Kevin Hooks
Рождение : 1958-09-19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
История
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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
Сару арестовывают за убийство матери Майкла и отправляют в тюрьму, и она все ещё носит его ребёнка под сердцем. На сей раз всё меняется местами: тюремный врач становится заключённым, а Майкл остаётся на свободе. В кинофильме задействована большая часть героев сериала: Майкл, Линкольн, Сара, Сукрэ, Бэгвел, Махоуни и… Грэтхен. Каков же будет исход и финальный побег?.. Всё вновь зависит от гениального инженера-строителя.
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 lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Director
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
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
Водитель-дальнобойщик Джек Круз только что вышел из тюрьмы и сейчас находится под полицейским надзором. Однако, обстоятельства вынуждают его, ради благополучия жены и ребенка, согласиться на перевозку левого груза.
Director
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
Director
Пайпер - крепкий орешек, Додж - компьютерный хакер, связь которого с 25 миллионами украденных долларов как магнит притягивает толпы наемных убийц и коррумпированных государственных чиновников. Внезапно действие принимает неожиданный оборот...
Director
Собравшемуся было на пенсию сержанту полиции дают новую напарницу — бойкую энтузиастку Шарлотту Геллер, умеющую находить приключения на свою голову. Вдвоём им придётся разобраться с террористами, захватившими супермаркет.
Director
Чарльз Рейн — безжалостный и неистовый убийца-террорист. Джон Каттер — хладнокровный полицейский из службы безопасности авиакомпании. Схватка хорошего и плохого парней начинается в воздухе, затем продолжится на земле…
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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
Бобби работает посыльным в большой фирме по продаже недвижимости. Его лучший друг Вэймон, что называется «белый» афро-американец, почти уже партнер этой же фирмы. Они договариваются о том, что Вэймон устраивает Бобби в некую крутую программу обучения брокерству, а Бобби в свою очередь устраивает Вэймону свидание с Натали — девушкой мечты Вэймона…
Director
Бобби работает посыльным в большой фирме по продаже недвижимости. Его лучший друг Вэймон, что называется «белый» афро-американец, почти уже партнер этой же фирмы. Они договариваются о том, что Вэймон устраивает Бобби в некую крутую программу обучения брокерству, а Бобби в свою очередь устраивает Вэймону свидание с Натали — девушкой мечты Вэймона…
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
Американский пилот лейтенант Так Пендлтон принимает участие в эксперименте, в процессе которого он должен быть очень сильно уменьшен в размерах и в летательном аппарате, похожем на подлодку обследовать внутреннее пространство кролика. Но технотеррористы рушат все планы и похищают шприц, в котором находился миниатюризированый Так. По ошибке содержимое шприца попадает в ипохондрика Джека Паттера. Теперь террористы начинают охотиться за ничего не подозревающим Джеком. Единственная, кто ему может помочь, это девушка Така — журналистка Лидия…
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
После того, как во времена Великой Депрессии главу семейства чернокожих издольщиков за кражу еды приговаривают к исправительным работам, его сыну приходится преждевременно вступить во взрослую жизнь.
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.
