Kevin Hooks
Nascimento : 1958-09-19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
História
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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
Logo no início do filme "O Resgate Final (The Final Break)" (filme esse que traz uma visão do que acontece logo após a exoneração dos membros da "gangue", que acontece no episódio final da série), Michael e Sara se casam. Porém, em sua festa de casamento, a polícia federal aparece para prender Sara pela morte de Christina Hampton. Michael então é obrigado a fazer um novo plano para resgatar Sara da prisão.
Director
A história emocionante da jornada corajosa de um garoto para encontrar seu pai.
Producer
Mahree Bok, filha de um policial racista, vive numa mansão na África do Sul. Piper Dellums, filha de um senador norte-americano, recebe Mahree como estudante de intercâmbio na sua casa em Washington, durante um semestre. No entanto, a apreensão instala-se quando Mahree descobre que a sua família anfitriã é negra.
Director
Mahree Bok, filha de um policial racista, vive numa mansão na África do Sul. Piper Dellums, filha de um senador norte-americano, recebe Mahree como estudante de intercâmbio na sua casa em Washington, durante um semestre. No entanto, a apreensão instala-se quando Mahree descobre que a sua família anfitriã é 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 é um camioneiro que perdeu a carta de condução quando foi condenado à prisão por causa de um acidente. Na sua liberdade condicional, Crews trabalha como mecânico numa oficina rasca e vive de forma modesta, mas sente-se feliz com a sua mulher e filha, de tal forma que recusa uma proposta de 10 mil dólares para transportar uma carga desconhecida, pois se ele fosse apanhado com essa mercadoria seria o passaporte para a prisão. Mas ao saber que se não pagar 9 mil dólares da hipoteca de sua casa ela será penhorada e terá de viver para outro lado com a família, Crews decide aceitar a arriscada oferta.
Director
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
Director
Piper e Dodge são dois fugitivos da lei que têm apenas uma coisa em comum: as algemas que impedem que cada um siga seu caminho. Dodge era testa-de-ferro de mafiosos, contra os quais reuniu sem querer provas incriminadoras, e Piper um policial infiltrado no presídio. Para desvendar a trama, a dupla tem que permanecer viva.
Director
A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.
Director
Perito em segurança aérea embarca num avião de passageiros que é sequestrado por terroristas. Além de procurar salvar os demais, ele ainda precisa manter oculta sua identidade para não ser morto.
Director
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy with a scholarship to Stanford U. when an unfortunate meeting with a police officer ends his life. The focus is on the four years and the events at the Academy which ultimately led to the tragedy.
Married Man
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to attract her on his own, he seeks the help of his friend Bobby, a free-spirited smooth talker who works in the mail room at Waymon's firm and utilizes the predicament as leverage to advance in the company.
Director
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to attract her on his own, he seeks the help of his friend Bobby, a free-spirited smooth talker who works in the mail room at Waymon's firm and utilizes the predicament as leverage to advance in the company.
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
Jack Putter se sente muito bem hoje, pelo menos para um hipocondríaco. Mas algo novo está acontecendo, ele começa a ouvir vozes. "Estou possuído!", ele diz. A voz que Jack ouve é do piloto da Marinha Tuck Pendleton que foi submetido a uma miniaturização, para um projeto secreto, e acidentalmente injetado em Jack. Antes que possa dizer alguma coisa seu improvável companheiro realizará a mais incrível fuga da sua vida.
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
Um professor não qualificado se vê selado com tarefas de coaching depois que um pequeno grupo de idosos formam uma equipe de wrestling em um último esforço para terminar um 9 -anear streak perdedor contra uma escola rival.
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
Na década de 1930, Nathan Lee Morgan, um negro arrendatário do estado da Louisiana, é condenado à prisão por um crime irrisório. Após alguns meses, seu filho é enviado para visitá-lo na cadeia, viagem na qual vive inúmeras aventuras.
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.
