Deaths: October 5

Amalia Fuentes was born Amalia Muhlach in Bicol and is said to have German lineage. She was educated in Catholic school. She was dubbed as the "Elizabeth Taylor of the Philippines" by the movie industry during the late 1950s.

Her father died during the war, and as the eldest she became the family breadwinner. Her two younger brothers, Alex and Alvaro, are also actors. Amalia married fellow actor Romeo Vasquez in 1965 in Hong Kong, but they separated in 1969. They have a daughter, Liezl Sumilang (wife of actor Albert Martinez). After her divorce from Vasquez, Amalia married Joey Stevens, an American businessman with whom she has an adopted son, Geric Stevens. She divorced Stevens after 28 years of marriage, citing infidelity. Stevens died in 2012.

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Ana Diosdado was born on 21 May 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer and actress, known for Anillos de oro (1983), Segunda enseñanza (1986) and Las llaves de la independencia (2004). She was married to Carlos Larrañaga. She died on 5 October 2015 in Madrid, Spain.

Andrea de Cesaris was born on 31 May 1958 in Rome, Italy. He died on 5 October 2014 in Rome, Italy.

The character actor Andrew Keir (originally Andrew Buggy) was born in 1926 in the coal-mining town of Shotts in Lanarkshire, Scotland, of Irish Catholic extraction, and raised there with his five brothers John, Tom, Michael, Patrick, and Hugh, and a sister, Maggie. The son of a coal miner, Keir worked in the coal mines from age 14 to 20, at which point he joined the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre to train as an actor. Shortly thereafter, Keir established himself professionally in British theater, television, and film, debuting in The Lady Craved Excitement (1950). His bluff, no-nonsense demeanor was perfect for authoritarian and military roles, especially Roman soldiers, as in Cleopatra (1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), and The Viking Queen (1967).

He hooked up with Hammer Productions early on (his debut film) and continued the association in a number of horror films, e.g., Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971). One of his best-known and most popular performances was that of the title role in Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Keir made numerous appearances in television throughout his career, notably in Adam Smith (1972) and in the Australian series The Outsiders (1976). Keir, true to his heritage, frequently played Scotsmen, especially in the latter part of his career.

Andrew Harold Rubin was born in the seaport town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. His father, Simon, owned a furniture and bedding factory and his mother, Leona (nee Greenstone) was an artist and international travel writer.

Andy, as he was called then, began performing and acting at the age of 10. He wrote and starred in skits and plays at the Jewish Community Center. Afterward, he continued acting the leads in plays while attending New Bedford High School. He won a college acting scholarship from the high school in his senior year.

School didn't make a lot of sense to him and as a result he only got into one college that he applied to. Wagner College, a Lutheran School, was located on Staten Island and as a concession to his parents Rubin agreed to go there. By the end of the school year Rubin's parents had received 24 letters from the Dean of Men listing various infractions by their son. His college career came rapidly to a close.

With his heart in acting, he auditioned for the famed American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. The Academy was like an embryo for him: an amazing training ground to eat and breathe acting daily for two years. After graduation he got a job as a page at NBC 30 Rock rising rapidly in the ranks to become the youngest full time writer in the history of the NBC Publicity Department. Going on auditions while at NBC landed him his first big time job. He was cast from hundreds of hopefuls to play the character of Cosmo in a guy/girl duo in a national commercial campaign (6 TV and 5 radio) for Sprite soda.

After being flown to California to shoot for two weeks on location, Rubin decided to move to California to seek work. He met with success almost immediately, guest starring in various television dramatic series including "Ironside", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Cannon" and dozens of others. He also scored recurring roles on well known comedies of the day such as "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "The Jeffersons", and "The Odd Couple".

Rubin's big break came when he was tapped by director Martin Ritt ('Hud','Sounder') to star as Walter Matthau's eldest son, Buddy, in the horse-racing picture "Casey's Shadow". Although the film and he got terrific reviews it was not a box office success because it conflicted with another Matthau film, "House Calls" (with Glenda Jackson) which was released the same day.

He followed "Casey's Shadow" with the iconic film, "Police Academy", playing the character of George Martin, the suave Lothario pretending to be Hispanic so he "could get the girls". Rubin then went on to star in three television series, "Jessica Novak" (with Helen Shaver), "Hometown" (TV version of "The Big Chill") and "Joe Bash", an offbeat comedy starring him and Peter Boyle as two lower Manhattan beat cops created and produced by Danny Arnold ("Barney Miller").

Rubin continued to work in TV doing films and mini-series ("Roughnecks", "Deadline: Madrid") and in movies ("Nuts"- playing Barbra Streisand's ex-husband, "Sunnyside", "Little Miss Marker", "Tell Me That You Love Me"). He also was a regular on the Los Angeles theater scene starring in the Company Theater's "James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theater", Sam Shepard's "The Unseen Hand" at the Odyssey, "Hopscotch" at LAAT and "The Passing Game", produced by Tom Hanks, at the Gene Dynarski.

It was about this time that Rubin went on what he calls a "walkabout" traveling the world. During that time he explored the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of India and the outback of Australia where he and his wife, Lauren, lived with an Aboriginal tribe in a remote region of the country. He would also return to work occasionally, playing Jules Bergman, ABC's Science correspondent in "From the Earth to the Moon", and also writing and starring in "Men and Their Fathers", a well received short film.

He recently completed filming for a documentary, "The CURE Is U", set for release in 2012. No longer on a 'walkabout', he lives with his wife, Dr. Lauren Rubin, two dogs and five cats in Pacific Palisades. His passion for and love of acting has never dimmed.

Andy Etchebarren was born on 20 June 1943 in Whittier, California, USA. He was married to Vicky. He died on 5 October 2019 in the USA.

Anne Wiazemsky was born on 14 May 1947 in Berlin, West Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for Au hasard Balthazar (1966), The Chinese (1967) and Return from Africa (1973). She was married to Jean-Luc Godard. She died on 5 October 2017 in Paris, France.

António de Macedo was born on 5 July 1931 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for A Promessa (1973), The Emissaries of Khalom (1988) and The Magic Springs of Gerenia (1983). He died on 5 October 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Austin Kalish was born on 3 February 1921 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Good Times (1974), Too Close for Comfort (1980) and Good Heavens (1976). He was married to Irma Kalish. He died on 5 October 2016 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

She was the archetypal brassy, bosomy, Brooklynesque blonde with a highly-distinctive scratchy voice. Barbara Nichols started life as Barbara Marie Nickerauer in Queens, New York on December 10, 1928, and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School, she changed her reddish-brown hair to platinum-blonde and worked as a post-war model and burlesque dancer. As a beauty contestant, she won the "Miss Long Island" title as well as the dubious crowns of "Miss Dill Pickle", "Miss Mink of 1953", and "Miss Welder of 1953", and also became a GI pin-up favorite. She began to draw early attention on stage (particularly in the musical "Pal Joey") and in television drama.

Barbara found herself stealing focus in small wisecracking roles, managing at times to draw both humor and pathos from her characters--sometimes simultaneously. She seemed fated to play strippers, gold-diggers, barflies, gun molls, and other floozy types, but she made the best of her stereotypes, taking full advantage of the not-so-bad films that came her way. While most did emphasize her physical endowments, she could also be extremely funny when given a decent script. By far the best of her work came out in one year: Pal Joey (1957), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), and The Pajama Game (1957). By the decade's end, though, her film career had slowed down, and more and more she turned to television, appearing on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Adam-12 (1968), The Twilight Zone (1959) (the classic "Twenty-Two" episode), The Untouchables (1959), and Batman (1966), to name a few.

Barbara landed only one regular series role in her career, the very short-lived situation comedy Love That Jill (1958) starring husband-and-wife team Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling. Barbara played a model named "Ginger". She also co-starred on Broadway with George Gobel and Sam Levene in the musical "Let It Ride" in 1961, and played roles in a few low-budget movies, including the campy prison drama House of Women (1962) and the science-fiction film The Human Duplicators (1964), starring George Nader and Richard Kiel, who played "Jaws" in the James Bond film series.

A serious Long Island car accident in July 1957 led to the loss of her spleen, and another serious car accident in Southern California in the 1960s led to a torn liver. Complications would set in over a decade later and she was forced to slow down her career. She eventually developed a life-threatening liver disease and her health deteriorated. In summer 1976, she was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, where she went into a coma. She awoke for a few days just before Labor Day, but sank back shortly afterward. She died at age 47 of liver failure on October 5 and was survived by her parents, George and Julia Nickerauer. She was interred at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, New York.

Bert Jansch was born on 3 November 1943 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for The Squid and the Whale (2005), Rebecca (2020) and Downsizing (2017). He was married to Heather Rosemary Sewell, Lynda Campbell and Loren Auerbach. He died on 5 October 2011 in London, England, UK.

Chantal Akerman was born on 6 June 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Meetings with Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on 5 October 2015 in Paris, France.

Charles Napier was born in the tiny community of Mt. Union, near Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, to Linus Pitts Napier, a tobacco farmer and postman, and his wife, Sara, on April 12, 1936. He attended public school in Scottsville. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Army in 1954. He rose to the rank of E-5 (Sgt.) while serving as company clerk with Company A 511th Airborne Infantry, 11th Airborne Division. He was a lively character actor who usually played edgy military types and menacing bad guys. His film debut was in Russ Meyer's Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969).

Napier went on appearing in other Meyer movies, including the homicidal Harry Sledge in Supervixens (1975) and also became a regular playing smaller roles for Jonathan Demme. His memorable portrayals of tough guys included the scheming intelligence officer in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and the short-tempered front man in The Blues Brothers (1980).

Dave Cummings was born on 13 March 1940 in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He was an actor and director. He died on 5 October 2019 in Oceanside, California, USA.

Noted British classical theatre actor Denis Quilley distinguished himself on the Shakespearean stage alongside Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, among others. His sturdy handsomeness was slightly offset by a relatively prominent proboscis. As in the case of Jeremy Northam and Liam Neeson, it only accentuated his individuality and added a decided uniqueness of his characters.

Born in London on December 26, 1927, Denis was educated at Bancroft's School in Essex. He made his London debut stage appearance in 1945 with the Birmingham Repertory Company and replaced Richard Burton in "The Lady's Not for Burning" in 1950. He followed this with roles in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and "The Merchant of Venice." Quilley then took a marked departure from his classical reputation and made a resounding hit for himself in musicals and satirical revues, notably "Airs on a Shoestring" (1953) and "Grab Me a Gondola."(1956). In the early 60s Denis took his London role in "Irma La Douce" to Broadway and was met with great success.

Over his nearly six-decade career, Quilley would grace the Old Vic, Royal Shakespeare, Regent's Park and Drury Lane stages in a wide range of roles. Highlights have included his Lopakhim in "The Cherry Orchard" and Claudius in "Hamlet." In the 70s he joined Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company for its last seasons at the Old Vic. He played Jamie to Olivier's James Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (also a TV version), Hildy Johnson in "The Front Page" and Caliban in "The Tempest" with John Gielgud. He continued impressively in musicals winning kudos for his "Sweeney Todd" and for "La Cage Aux Folles."

In 1951, Quilley was introduced to TV, with guest parts on such series as "The Black Arrow," "The March of the Peasants," "Dancers in Mourning," "The Vise" and the "BBC Sunday Night Theatre" where he portrayed Bassanio in a production of "The Merchant of Venice." In 1957, he made an uncredited movie debut in the war drama The Betrayal (1957), but did not return until given a featured role in Life at the Top (1965). Other intermittent film supports would include Show Boat (1951), The Black Windmill (1974), two Hercule Poirot whodunnits (Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Evil Under the Sun (1982)), Privates on Parade (1983), Memed My Hawk (1984), King David (1985), Foreign Body (1986), Mister Johnson (1990) and Storia di una capinera (1993).

A familiar face on television, Quilley co-starred in three short-lived series: the crimer Contrabandits (1967), the sci-fi tale Timeslip (1970) and another crime series You're on Your Own (1975). He also appeared in a number of important mini-series: Masada (1981), A.D. (1985), Murder of a Moderate Man (1985) and his last, Cleopatra (1999).

The versatile Quilley was a gifted, cerebral player who could display strength as well as vulnerability and weakness. He ended his career with the musical "Anything Goes" in 2003, the year of his death. He was survived by his actress wife Stella Quilley (nee Chapman), who died in 2007, and three children.

Ed Kenney was born on 6 February 1933 in Kingston, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Dallas (1978), Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981) and Hart to Hart (1979).

Eddie Kendricks is an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group The Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971. His was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do the Things You Do", "Get Ready", and "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)". As a solo artist, Kendricks recorded several hits of his own during the 1970s, including the number-one single "Keep on Truckin'."

Kendricks was born in Union Springs, Alabama, the son of Johnny and Lee Bell Kendrick. He had one sister, Patricia, and three brothers, Charles, Robert, and Clarence. His family moved to the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, where he met and began singing with his best friend Paul Williams in their church choir in the late 1940s. In 1955, Kendricks, Williams, and friends Kell Osborne and Jerome Averette formed a group called The Cavaliers, and began performing around Birmingham. The group decided to move for better opportunities in their musical careers, and in 1957 the group moved to Cleveland. In Cleveland, they met manager Milton Jenkins, and soon moved with Jenkins to Detroit, where the Cavaliers renamed themselves 'The Primes'. In 1961, Osbourne moved to California, and the Primes disbanded. Kendricks and Paul Williams joined forces with members Otis Williams and The Temptations and the Distants after three members quit and became The Elgins, who on the same day changed their name to The Temptations and signed to Motown. The Temptations quickly became the most successful male vocal group of the 1960s. Although technically Kendricks was first tenor in the group's harmony, he predominately sang in a falsetto voice. In the Temptations, Kendricks was responsible for creating most of the group's vocal arrangements, and also served as wardrobe manager, including the now famous purple suits the group wore for one performance. Though Whitfield had chief responsibility for writing, Kendricks co-wrote and received credit for several Temptations songs.

Kendricks was nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning one for "Cloud Nine" with the Temptations in 1969. The Temptations received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.

In 1998, NBC aired The Temptations (1998), a four-hour television miniseries based upon an autobiographical book by Otis Williams. Kendricks was portrayed by actor Terron Brooks.

Eloy Perez was born on 25 October 1986 in Rainier, Washington, USA. He died on 5 October 2019 in the USA.

Emilie Schindler was born on 22 October 1907 in Alt Moletein, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Starý Maletín, Czech Republic]. She was married to Oskar Schindler. She died on 5 October 2001 in Berlin, Germany.

Dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder was born on August 1, 1930, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, into a middle-class family. One of four children, he was taught painting and dancing by his older brother Boscoe Holder, whose dance troupe, the Holder Dance Company, the young Geoffrey joined when he was seven years old. Geoffrey assumed direction of the company in the late 1940s after Boscoe moved to London.

Holder moved to the US in 1954, two years after being "discovered" by Agnes de Mille, the choreographer daughter of director-producer Cecil B. DeMille, after she saw the Holder Dance Company perform in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Holder, a talented painter, sold a score of his paintings to raise the funds to bring the Holder Dance Company to New York City in 1954 (in 1957 Holder won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study painting). He would appear with his dance company, now titled Geoffrey Holder and Company, in New York through 1960.

On December 30, 1954, Holder made his Broadway debut (as did Diahann Carroll) at the Alvin Theatre in the Caribbean-themed original musical "House of Flowers", with music by Harold Arlen, who also co-wrote the book with Truman Capote. The cast included Pearl Bailey and Alvin Ailey, and the show was directed by Peter Brook. Herbert Ross did the choreography but the "Banda Dance" was choreographed by Holder. The show ran for 165 total performances but, more importantly, Holder met and married fellow cast member 'Carmen DeLavallade', a dancer, and the two had a son together. From 1955 through 1956 Holder was a principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

Holder played the role of Lucky in a revival of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" directed by Herbert Berghof on Broadway in January 1957. The all-black cast also included Geoff Searle as Vladimir, Rex Ingram as Pozzo and Mantan Moreland as Estragon. The show only lasted six performances, but it established Holder as an actor, and he made his film debut four years later in All Night Long (1962), a modern gloss on William Shakespeare's "Othello". His most famous role was as the heavy "Baron Samedi" in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973), Roger Moore's first turn as 007.

Holder won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his staging of the Broadway musical "The Wiz" (1975), the all-African American retelling of "The Wizard of Oz." He also won the Tony for best costume design (he would be nominated again for a Tony for best costume design for the original 1978 Broadway musical "Timbuktu!", which he also directed and choreographed). As a choreographer he has created dance pieces for many companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Holder has written two books, one on folklore and one on Caribbean cuisine. In the 1970s and 1980s, he put his striking 6'6" presence and bass voice to good use hawking various products in TV commercials, including soft drinks.

Giorgio Pressburger was born on 21 April 1937 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer and director, known for Calderon (1981), Dietro il buio (2011) and La legge degli spazi bianchi (2019). He died on 5 October 2017 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

Gloria Grahame Hallward, an acting pupil of her mother (stage actress and teacher Jean Grahame), acted professionally while still in high school. In 1944 Louis B. Mayer saw her on Broadway and gave her an MGM contract under the name Gloria Grahame. Her debut in the title role of Blonde Fever (1944) was auspicious, but her first public recognition came on loan-out in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Although her talent and sex appeal were of star quality, she did not fit the star pattern at MGM, who sold her contract to RKO in 1947. Here the same problem resurfaced; her best film in these years was made on loan-out, In a Lonely Place (1950). Soon after, she left RKO. The 1950s, her best period, brought her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and typecast her as shady, inimitably sultry ladies in seven well-known film-noir classics.

Rumors of being difficult to work with on the set of Oklahoma! (1955) helped sideline her film career from 1956 onward. She also suffered from marital and child-custody troubles. Eight years after divorce from Nicholas Ray, who was 12 years her senior (and reportedly had discovered her in bed with his 13 year old son), and after a subsequent marriage to Cy Howard ended in divorce, in 1960 she married her former stepson Anthony Ray (who was almost 14 years younger than she was.) This led former husbands Nicholas Ray and Cy Howard to sue Grahame; each man seeking custody of his respective child, putting gossip columnists and scandal sheets into overdrive. Grahame herself underwent electroconvulsive therapy after the ensuing stress caused a nervous breakdown. Surprisingly, however, Grahame and Anthony "Tony" Ray proved a happy couple. The union would be Grahame's longest marriage, lasting almost 14 years (10 years longer than her previous union with Ray's father); the couple had two children, Anthony Jr. and James.

In 1960, Grahame resumed stage acting, combined with TV work and, from 1970, some mostly inferior films. She was described as a serious, skillful actress; spontaneous, honest, and strong-willed; imaginative and curious; incredibly sexy but insecure about her looks (prompting plastic surgery on her famous lips); loving appreciative male company; "a bit loony." In 1975, she was treated for breast cancer. Five years later, she was diagnosed with cancer again, although it is unclear if this was a new cancer or a metastasis of her breast cancer. Grahame eventually moved to England in 1978. Her busiest period of British and American stage work ended abruptly in 1981 when she collapsed from cancer symptoms during a rehearsal. She wished to remain in Liverpool with her partner, Peter Turner (almost 30 years her junior), but after Turner notified her children of her health condition and impending death, two of her children flew to England to retrieve her, insisting she return to the United States. She died a few hours later that same day of stomach cancer and peritonitis at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan on October 5, 1981 at age 57.

Legendary producer Hal B. Wallis was born in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles when he was in his early 20s. He got a job managing a theater owned by Warner Bros., and his success at the job caught the eye of studio head Jack L. Warner, who gave him a job in the studio's publicity department. Within a few months Wallis had worked his way up to head of the department. He was named studio manager in 1928 and production manager shortly thereafter, but was pushed aside by another legendary producer, future 20th Century-Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck. In 1933 Zanuck left Warner and Wallis moved back to his old position. He oversaw the production of many of Warners' most famous films, including Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Casablanca (1942). In 1944 Wallis left Warner and formed his own production company, and achieved even more success, being responsible for such films as The Rose Tattoo (1955), Becket (1964), and a string of Elvis Presley movies, most of which were economically produced and all of which made a fortune. Wallis' last picture was the John Wayne western Rooster Cogburn (1975).

Héctor Ulloa was an actor and composer, known for El tesoro de Morgan (1971), Una tarde, un lunes (1971) and Yo y Tú (1956). He was married to Consuelo Jiménez de Ulloa. He died on 5 October 2018 in La Vega, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

Ike Jones was a producer, actor, screenwriter and second-unit director best known as being the "secret" husband of movie star Inger Stevens, whom he claimed he had married in Mexico in 1961 after Stevens' apparent suicide in 1970. The marriage supposedly was kept secret in order not to damage Stevens career, as she was white and he was black.

Sammy Davis Jr.'s romance with Kim Novak in the late 1950s had been terminated by the intervention of Columbia Pictures production chief Harry Cohn (Novak's boss), who used his mob connections to threaten Davis. When Davis married May Britt in 1960, her once promising career stalled, so such concerns were legitimate. Since the marriage had been secret, Jones had to battle in court for his rights to Stevens' estate (worth an estimated $110,000 (approximately $800,000 in 2022 dollars). His claim was supported by Stevens' brother.

Born Isaac Lolette Jones in Santa Monica, California, on December 23, 1929 he was the first African American graduate from the UCLA film school when he took his diploma in 1952. He also became the first African American to produce an A-List Hollywood movie when he produced A Man Called Adam (1966) in 1966. He would also be the first person to receive the Oscar Micheaux Award, named after the trail-blazing African American producer, director and writer, by the Producers Guild of America in 1995.

Ike had played college football at UCLA and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1953, but he was set on making a career in the movies. He made his debut as an actor in '53 in The Kid from Left Field (1953) and also appeared in The Joe Louis Story (1953), on which he also toiled as an assistant director. His acting career was over by 1960 (though it revived briefly in the period 1973-75), as he became the head of Nat 'King' Cole's Kell-Cole Productions. He has made his bones as an executive working at the Hill-Hecht-Lancaster production company in the 1950s and then as vice president of Harry Belafonte's Harbel Productions.[5]

He made cinema history when Sammy Davis, Jr. hired him to produce A Man Called Adam (1966). He only produced one more production, the 1978 TV movie A Woman Called Moses (1978) starring Cicely Tyson as Harriet Tubman, and served as an executive producer on the 1981 TV movie The Oklahoma City Dolls (1981).