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Robert Hooks is an American actor, producer, and activist. He is most recognizable to the public for his more than 100 roles in films, television, and stage. Most famously, Hooks, along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, founded The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). The NEC is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the D.C. Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop.
Birth Name
Bobby Dean Hooks
Born
Sunday, 18 April 1937
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Reed Between the Lines | Monroe Reed | 2011 |
Life After | Self | 2009 |
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | Self | 2008 |
Lincoln Heights | Det. Chase | 2007 |
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted | Self | 2004 |
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | Self | 2004 |
Dragnet | Captain | 2003 |
Seventeen Again | Grandpa Gene Donovan / Grandpa Gene | 2000 |
The Hoop Life | Willis Barry | 1999 |
Free of Eden | Joe Sherman | 1999 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Reed Between the Lines | Monroe Reed | 2011 |
Life After | Self | 2009 |
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | Self | 2008 |
Lincoln Heights | Det. Chase | 2007 |
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted | Self | 2004 |
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | Self | 2004 |
Dragnet | Captain | 2003 |
Seventeen Again | Grandpa Gene Donovan / Grandpa Gene | 2000 |
The Hoop Life | Willis Barry | 1999 |
Free of Eden | Joe Sherman | 1999 |
Glory & Honor | Thomas | 1998 |
Clueless | Benjamin Davenport | 1996 |
Fled | Lieutenant Clark / Lt. Clark | 1996 |
Abandoned and Deceived | Doctor Peck | 1995 |
The Parent 'Hood | Lawrence | 1995 |
M.A.N.T.I.S. | Mayor Lew Mitchell | 1994 |
Diagnosis Murder | City Attorney Andrew Chivers | 1993 |
The Sinbad Show | Mr. Winters | 1993 |
Posse | King David | 1993 |
Passenger 57 | Dwight Henderson | 1992 |
Out All Night | Cliff Emory | 1992 |
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor 'Hurry Sundown' | 1991 |
The Commish | Capt. M. A. Daniels | 1991 |
Reasonable Doubts | Kane | 1991 |
The Royal Family | Langston White | 1991 |
The Flash | Chief Arthur Cooper | 1990 |
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Dean Morgan | 1990 |
Heat Wave | Reverend Brooks | 1990 |
Family Matters | Dr. Smiley | 1989 |
Seinfeld | Joe Temple | 1989 |
Generations | Dr. Warren Jackson | 1989 |
Supercarrier | Commander Jim Coleman | 1988 |
J.J. Starbuck | Lt. Lavelle Caspersons | 1987 |
A Different World | Phillip Dalton | 1987 |
21 Jump Street | Dr. Tony Hoffs | 1987 |
Head of the Class | Mr. Nevins | 1986 |
L.A. Law | Judge Earl Gregory | 1986 |
Blacke's Magic | Agent Curtis Hayes | 1986 |
227 | Congressman Rivers | 1985 |
The Execution | Alton Reese | 1985 |
Words by Heart | Ben Sills | 1985 |
V | George Caniff | 1984 |
Murder, She Wrote | Kendall Ames / Everett Charles Jensen | 1984 |
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Admiral Morrow | 1984 |
Hardcastle and McCormick | Lieutenant Carlton | 1983 |
The Devlin Connection | Gaylord | 1982 |
Hotel | Joe Durran / Frank 'Squire' Vance | 1982 |
Fast-Walking | William Galliot | 1982 |
T.J. Hooker | Police Detective Joe Fisher / Lt. Ellis | 1982 |
Cassie & Co. | Matthews | 1982 |
The Sophisticated Gents | Ezra 'Chops' Jackson | 1981 |
Madame X | Dist. Atty. Roerich | 1981 |
The Oklahoma City Dolls | John Miller | 1981 |
Dynasty | Dr. Walcott | 1981 |
Trapper John, M.D. | Sykes | 1979 |
Hart to Hart | Inspector Jordan | 1979 |
The Facts of Life | Mr. Ramsey | 1979 |
Time Express | John Slocum | 1979 |
Backstairs at the White House | Doorman and Presidential Barber John Mays / John Mays / Chief Barber John Mays | 1979 |
A Woman Called Moses | William Still | 1978 |
The White Shadow | Dr. Luther Tucker | 1978 |
WKRP in Cincinnati | Prosecutor | 1978 |
Airport '77 | Eddie | 1977 |
Quincy M.E. | Sergeant LeBatt | 1976 |
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die | Commissioner Frank Wharton | 1976 |
Aaron Loves Angela | Beau | 1975 |
Petrocelli | Dave Hill | 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
Trapped | Sergeant Connaught | 1973 |
Police Story | Police Detective Ernie Tillis | 1973 |
Trouble Man | Mr. T | 1972 |
The Streets of San Francisco | Joe Joplin | 1972 |
The Rookies | Barney Miller | 1972 |
Two for the Money | Larry Dean | 1972 |
Crosscurrent | Inspector Lou Van Alsdale | 1971 |
McMillan & Wife | Sam | 1971 |
Vanished | Larry Storm | 1971 |
Carter's Army | Lt. Edward Wallace | 1970 |
The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Chicken | 1970 |
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Scott Dayton | 1969 |
The David Frost Show | Self | 1969 |
Marcus Welby, M.D. | Joe Lucas | 1969 |
Then Came Bronson | Henry Tate | 1969 |
The 22nd Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee & Performer | 1968 |
Mannix | Floyd Brown | 1967 |
N.Y.P.D. | Det. Jeff Ward | 1967 |
The Joey Bishop Show | Self | 1967 |
Hurry Sundown | Reeve Scott | 1967 |
Sweet Love, Bitter | Keel Robinson | 1967 |
The F.B.I. | Wilcox / Steven Harber | 1965 |
Profiles in Courage | Frederick Douglass | 1964 |
East Side/West Side | Detective Stern | 1963 |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself - Guest | 1962 |
The Mike Douglas Show | Himself - Actor | 1961 |