James Iglehart is a former American actor that appeared in a six films during the 1970s and was the leading actor in the 1973 blaxploitation

Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is a film genre which emerged in the United States circa 1970. It is considered an ethnic sub-genre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, although the genre's audience...

 film Savage!

Savage! (film)

Savage! is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Cirio H. Santiago. The film deals with a strapping young black mercenary blowing things up in the jungle.The soundtrack is by Don Julian....

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Iglehart also had a role as the violent womanizing Randy Black in the Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer....

 directed 1970 film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian...

. In 1971 he had a role as Clay Rutherford inThe Seven Minutes

The Seven Minutes (film)

The Seven Minutes is 1971 drama film directed and produced by Russ Meyer. The film was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irving Wallace.-Plot:After a teenager who purchased the erotic novel The Seven Minutes is charged for rape, an...

, which also featured Ron Randell

Ron Randell

Ronald Egan "Ron" Randell was an Australian-born American film and stage actor.-Biography:Randell was born in Sydney. He started his career as a stage and radio performer in his teens. He soon established himself as a leading male juvenile for radio, acting for 2KY Players, George Edwards, BAP...

, John Carradine

John Carradine

John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history...

 and an up and coming Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck

Thomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B....

. Then he starred alongside Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn

Theodore Scott Glenn is an American actor. His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy , astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff ,Emmett in Silverado , Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October , Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch -Early...

 and Gary Busey

Gary Busey

William Gary Busey , best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in a large variety of films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage...

 in a violent biker exploitation flick, Angels Hard as They Come, a film that also featured Sharon Peckinpah the daughter of director Sam Peckinpah

Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an American filmmaker and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch...

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In 1973 and 1974 he had lead roles as Cal Jefferson in Bamboo Gods And Iron Men

Bamboo Gods and Iron Men

Bamboo Gods and Iron Men is a martial arts comedy set in the Philippines that by default comes under the Blaxploitation category. Produced by American International Pictures...

, a Filipino

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 Martial arts

Martial arts

Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....

/blaxploitation film. In 1978 he appeared Death Force, his last role alongside Carmen Argenziano

Carmen Argenziano

Carmen Antimo Argenziano is an American actor who has appeared in over 50 movies and around 100 television movies or episodes....

 and Felton Perry

Felton Perry

Felton Perry is an American actor. He is known for his role as Inspector Early Smith in the 1973 movie Magnum Force, the second film in the Dirty Harry series. Felton's other well-known role is in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop as Donald Johnson, the executive at the corporation Omni...

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Filmography

• The New People
  The New People
  The New People was a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. The crash killed several of the college students, and all but...
  
  - The Prisoner of Bomano (1 episode, 1969) .... Hap
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian...
  
  (1970) .... Randy Black
• The Seven Minutes
  The Seven Minutes (film)
  The Seven Minutes is 1971 drama film directed and produced by Russ Meyer. The film was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irving Wallace.-Plot:After a teenager who purchased the erotic novel The Seven Minutes is charged for rape, an...
  
  (1971) .... Clay Rutherford
• Angels Hard as They Come (1971) .... Monk
• Savage!
  Savage! (film)
  Savage! is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Cirio H. Santiago. The film deals with a strapping young black mercenary blowing things up in the jungle.The soundtrack is by Don Julian....
  
  (1973) .... Savage
• Bamboo Gods and Iron Men
  Bamboo Gods and Iron Men
  Bamboo Gods and Iron Men is a martial arts comedy set in the Philippines that by default comes under the Blaxploitation category. Produced by American International Pictures...
  
  (1974) .... Cal Jefferson
• Death Force (1978)

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