Who Are The BLACK ACTORS Who Have Made 50 MOVIES Or More?

Jet, April 24, 2000

With 53 movies to his name, Morgan Freeman is another actor who's accomplished much in his 30-year career. Freeman's acting has come a long way since his days as Easy Reader on TV's educational child show "The Electric Company." Freeman's big screen flicks are Deep Impact, Amistad, Kiss the Girls, Chain Reaction, Seven, Outbreak, The Shawshank Redemption, Unforgiven and Glory. TV movies for him include Lean on Me, Mutiny and The Promised Land.

Cicely Tyson has made 52 movies. Her movies made for television are A Lesson Before Dying, The Women of Brewster Place, A Woman Called Moses, Roots and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She's also won praise for her work on the silver screen in 1972's Sounder, for which she received an Oscar nomination, and for her performances in Hoodlum and Fried Green Tomatoes.

Danny Glover has made 51 TV films and motion pictures. His motion picture works include Beloved, Lethal Weapon 4, Switchback, A Rage In Harlem, The Color Purple and Silverado. TV films for Glover consist of Buffalo Soldiers, Queen, Dead Man Out and Mandela.

Some other actors who've made 50 movies or more for the silver screen and television throughout the span of their careers include: Paul Winfield, Yaphet Kotto and Fred Williamson, all 67; Richard Roundtree, 64; Billy Dee Williams, 59; Richard Pryor, 54 and Pam Grier, 50.