Commanding African American actor Thalmus Rasulala launched his film career in such blaxploitationers of the 1960s and 1970s as Cool Breeze, Blacula, Bucktown and Friday Foster. He was prominently cast in the Emmy-winning made-for-TV feature The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, played Omro in the 1977 miniseries Roots, and was one of the nine stars of the 1981 multipart drama The Sophisticated Gents. Rasulala's series-TV manifest included the occasional role of Mabel King's ex-husband on What's Happening!! (1976-79), and a substantial run on the daytime drama One Life to Live. In the 1991 TV movie Above the Law, Rasulala played a character named Crowder, which happened to be his given name. Thalmus Rasulala died of heart failure and leukemia at the age of 51; his last film, Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), was released posthumously.
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Hitz
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1992 | |||
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New Jack City
Actor |
1991 | |||
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Blind Vengeance
Actor |
1990 | |||
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Lambada
Actor |
1989 | |||
| 1989 | ||||
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The Package
Actor |
1989 | |||
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The Preppie Murder
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Above the Law
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Bulletproof
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Life on the Edge
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Born American
Actor |
1986 | |||
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The Boss' Wife
Actor |
1986 | |||
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The Defiant Ones
Actor |
1986 | |||
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The Jerk, Too
Actor |
1984 | |||
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Booker
Actor |
1983 | |||
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The Sophisticated Gents
Actor |
1981 | |||
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The Bermuda Triangle
Actor |
1979 | |||
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The President's Mistress
Actor |
1978 | |||
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Fun with Dick and Jane
Actor |
1977 | |||
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Killer on Board
Actor |
1977 | |||
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Roots
Actor |
1977 | |||
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The Last Hard Men
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1976 | |||
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Adios Amigos
Actor |
1975 | |||
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Bucktown
Actor |
1975 | |||
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Cornbread, Earl and Me
Actor |
1975 | |||
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Friday Foster
Actor |
1975 | |||
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Mr. Ricco
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1975 | |||
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The Slams
First Assistant Director |
1973 | |||
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Willie Dynamite
Actor |
1973 | |||
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Blacula
Actor |
1972 | |||
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Cool Breeze
Actor |
1972 | |||
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The Bait
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1972 | |||
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