Frederick O'Neal

Acting

Frederick O'Neal

Born 1905-08-27

Acting credits

No Way Out poster
6.9

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.

No Way Out

1950

Pinky poster
7.1

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Pinky

1949

Something of Value poster
5.5

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.

Something of Value

1957

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist poster
8.3

A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

1998

Tarzan's Peril poster
5.5

Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.

Tarzan's Peril

1951

The Sins of Rachel Cade poster
6.4

A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.

The Sins of Rachel Cade

1961

Take a Giant Step poster
5.2

After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.

Take a Giant Step

1959

The Battler poster
6.0

Wandering around America, young Nick Adams encounters a washed-up punch-drunk boxer known as "The Battler".

The Battler

1955

Strategy of Terror poster
9.0

A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader. Film was a re-edit of two Kraft Suspense Theatre episodes.

Strategy of Terror

1969

Anna Lucasta poster
6.2

The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed.

Anna Lucasta

1958

Free, White and 21 poster
5.0

A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.

Free, White and 21

1963