Afemo Omilami
Afemo Omilami (born December 13, 1950) is an American actor. On television, in addition to numerous guest appearances, he had recurring roles on In the Heat of the Night (1989 - 1993), Ghost Whisperer (2007 - 2008), and Saints & Sinners (2016 - 2018). Omilami has played supporting film roles in Trading Places (1983), Glory (1989), The Firm (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Gordy (1995), Remember the Titans (2000), Ray (2004), Hounddog (2007), The Blind Side (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015), and others.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9536 |
| Birthday | 1950-12-13 |
| Place of Birth | Petersburg, Virginia, USA |
| Also Known As |
1994
Forrest Gump
8.462/30435
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what any...
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Forrest Gump
1990
The Long Walk Home
7.62/163
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luth...
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The Long Walk Home
2021
Horror Noire
4.477/22
An anthology film presenting six short horror stories from black writers and directors, featuring racist vampires, supernatural creatures, and Satan h...
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Horror Noire
2000
Animal Factory
6.327/271
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug deale...
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Animal Factory
2002
Drumline
6.973/582
A talented street drummer from Harlem enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flound...
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Drumline
2008
Hounddog
6.49/143
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Hounddog
2006
Madea's Family Reunion
6.357/224
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
1995
Gordy
5.368/34
A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
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Gordy
2023
Freedom's Path
7.929/7
A Union soldier flees from battle and is rescued unexpectedly by free Black man Kitch and his friends. Risking everything, Kitch takes William deep in...
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Freedom's Path
1991
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
5.8/10
From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gor...
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In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
1999
Funny Valentines
7.688/8
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
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Funny Valentines
1999
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
6.167/21
In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the...
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
5.664/5873
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their m...
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2014
The Good Lie
7.503/620
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern w...
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The Good Lie
1990
Web of Deceit
4/2
After making a name for herself on the West Coast, a defense lawyer returns to her hometown of Atlanta to argue a controversial rape-murder case. But...
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Web of Deceit
2000
Tigerland
6.567/645
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands...
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Tigerland
1979
Freedom Road
5.167/9
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate d...
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Freedom Road
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
7.424/18759
After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into t...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2000
Remember the Titans
7.666/3061
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different...
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Remember the Titans
2015
Terminator Genisys
6/9158
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unkn...
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Terminator Genisys
2012
Steel Magnolias
6.9/68
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Loui...
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Steel Magnolias
1993
Sankofa
5.833/18
On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past...
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Sankofa
2016
Hidden Figures
8.047/10653
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brain...
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Hidden Figures
2010
Beneath the Dark
4.833/51
Driving to a wedding in Los Angeles through the Mojave Desert, Paul and Adrienne pull off the highway and into Roy's Motel and Cafe. This roadside art...
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Beneath the Dark
2018
Down for Whatever
5.75/4
A young and successful doctor is shocked to learn her two sisters are suspected of killing a cop.
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Down for Whatever
2003
Runaway Jury
6.944/1601
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, w...
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Runaway Jury
1994
Drop Squad
3.5/12
Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spi...
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Drop Squad
1999
Chill Factor
4.905/153
A store clerk and an ice cream truck driver are thrown together when a dying scientist entrusts them with a deadly chemical kept in ice. This chemical...
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Chill Factor
2019
Poms
6.574/229
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-...
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Poms
1999
Bringing Out the Dead
6.599/1274
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried ev...
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Bringing Out the Dead
1999
Selma, Lord, Selma
7.2/12
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested whe...
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Selma, Lord, Selma
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
2019
Full Count
4.7/8
An unfortunate chain of events forces Milton Young to give up his dream of playing professional baseball and return home to the town he fought hard to...
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Full Count
1986
The Money Pit
6.513/1279
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-...
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The Money Pit
1983
Trading Places
7.231/3764
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Trading Places
1993
The Firm
6.747/2401
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...
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The Firm
1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
7/3
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe tha...
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1993
The Real McCoy
5.71/271
Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but no...
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The Real McCoy
2002
Sweet Home Alabama
6.423/1783
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—incl...
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Sweet Home Alabama
2007
The List
3.458/24
A sudden death tied to a list from the past leads to unimaginable evil. Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stu...
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The List
2009
The Blind Side
7.664/6982
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a...
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The Blind Side
2019
The Best of Enemies
7.418/498
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctan...
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The Best of Enemies
2019
A Brother's Honor
6.4/7
3 brothers are reunited after their grandfather suffers a heart attack. The Granger men, Jace, Caden and Dalton promise their dying grandfather that t...
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A Brother's Honor
1989
Glory
7.491/1867
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Glory
2007
The Reaping
5.773/914
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking r...
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The Reaping
2003
Cold Mountain
6.936/2025
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts...
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Cold Mountain
2016
The Founder
7.152/5525
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California....
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The Founder
2010
Blood Done Sign My Name
5.357/14
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The p...
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Blood Done Sign My Name
2010
Bloodworth
6.542/36
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and...
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Bloodworth
2006
Idlewild
5.65/70
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
2006
Heavens Fall
7/21
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freig...
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Heavens Fall
2006
Glory Road
7.41/822
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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Glory Road
2004
Ray
7.456/2294
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make h...
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Ray
2004
The Alamo
5.774/379
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at th...
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The Alamo
2002
I'm with Lucy
5.439/41
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had b...
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I'm with Lucy
2001
Rustin
6/2
A small town drama about a man who is forced to confront some uncomfortable issues when his past comes back to haunt him. Billy Stagen is a former pro...
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Rustin
2000
The Runaway
7.2/6
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change....
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The Runaway
1999
Wayward Son
4.4/5
Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Je...
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Wayward Son
1999
Forces of Nature
5.465/610
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagul...
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Forces of Nature
1997
Flash
8.2/16
A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the famil...
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Flash
1994
The War
6.666/232
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep...
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The War
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
6.14/132
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collec...
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A Simple Twist of Fate
1991
White Lie
7/3
A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
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White Lie
1990
Caroline?
5.8/11
Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his u...
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Caroline?
1990
Murder in Mississippi
6.944/9
In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registratio...
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Murder in Mississippi
2016
Smoke & Mirrors
0/0
A bittersweet tale of a boy falling for a vampire.
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Smoke & Mirrors
2001
Hood Rat
5.35/10
Think of it as Willard in the hood, the debut feature from director Leslie Small finds a Isaiah Washington playing a kindly man who turns maniacal wit...
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