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- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsAl JolsonMay McAvoyWarner OlandThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.Probably the most famous blackface performance.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDamon WayansSavion GloverJada Pinkett SmithA frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.Spike Lee's pretty hit-or-miss... But when he's good, he's GREAT. A very under-rated comedy.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.Controversial early popular historic epic, about the rise of the KKK (portrayed sympathically to the klan), where almost all black roles where played by white actors in blackface.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsElvia AllmanBilly BletcherPinto ColvigMickey Mouse and his friends perform "Uncle Tom's Cabin."Back when "Disney race-swapping characters" meant Mickey Mouse in blackface...
- DirectorBen StillerStarsBen StillerJack BlackRobert Downey Jr.Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.I have to wonder how many big-name Hollywood actors would have the balls today, to do a part like this.
- DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsGodfrey CambridgeEstelle ParsonsHoward CaineJeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.Rare example of "whiteface"
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.Jimmy Cagney does blackface
- DirectorKevin WillmottStarsGreg KirschRenee PatrickMolly GrahamThrough the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
- StarsJulian BarrattNoel FieldingMichael FieldingSurreal British comedy in which Vince Noir and Howard Moon have adventures filled with oddball characters while working as Zoo Keepers, before pursuing a musical career and running a second-hand shop.
- 2003–200758mTV-PG8.1 (301)TV EpisodeDirectorPaul KingStarsJulian BarrattNoel FieldingDave BrownVince is infected by a rogue Jazz virus, and it's up to the only person who knows Jazz and Vince well to reluctantly save him, "Fantastic Voyage"-styleThe Mighty Boosh "Blackface" episode, that got the show pulled from Netflix, where Noel gets possessed by "The Spirit of Jazz".
- DirectorJim FranklinStarsTim Brooke-TaylorGraeme GardenBill OddieThe boys visit South Africa.Very early in the protest movement, against South Africa's 'apartheid' racial sergregation policy (before 'Rock Against Racism' popularised the issue), this episode of 'The Goodies' used blackface to mock the South African government.
- DirectorRalph MurphyWalter LangStarsDoris NolanGeorge MurphyElla LoganDiana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and socially significant for them...so she opens up a nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper. For her, that means acts such as opera singers, extracts from "Hamlet" and three sailors imitating a giraffe. Bandleader Ted Lane (George Murphy)thinks hot-music, burlesque-acts and the old razzle-dazzle is just the ticket. Her programming leads to early exits and no-returns.Film debut for 12-year-old Peggy Ryan.
- DirectorJim FranklinBob SpiersStarsTim Brooke-TaylorGraeme GardenBill OddieTim, Graeme, and Bill study their ancestry and come up with theories as to how their families first met.'The Goodies' episode, spoofing the then-popular 'Roots' miniseries, about slavery in the American South, including white actors in blackface (in one of a half-dozen skits)
- CreatorMatt LucasDavid WalliamsStarsMatt LucasDavid WalliamsTom BakerMatt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators of this character-comedy sketch show, delight in all that is mad, bad, quirky and generally bonkers about the people and places of Britain.Dumped from Netflix, for white actors in blackface.
- DirectorTim PopeStarsThe CureSimon GallupRobert SmithFat Bob Smith (back when was skinny) does blackface
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs heads toward the record carrot crop in Alabama but runs into Colonel (Yosemite) Sam who is under orders to let no Yankee cross the Mason-Dixon line.Bugs Bunny does a blackface minstrel show bit
- DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancDarrell PayneDanny WebbBugs heckles a black hunter and escapes from a bear.Bugs Bunny does blackface
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherThe Sportsmen QuartetCotton pickers mistake Bugs' tail for a ball of cotton and toss him in with the rest of the haul. On the riverboat Bugs takes on the gambler Colonel Shuffle.Bugs Bunny does blackface
- DirectorSeymour KneitelAl EugsterStarsJackson BeckJack MercerCartoon minstrel show
- DirectorJohn W. NobleStarsLloyd HamiltonTom WilsonTom O'MalleyA small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse.
- 2005– 19mTV-MA8.1 (2.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorDaniel AttiasStarsCharlie DayGlenn HowertonRob McElhenneyAfter creative differences over what constitutes tasteful nudity cause Frank to pull his money out of Lethal Weapon 6 during filming, Mac, Dennis, and Charlie screen their rough footage for investors in hopes of raising enough capital to finish the production of their latest masterpiece.The Gang Does Blackface
- DirectorPete ChatmonStarsCharlie DayGlenn HowertonRob McElhenneyThe guys are in the final preparation stage for an unknown scheme when Dee excitedly enters to inform them that today is "Dee Day" and the guys must do everything she wants without complaint.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersVictor MooreRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.Fred Astaire does blackface (in a tribute number to influential black dancer, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson)
- DirectorMark SandrichRobert AllenStarsBing CrosbyFred AstaireMarjorie ReynoldsAt an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.Bing Crosby does blackface (in a WILDLY un-PC tribute to Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves... it's really something, I promise...)
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsIrene DunneAllan JonesCharles WinningerDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.Popular musical, including blackface minstrel act.