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Cy Grant (8 November 1919 – 13 February 2010) was a Guyanese actor, singer, writer and poet, who in the 1950s became the first black person to appear regularly on British television. Following service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he worked as an actor and singer, before setting up the Drum Arts Centre in the 1970s. He was appointed director of Concord Multicultural Festivals in the early 1980s. A published poet and author of several books, including his 2007 memoir Blackness and the Dreaming Soul, he was an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University, a title awarded in 1997, and since 2001 a member of the Scientific and Medical Network. In 2008 he was instrumental in setting up an online archive to trace and commemorate Caribbean aircrew from World War II. A father of four children, Grant lived in Highgate, London, with his wife Dorith.
Grant was born in the village of Beterverwagting, Demerara, British Guiana (modern-day Guyana), one of seven children in a close-knit middle-class family. His father was a Moravian minister and his mother a music teacher originally from Antigua. At the age of 11, he moved with his family to New Amsterdam, Berbice. After leaving high school, Grant worked as a clerk in the office of a stipendiary magistrate but was unable to study law overseas because of lack of funds.
Actors: Krystian Ramlogan (editor), Krystian Ramlogan (writer), Krystian Ramlogan (writer), Krystian Ramlogan (director), Krystian Ramlogan (producer), Krystian Ramlogan (producer), Kerry King (producer), Mark Jason Welch (actor), Carmen Anderson (actor),
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Short,Actors: Jeff Larson (editor), Jeff Larson (director), Jeff Larson (writer), Jeff Larson (producer), Nora L. Ferris (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Larson (actor), Phil Larson (composer), Jesse Ritz Johnson (actor), Jesse Ritz Johnson (producer), Lars Larson (producer), Lars Larson (actor), Drew Schmalz (actor), Drew Schmalz (producer), Megan Harten (actor), Thomas Becknell (producer),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Short,Actors: Aaron Fronk (director), Aaron Fronk (writer), Aaron Fronk (editor), Aaron Fronk (actor), Aaron Fronk (producer), Vince DeGaetano (producer), Vince DeGaetano (actor), Vince DeGaetano (director), Vince DeGaetano (writer), Cooper Johnson (actor), Cooper Johnson (director), Cooper Johnson (writer), Jake Andrews (actor), Caleb Hepler (actor), Greg Dillon (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Short,Actors: Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), W. Lee Wilder (producer), W. Lee Wilder (director), Victor Jory (actor), Albert Elms (composer), Barbara Nichols (actress), Gerald Turney-Smith (editor), John Bromfield (actor), Myles Wilder (writer), Tessa Prendergast (actress), Jack Lewis (actor), Eric Coverly (actor), Joel Murcott (writer), Vincent Chang (actor),
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Plot: At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.
Keywords: battle, escape-attempt, evil-man, explosion, fire, fistfight, gunfight, informant, inmate, machine-gun