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Purlie

7.0 142 mins Drama   Music   1981
CBS Productions   Showtime Networks  
Director(s): Rudi Goldman

Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people. This 1981 television adaptation won a CableACE Award.

Casts of Purlie

Robert Guillaume

as Purlie

Melba Moore

as Lutiebelle

Sherman Hemsley

as Gitlow

Linda Hopkins

as Sister Hopkins

Rhetta Hughes

as Missy

Brandon Maggart

as Ol' Cap'n

Don Scardino

as Charlie

Clarice Taylor

as Idella

Loretta Abbott

as Ensemble

Brenda Braxton

as Ensemble

P.L. Brown

as Ensemble

Olivia Detante

as Ensemble

Suzzanne Douglas

as Ensemble

Cisco Drayton

as Ensemble

Tanya Gibson

as Ensemble

Michael Goring

as Ensemble

Milt Grayson

as Ensemble

Lawrence Hamilton

as Ensemble

Clinton King Keen

as Ensemble

Mildred Lane

as Ensemble

Judy Leak

as Ensemble

Eugene Little

as Ensemble

Pauletta Washington

as Ensemble

Lou Ann Pickett

as Ensemble

Herbert Rawlings

as Ensemble

Renee Rose

as Ensemble

Ted Ross

as Ensemble

Otis Sallid

as Ensemble

Henry Shaw

as Ensemble

Valerie Smith

as Ensemble

Jeffery V. Thompson

as Ensemble

Denessa Tobin

as Ensemble

David Weatherspoon

as Ensemble

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