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      Godfrey Cambridge

      Godfrey Cambridge

      Highest Rated: 88% Watermelon Man (1970)

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

      Birthday: Feb 26, 1933

      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.

      Highest rated movies

      Watermelon Man
      The President's Analyst

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      WATERMELON MAN, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 WATERMELON MAN, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 WATERMELON MAN, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE, Godfrey Cambridge, 1972 COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE, Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, 1972 WATERMELON MAN, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 WATERMELON MAN, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 COTTON COMES TO HARLEM, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 COTTON COMES TO HARLEM, Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 WATERMELON MAN, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 COTTON COMES TO HARLEM, Raymond St. Jacques (left), Godfrey Cambridge (right), 1969 GONE ARE THE DAYS, (aka PURLIE VICTORIOUS), Godfrey Cambridge, Ossie Davis, 1963 WATERMELON MAN, Estelle Parsons, Melvin Van Peebles, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 COTTON COMES TO HARLEM, from left: Raymond St Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, 1972 THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST, James Coburn, Joan Delaney, Godfrey Cambridge, 1967 WATERMELON MAN, Estelle Parsons, Godfrey Cambridge, 1970 WATERMELON MAN, Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, 1970 BYE BYE BRAVERMAN, George Segal, Godfrey Cambridge, Jack Warden, Sorrell Booke, 1968. ©Warner Bros. GONE ARE THE DAYS, (aka PURLIE VICTORIOUS), Ruby Dee, Godfrey Cambridge, Sorrell Booke, Ossie Davis, 1963
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet 75% 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 21% Son of Blob Unknown (Character) - 1972
      No Score Yet 50% 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 66% Cotton Comes to Harlem Gravedigger Jones (Character) - 1970
      No Score Yet 38% 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 60% The Busy Body Mike (Character) - 1967
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Gone Are the Days Gitlow Judson (Character) - 1963
      No Score Yet 50% The Last Angry Man Nobody Home (Character) - 1959

      TV

      Credit
      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