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Rosalind Cash

Highest Rated: 70% Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Lowest Rated: 27% Wrong Is Right (1982)

Birthday: Dec 31, 1938

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Birthplace: Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

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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Highest rated movies

70% 79% Uptown Saturday Night
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67% 56% Hickey & Boggs
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66% 69% The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
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65% 53% The Omega Man
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60% 62% The New Centurions
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58% 69% Tales From the Hood
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27% 39% Wrong Is Right
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76% Amazing Grace
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86% Cornbread, Earl and Me
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King Lear
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
58% 69% 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 No Score Yet Witch Bitch Sgt. Stone (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 35% Death Spa Sgt. Stone (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 35% From a Whisper to a Scream Snakewoman (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 60% Go Tell It on the Mountain Aunt Florence (Character) - 1984
66% 69% The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension John Emdall (Character) - 1984
27% 39% 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 20% The Monkey Hustle Mama (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 13% Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde Dr. Billie Worth (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 86% Cornbread, Earl and Me Sarah Robinson (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet King Lear Goneril (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 76% Amazing Grace Creola Waters (Character) - 1974
70% 79% 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% 62% The New Centurions Lorrie (Character) - 1972
67% 56% Hickey & Boggs Nyona (Character) - 1972
65% 53% 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