Shirley Jo Finney

Acting

Shirley Jo Finney

Born 1949-07-14 · Merced, California, USA

Shirley Jo Finney was a theater director and actor known for the 1975 TV biopic “Wilma.”

Acting credits

Moving poster
5.5

Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.

Moving

1988

Nashville Girl poster
5.7

A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star. However, she discovers that her single-minded determination has caused her to lose things far more precious than fame or money when she gets involved with a group of corrupt music executives.

Nashville Girl

1976

Nuts poster
6.4

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Nuts

1987

Hey Good Lookin' poster
5.5

In 1953 Brooklyn, charismatic hood and The Stompers leader Vinnie Genzianna, his friend and second-in-command Crazy Shapiro, and their respective girlfriends Roz and Eva get wrapped up in an escalating conflict with the rival Black gang, The Chaplains, lead by Boogaloo Jones.

Hey Good Lookin'

1982

Laker Girls poster
6.0

Three hopefuls — a college grad, a dance teacher from Watts, and an incognito heiress — vie for a spot on the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleading team.

Laker Girls

1990

Uncle Tom's Cabin poster
7.0

The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1987

Wilma poster
6.6

The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

Wilma

1977

The River Niger poster
6.7

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.

The River Niger

1976

Echo Park poster
5.3

In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the next apartment, August, an Austrian bodybuilder, fancies himself the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. As the pressures of everyday life in LA mount, Jonathan and August vie for May's love.

Echo Park

1985

One Man Force poster
4.6

In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner

One Man Force

1989

Thornwell poster
7.3

The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.

Thornwell

1981