![]() ![]() Citizen James aired on Starz Encore/ BET Movies. ĭoug made his debut as a director/producer with the screenplay Citizen James, in which he also co-wrote and starred. It ran from March 31 through April 3, 2005. In theater, Doug starred in the musical Purlie. Doug guest-starred in Touched by an Angel, Law and Order: SVU, and NBC's Conviction. On the Nickelodeon animated show, Little Bill, Doug voiced Percy the pet store owner. Doug also co-hosted the VH-1 series Rock of Ages and spent four season's starring as the character Griffin in the television series Cosby. In the series, he portrayed Douglas Saint Martin, a quirky teenager growing up in a working-class Caribbean family in New York. In television, Doug starred in the ABC series Where I Live, a show developed around his life and on which he served as co-producer. In the animated DreamWorks film, Shark Tale, his is the voice of Bernie the jellyfish. ![]() science fiction comedy Eight Legged Freaks, he portrayed a paranoid small-town radio host with visions of an alien invasion. Giggles, and an FBI agent in the 1997 remake of That Darn Cat. He played a class comedian in Class Act, a soldier enlisted for an unusual duty in Operation Dumbo Drop, an ill-fated high school student in the horror epic Dr. For this role, he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor. The movie is loosely based on the true story of the first Jamaica national bobsled team trying to make it to the Winter Olympics.ĭoug is also known for his roles as the ne'er do well Willie Stevens in Hangin' with the Homeboys. ĭoug is known to movie viewers for his starring role as the spirited pushcart driver turned bobsled racer in Cool Runnings. His entrance into film began when he spoke one line in Spike Lee's film Mo' Better Blues. Doug was first seen at the Apollo Theater by Russell Simmons, who then asked Doug to write and host a syndicated late-night program Simmons produced called The New Music Report. ![]() Doug started off his career as a stand-up comic at the age of 17. In 2004, he had a voice role in the animated feature Shark Tale, and also appeared on two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004, 2012).ĭoug E. He was the star of his own short-lived ABC sitcom, Where I Live, a show which won the acclaim of Bill Cosby, and subsequently played Hilton Lucas's boarder and surrogate son Griffin Vesey on Cosby. ![]() Career ĭoug has appeared in a number of films, including Jungle Fever (1991), Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991), Class Act (1992), Cool Runnings (1993), Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), the remake of Disney's That Darn Cat (1997), and Eight Legged Freaks (2002). He played the role of Griffin Vesey on the CBS sitcom Cosby, Sanka Coffie in the film Cool Runnings, and the voice of Bernie in the animated film Shark Tale.ĭouglas Bourne was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jamaican father and African-American mother. He started his career at age 17 as a stand-up comedian. Doug (born Douglas Bourne January 7, 1970) is an American actor. He did reunite on a Slick Rick LP, and recorded again in 1995 for Gee Street.Doug E. Fresh took a break and wasn't able to regain momentum with 1992's Doin' What I Gotta Do, released through MC Hammer's Bust It label. His second album, 1988's The World's Greatest Entertainer, broke into the Billboard charts thanks to another hot single, "Keep Risin' to the Top," but Slick Rick had already broken from the pack and his LP of the same year, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, did much better than Doug E. His first LP, 1987's Oh, My God!, featured most of his showpieces, like "Play This Only at Night" and "All the Way to Heaven," along with nods to reggae and even gospel. It was recorded with his Get Fresh Crew, including MC Ricky D (only later to gain fame as Slick Rick), along with Barry Bee and Chill Will. His first solo features also came in 1984, with "Just Having Fun," waxed for Enjoy, and "Original Human Beatbox" for Vinentertainment.īy 1985, Fresh was one of the biggest names in rap music, and his first single for Reality, "The Show/La Di Da Di," became a hip-hop classic. His introduction to most hip-hop fans, though, came one year later with his astonishing performance in Beat Street behind the Treacherous Three. Davis in Barbados, and his first appearance came in 1983 on a single for Spotlight called "Pass the Budda," with Spoonie Gee and DJ Spivey. Fresh amazed audiences with his note-perfect imitations of drum machines, effects, and often large samples of hip-hop classics. The first human beatbox in the rap world, and still the best of all time, Doug E. ![]()
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