Beetle — Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Character Profile

About Beetle

The owner of the Los Angeles brothel where Sweetback lives and works. He agrees to frame Sweetback for a murder to appease the police, later refuses him aid out of fear, and suffers severe police brutality resulting in deafness and paralysis after being interrogated about Sweetback's whereabouts.

Beetle — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Simon Chuckster

Appears in

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (3)

• Beetle — Professional Employer — Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles)

  Beetle operates the brothel where Sweetback lives and works, establishing a clear employer-employee dynamic.

• Beetle — Social Acquaintance — Old Girlfriend (Rhetta Hughes)

  A distant social connection within the same marginalized urban ecosystem.

• Beetle — Unknown Underground Network — Biker (John Amos)

  Indirect connection through the shared criminal and marginalized social strata of 1940s Los Angeles.

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More characters from Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

• Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles)
• The Young Sweetback (Mario Van Peebles)
• Biker (John Amos)
• Commissioner (John Dullaghan)
• Old Girlfriend (Rhetta Hughes)
• Actor (Curt Matson)
• (as West Gale) (Wesley Gale)