Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Nascimento : 1953-09-04, New York City, New York, USA
História
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in a number of films and television programs, including Claudine (1974), Cooley High (1975), Roots (1977), Welcome Back, Kotter (1975), Bangers and Mash (1983), and The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992).
Lawrence's name, at least as shown in the credits of Welcome Back Kotter, was Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs.
Lawrence was born in New York City, New York, United States, the fifth child of nine to West Indian parents Hilton Jacobs (deceased 2009) and Clothilda Jacobs (deceased c. 2000). He attended Wilkes University for a short time before his acting career took off. He began his acting career in the summer of 1969 and graduated from the High School of Art and Design in 1971. Afterward, he studied acting with the world famous Negro Ensemble Company and the Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble. In 1975, he won the part of Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington on the ABC hit comedy series, Welcome Back, Kotter. Hilton-Jacobs starred in a few commercials over the years, including an early 1970s commercial for The United Negro College Fund.
Agent Langley
After the death of his brother, Mick travels to America to seek Justice. Wrongly convicted of extortion and attempted murder, Mick is sent to Pleasant Hill Penitentiary's notorious death block 13. Seething with revenge after discovering the truth behind his brother's death, Mick's rage ignites an explosive riot as he makes a daring escape from Death Block 13.
Rev. Adams
Hope (Brittany Lucio) is a control freak and a perfectionist and nothing would please her more than bringing the perfect Christian future husband home for the weekend to meet her father Reverend Adams (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), her mother Mrs. Adams (Jackee Harry), and sister Cherish (KD Aubert). On the day they're scheduled to leave she's dumped by her fiancé. That's when she enlists the help of her platonic male friend, Jesse (Chico Benymon), who is the epitome of everything ungodly, to impersonate her ex, the upcoming pastor. While there, he learns to appreciate family and faith in this hilarious Christian Romance Comedy.
Edward
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
Warden Dallas
When Daniel, a death row inmate, hears the horrors of previous executions using new experimental drugs, he pleads for access to information on how to best face his own upcoming demise. What this faithless and hopeless prisoner finds instead, will shake up everything he has ever known and believed.
Willie Robinson
A Chance in the World is the unbelievable real life story of Steve, a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience and vision. From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Steve is mentally and physically tortured by Betty (his foster mother), Willie (her husband) and his foster siblings. Desperate for a sense of family and belonging, Steve searches for his biological parents, but no one in the system can help him. No one can tell him why, with obvious African-American features, he has the last name of Klakowicz.
Panda Thomas
Cinco pessoas são sequestradas cinco dias antes do Halloween e são mantidas reféns em um lugar chamado "Murder World" para participar de um sangrento jogo chamando "31". O desafio é sobreviver 12 horas dentro do local, cheio de palhaços assassinos e sanguinários.
Hollywont is an urban Entourage gone crazy! The film follows Davon, an aspiring African American screenwriter trying to make a name for himself in Hollywood. Sick and tired of Hollywood's portrayal of unrealistic urban films, Davon turns to a pimp named Tony to manage his career and help guide him in the right direction which may not be the best idea. Tony takes Davon on an outrageous adventure and Davon soon learns why Hollywood can sometimes mean Hollywont!
Wesley Hardin Johnson Sr.
Megan quer encontrar a pessoa que mudou sua vida quando tinha 10 anos, época na qual recebeu um presente de Natal anônimo.
Mr. Walker
A beautiful Latina and a lovable African-American try to survive the crazy cultural clashes between their families, as their wedding day nears.
Chief
Runaway Tracy is snatched from a dangerous L.A. neighborhood by sadistic thugs while searching for her homeless boyfriend. Her police detective mom races against time to rescue Tracy from the big money, high crime world of sex trafficking.
Coach Preston Reid
Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s about to change when he meets, Talisa McCoy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), the mother of a star player, new to Jackson high. She’s a beautiful, strong-willed single mom, with her own ideas on a winning team…and the perfect man. Now, this coach will have to learn a few new plays if he’s going to stay in the game.
Theodore
A highly successful upper middle class woman with a loving family has her seemingly “perfect” world turned upside down when the hidden secrets from her past suddenly resurface, forcing her and her beloved mother into a painful examination of their lives, their relationship with one another, and their faith in God
Jim Kirkland
Um avião comercial está preso dentro de um anel de vulcões em erupção, os passageiros e a tripulação devem encontrar uma maneira de sobreviver
Self
A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.
Mandingo
Internado em um hospital com a finalidade de fazer exames apenas de rotina, George Grieves descobre que seu "estado" é muito mais sério e complicado do que ele imaginava. Encurralado num mundo bizarro e perigoso dentro do Hospital Mt. Abaddon, George tenta manter sua sanidade enquanto tenta descobrir a verdade por trás das inúmeras mortes por erro médico do hospital. Enquanto os seus próprios medos se manifestam a sua volta, ele aprende que esse hospital não é um local no qual as pessoal vão para melhorar, mas sim...é um hospital no qual pessoas vão para morrer.
Anthony
An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts
Mr. Fly
Killer Drag Queens on Dope is the wild story of Ginger and Coco, two dolls with a little secret... They're contract killers who work for a one-eyed lunatic named Uncle A. Half the cutthroats in town are trying to kill them, the other half are trying to sleep with them and Uncle A is just getting started. Ginger is hell on heels. Coco never met a drug she didn't like. Together, they're Killer Drag Queens on Dope!
Motherchild
Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meeting interesting characters along the way.
Darnell Greene
She's a single mother looking for a husband. He's a con man looking for his next victim. Together they board an emotional rollercoaster that can only be derailed by someone neither of them expected. Award-winning director David E. Talbert brings to life this passionate story of love, friendship and betrayal. Starring film and television favorite Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs (Welcome Back Kotter and The Jacksons mini-series) and a dynamic cast of unforgettable characters, MR. RIGHT NOW has the power to touch your soul and heal your heart. In this dramatic film concerning love, betrayal, and friendship, gospel music plays an integral role. The story of a single mother and a con man who unexpectedly find love, MR. RIGHT NOW has been hailed by prominent African-American critics as a joyful, uplifting must-see.
Marlan Clark
A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the problem?
Lou Parsons
Rebecca Mathis is a sex therapist. One of her patients is found dead. At first it is presumed he died of a heart attack...
Ring Announcer
Policiais de Los Angeles capturam Swordsman, líder do crime. Durante a noite, seus comparsas o libertam, matando os policiais de plantão. Daryn e Tony, dois tiras destemidos, perseguem os criminosos em busca de vingança.
Druilet
An Irish mercenary will stop at nothing to get the money owed to him for a job from an Italian-American drug lord.
Jesse Palmer
Loner Jessie Palmer must piece together information from a growing body count, including the murder of his best friend, in order to bring down a corrupt U.S. Senate candidate.
Director
Loner Jessie Palmer must piece together information from a growing body count, including the murder of his best friend, in order to bring down a corrupt U.S. Senate candidate.
Robin
Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they're headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war games. It's a massacre until one of the vets becomes a machine of revenge.
Jon Chance
After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind the heist learns of the whereabouts of his diamonds, he instructs his thugs to find Zach and get the jewels back by any means possible. Zach gets help from his friend, police detective Chance, but they will both need more than a little luck to prove that neither of them were behind the robbery, and to keep the actual thieves from getting their revenge.
Chesare
De volta à região sem lei de Los Angeles, homem com passado tenebroso tenta ensinar a um grupo de rapazes maneiras de sobreviver na selva da cidade.
Det. John Chance
Detective Jon Louroy Chance investigates a string of murders in Los Angeles and uncovers a ruthless kidnapping scheme.
Music
College girls dressed as hookers for a sorority initiation ceremony are kidnapped by pimps.
Detective Jon Chance
College girls dressed as hookers for a sorority initiation ceremony are kidnapped by pimps.
Writer
College girls dressed as hookers for a sorority initiation ceremony are kidnapped by pimps.
Director
College girls dressed as hookers for a sorority initiation ceremony are kidnapped by pimps.
Jon Chance
L.A. vice detective dreams of becoming a cowboy hero.
Blade Runner
Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.
Garrett Floyd
Em Atlanta, Georgia, violentas gangues de adolescentes aterrorizam vizinhos em um bairro pobre torturam, violentam e matam sem que a polícia possa fazer qualquer coisa para detê-los. A única esperança dos moradores é apelar para os "Aniquiladores", um grupo de ex-combatentes do Vietnã que ainda não se deu conta de que a guerra acabou, e entra num confronto armado com as gangues para limpar a cidade.
Like many Black and Latino teenagers in his neighborhood, Gerald Hart finds adventure and relief from the pressure of poverty and disappointment by leaping from the roof of an abandoned building known throughout his community as the “Club House”. There, in spite of obvious dangers, he imitates Superman and finds happiness.., but the unhappy side of Gerald is gaining ground. He contemplates suicide and, thereby, encounters a strange spiritual phenomenon. “Sky Captain” showcases Reggae, Rap music and Breakdance. “Sky Captain” is original drama Written and Directed by Neema Barnette. Based on the impact of her observations as a former New York City school teacher.
Bourne's first fiction film, which stars Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as an unemployed musician who falls for a dancer on the streets of Hollywood. - Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960's American Experimental Cinema
Al Leon
An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the FBI have different ideas.
Russell Dodd
An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.
Rommel
A gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth.
Richard "Cochise" Morris
In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through to the dramatic end of high school.
Street Basketball Boy (uncredited)
Axel Freed é um professor de literatura e é viciado em apostas. Quando perde todo o seu dinheiro, ele pede emprestado da sua namorada, da sua irmã, e até de alguns bandidos perigosos. E mesmo assim, ele não para de jogar.
Mugger in Park #2 (uncredited)
Em Nova York vive Paul Kersey, um homem pacífico que tem sua vida destroçada quando três marginais invadem seu apartamento, estupram sua filha, que fica em estado gravíssimo, e matam Joanna, sua mulher. Após uma viagem a uma cidade do Arizona, na qual todos andam armados e a criminalidade é mínima, Kersey, decide eliminar qualquer um que o ameace, pois a polícia se mostra incapaz de encontrar os culpados. Assim, Kersey se arma e começa a patrulhar as ruas, matando assassinos e ladrões e ficando obcecado em fazer justiça. Paralelamente ele é caçado por Frank Ochoa, um detetive da polícia que deseja encontrar o homem que está fazendo o trabalho dos tiras.
Charles
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
Therapy Sessions is the story of a young woman hemmed in by her past. Diane Phillips continues to make the same mistakes in her quest for love and acceptance. After getting over her hang up that black folks don’t believe in mental health therapy, Diane sets out to make a new path in life. But like life can be unpredictable and despite her best efforts, Diane has to deal with not only past hurts and pains but the daily drama of being a black woman working in a good ole boys corporate environment and a love life that is constantly on the skids. At the end of each week, Diane seeks refuge in her rocks…best friends Kissie and Payton and her therapist, Dr. Parkin.
