Kevin Hooks
Nacimiento : 1958-09-19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in Aaron Loves Angela & Sounder, but may be best-known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow. In 1986, he starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom He's the Mayor. He directed Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57 and also Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin in Fled. Hooks worked as a director and producer on the series Prison Break. He also directed two episodes from the first season of Lost, "White Rabbit" and "Homecoming". In 2003, Hooks revisited Sounder. He directed ABC's Wonderful World of Disney's TV remake of the film, with Paul Winfield, his co-star from the original, playing a different role. Hooks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Yvonne, a state employee, and Robert Hooks, a director and actor who starred in many films in the 1970s. Kevin's nickname amongst his friends is "King Royal".
Director
Four college students get roped into solving crimes when one of them creates a high-tech communication device that intercepts conversations throughout the West Coast.
Director
El gobierno no puede tocar a Michael Scofield, así que van tras la mujer que ama. Cuando Sara es arrestada por asesinato, sólo Michael podrá salvarla, a ella y al bebé que espera, de una impenetrable prisión para mujeres. Con un precio por la cabeza de Sara y el tiempo agotándose, Michael deberá confiar en sus más mortales enemigos para intentar realizar la huída más atrevida hasta la fecha.
Director
This is a coming-of-age story of a boy living in the Depression era of the South. "Boy" (Daniel Lee Robertson III) learns the hard way about the realities of being black, poor and unable to read. But he also learns about the deep love of family, the long-suffering loyalty of a dog and the importance of words, faith, stories & truth.
Producer
Mahree Bok vive en una granja de Sudáfrica. Su padre es un policía que no puede ocultar su alegría cuando el activista Steve Biko es atrapado por las autoridades. Piper Dellums es la hija de un congresista de California y vive en Washington DC. Cuando Mahree es seleccionada para pasar un curso en casa de los Dellums, se lleva una sorpresa al comprobar que sus anfitriones son de raza negra.
Director
Mahree Bok vive en una granja de Sudáfrica. Su padre es un policía que no puede ocultar su alegría cuando el activista Steve Biko es atrapado por las autoridades. Piper Dellums es la hija de un congresista de California y vive en Washington DC. Cuando Mahree es seleccionada para pasar un curso en casa de los Dellums, se lleva una sorpresa al comprobar que sus anfitriones son de raza negra.
Director
Fact-based story about 300 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco. Three weeks later, 50 survivors were court-martialed for refusing to load another shipment. The men cited the Navy's lack of care for their safety.
Director
Jack Crews es un camionero profesional que perdió su licencia y fue a prisión tras verse envuelto en un fatal accidente. Despojado de los medios para subsistir, Jack se ve forzado a volver a la carretera para entregar un cargamento ilegal de armas al hombre que ha secuestrado a su familia.
Director
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
Director
Cuando tanto la ley como la mafia quieren verte muerto, tienes que poner todos los medios a tu alcance para escapar. Esto es lo que les ocurre a Piper y Dodge, una pareja de convictos que no se conocen pero que, al estar esposados, tendrán que compartir a la fuerza sus destinos.
Director
Solo dos policías suspendidos tendrán la iniciativa y el valor para enfrentarse a un grupo terrorista que toma un centro comercial en su inauguración con todos los invitados como rehenes.
Director
Charles Rane está considerado uno de los más peligrosos terroristas del mundo. Custodiado por agentes federales, Rane es trasladado a Los Angeles en avión para ser juzgado por los crímenes cometidos. A pesar de las medidas de seguridad, Rane consigue liberarse y se hace con el mando del avión, pero no cuenta con que en el mismo vuelo, sentado en el asiento número 57, viaja John Cutter, un especialista en lucha antiterrorista.
Director
Pasó del peor gueto de Nueva York a las mejores escuelas del país. Estaba viviendo el sueño americano. Entonces, ¿qué salió mal?
Married Man
Bobby es el chico del correo en una gran empresa, pero tiene una carta de triunfo, su mejor amigo Waymon, un "blanco" afro-americano que es casi un socio en la firma. Ellos hacen un trato: Waymon intentará hacr entrar a Bobby al programa de aprendices de agente si él le ayuda con Natalie, la chica de sus sueños. Sólo hay un problema, todos tendrán que cambiar... (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Bobby es el chico del correo en una gran empresa, pero tiene una carta de triunfo, su mejor amigo Waymon, un "blanco" afro-americano que es casi un socio en la firma. Ellos hacen un trato: Waymon intentará hacr entrar a Bobby al programa de aprendices de agente si él le ayuda con Natalie, la chica de sus sueños. Sólo hay un problema, todos tendrán que cambiar... (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Director
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Duane
El temperamental piloto Tuck Pendelton se presta voluntario para un experimento que consiste en miniaturizarle en el interior de una cápsula que debe ser introducida en un conejo. Pero unos delincuentes intentan apropiarse del invento, y Pendelton acaba por casualidad en el interior de Jack Putter, un ser humano hipocondríaco. A partir de ahí, ambos se verán obligados a colaborar para conseguir que Tuck pueda salir del cuerpo de Jack.
Polk
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
Nat Blake
The true and tragic story of a very young and very talented comedian from the 70's whose sudden rise to fame had some of its benefits -- and some of its burdens.
Jasper MacGrudder
An unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school.
Tiger
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
Hoover Sissle
Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
Junior
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.
Aaron
Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants one of their own to associate with the others. As the pair rebel against the prejudices of their families, they soon find the conflict spreading out to their friends and neighbors, until the hatred threatens to spiral out of control.
David Lee Morgan
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
J.T. Gamble
J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alley cat days before Christmas and secretly nurses it back to health.
