James Avery
James LaRue Avery (November 27, 1945 – December 31, 2013) was an American actor.
Best known for his portrayal of the patriarch and attorney (later judge) Philip Banks, Will Smith's character's uncle, in the TVsitcomThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This character was ranked #34 in TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time." He also provided the voice of Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series, as well as War Machine in the animated series Iron Man and Junkyard Dog in Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. He also played Michael Kelso's commanding officer at the police academy late in the series run of That '70s Show.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.0356 |
| Birthday | 1945-11-27 |
| Place of Birth | Pughsville [now Suffolk], Virginia, USA |
| Also Known As | James La Rue Avery, James Avery Jr., James L. Avery, James LaRue Avery, جیمز اوری, |
1986
Sunday Drive
10/1
Two identical cars pull up to a restaurant, one belonging to a childless couple who are taking care of their niece and nephew while their parents are...
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2001
Epoch
4.698/63
Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental si...
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2001
Dr. Dolittle 2
5.32/1757
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protec...
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Dr. Dolittle 2
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
1998
The Prince of Egypt
7.304/4277
The strong bond between two Royal Egyptian brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences...
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The Prince of Egypt
1985
Kicks
6.333/3
A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a femal...
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Kicks
1988
License to Drive
6.618/404
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license...
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License to Drive
2004
Raise Your Voice
6.537/859
A coming-of-age story centered around a small-town singer brokenhearted by the death of her brother in a car crash, who had secretly submitted her for...
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Raise Your Voice
1990
To My Daughter
8/1
A mother is haunted by the death of one of her children which has an effect on the surviving siblings in this fact-based drama.
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To My Daughter
1994
A Friend to Die For
6.25/46
Angela Delvecchio, from a poor family, moves into the rich town Montevista. She admires Stacy, leader of the most prestigious clique of her high schoo...
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A Friend to Die For
1991
Shout
5.83/40
A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
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Shout
1987
Nightflyers
4.472/18
A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.
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Nightflyers
2005
The Third Wish
3.333/6
Bookshop clerk Maggie Malone is granted three wishes after she finds a first-edition copy of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
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The Third Wish
1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Attack of the Big MACC
0/0
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Attack of the Big MACC
1992
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Turtles' Awesome Easter
8/2
Just as the Turtles are preparing for a totally eggs-cellent Easter, Shredder scrambles their plans with a way-bogus ray - that makes everyone timid a...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Turtles' Awesome Easter
1987
Timestalkers
5.364/44
History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West and he is soon joined by beautiful time-traveler G...
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Timestalkers
1998
The Advanced Guard
3.964/14
A group of aliens arrive on Earth as part of an advance invasion force. Their mission is to kidnap a small sample of humans and run them through a ser...
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The Advanced Guard
1986
Condor
5.688/8
In futuristic Los Angeles, a crime-fighting organization known as Condor goes up against the Black Widow, a female master criminal. The Black Widow st...
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Condor
2008
Divine Intervention
1/1
Reverend Robert Gibbs is a young, hip pastor who temporarily takes over the helm of a Fundamentalist Baptist church while his predecessor Reverend Mat...
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Divine Intervention
1988
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Halfshell
7.1/12
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE fever has struck the nation! They're weird, they're wacky, and, man, are they ever hip! These HEROES IN A HALF SHELL are t...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Halfshell
1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Planet of the Turtleoids
6.4/10
The Ninja Turtles are going out of this world. Way out! Their arch villain Shredder has concocted two new mutants and a gigantic robot to destroy the...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Planet of the Turtleoids
1987
Three for the Road
5.909/22
A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.
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Three for the Road
1988
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Epic Begins
7.3/19
The first TMNT direct-to-video movie! Meet Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo, the Renaissance turtles who are fighting evil for truth, ju...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Epic Begins
2005
Wheelmen
7/1
Two limo drivers hope to make money by escorting an executive around Los Angeles. Things go awry when they get caught up in a sabotage plot to assassi...
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Wheelmen
1997
Spirit Lost
3/5
John Chapman and his beautiful wife Willie have just moved into a seaside village on the North Carolina coast. But they quickly discover that their qu...
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Spirit Lost
2013
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
7/45
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2001
Dancing in September
6.5/1
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
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Dancing in September
1983
Antony and Cleopatra
6.5/2
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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Antony and Cleopatra
2013
Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer
5.2/15
Young, ace assistant DA, Shelby Cook, works with driven cop, Mike Holland, to catch Daedalus, a serial killer infamous for luring his victims to their...
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Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer
1991
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
4.688/80
The Beastmaster Dar is forced to travel to earth to stop his evil brother from stealing an atomic bomb, and turning their native land from a desert in...
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Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
1993
Little Miss Millions
5.444/27
Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.
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Little Miss Millions
1999
Out in Fifty
3.714/7
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
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Out in Fifty
1991
The Linguini Incident
6.5/25
A frustrated sorceress, a guy from the United Kingdom intimidated, a creative best friend.
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The Linguini Incident
2007
Who's Your Caddy?
3.4/68
Superstar rap mogul C-Note wants to join the Carolina Pines Golf & Country Club, but faces stiff opposition from the establishment's snooty members. C...
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Who's Your Caddy?
1984
Laugh Busters
0/0
While getting ready to promote the new 1984 fall Saturday morning line-up, the Director D.W. and his assistant are interrupted by the infamous Gargamo...
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Laugh Busters
2010
Not Your Time
1/1
A failed screenwriter's suicide threat turns out to be his best sales pitch.
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Not Your Time
1998
Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years
0/0
The composer-arranger-producer is honored in a tribute taped in 1997.
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1980
The Blues Brothers
7.717/4546
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
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The Blues Brothers
1989
Roe vs. Wade
5.958/12
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child,...
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Roe vs. Wade
1985
Appointment with Fear
2.625/8
Moustapha Akkad, the man who brought you HALLOWEEN, invites you to keep an APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR. According to legend, Attis, King of the Woods, sacri...
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Appointment with Fear
1995
The Brady Bunch Movie
6.109/313
The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
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The Brady Bunch Movie
2005
Lethal Eviction
5.182/11
A first time landlord purchases a run-down, rent-controlled apartment building in hopes of making a solid investment. Everything seems to be going smo...
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Lethal Eviction
1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles at the Earth's Core
8/2
Shredder and Krang discover a Dinosaur reserve at the earth's core and plot to steal their life source, an energy crystal, to repower the Technodrome,...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles at the Earth's Core
2005
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
7/93
A space-shuttle crash-landing puts the famous web-slinger Spider-Man in contact with a living alien substance that bonds to his suit and enhances his...
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Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
1986
Extremities
6.135/96
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the pol...
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Extremities
2012
Stars in Shorts
6/4
Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley, Jesse Tyler Fer...
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Stars in Shorts
2001
The Nightmare Room: Scareful What You Wish For
0/0
Anthology series centered on teens facing supernatural threats, many based on the books by R.L. Stine.
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The Nightmare Room: Scareful What You Wish For
1998
You Lucky Dog
5.606/33
Jack Morgan is a dog therapist, once famous for being able to read his dog's mind. Although Jack cannot read the minds of other dogs, he still operate...
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1994
Midnight Ramble
7.333/3
A documentary chronicling the pioneering efforts of black filmmaker William D. Foster in the early years of the industry and Oscar Micheaux's controve...
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Midnight Ramble
1989
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
4.833/9
A high-priced call girl who has been secretly videotaping her rich clients is shot to death. An investigation of her murder ensues, bringing those inv...
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Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
1986
The Ladies Club
5.833/11
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of wo...
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The Ladies Club
2002
Nancy Drew
5.778/9
Nancy and her faithful sidekicks Bess and George just entered River Heights University, where she tackles the mystery of a football star's drug-induce...
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Nancy Drew
2001
Honeybee
3/3
American independent filmmaker Melvin James makes his feature debut with the low-budget sports drama Honeybee. Soap opera actress Senait Ashenafi star...
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Honeybee
1987
Deadly Daphne's Revenge
3.571/14
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, whi...
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Deadly Daphne's Revenge
1985
Fletch
6.745/758
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy bu...
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Fletch
1986
8 Million Ways to Die
5.503/145
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological after...
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8 Million Ways to Die
2004
Hair Show
5.5/11
Running from the IRS due to back taxes, Baltimore hairdresser and salon owner Peaches reunites with her more successful sister, Angela, a fellow styli...
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Hair Show
2006
Think Tank
3.667/3
Bumbling, twenty-something slackers use their self-proclaimed "genius" to save a small town from the evil clutches of Lord Billiards, a land-grabbing...
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Think Tank
1980
The Stunt Man
6.604/164
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while faci...
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The Stunt Man
1993
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
6.5/2
Massive rescue efforts are mobilized to save occupants of New York City's World Trade Center after a terrorist bombing. Based on the events surroundin...
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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
1986
The 11th Commandment
4.154/13
Fashioning himself as a priestly avenger, Robert escapes from the insane asylum and begins slashing his way through anyone who stands between him aven...
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The 11th Commandment
2009
Steppin: The Movie
4.3/16
Every college campus has its rivalries and UTS is no different. At this university, the Geeks run the campus and the greatest Steppers are king of the...
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Steppin: The Movie
2006
Danika
5.124/93
Traumatized since childhood by her brother's accidental death, Danika Merrick hallucinates a bank robbery and quits her job. Despite support from her...
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Danika
1985
Stoogemania
3/7
The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his dreams, Howard has one problem - an overactive fixa...
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Stoogemania
1994
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
6.769/13
The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or a...
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Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
1995
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
5.5/2
A brave boy named Temba ventures to find food and water for his drought-striken village. But when he is given a set of magical bones, he uses them to...
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Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
2014
Wish I Was Here
6.542/777
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getti...
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Wish I Was Here
1989
Turn Back the Clock
5.75/8
After a woman fervently wishes for another chance after a terrible tragedy, she is mysteriously granted one year of her life to be lived over.
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Turn Back the Clock
1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga, Shredhead
0/0
Will the real Michaelangelo please stand up? This surfer dude's got a double! It seems that Shredder and that oversized brain Krang have created a hol...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga, Shredhead
1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop
0/0
They're awesome, green...and they're back in head-to-shell mischief with the sinister Shredder. Shredder's latest dastardly scheme is to rule the city...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop
1988
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hot Rodding Teenagers
0/0
Hey, Turtle Fans... are you ready for one radical far-out tale? The ultra-nasty master Shredder has joined forces with a mad, bad brain--called Krang....
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hot Rodding Teenagers
1989
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Incredible Shrinking Turtles
0/0
Hey, Turtle fans--are you ready for a "fabuloso" feature-length adventure? Then try this on for size! Shredder's shenanigans have shrunk the fearless...
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