Ernest Rayford
Biography
Ernest Rayford is an actor.
Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Thomas Joshua
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Men's Club Attendant
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Josh the Waiter
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Glaring Man
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Car Wash Attendant #1
Everybody has problems these days, and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They're hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas with $5 million secretly stashed in the front seat. In order to get there, the pair sells off the car piece by piece, including the seven-figure front seat. Cheech and Chong then have a much bigger problem - Slyman and Habib are after them, swearing to kill them after the appropriate torture.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ruby Oliver's semi-autobiographical drama focusing on the struggles of woman living in the ghetto of Southside Chicago who must cope with an alcoholic husband and 3 troubled children (2 layabout sons and an unmarried, pregnant daughter).

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A Black screenwriter is hired to write the $50,000,000 remake of The Birth of a Nation.

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Thomas Joshua
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
