Helen Martin

Helen Martin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helen Dorothy Martin (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) was an American actress of stage and television who is perhaps most well known for her role in the sitcom 227 as Marla Gibbs' neighbor Pearl. Martin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Amanda Frankie (née Fox) and William Martin, a minister. Martin was a Broadway character actress for many decades, debuting in Orson Welles' production of Native Son in 1941. She appeared in at least a dozen Broadway shows including Jean Genet's The Blacks, Raisin from 1973 to 1975, Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious (and later the musical version, which was called Purlie), The Amen Corner and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment. She was an original member of the American Negro Theater. She first became famous later in life for her guest role as Wanda on the television series Good Times, and later as the wisecracking neighbor Pearl Shay on the television sitcom 227. She also played on the short-run sitcoms Baby, I'm Back (as mother in-law, Luzelle) and That's My Mama; as Loc Dog's grandma, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), the matronly grandmother Mama Doll in the 1998 film Bulworth, and the no-nonsense grandmother in the film Hollywood Shuffle. Helen Martin died of a heart attack on March 25, 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Martin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Helen Martin
  • Popularity: 11.648
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1909-07-23
  • Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Helen Martin Movies

  • 1991
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    Doc Hollywood

    Doc Hollywood

    6.357 1991 HD

    After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a...

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  • 1997
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    Kiss the Girls

    Kiss the Girls

    6.53 1997 HD

    Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova,"...

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  • 1985
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    Amos

    Amos

    7.1 1985 HD

    Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here...

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  • 1987
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    Hollywood Shuffle

    Hollywood Shuffle

    6.4 1987 HD

    Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled...

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  • 1955
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    The Phenix City Story

    The Phenix City Story

    6.6 1955 HD

    A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.

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  • 1990
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    Night Angel

    Night Angel

    4.2 1990 HD

    A legendary she-demon, in the updated guise of a beautiful model, infiltrates the offices of a successful fashion magazine with the aim of corrupting...

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  • 1977
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    A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

    A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

    5.9 1977 HD

    A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

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  • 1982
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    Wacko

    Wacko

    5 1982 HD

    Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the...

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  • 1974
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    Death Wish

    Death Wish

    6.9 1974 HD

    After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be...

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  • 1988
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    Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 2

    Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 2

    1 1988 HD

    Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This second riotous...

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  • 1983
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    Deal of the Century

    Deal of the Century

    4.6 1983 HD

    Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications;...

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  • 1996
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    Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

    Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

    7 1996 HD

    When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and...

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  • 1998
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    Bulworth

    Bulworth

    6.3 1998 HD

    A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by...

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  • 1969
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    J.T.

    J.T.

    1 1969 HD

    J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured...

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  • 2000
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    Something to Sing About

    Something to Sing About

    5.8 2000 HD

    Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging...

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  • 1979
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    Lawman Without a Gun

    Lawman Without a Gun

    1 1979 HD

    During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a...

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  • 1978
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    Cindy

    Cindy

    4.5 1978 HD

    A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to...

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  • 1984
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    Repo Man

    Repo Man

    6.643 1984 HD

    A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures...

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  • 1989
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    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun

    8 1989 HD

    A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

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  • 1979
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    Dummy

    Dummy

    8.5 1979 HD

    The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed...

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  • 1998
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    I Got the Hook-Up

    I Got the Hook-Up

    5.4 1998 HD

    Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises...

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  • 1991
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    House Party 2

    House Party 2

    5.278 1991 HD

    Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business...

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  • 1984
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    The Jerk, Too

    The Jerk, Too

    3 1984 HD

    Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel,...

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  • 1979
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    Better Late Than Never

    Better Late Than Never

    1 1979 HD

    Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads...

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  • 1994
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    Beverly Hills Cop III

    Beverly Hills Cop III

    5.9 1994 HD

    When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World....

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  • 1945
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    The Lady Confesses

    The Lady Confesses

    4.4 1945 HD

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  • 1941
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    Invisible Ghost

    Invisible Ghost

    5.2 1941 HD

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  • 1941
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    Invisible Ghost

    Invisible Ghost

    5.2 1941 HD

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  • 1982
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    St. Elsewhere

    St. Elsewhere

    5.411 1982 HD

    St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed...

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  • 1974
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    Good Times

    Good Times

    7.9 1974 HD

    Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by...

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  • 1983
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    Hardcastle and McCormick

    Hardcastle and McCormick

    6.4 1983 HD

    Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The...

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  • 1982
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    T. J. Hooker

    T. J. Hooker

    6.3 1982 HD

    Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to...

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  • 1975
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    Starsky & Hutch

    Starsky & Hutch

    7.224 1975 HD

    Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the...

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  • 1979
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    Benson

    Benson

    7.2 1979 HD

    A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.

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  • 1976
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    What's Happening!!

    What's Happening!!

    7.4 1976 HD

    What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series....

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  • 1984
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.6 1984 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

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  • 1995
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    The Wayans Bros.

    The Wayans Bros.

    7.1 1995 HD

    The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The series starred real-life brothers Shawn and Marlon...

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  • 1996
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    The Jamie Foxx Show

    The Jamie Foxx Show

    6.8 1996 HD

    Texas native Jamie King is an aspiring actor who heads to Hollywood in hopes to find fame and fortune in the entertainment industry. To support...

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  • 1985
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    227

    227

    6.7 1985 HD

    A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her...

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  • 1975
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    The Jeffersons

    The Jeffersons

    7.296 1975 HD

    Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from...

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  • 1972
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    Maude

    Maude

    6.7 1972 HD

    Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her...

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  • 1972
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    Sanford and Son

    Sanford and Son

    7.442 1972 HD

    The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

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  • 1981
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    Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues

    7.6 1981 HD

    A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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  • 1995
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    The Parent 'Hood

    The Parent 'Hood

    7.2 1995 HD

    The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July 25, 1999. The series starred Robert Townsend and...

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  • 1987
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    Full House

    Full House

    7.549 1987 HD

    After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

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  • 1978
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    Baby, I'm Back

    Baby, I'm Back

    5 1978 HD

    Baby, I'm Back is an American sitcom that aired CBS from January to April 1978. The series stars former Sanford and Son star Demond Wilson, Room 222...

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  • 1974
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    That's My Mama

    That's My Mama

    7 1974 HD

    Clifton Curtis has got it made—he runs a successful business he inherited from his late father and he's lucky with the the ladies—but he...

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  • 1978
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    The White Shadow

    The White Shadow

    6.8 1978 HD

    The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.

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  • 1980
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    The Stockard Channing Show

    The Stockard Channing Show

    5 1980 HD

    The Stockard Channing Show is an American sitcom starring Stockard Channing, Ron Silver, Sydney Goldsmith, Max Showalter and Jack Somack. The show...

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  • 1990
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    The Flash

    The Flash

    7.4 1990 HD

    When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him...

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