Biography: Robert Hooks |
Fresh out of Temple University, actor Robert Hooks was billing himself as Bobby Dean Hooks when he made his 1962 Broadway bow in Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. Hooks' first film was the independently produced Sweet Love, Bitter (1966), though many... more
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Tags: Sci-Fi Comedy Comedy Family
Length: 105min
While twin sisters Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry gained fame playing twin sisters on the sitcom Sister Sister, this comic fantasy finds them stretching their talents by playing grandmother and granddaughter. When the Donovan family moves from California...
Cast: Alfre Woodard
Length: 110min
Words by Heart is set in a northern farming town in 1910. The town's only black family, recently arrived from the south, is treated with barely concealed contempt by the white farmers--and with outright hostility when the family's daughter (Fran...
Cast: James Woods M. Emmet Walsh
Tags: Comedy Drama Prison Film Crime
Length: 116min
James Woods plays "Fast-Walking" Miniver, a strikingly amoral prison guard, in this dark, hard-hitting comedy/drama. When not smoking dope or scaring up customers for Evie (Susan Tyrrell), the proprietor of the local house of prostitution,...
Length: 99min
Fame star Irene Cara made her film bow in Aaron Loves Angela. Cara plays Angela, a Puerto Rican girl who falls in love with Aaron, a black ghetto youth (Kevin Hooks, whose father Robert Hooks also appears in the film). The unrelenting grimness of...
Tags: Police Detective Film Drama
Length: 74min
The Cut Man Caper originated as a 90-minute episode of the weekly TV anthology Police Story. Heading the cast is Robert Hooks as Ernie Tillis, a detective in the robbery-homicide division. On the trail of loan-company robbers, Hooks is forced to rely...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith Robert Wagner Simon Oakland Jeremy Slate José Ferrer
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 96min
Also known as Cross Current, The Cable Car Murder emulates the 1971 theatrical feature Tick, Tick, Tick by teaming a black homicide lieutenant (Robert Hooks) with a white partner (Jeremy Slate). Simon Oakland costars as the team's apoplectic superior...
The Last of the Mobile Hotshots (1969)
Cast: Lynn Redgrave James Coburn Sidney Lumet James Wong Howe
Tags: Comedy
Length: 108min
In this depressing slice of Southern decadence, Myrtle (Lynn Redgrave) is a woman of questionable virtue who marries an ailing man on a television game show. Jeb (James Coburn) hopes to sire an heir so his greedy half-brother (Robert Hooks) won't...
Tags: Showbiz Drama Drama Film a Clef
Length: 92min
Loosely based on Charlie Parker's life and based on the book Night Song, this drama chronicles the friendship between a nearly washed up jazz sax player and a down-and-out college professor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Faye Dunaway Jane Fonda Michael Caine Otto Preminger Burgess Meredith John Phillip Law George Kennedy Diahann Carroll
Length: 146min
Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a land owner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming...
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