Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is a British actor, playwright, director, singer, and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1999 until 2004. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.999 |
| Birthday | 1967-03-24 |
| Place of Birth | Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Ian Roberts , |
1983
Birth of a Nation
7.083/6
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaig...
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Birth of a Nation
2004
Pride
6.3/68
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
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Pride
1995
Cutthroat Island
5.788/521
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by...
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Cutthroat Island
2008
Walter's War
6/1
Drama inspired by the life of Walter Tull who, after years in an orphanage, went on to become a professional footballer and then the first black commi...
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Walter's War
1998
Gunslinger's Revenge
4.506/77
The idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife, and half-breed son is interrupted when the boy's old gunslinger father returns. They...
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Gunslinger's Revenge
2020
Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent
0/0
David Olusoga explores the incredible journey of the African novel – how a fearless collection of writers created books that were to define the image...
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Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent
2021
Swingin' the Dream
0/0
A concert of a work in progress including original music and songs from the 1939 production telling the story of an intriguing Broadway musical adapta...
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Swingin' the Dream
2021
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
5.5/3
A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.
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Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2006
Fade to Black
4.3/15
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pull...
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Fade to Black
2008
Black Power Salute
0/0
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event i...
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Black Power Salute
1991
Escape From Kampala
0/0
The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada...
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