Cornbread Earl And Me

Corn bread (Keith Wilkes) is an African American who tried to escape from the surrounding villages. He did so by becoming a school basketball star – and the idol of other youth in the community. Will start college with scholarships, corn bread was mistakenly killed by a police officer. Keith Wilkes, who played the title role, is in real life all-American at UCLA. Corn bread, Earl and Me, which is based on the novel by Ronald Fair Hog Butcher, marking the beginning of a big screen Laurence Fishburne.

From All Movie Guide: Dynamic African American actor Moses Gunn was one of the founders of the Negro Ensemble Company. Education at Tennessee State and the University of Kansas, Gunn made the first New York appearance in 1961 in a production of Measure for Measure; he remained active in the Broadway scene throughout his career, won several Obie awards. 1962 His Broadway debut came in the way of Jean Genet’s The Blacks, which serves to introduce more black acts era strong talent. In films from 1964’s Nothing But man, Gunn is best-remembered for his portrayal Jonas Shaft gangster bumpy first two films, and for a brief cameo but said Booker T. Washington in Ragtime, a performance which won him an NAACP image award. In the television series, Gunn was top-billed as Jebediah Nightlinger in The Cowboys (1972), plays a boxing trainer George Beifus in The Contender (1980), it appeared as Moses Gage miners Father Murphy (1981-84) and chew scenery.