Diana Sands
Know for: Acting
Born: 1934-08-22
Place of birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
Also know as:
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...
The Landlord (1970)
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope...
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political...
Doctors' Wives (1971)
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and...
Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)
Liv, a mercenary, is drawn into a mission to rescue a kidnapped politician. He travels to the volatile Mideast and is assisted by Laura, a...
Willie Dynamite (1974)
Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit...
Georgia, Georgia (1972)
A singer whose companion hates whites falls for a white U.S. photographer in Sweden.
Carib Gold (1957)
The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
An Affair of the Skin (1963)
A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.
Poitier's Walter Lee (2018)
An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.
Four Boys and a Gun (1957)
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they...
Caribbean (1952)
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and...
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Ensign Pulver (1964)
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work...
Free to Be… You and Me (1974)
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,...