Robert Hooks

Robert Hooks

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

Perfil

Robert Hooks

Filmes

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.
Free of Eden
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.
A Caçada
Lieutenant Clark
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.
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: A Vingança de Jessie Lee
King David
Um grupo de soldados de infantaria em sua maioria negros, retornam da guerra hispano-americana com um carregamento de ouro. Eles viajam para o Oeste, onde Jesse Lee (Mario Van Peebles), o líder, procura os homens que haviam assassinado seu pai, ao mesmo tempo que são perseguidos por um sádico comandante (Billy Zane).
Passageiro 57
Dwight Henderson
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.
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
Barry Allen, o detetive do laboratório criminal, é transformado no Flash, o homem mais rápido do mundo, e enfrenta os Dark Riders, uma gangue de motociclistas que aterroriza Central City.
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.
Jornada nas Estrelas III: À Procura de Spock
Admiral Morrow
Ainda sob o pesar do sacrifício final de Spock, a tripulação da U.S.S. Enterprise volta para a Terra do recém-nascido planeta Genesis. Mas nada vai ser fácil: Scott foi destacado para um outro posto; o Dr. McCoy parece estar vivendo um surto psicótico, e a Enterprise A será desativada.Quando Kirk recebe a visita de Sarek, pai de Spock, descobre que o falecido amigo pode ter a chance de ter uma segunda vida. E para isso, deve retornar a Genesis, onde enfrentará o maior dilema de sua carreira.
Sister, Sister
Harry Burton
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
Fast-Walking
William Galliot
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
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.
Aeroporto 77
Eddie
Em uma viagem para Palm Beach, onde vai inaugurar um museu composto de peças da sua coleção particular, o magnata Philip Stevens transporta em seu luxuoso Jumbo 747 a sua coleção de arte, tendo seus amigos como convidados. Mas o avião é sequestrado, sofre um acidente e cai no oceano, ficando submerso em águas rasas. Será que a tripulação e os passageiros conseguirão escapar antes que o avião seja invadido totalmente pela água do mar?
Só Uma Velha e Doce Canção
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.
Os Dobermans Atacam
Sergeant Connaught
Depois de despedir-se de sua mulher e filha, dizendo que irá encontrá-las em breve no aeroporto, Chuck Brenner é assaltado e deixado inconsciente em uma loja. Quando volta a si, percebe que está trancado e o lugar é vigiado por cães especialmente treinados para matar.
O Terrível Mister T
Mr. T
Mr. T é um homem durão que trabalha "resolvendo os problemas" no seu bairro, fazendo o trabalho que a polícia e os advogados não conseguem concretizar. Certo dia, ele é contratado para investigar misteriosos assaltos numa casa de apostas ilegais. Porém, acaba se tornando alvo e suspeito de cometer os crimes. Clássico do Cinema Blaxploitation.
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
Carter's Army
Lt. Edward Wallace
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These African-Americans have little military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice. He leads the rag-tag and they turn out to be heroic.
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Chicken
A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.
O Incerto Amanhã
Reeve Scott
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.
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.