Fredi Washington Movies

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Robeson

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Duke Ellington

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

A well-respected boxer is framed by his enemies in the death of a policeman during a raid on a local gambling establishment. He is convicted and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Jeanette

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Fredi Washington

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Eagels

In this short film, musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party".

Genre: Music

Cast: Sally Gooding

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ossie Davis

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cab Calloway