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David Alan Grier
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David Alan Grier

Born 1956 · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Active 1953–2024

David Alan Grier, born in Detroit, is known for his versatile performances in both comedy and dramatic roles. He appears in Off Limits (1988) as a key character navigating the gritty underbelly of military investigations in Vietnam. In Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999), he takes on a more provocative role within the chaotic world of exploitation cinema. Grier's unique blend of humor and intensity adds a distinctive flavor to these cult classics, making him a noteworthy presence in SassyFlix's eclectic lineup.

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Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby

1999 ★ 5.9
as Mr. Butz

Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter is a 15-year-old prostitute who is sentenced to 25 years for a long list of crimes that include beating up and robbing johns. Transferred to a minimum security hospital to seek treatment for bulimia, White Girl teams up with Angela "Cyclona" Garcia, a lesbian teenage serial killer. Together, they escape from the hospital, despite White Girl injuring herself on a barbed-wire fence. Cyclona is convinced her beloved former caretaker Sister Gomez can help White Girl with her eating disorder and they head to Tijuana. On the way, Cyclona murders a family and has sex with the dead bodies. White Girl is not happy that Cyclona has stopped taking her meds and insists she continue to take occasional doses should they continue together. They steal the family's car and make their way south. On the way, Cyclona reveals how Sister Gomez saved her from being molested by her father and possibly aliens. After drinking one too many beers and huffing some paint, they crash and fall down a hill laughing. Undaunted, the two fugitives catch a ride on a freight train only to be assaulted by a transient crack addict. Cyclona kills him to protect White Girl, and the two make off with his bag of crack and guns. Venturing into the woods, they leave a trail of crack which is picked away by shady men with crow feathers on their hats. Lost and confused, they make it to the border only to have a stand-off with two customs officials, both of whom Cyclona kills. White Girl, angry that Cyclona has murdered two law-enforcement officials, violently pistol-whips Cyclona and after making her point, the two race to the suburbs of Tijuana. Upon their arrival in Tijuana, White Girl makes money by luring men to dark alleys on the promise of a good time and mugging them. Cyclona and White Girl check into a run-down motel where they have a moment with beer, a shower and a vibrating bed. White Girl finally gives in to Cyclona's sexual advances toward her and the two of them engage in some rampant lesbian sex. After a few days, the two lovers find a poster that shows Sister Gomez is in town. Sister Gomez appears to be a Catholic/spiritualist healer; Cyclona is very keen that they visit her, for Sister Gomez has protected her from abuse in the past, and might be able to help them. They visit Sister Gomez at her gaudy mission house. Sister makes an enormous roast feast for her "little movie star" (Cyclona) and the friend "with the hungry demon" (Crystal), referring to her bulimia. Cyclona then disappears as White Girl is forced to work for Sister Gomez in the same way as she has been doing, in exchange for food. Finally, Crystal grows weary and makes her way to the basement, where she finds small children in a bondage room with a U.F.O shaped lantern. There is blood everywhere. Cyclona is hanging half-nude in a bondage style contraption. She tells Crystal that Sister Gomez made her watch while she chopped up children and made food out of them. She reveals that her ultimate plan for Crystal was to fatten her up with the meat of the children, and then, serve Crystal up for dinner as well. Crystal concludes that Sister Gomez is the witch-leader of a bizarre cult that rapes and eats children and then sells the child porn videos, protected by the front of a Catholic mission. Ready to deliver justice, White Girl frees Cyclona and kills all the cult members; she also reveals Sister Gomez to be a transwoman. Not succumbing to bullets, Gomez is thrown in the oven. Burning, Gomez screams of her 100,000 years of terror and the revenge from her father Jupiter that will ensue. White Girl, keeping a promise made earlier, is forced to kill Cyclona in a tearful scene rather than allow her to be captured. Cyclona, wishing to leave behind a life of abuse and violence, hopes to be reincarnated as an eagle (we discover that Sister Gomez was her earliest abuser). White Girl makes a deal with the federales and leaves with her lawyer/pimp, stating "I'm not hungry anymore."

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Filmography

172 credits
2020s 20 credits
2024
Movie ★ 4.8
2024
St. Denis Medical as Ron Leonard
TV ★ 6.7
2024
Elsbeth as Arthur Greene Jr.
TV ★ 6.7
2023
The Color Purple as Reverend Avery
Movie ★ 7.0
2023
They Cloned Tyrone as The Preacher
Movie ★ 6.5
2023
Candy Cane Lane as Santa Claus
Movie ★ 5.9
2023
Poker Face as Otto
TV ★ 7.5
2022
Movie ★ 6.8
2022
The Patient as Charlie Addison
TV ★ 7.0
2022
Sherri as Self - Guest
TV ★ 2.7
2021
Movie ★ 7.2
2021
A Soldier's Play as Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Movie
2021
Show of Titles as "Guys and Dolls" Performer
Movie
2021
Joe Pickett as Vern Dunnegan
TV ★ 7.0
2020
Coffee & Kareem as Captain Hill
Movie ★ 5.5
2010s 36 credits
2019
Native Son as Marty
Movie ★ 5.5
2019
Sprinter as Coach
Movie ★ 6.4
2019
TV ★ 7.0
2019
TV ★ 6.4
2018
Arizona as Coburn
Movie ★ 5.5
2018
Busy Tonight as Self - Guest
TV ★ 5.5
2018
TV ★ 5.3
2018
The Resident as Lamar Broome
TV ★ 8.4
2017
The Big Sick as Andy Dodd
Movie ★ 7.3
2017
Movie ★ 4.7
2017
Snap Decision as Self - Host
TV
2017
TV ★ 7.4
2016
Movie ★ 6.8
2016
Match Game as Self - Panelist
TV ★ 6.4
2015
The Wiz Live! as The Cowardly Lion
Movie ★ 7.0
2015
The Carmichael Show as Joe Carmichael
TV ★ 7.2
2015
TV ★ 7.2
2015
TV ★ 6.1
2014
Movie ★ 5.3
2014
Movie ★ 6.8
2014
TV ★ 5.3
2014
Bad Teacher as Carl Gaines
TV ★ 5.6
2013
Peeples as Virgil Peeples
Movie ★ 5.6
2013
Movie ★ 7.0
2013
TV ★ 6.5
2013
Cutthroat Kitchen as Self - Guest Judge
TV ★ 6.6
2013
TV ★ 6.1
2012
Comedy Bang! Bang! as Network President
TV ★ 6.2
2012
TV ★ 7.9
2012
Gotham Comedy Live as Self - Host
TV ★ 5.5
2012
Gotham Comedy Live as Self - Comedian
TV ★ 5.5
2012
TV ★ 8.3
2012
TV ★ 6.0
2011
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Moss the Troll (voice)
Movie ★ 5.1
2011
TV ★ 6.9
2000s 49 credits
2009
Dance Flick as Sugar Bear
Movie ★ 5.0
2009
Astro Boy as Mr. Squirt / Math Cowboy / Boxer Robot (voice)
Movie ★ 6.3
2009
TV ★ 5.0
2008
Movie ★ 6.2
2008
The Hustle as Rev. Isaac Montgomery Paid
Movie ★ 6.3
2008
An American Carol as Rastus Malone
Movie ★ 4.2
2008
Kissing Cousins as The Griller
Movie ★ 6.0
2008
Gym Teacher: The Movie as Shelly Bragg
Movie ★ 7.0
2008
TV ★ 1.0
2007
Heckler as Self
Movie ★ 5.9
2007
Head Case as Self
TV ★ 6.3
2007
TV
2006
Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street as Principal Eyeverson/The Man Upstairs (voice)
Movie ★ 8.0
2006
Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness as Principal Eyeverson (voice)
Movie ★ 7.0
2006
Little Man as Jimmy
Movie ★ 6.0
2005
Movie ★ 5.2
2005
Bewitched as Jim Fields
Movie ★ 5.1
2005
Unscripted as David Alan Grier
TV ★ 8.5
2005
Dancing with the Stars as Self - Contestant
TV ★ 6.1
2005
Bones as Professor Bunsen Jude
TV ★ 8.2
2004
Movie ★ 6.8
2004
Baadasssss! as Clyde Houston
Movie ★ 6.5
2004
Movie
2004
Movie ★ 9.0
2004
TV ★ 6.4
2003
Movie ★ 6.0
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest Co-Host
TV ★ 5.4
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
TV ★ 5.4
2002
Movie ★ 5.3
2002
Tiptoes as Jerry Robin Jr.
Movie ★ 3.9
2002
Life with Bonnie as David Bellows
TV ★ 7.2
2001
15 Minutes as Mugger
Movie ★ 5.9
2001
TV ★ 7.4
2001
Samurai Jack as Da Samurai
TV ★ 8.4
2001
Gary & Mike as Thaddeus (voice)
TV ★ 7.0
2001
The Proud Family as Reuben (voice)
TV ★ 7.8
2000
Movie ★ 5.6
2000
Movie ★ 4.3
2000
3 Strikes as Detective Jenkins
Movie ★ 5.6
2000
East of A as Brother James
Movie ★ 10.0
2000
Damned If You Do as The Devil
Movie ★ 4.3
2000
Return to Me as Charlie Johnson
Movie ★ 6.7
2000
Movie ★ 5.6
2000
Movie
2000
Boston Public as Laurence Williams
TV ★ 7.6
2000
DAG as Jerome Daggett
TV ★ 7.0
2000
TV ★ 6.6
1990s 36 credits
1999
The '60s as Fred Hampton
Movie ★ 6.1
1999
A Saintly Switch as Dan Anderson
Movie ★ 6.7
1999
Stuart Little as Red (voice)
Movie ★ 6.1
1999
TV ★ 7.9
1999
The '60s as Fred Hampton
TV
1998
Movie ★ 6.5
1998
Damon as Bernard Thomas
TV ★ 9.0
1998
Hercules as Memnon (voice)
TV ★ 6.9
1998
TV ★ 6.9
1998
Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
TV ★ 7.6
1997
McHale's Navy as Ensign Charles Parker
Movie ★ 4.5
1997
Top of the World as Detective Augustus
Movie ★ 5.2
1997
The View as Self
TV ★ 4.4
1996
Kenan & Kel as David Alan Grier
TV ★ 8.1
1996
The Daily Show as Self - Guest
TV ★ 6.4
1996
Pulp Comics as himself
TV
1995
Tales from the Hood as Carl Johnson (segment "Boys Do Get Bruised")
Movie ★ 6.3
1995
Jumanji as Carl Bentley
Movie ★ 7.2
1995
Movie ★ 6.0
1995
The Preston Episodes as David Preston
TV ★ 6.5
1995
TV ★ 6.3
1995
TV ★ 6.3
1995
TV ★ 6.3
1995
Pinky and the Brain as Marlon (voice)
TV ★ 7.7
1994
Blankman as Kevin Walker
Movie ★ 5.4
1994
In the Army Now as Fred Ostroff
Movie ★ 5.1
1993
The X-Files as Cinema Audience (uncredited)
TV ★ 8.4
1992
The Player as David Alan Grier
Movie ★ 7.2
1992
Boomerang as Gerard Jackson
Movie ★ 5.7
1992
Martin as Rev. Leon Lonnie Love
TV ★ 7.6
1992
TV ★ 5.6
1990
Loose Cannons as Drummond
Movie ★ 5.0
1990
Almost an Angel as Det. Bill
Movie ★ 5.8
1990
Dream On as Marshall
TV ★ 7.0
1990
In Living Color as Self - Various Characters
TV ★ 7.6
1980s 19 credits
1988
Off Limits as Rogers
Movie ★ 5.6
1988
Me and Him as Peter Conklin
Movie ★ 3.3
1988
Movie ★ 6.4
1988
Tanner '88 as Secret Serviceman
TV ★ 6.9
1988
TV ★ 6.9
1987
From the Hip as Steve Hadley
Movie ★ 5.9
1987
Amazon Women on the Moon as Don Simmons (segment "Blacks Without Soul") / Don Simmons (segment "Don 'No Soul' Simmons")
Movie ★ 5.9
1987
A Different World as Professor Byron Walcott
TV ★ 7.0
1987
Tour of Duty as Harold
TV ★ 8.1
1986
ALF as FBI #1
TV ★ 7.6
1986
All Is Forgiven as Oliver Royce
TV ★ 6.3
1985
Beer as Elliott Morrison
Movie ★ 4.4
1985
The Equalizer as Desk Sergeant
TV ★ 7.1
1984
A Soldier's Story as Corporal Cobb
Movie ★ 6.8
1983
Streamers as Roger
Movie ★ 5.6
1970s 2 credits
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
TV ★ 6.9
1975
Saturday Night Live as Antoine Meriweather (uncredited)
TV ★ 6.9
1960s 1 credit
1950s 1 credit
1953
The Oscars as Self
TV ★ 7.0
Crew Credits
2000s 5 credits
2008
Movie ★ 6.2
2008
The Poker House Co-Producer
Movie ★ 6.2
2008
TV ★ 1.0
2007
TV
1990s 1 credit
1995
The Preston Episodes Executive Producer
TV ★ 6.5