Robert Hooks

Robert Hooks

Nacimiento : 1937-04-18, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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Robert Hooks

Películas

Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Self
Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
Escapar del Edén
Joe Sherman
Story about Will Cleamons, a former teacher-turned-businessman who agrees to tutor 18-year-old high school dropout, Nicole Turner. Much to his surprise, their relationship not only helps Nicole build a future, but helps Cleamons put his personal life back together.
Fugitivos encadenados
Lieutenant Clark
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.
Abandoned and Deceived
Doctor Peck
The film is the story of woman who is denied the pensions for her children by her ex-husband. Therefore she has to fight for her rights by appealing the courts of justice and the bureaucracy of the state.
Posse
King David
Un grupo de soldados de infantería, en su mayoría negros, regresan de la Guerra de Cuba (1898) con un alijo de oro. Viajan al Oeste, donde su líder busca a los hombres que lincharon a su padre.
Pasajero 57
Dwight Henderson
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.
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor 'Hurry Sundown' (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
The Flash
Chief Arthur Cooper
John Wesley Shipp interpreta a un modesto químico de un laboratorio oficial, cuyo padre y abuelo son policías. Durante un accidente, él sufre una mutación prodigiosa, por la cual ahora toma la identidad de Flash, un ser increíblemente veloz. Sus nuevas capacidades serán muy apreciadas en Central City, a la hora de luchar contra una banda de punks motociclistas que se dedican al crimen y al vicio abyecto.
Heat Wave
Reverend Brooks
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Appearances
Wesley
A drama centering on the joys, conflicts, and crises on a middle-class family and on its ex-football star father's efforts to keep it on track and intact despite the death of a child and the strain between his wife and father.
The Execution
Alton Reese
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
Words by Heart
Ben Sills
The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter.
Star Trek III: En busca de Spock
Admiral Morrow
Tras la desaparición de Spock y la creación del planeta Génesis, la tripulación del Enterprise se dispone a localizar el cuerpo de su compañero, a petición del padre de éste.
Sister, Sister
Harry Burton
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
Celda sin número
William Galliot
Un corrupto guardia de prisión se ve envuelto en un complot para asesinar a un revoltoso que representa una amenaza de motín en la cárcel.
Madame X
Dist. Atty. Roerich
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
The Oklahoma City Dolls
John Miller
Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
Hollow Image
Paul
A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.
The Courage and the Passion
Maj. Stanley Norton
The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
To Kill a Cop
Capt. Pete Rolfe
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Aeropuerto 77
Eddie
El Dos Tres Sierra es un avión de colosales proporciones, un Jumbo único de la Stevens Corporation, cuyo presidente, Philip Stevens, es también el propietario de la colección de pintura más importante del país. En un vuelo que transporta además de importantes personalidades, algunas de sus últimas adquisiciones, el avión cae al mar en el Triángulo de las Bermudas y se hunde rápidamente; pero los pasajeros siguen vivos dentro del aparato…
Just an Old Sweet Song
Nate Simmons
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.
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Commissioner Frank Wharton
After his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder.
Aaron Loves Angela
Beau
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.
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Blue Haven
Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.
Los doberman al ataque
Sergeant Connaught
A man is accidentally locked in a department store overnight and finds himself held at bay by six vicious Doberman guard dogs.
El terrible Sr. T
Mr. T
"Mr. T" es un rudo detective privado que tiende a tomarse la justicia por su mano, sin dejar de mantener un estilo elegante, vistiendo trajes de marca, conduciendo coches caros y viviendo en un apartamento de lujo. Los servicios de "T" son solicitados por Chalky y Pete, dueños de un establecimiento en el barrio que al ser asaltados una y otra vez por unos enmascarados, deciden recurrir a quien se convierte en su única esperanza. "T" está seguro de poder hacer el trabajo de forma correcta, pero las verdaderas intenciones de quienes le han contratado son otras...
Two for the Money
Larry Dean
Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
Crosscurrent
Inspector Lou Van Alsdale
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
Brigada Negra
Lt. Edward Wallace
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial una escuadrilla de soldados formada íntegramente por combatientes de color, a excepción del oficial al mando, el Capitán Beau Carter (Stephen Boyd), será la encargada de llevar a cabo una misión suicida en la que deberán, internarse en territorio enemigo y, por todos los medios, hacerse con un puente en poder de los nazis o volarlo por los aires.
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Chicken
A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.
La noche deseada
Reeve Scott
Terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Georgia, al igual que otros estados del Sur, empieza a recuperarse. El dueño de Riverside, una moderna compañía dedicada a la agricultura y a las conservas, ha comprado toda una región, excepto dos pequeños ranchos: el de Rad McDowell y el de Reeve Scott. Quienes sí están dispuestos a vender sus fincas, colindantes con las de Rad y Reeve, son Julie Ann y Henry Warren. Pero la compañía les impone una condición: deben convencer a los rancheros reacios a vender. Cuando Henry ve que sus gestiones fracasan, recurrirá a todo tipo de intrigas para presionar a Rad y a Reeve.
Sweet Love, Bitter
Keel Robinson
A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York.