Name
Godfrey Cambridge
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1933-02-26
Deathday
1976-11-29 (43 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time magazine in 1965 as "one of the country's four most celebrated Negro comedians."
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Known For
7.5
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the to...
4.6
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When ...
6.1
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photo...
5.9
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the Pres...
6.6
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time...
6.2
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who di...
5.6
A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train....
7.2
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between t...
6.2
Lonnie and Text are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into ...
6.3
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world o...
- 1975 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men as Mr. Jenkins
- 1967 The President's Analyst as Don Masters
- 1972 Beware! The Blob as Chester Hargis
- 1967 The Busy Body as Mike
- 1970 Watermelon Man as Jefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber
- 1961 Splendor in the Grass as Chauffeur (uncredited)
- 1975 Friday Foster as Ford Malotte
- 1970 Cotton Comes to Harlem as Gravedigger Jones
- 1968 The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Benjamin 'Benny' Brownstead
- 1977 Scott Joplin as Tom Turpin
- 1972 Come Back, Charleston Blue as Gravedigger Jones
- 1964 The Troublemaker as Fire Inspector
- 1963 Gone Are the Days! as Gitlow Judson
- 1975 Whiffs as Dusty
- 1968 Bye Bye Braverman as Taxi Driver
- 1972 The Biscuit Eater as Willie Dorsey
- 1994 But... Seriously as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 Dead Is Dead as Host - Himself
- 1973 Five on the Black Hand Side as Godfrey Cambridge
- 1967 Lionpower from MGM as Self - Benny (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2015 Best of Enemies as Self (archival)
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1958 Naked City ( 1 episode ) as George
- 1973 Police Story ( 2 episodes )
- 1964 The Hollywood Palace ( 1 episode ) as Self - Comedian
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1 episode ) as Self (uncredited)
- 1966 ABC Stage 67 ( 1 episode ) as Self - Husband
- 1958 Naked City ( 1 episode ) as Detective Carlisle
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1963 The Danny Kaye Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1969 Love, American Style ( 1 episode ) as Harley
- 1966 The Monkees ( 1 episode ) as Mexican Parking Lot Attendant (uncredited)
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 1970 Night Gallery ( 1 episode ) as Jackie Slater (segment "Make Me Laugh")
