Cicely Tyson
Cicely Louise Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress. In a career which spanned more than seven decades in film, television and theatre, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson received various awards including three Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Tony Award, an Honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9762 |
| Birthday | 1924-12-19 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Сисели Тайсон, |
1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
7.656/1488
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two...
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Fried Green Tomatoes
1989
The Women of Brewster Place
6.81/21
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
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The Women of Brewster Place
1997
Hoodlum
6.5/251
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harle...
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Hoodlum
1968
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
7.5/50
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert...
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1981
Bustin' Loose
6.2/55
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.
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Bustin' Loose
1986
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
8/1
Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to Congress.
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1959
Odds Against Tomorrow
6.826/95
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
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Odds Against Tomorrow
1998
Always Outnumbered
6.367/30
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb...
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Always Outnumbered
2006
Idlewild
5.616/69
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-...
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Idlewild
2010
Why Did I Get Married Too?
6.5/169
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas i...
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Why Did I Get Married Too?
1979
The Concorde... Airport '79
4.731/216
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alp...
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The Concorde... Airport '79
1972
Sounder
7.491/57
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for steali...
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Sounder
2006
Madea's Family Reunion
6.4/220
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her...
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Madea's Family Reunion
2005
Because of Winn-Dixie
6.488/255
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn...
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Because of Winn-Dixie
2011
The Help
8.205/9131
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson...
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The Help
1999
A Lesson Before Dying
4.972/18
In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him wi...
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A Lesson Before Dying
1976
The River Niger
7.4/5
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support...
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The River Niger
1974
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
6.6/29
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turn...
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
2012
Alex Cross
5.135/779
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fir...
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Alex Cross
1976
The Blue Bird
5.5/30
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...
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The Blue Bird
1977
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
5.9/10
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
2013
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
5.81/562
A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presen...
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The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
1960
A Morning For Jimmy
0/0
Tells the story of an African American youth named Jimmy who encounters racial discrimination in his search for employment. Although the boy's father...
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A Morning For Jimmy
1997
Ms. Scrooge
5.833/12
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She ha...
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Ms. Scrooge
2001
Jewel
5.8/10
In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
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Jewel
1981
The Marva Collins Story
7.357/7
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children l...
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The Marva Collins Story
1996
The Road to Galveston
4.5/4
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind w...
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The Road to Galveston
1966
A Man Called Adam
6.5/17
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
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A Man Called Adam
2014
The Trip to Bountiful
6.206/17
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forb...
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The Trip to Bountiful
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
4.5/5
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for...
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1967
The Comedians
6.1/47
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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The Comedians
1990
Heat Wave
6.8/5
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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Heat Wave
1974
Free to Be… You and Me
6.85/10
Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring s...
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Free to Be… You and Me
1990
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
6.6/4
In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his...
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The Kid Who Loved Christmas
1977
Wilma
6.556/9
The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
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Wilma
2016
Showing Roots
5.6/6
Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
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Showing Roots
1986
Acceptable Risks
5/5
The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made...
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Acceptable Risks
2009
Relative Stranger
4.4/9
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
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Relative Stranger
1959
The Last Angry Man
6.938/16
Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journali...
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The Last Angry Man
1971
Marriage: Year One
6/2
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
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Marriage: Year One
2005
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
6.5/241
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepar...
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman
1992
Duplicates
6.3/5
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
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Duplicates
1985
Playing with Fire
6/3
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
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Playing with Fire
2016
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
8/16
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exube...
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
1986
Intimate Encounters
3.75/4
It started as fantasy...and ended as intimate encounters.
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Intimate Encounters
2017
Last Flag Flying
6.755/491
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Mar...
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Last Flag Flying
2006
Fat Rose and Squeaky
6/2
The Irish-willed eighty-year-old Bonnie Ash Fitzpatrick and her only friend in life, seventy-year-old Celine Snow disagree on just about everything. W...
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Fat Rose and Squeaky
1989
The Women of Brewster Place
6.81/21
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
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The Women of Brewster Place
1997
Blessed Assurance
7/1
Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with his...
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Blessed Assurance
2002
The Rosa Parks Story
7.11/41
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The Rosa Parks Story
1971
Neighbors
7/1
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equal...
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Neighbors
1976
Just an Old Sweet Song
7/2
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. E...
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Just an Old Sweet Song
1956
Carib Gold
5.5/2
The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
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Carib Gold
2020
A Fall from Grace
6.991/990
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
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A Fall from Grace
1993
House of Secrets
3.75/4
Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns...
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House of Secrets
1969
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
0/0
Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted b...
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
1982
Benny's Place
10/2
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
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Benny's Place
2021
How It Feels to Be Free
0/0
Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tys...
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How It Feels to Be Free
2019
The Other Boys of Summer
0/0
The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive interview...
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The Other Boys of Summer
1982
Night of 100 Stars
5.8/5
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
1976
Everybody Rides the Carousel
6/6
"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one...
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
1998
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
9/1
An original documentary exploring one of America's most beloved films. Take a journey with director Jon Avnet, actresses Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, M...
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Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1992
When No One Would Listen
8/1
Jessica has been married to her controlling husband Gary for years. The abuse only gets worse when she gets a job at a bakery and makes two really car...
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When No One Would Listen
1997
Riot
5.4/12
In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined...
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Riot
1997
Bridge of Time
6.5/2
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Bridge of Time
2002
Remembering Roots
0/0
The cast and crew of Roots (1977) recall its phenomenal success on its 25th anniversary.
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