Morgan Freeman movies

Freemans family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi, Gary, Indiana, and finally Chicago, Illinois. Freeman made his acting debut at age eight, playing the lead role in a school play.

At age twelve he won a statewide drama competition, and while in high school he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955, he turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting to work as a mechanic in the United States Air Force.Freeman moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles Community College. During this period, he also lived in New York City working as a dancer at the 1964 Worlds Fair and in San Francisco where he was a member of the Opera Ring music group. Freeman made his acting debut in a touring company version of The Royal Hunt of the Sun, and also appeared as an extra in the 1965 film, The Pawnbroker. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1967, opposite Viveca Lindfors in The Nigger LoversBiography for Morgan Freeman, IMDB.com database, retrieved 16 Mar 2007Morgan Freeman Biography, tiscali.co.uk Film & TV, retrieved 16 Mar 2007] (about the civil-rights era "Freedom Riders"), before debuting on Broadway in 1968s all-black version of Hello, Dolly!, which also starred Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway.
Although his first credited film appearance was in 1971s Who Says I Cant Ride a Rainbow?, Freeman first became known in the American media through roles on the soap opera Another World and the PBS kids show The Electric Company, (notably as Easy Reader and Dracula) which he claimed he should have left earlier than planned.Beginning in the mid-1980s, Freeman began playing prominent supporting roles in many feature films, earning him a reputation for depicting wise and fatherly characters. As he gained fame, he went on to bigger roles in films such as the chauffeur Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy, and Sergeant Major Rawlins in Glory (both in 1989).

Morgan Freeman Movies

All movies starring Morgan Freeman.

• An Unfinished Life
• Batman Begins
• Bruce Almighty
• Deep Impact
• Evan Almighty
• Glory
• Gone, Baby, Gone
• High Crimes
• Lucky Number Slevin
• Marche de l'empereur, La
• Million Dollar Baby
• Outbreak
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• Se7en
• Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
• The Dark Knight
• Wanted
• The Bucket List
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Contract