Morgan Freeman
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Best of the Best of the Electric Company, The (1971-1977)
- Feat. Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno…
- A generous selection of excerpts from the long–running 1970s children's TV show, which mixed up its educationalist intentions (especially…
- Brubaker (1980)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander…
- Straight–edged prison drama based around the true story of a warden who disguised himself as a convict in order to expose the corruptions of…
- Harry and Son (1984)
- Dir. Paul Newman
Feat. Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin…
- Earnest drama concerning cantankerous working stiff Newman and his struggling author son. Those allergic to overt symbolism may want to give this one…
- Clean and Sober (1988)
- Dir. Glenn Gordon Caron
Feat. Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman…
- Unflinching, powerful drama with Michael Keaton utterly convincing as a real estate broker who decides to lay low at a drug rehabilitation facility…
- Glory (1989)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes…
- Time and place is perfectly re–created in this moving account of the plight of Negro soldiers during the American civil war.
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd
- Oscar–winning adaptation of Albert Uhry's stage play charting the 25–year relationship between a crotchety Southern woman and her black…
- Lean On Me (1989)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume
- Principal Morgan Freeman whips the pupils of a troubled high–school into shape in this formulaic but likeable example of the genre.
- Johnny Handsome (1989)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern…
- Mickey Rourke plays a deformed petty criminal who takes the rap for a major robbery. In prison he is given a new handsome face and proceeds to avenge…
- Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith…
- Hanks, Willis and Griffith stumble through Tom Wolfe's novel about a hot–shot stockbroker who is scandalised through misdemeanor. A famous…
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
- Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio…
- Lavishly mounted mega–hit. An exhilarating romp through the forests of Sherwood.
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman…
- Clint Eastwood delivers the film of his acting and directing career with a smoulderingly dark rendering of a smart script about an aging gunfighter…
- Power of One, The (1992)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Stephen Dorff
- From Bryce Courtney's best–seller, an oppressed English orphan in Africa finds a father figure in prison inmate Morgan Freeman, who teaches him…
- Bopha! (1993)
- Dir. Morgan Freeman
Feat. Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard
- Danny Glover plays a loyal police sergeant in 1980 South Africa who comes under fire from his militant son. Examines the less visible conflicts that…
- Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
- Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, William Sadler…
- Compelling yarn made of an early non–horror Stephen King short story about an innocent prison inmate who spends two decades behind…
- Outbreak (1995)
- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman…
- A deadly disease breaks out in the US of A, and scientist Dustin Hoffman becomes the only man able to save its entire population. The little man…
- Seven (Se7en) (1995)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow…
- Director David Fincher imbues the hackneyed serial–killer genre with astonishing directorial flair, while bringing an influential 'underground'…
- Chain Reaction (1996)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz
- The science–slip and fugitive genres converge in this rather silly vehicle for a post–SPEED Keanu Reeves. His innocent,…
- Moll Flanders (1996)
- Dir. Pen Densham
Feat. Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman
- The hardships of the 18th century England prove a lifelong test of character for the eponymous heroine, born into poverty, then graduating to both…
- Kiss the Girls (1997)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd
- Raincoated detective Morgan Freeman and bottle–brunetted Ashley Judd seek the psychotic 'Casanova', who kidnaps beautiful woman for his…
- Hard Rain (1997)
- Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater
- Bank–robber Morgan Freeman targets a Mid–Western town and doggedly continues his heist as rising floodwaters turn the streets into…
- Amistad (1998)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Matthew McConaughey
- Laying bare his socio–historical conscience (a much better prospect post–SCHINDLER'S LIST), Steven Speilberg sets sail with an epic of…
- Deep Impact (1998)
- Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Morgan Freeman…
- Contrasting the gung–ho cartoonery of the other meteor–disaster–pic, ARMAGEDDON, this chooses to show the 'human side' of an…
- Nurse Betty (2000)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock…
- Part fairy–tale comedy, part edgy thriller, this perhaps qualifies as the perfect date movie.
Due to the trauma of witnessing her…
- Along Came a Spider (2000)
- Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Michael Wincott, Monica Potter
- Morgan Freeman returns as the grizzled manhunter from KISS THE GIRLS, here investigating the mysterious kidnapping of a senator’s daughter.…
- High Crimes (2001)
- Dir. Carl Franklin
Feat. Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel…
- Ashley Judd is a little confused when ex–Army hubby Jim Caviezel is arrested for massacres in Latin America under a different name.
Soon she…
- Sum of All Fears, The (2002)
- Dir. Phillip Alden Anderson
Feat. Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall
- A nightmarish post–9/11 thriller from Tom Clancy, with Ben Affleck taking the place of Harrison Ford as CIA–man Jack Ryan, here hunting…
- DreamCatcher (2002)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore…
- Four childhood friends, who share psychic powers and an annual appointment to go male–bonding in the Maine backwoods, are inadvertantly drawn…
- Levity (2003)
- Dir. Ed Solomon
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter…
- A bleak study of the post–prison world of paroled killer Billy Bob Thornten, who is haunted by the spectre of his teenage victim as he attempts…
- Bruce Almighty (2003)
- Dir. Tom Shadyac
Feat. Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman
- The second coming of Jim Carrey for the director of LIAR LIAR is a similar ‘high concept’ comedy with the same ratio of side–splitting and…
- Big Bounce, The (2003)
- Dir. George Armitage
Feat. Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen…
- Adapted from a cheerily hardboiled novel by Elmore Leonard, this sees petty–crim Wilson washing up in Hawaii, when a tempting swindle lands in…