President's Analyst Don Masters, CEA Agent (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 55% The Busy Body Mike (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gone Are the Days Gitlow Judson (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 54% The Last Angry Man Nobody Home (Character) - 1959

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Tattletales Guest 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Story Willis Johnson (Character) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1968 1973-1974
No Score Yet 100% Night Gallery Unknown (Character) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Danny Kaye Show Guest 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Daktari Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dick Van Dyke Show Harry Bond (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet East Side/West Side Unknown (Guest Star) 1963