Madge Sinclair
Birthday: Born in 1938-04-28 in St. Ann, Jamaica W.I.
Deathday: 1995-12-20
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Madge Dorita Sinclair (28 April 1938 – 20 December 1995) was a Jamaican American character actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Madge Sinclair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Gabriel's Fire
Character: Empress Josephine
Gabriel's Fire is an American television series that ran on ABC in the USA in 1990–1991. A revamped version of the series, entitled Pros and Cons, aired briefly the following season....
Trapper John, M.D.
Character: Ernestine Shoop, R. N.
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986....
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Captain Silva La Forge
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds....
L.A. Law
Character: Jessica Rollins
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay right...
Tales from the Crypt
Character: Lucille
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?...
Roseanne
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A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois....
Ohara
Character:
Ohara is an American television series starring Pat Morita in the title role of Lt. Ohara....
The Waltons
Character:
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II....
The White Shadow
Character: Louelia Judd
The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981....
Alex Haley's Queen
Character: Dora
Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolves around her early years as a slave who yearns to know who her father is, and her condition as a fair skin mixed race woman who spends her life trying to figure out where exactly she fits in....
Grandpa Goes to Washington
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A grouchy, retired political-science professor gets elected to the U.S. Senate, where his no-nonsense style clashes with the establishment....
Joe Forrester
Character:
Joe Forrester is an American Crime/Drama TV series, starring Lloyd Bridges....
Pros and Cons
Character: Josephine
Pros and Cons is an American television series . It is a revamped version of Gabriel's Fire, which aired on ABC the previous season....
The Orchid House
Character: Lally
A white, plantation owning family in Dominica waits for the return of the patriarch from WWI, but things change when he does. Its focus on the declining power of the white plantocracy on the island of Dominica between the war years, handled through the prism of an intimate family drama, has great depth while remaining accessible. The series was shot in its entirety in Dominica....
Roots
Character: Bell Reynolds
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the mos...
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Character: Mrs. Jefferson
The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown....
Dream On
Character: Mrs. Charles
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts....
Movie Credits
The Lion King
Character: Sarabi (voice)
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life....
Convoy
Character: Widow Woman
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road....
I Love Liberty
Character: Self
An all-star variety special saluting America....
Leadbelly
Character: Miss Eula
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there....
The Man with Three Wives
Character: Margaret
A married doctor marries two other women and juggles a life with three wives....
High Ice
Character: Dr. Pittman
A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share command of an operation to rescue several stranded weekend climbers from a mountain ledge....
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Character: Georgia LeFlore
The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore, from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to his days behind bars on a petty robbery conviction to his ultimate once-in-a-lifetime chance with the Detroit Tigers, where he became an outstanding baseball player....
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Character: Leona Hamilton
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time....
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Character: Miss Flowers
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents....
Conrack
Character: Mrs. Scott
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island....
Uncle Joe Shannon
Character: Margaret
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles through each other's encouragement....
The End of Innocence
Character: Nurse Bowlin
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers....
Almos' a Man
Character: Essie
Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun....
I Will, I Will...For Now
Character: Dr. Williams
Les Bingham takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie has a new love in life. What he doesn't know is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer. When Katie's sister Sally arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction....
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
Character: Miss Tomas
13-year-old Brian has problems reading, which his teachers attribute to laziness. It is later discovered that he has Dyslexia....
Jimmy B. & Andre
Character: Andre's Mother
Real-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt....
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Character: Tituba
A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused and subsequent releases from jail. Dark and gritty, but not frightening....
Coming to America
Character: Queen Aoleon
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble....
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Character: Saratoga Captain (uncredited)
When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize earths oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet....
Victims
Character: Sgt. Ashcroft
A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him....
I Love You...Good-bye
Character: Salesgirl
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life....