Acting

Ellen Holly

Born 1931-01-16 Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA 6 films

Ellen Virginia Holly (January 16, 1931 – December 5, 2023) was an American actress. Beginning her career on stage in the late 1950s, Holly was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Holly is noted as the first African American to appear on daytime television in a leading role.

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Filmography

6 films

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In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open que…

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10,000 Black Men Named George

★ 3.9 2002

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during ho…

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School Daze

★ 5.7 1988

A 22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner…

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High School Narc

★ 0.0 1985

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force poster

The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his…

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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

★ 4.4 1978

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch…

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King Lear

★ 9.0 1974

After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with…

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Take a Giant Step

★ 5.2 1959