The Biggest Movies and TV Coming in September

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Cambridge won a four-year scholarship to study medicine at Hofstra University but decided, instead, to become an actor, leaving college in his third year. He acted in many off-Broadway productions, winning the Village Voice's Obie Award in Jean Genet's "The Blacks"; and, on Broadway, he gained a Tony Award Nomination in "Purlie's Victorious". It was as a comedian that he broke into television, initially on The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957) (aka "The Jack Paar Show"). Having previously had occasional parts, he established himself in films in the late sixties. He played both comic and straight roles but is likely remembered for such portrayals as that of the white bigot who wakes up one morning to find himself turned black in Watermelon Man (1970). His compulsive eating probably contributed to his untimely death at 43 on the set of the television film Victory at Entebbe (1976), in which he was to have played General Idi Amin.

Godfrey Cambridge in Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

[on why he left <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0066697/?ref_=nmqu_qu">The Partners (1971)</a>] On the set, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0010915/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Don Adams</a> turns into Captain Queeg. He doesn&#39;t have those steel balls, but he drove me crazy. Now he&#39;s saying, &#39;The chemistry wasn&#39;t right.&#39; Don is so uptight. Finally you have to say to him, &#39;Hey, man, the price ain&#39;t right. I&#39;m willing to get off. I still have the original lining of my stomach. You can&#39;t buy a stomach for $25,000. I&#39;ll get out while I still have my own&#39;. If you tried to find out who in this industry hates Don Adams the most, the line would run all the way to Phoenix.

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