Nipsey Russell

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, WRITER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Nipsey Russell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1918. He got his start in Rock and Roll Review and other music revues in the 1950s. In the 1960s Russell achieved his first major role as Officer Anderson in Car 54, Where Are You? (1961). After being on the show for a year, Russell was a mainstay on variety shows, appearing on Laugh-In, The Dean Martin Show (1965), and the Jackie Gleason Show, among many others. Russell also appeared on many small shows in the 1960s as an always unique personality who would liven up almost any program. As the 1970s approached, Nipsey Russell became a popular game show panelist, appearing on To Tell The Truth, Match Game PM (1975), and many others. Nipsey was known as television's poet laureate on such shows as the Tonight Show and many other popular talk shows of the day.Nipsey's film roles were remarkably scarce, but he will always be remembered for his role of the Tin Man in the 1978 remake of the Wizard of Oz, The Wiz (1978). The movie was a box office failure, but since that time the movie has been considered a cult classic. But Russell's skill cannot be judged solely by his television and movie appearances. He was an accomplished actor and singer on stage and had a strong presence on Broadway for many years. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott msa0510@mail.ecu.edu.

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Streaming Availability

Vudu has the most number of Nipsey Russell’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Nipsey Russell on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of Nipsey Russell movies released per year from 1975 till 2018.

Top Genres

Nipsey Russell works mostly in Game-Show Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 35% of Nipsey Russell movies are Game-Show Genre movies. See Top Genres that Nipsey Russell worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Nipsey Russell has worked on is 6.2.

6.2 / 10

Nipsey Russell's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Adventure,Family,Fantasy
The Wiz (1978)

An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.

5.4/10134 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to testifying against orgainzed crime in ...

2.5/1089 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Bizarre, short-lived oddity in which contestants spun numbers to try to match the last four digits of the phone number of a studio audience member. Home viewers could win as well if their ...

/1030 min

Available in 6 platform(s).