Robert Hooks
Actor, producer and activist · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1937 · age 89
Robert Hooks is an American actor, producer, and activist. Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, he founded The Negro Ensemble Company.
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey GreeneFilm2000
Seventeen AgainFilm, Grandpa Gene Donovan1998
Glory & HonorFilm, Thomas1995
Abandoned and DeceivedFilm, Doctor Peck1993
Diagnosis: MurderSeries, Andrew Chivers
PosseFilm, 1993King David1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a FilmmakerFilm, actor 'Hurry Sundown' (archive footage) (uncredited)1989
Family MattersSeries, Dr. Smiley1987
21 Jump StreetSeries, Dr. Tony Hoffs1985
The ExecutionFilm, Alton Reese1984
Murder, She WroteSeries, Everett Charles Jensen1982
Fast-WalkingFilm, William Galliot1981
DynastySeries1979
Hart to HartSeries
Hollow ImageFilm, 1979Paul1977
Airport '77Film, Eddie1976
Quincy, M.E.Series
Just an Old Sweet SongFilm, 1976Nate Simmons1974
TrappedFilm, Sergeant Connaught1972
The RookiesSeries1971
CrosscurrentFilm, Inspector Lou Van Alsdale1967
MannixSeries
Hurry SundownFilm, 1967Reeve Scott1966Theatre World AwardAward1956
Tony AwardsSeries1937Born18 April 1937People around Robert
Close ties
Kevin Hooks Directed Passenger 57 and Fled
Lawrence Cook Also in Crosscurrent, Trouble Man and Posse
Diahann Carroll Also in Hurry Sundown and Sister, Sister
Leonard Nimoy Directed Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Stephen Baldwin Also in Fled and Posse
Irene Cara Also in Aaron Loves Angela and Sister, Sister
Aaron Spelling Produced Carter's Army (1970)
Mario Van Peebles Also in Crosscurrent (1995)
Melvin Van Peebles Also in Posse (1993)- Michael Nader Also in The Flash and Fled
Ivan Dixon Directed Trouble Man (1972)
James B. Harris Directed Fast-Walking (1982)
Harve Bennett Produced Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Robert Ellis Miller Directed Just an Old Sweet Song and Madame X
Rosalind Cash Also in Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (1975)
Frank Converse Also in N.Y.P.D. and Hurry Sundown
Jerry Jameson Directed Airport '77 (1977)
Jerry Thorpe Directed Crosscurrent (1995)- John D. F. Black Produced Trouble Man (1972)
Lee Rich Produced Passenger 57 (1993)
George McCowan Directed Carter's Army (1970)
Gordon Parks, Jr. Directed Aaron Loves Angela (1975)- Jennings Lang Produced Airport '77 (1977)
Brett Rice Also in Passenger 57 and Fled
Known for
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984
The Flash 1990
Passenger 57 1992
Fled 1996
Airport '77 1977
Filmography 36
88 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
The Negro Ensemble Company 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.
