Godfrey's memorable film roles include "The Last Angry Man" (1959), in which he played a character called "Nobody Home", "The President's Analyst" (1967), where he plays a depressed government agent, and "Watermelon Man" (1970), in which he played the lead character, a white bigot who one day wakes up and discovers his skin color has turned black. He also had a starring role in the 1970 Ossie Davis adaptation of the Chester Himes novel "Cotton Comes to Harlem", as well as its 1972 sequel, "Come Back, Charleston Blue". Cambridge made a cameo appearance in director Sidney Lumet's "Bye Bye Braverman" (1968) as a Yiddish speaking NYC cab driver involved in a car collision with the main protagonists, and another as a gay underworld figure in the 1975 film "Friday Foster". His other film appearances included roles in "The Busy Body" (1967), "The Biggest Bundle of Them All" (1968), "The Biscuit Eater" (1972), "Beware! The Blob" (1972), and "Whiffs" (1975).