Rosalind Cash
This intense, stage-trained African-American leading lady of the 1970s--and busy supporting player ever since--began her career in NYC, performing as a nightclub singer before moving to stage work on and off-Broadway. In 1968, Cash joined the prestigious Negro Ensemble Company. From the early 1970s on, she worked on stage and TV and intermittently on the big screen in films including "The Omega Man" (1971), "Uptown Saturday Night" (1974), "Cornbread, Earl & Me" (1975) and "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension" (1984). Cash's TV credits tended toward the high-minded and culturally sensitive with projects like the 1974 PBS "Theater in America" presentation of a New York Shakespeare Festival production of "King Lear" (she was Goneril) and the 1984 adaptation of James Baldwin's autobiographical classic "Go Tell It on the Mountain." She also appeared in several high-profile miniseries including "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones" (CBS, 1980) and the Melvin Van Peebles-scripted drama "The Sophisticated Gents" (NBC, 1981). In 1994, Cash accepted what was to become her TV last role: Mary Mae Ward, a proud matriarch who had triumphed over racism and tragedy on the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital." She made her final film appearance in the horror-comedy "Tales From the Hood" (1995) as the fierce Dr. Cushing, an assignment reminiscent of some of her work in 70s blaxploitation flicks.
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Rosalind Cash
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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58% |
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Tales From the Hood | Dr. Cushing (Character) | $10.7M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Dangerous Affair | Dr. Robertson (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Must Remember This | Janet Mickens (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
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Death Spa | Sgt. Stone (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Witch Bitch | Sgt. Stone (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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From a Whisper to a Scream | Snakewoman (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain | Aunt Florence (Character) | - | 1984 |
66% |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension | John Emdall (Character) | - | 1984 |
27% |
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Wrong Is Right | Mrs. Ford (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sister, Sister | Freida Lovejoy Burton (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Keeping On | Aunt Florence (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Class of Miss MacMichael | Una Ferrar (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Drug | Doctor (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind the Badge | Beverly York (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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The Monkey Hustle | Mama (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Billie Worth (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Cornbread, Earl and Me | Sarah Robinson (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King Lear | Goneril (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Amazing Grace | Creola Waters (Character) | - | 1974 |
70% |
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Uptown Saturday Night | Sarah Jackson (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The All-American Boy | Poppy (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Melinda | Terry Davis (Character) | - | 1972 |
60% |
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The New Centurions | Lorrie (Character) | - | 1972 |
67% |
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Hickey & Boggs | Nyona (Character) | - | 1972 |
65% |
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The Omega Man | Lisa (Character) | - | 1971 |
TV
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86% | 87% | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 91% | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Knots Landing | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Head of the Class | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 227 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Different World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989-1990 |
83% | No Score Yet | thirtysomething |
Val Shilladay (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1987-1989 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Family Ties | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Golden Girls | Lorraine Wagner (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frank's Place | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Highway to Heaven | Eleanor Marcelle Livingston (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Knight Rider | Harana (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riptide | Unknown (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barney Miller | Carolyn Slade (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Cynthia Martin (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's Happening!! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Mrs. Moore (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Times | Jessica Bishop (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Enid Berringer (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |