Purlie
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Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people. This 1981 television adaptation won a CableACE Award.
Robert Guillaume
Melba Moore
Sherman Hemsley
Linda Hopkins
Rhetta Hughes
Brandon Maggart
Don Scardino
Clarice Taylor
Loretta Abbott
Brenda Braxton
P.L. Brown
Olivia Detante
Suzzanne Douglas
Cisco Drayton
Tanya Gibson
Michael Goring
Milt Grayson
Lawrence Hamilton
Clinton King Keen
Mildred Lane
Judy Leak
Eugene Little
Pauletta Washington
Lou Ann Pickett
Herbert Rawlings
Renee Rose
Ted Ross
Otis Sallid
Henry Shaw
Valerie Smith
Jeffery V. Thompson
Denessa Tobin
David Weatherspoon
