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Harold Sylvester (born February 10, 1949) is an American film and television actor.
Sylvester was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. A graduate of New Orleans’ St. Augustine High School and Tulane University, Sylvester is best known for his role on the TV series Married… with Children as Griff, the co-worker and friend of Al Bundy at the shoe store. Harold’s other TV roles include the short-lived 1981 series Walking Tall, Today’s F.B.I., Mary, and Shaky Ground. The most recent TV show he starred in was The Army Show. Sylvester had a recurring role on the TV series City of Angels.
His well known film roles are An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Uncommon Valor (1983), Innerspace (1987), Corrina, Corrina (1994), and Missing Brendan (2003). Sylvester has made guest appearances on shows, ranging from Hill Street Blues to Murder, She Wrote to NYPD Blue.
Sylvester attended Tulane University on a basketball scholarship and graduated in 1972 with a degree in theater and psychology. He was the first African-American ever to receive an athletic scholarship from Tulane.
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Harold Sylvester Biography / Wiki
Name | Harold Sylvester |
Also Know | |
Gender | N/A |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | New Orleans, Louisiana |
Date of Birth | 1949-02-10 |
Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
Deathday |
Harold Sylvester Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Fast Break | D.C. | 1979-03-02 | David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along s… |
In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing | Art Regan | 1990-11-25 | A look at the dangerous and bizarre life of an undercover cop who lives on the edge and the strife and heartbreak that comes with the job. There is al… |
Uncommon Valor | Johnson | 1983-12-16 | A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese…… |
Missing Brendan | Stan Wade | 2004-10-26 | George takes a trip to Vietnam to find his missing son. George’s son Bob and Bob’s son Patrick accompany George on the trip. George’s son, Brendan, ha… |
Hit List | Brian Armstrong | 1989-03-03 | A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man’s son…. |
Vision Quest | Gene Tanneran | 1985-02-15 | After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge… |
The Sixth Man | James Tyler | 1997-03-28 | A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother’s basketball team win the NCAA title…. |
For One Night | Mr. Howard | 2006-02-05 | Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combinin… |
Sounder, Part 2 | Nathan | 1976-10-13 | Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children…. |
An Officer and a Gentleman | Perryman | 1982-07-28 | Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer’s course, Mayo runs afoul… |
Someone She Knows | Lt. Jack Emery | 1994-10-03 | A desperate mother becomes detective to solve her 5 year-old daughter’s death. The authorities suspect that the girl has been killed by a well-known p… |
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Gilbert | 1991-01-21 | This is the story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer, who’s being threatened, so he has to have an armed bodyguard…. |
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich | Doctor | 1978-02-03 | Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year old Benjie (Larry B. Scott) turns to heroin to escape. After Benjie hits rock bottom… |
Space Rage | Max Bryson | 1985-08-15 | In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet P… |
Night of the Strangler | Jim Bunch | 1972-10-01 | In New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders…. |
Innerspace | Pete Blanchard | 1987-06-30 | Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, J… |
In the Deep Woods | George Dunaway | 1992-10-26 | A friend of Joanna has been killed by a serial killers who leaves the bodies in the woods. A strange guy who says is a private detective: Joanna begin… |
Inside Moves | Alvin Martin | 1980-12-19 | After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. Wh… |
Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours | Rider | 1976-10-27 | A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn’t know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she mig… |
Night Club | Grim Interviewer | 2011-04-11 | Three friends – aided by one of the residents – start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put thems… |
Corrina, Corrina | Frank | 1994-08-12 | When Manny Singer’s wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper … |
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Sam (uncredited) | 1974-01-31 | In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turn… |
Writing
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Passing Glory | Writer | 1999-02-21 | A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team i… |
Writer | City of Angels is an American medical drama television series which ran for two seasons on CBS during the 2000 calendar year. It was network televisio… | ||
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