Gregory Hines Filmography

Law & Order: Suicide Box

Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: The detectives go after the person who apparently shot down a cop in cold blood. Upon arrest, the suspect, a black teenager, claims to have committed murder out of vengeance stemming from a botched police investigation. Handling the defense is flamboyant celebrity attorney Carl Halpert (Gregory Hines Read More

Lost at Home [TV Series]

Synopsis: Mitch Rouse starred in this seriocomic ABC series as Michael Davis, a brilliant ad man who was so dedicated to his work that little if any time was left over for his wife, Rachel (Connie Britton), and their three kids. It was Rachel who put the brakes on Michael by informing him one morning that Read More

Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton

Actors: Milt Hinton, Branford Marsalis, Gregory Hines, Richard Davis, Nat Hentoff

Red Sneakers

Crew: Director

Actors: Dempsey Pappion, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Vincent D'Onofrio

Synopsis: Actor and dancer Gregory Hines directed this fantasy fable, in which he cast himself in a supporting role. Reggie Reynolds (Dempsey Pappion) is a 17-year-old high school student who earns good grades, gets along well with his friends and family, and is the manager of his school's basketball team. Read More

Bojangles

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gregory Hines, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Elise, Maria Ricossa, Savion Glover

Synopsis: Actor and dancer Gregory Hines served as both executive producer and star for this biographical drama that chronicles the life of legendary entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation when he Read More

The Tic Code

Actors: Gregory Hines, Polly Draper, Christopher Marquette, Desmond Robertson, James McCaffrey

Synopsis: Actress Polly Draper, best known for her role on the TV series thirtysomething, wrote and co-produced this family drama, as well as playing the female lead. Draper plays Laura, a single mother whose ten-year-old son Miles (Christopher Marquette) is already displaying a remarkable gift as a jazz Read More

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Actors: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Valeria Golino, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Although Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her does bear some similarities to Short Cuts and Magnolia in its setting (Southern California) and mood (modern malaise), and its multiple story format, its focus is exclusively on female characters, and it's possible to view each story on its own. Read More

Echo of Murder

Actors: James Belushi, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: Between 1979 and 1981, 29 African-American children were murdered in Atlanta, GA, leading to a statewide manhunt to find the killer and a considerable outcry from a frightened public. Authorities eventually pinned the child killings on one Wayne Williams, who had been charged with two related Read More

Once In The Life

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Titus Welliver, Eamonn Walker, Dominic Chianese, Paul Calderon

Synopsis: Actor Laurence Fishburne makes his debut as a director in this urban drama adapted from his one-act stage play Riff Raff. 20/20 Mike (Fishburne) and his half-brother Torch (Titus Welliver) bump into each other under less than ideal circumstances -- both are in jail, Mike on parole violation and Read More

Subway Stories

Actors: Rosie Perez, Mercedes Ruehl, Lili Taylor

Synopsis: Subways provide the common setting for this modern anthology comprised of distinct vignettes made by ten of Hollywood's top directors and featuring some of Tinseltown's most popular actors. The episodes are based on real stories submitted by scores of subway regulars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Cherokee Kid

Actors: Sinbad, James Coburn, Gregory Hines, A. Martinez, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: In this Western, a young sodbuster learns the ways of a gunfighter from one of the best quick-draw artists and then uses his knowledge for revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Good Luck

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Gregory Hines, James Earl Jones, Max Gail, Joe Theismann

Synopsis: Aside from the fact of his disability and the possession of a nickname, what does Tony "Ole" Olezniak (Vincent D'Onofrio), a bitter, blinded, football player have in common with wheelchair-bound Bernard "Bern" Lemley (Gregory Hines)? Absolutely nothing until Bern enthusiastically convinces Ole to Read More

Mad Dog Time

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane

Synopsis: A group of mobsters fight for control in this satirical comedy-drama. Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a not-especially-stable crime boss who -- following a spell in a mental hospital after being diagnosed with schizophrenia -- is sent home and is ready to resume his place as supreme leader of the mob. Read More

The Preacher's Wife

Actors: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney Vance, Gregory Hines, Justin Pierce Edmund

Synopsis: An angel wonders if love can be Heaven on Earth in this family-themed romantic fantasy. Rev. Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance) is the pastor of a struggling Baptist church in a poor section of New York City. Biggs is devoted to serving his flock and his community, but things are not easy; membership Read More

Reading Rainbow: Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: An exploration of music is the focus of this Reading Rainbow episode, as host LeVar Burton visits the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City. The members of the Chamber Orchestra, who are between 8 and 18 years old, offer commentary on what it takes to be a musician in an Read More

Bruce Hornsby + Friends

Actors: Bruce Hornsby

Synopsis: Armed with a piano and his distinct voice, pop rocker Bruce Hornsby became a Grammy winner and double-platinum selling artist with songs like "The Way It Is." In this 1995 concert film, Hornsby is joined on stage by such all-star pals as Bonnie Raitt, Pat Metheny, Bob Weir, and Don Henley. Among Read More

A Stranger in Town

Actors: Jean Smart, Gregory Hines, Jeffrey Nordling

Synopsis: A desperate mother looking to escape her past is faced with a harrowing decision in this made for television thriller starring Jean Smart and Gregory Hines. All Kay (Smart) wants is to live in peace and care for her sickly nine-month-old son. Upon arriving in a small Southern town where no one Read More

Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: Beauty and the Beast

Synopsis: Happily Ever After always presents a non-traditional look at classic fairy tales. Children learn to look beneath the surface in the African-American version of Beauty and the Beast. An all-star cast populates this story, with Vanessa Williams playing Beauty, Gregory Hines as the Beast, and Paul Read More

Waiting to Exhale

Actors: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: A surprise Hollywood hit, this film is based on the novel of the same name by Terry McMillan and centers on four well-to-do African-American women and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed Read More

Bleeding Hearts

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Jacobs, Karen Kirkland, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Melina Kanakaredes, Ranjit Chowdhry

Synopsis: A doomed interracial relationship provides the focus of this tragedy. White paralegal Lonny, wants to write a political novel that rails against the system, but he can't seem to start it. His writer's block has cost him emotionally, and he is bored with his job, his conversations with his father Read More

Kangaroo Court

Renaissance Man

Actors: Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, Cliff Robertson, Lillo Brancato

Synopsis: Penny Marshall's feel-good comedy, invoking parts of Dead Poet's Society, Sister Act, and Private Benjamin, features Danny DeVito as Bill Rago, a divorced advertising man who is fired from his job. During an appointment at the unemployment office, a counselor finds him a job as a civilian Read More

Dead Air

Actors: Gregory Hines, Debrah Farentino

Synopsis: A radio dee-jay gets targeted by a crazed killer in this made-for-television thriller. Gregory Hines stars as Mark Jannek, a late-night disc-jockey who is being harassed by an anonymous killer on the telephone. The killer thinks that Shepard knows too much and decides to threaten both the dee-jay Read More

T-Bone N Weasel

Actors: Gregory Hines, Christopher Lloyd, Ned Beatty, Rip Torn, Graham Jarvis

Synopsis: In this comical adventure two former convicts think of themselves as clever con men, but they are anything but. After teaming up and stealing a car, the two set off to make a new life conning country hicks. Unfortunately for them, things don't quite turn out as planned. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

A Rage in Harlem

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Bill Duke directs this quirky film adaptation of Chester Himes' crime novel -- a heavily plotted gangster tale with a sweet love story hidden underneath. The film begins in Natchez, Mississippi in 1956. During a police shoot-out with the mob leader Slim's (Badja Djola) gang, Slim's moll Imabelle (Robin Givens Read More

Eve of Destruction

Actors: Gregory Hines, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Greene, Kurt Fuller, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: In this off-beat sci-fi adventure, a female scientist creates a sexy android version of herself and equips it with both the passionate emotions she lacks and a nuclear bomb. The trouble begins when the android is taken out for a test run and it ends up in the midst of a bank robbery where its Read More

White Lie

Actors: Gregory Hines, Annette O'Toole, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: In White Lie, a drama based on Samuel Charters' novel Louisiana Black, Gregory Hines plays Len Madison Jr., a New York-based mayoral press secretary who learns that his father was lynched in the South three decades earlier. Madison returns to the South, where he is intent on learning the truth Read More

Tap

Crew: Choreography

Actors: Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis, Jr., Savion Glover, Joe Morton

Synopsis: Gregory Hines plays the ex-convict son of a famed tap-dancer. Taking over his late father's Harlem dance studio, Hines can't shake memories of his childhood, when he was being touted as a dancing prodigy. Challenged to fulfill his destiny by his dad's old cronies--among them such terpsichorean Read More

Off Limits

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines, Fred Ward, Amanda Pays, Lim Kay Tong

Synopsis: Buck McGriff (Willem Dafoe) and Albaby Perkins (Gregory Hines) are military police from the army's Criminal Investigation Department assigned to find a serial killer in 1968 war-torn Saigon. Hookers have been ritualistically murdered, and the two cops spend their final days of active duty in the Read More

Running Scared

Actors: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Distinguished by a sharp, witty dialogue between its two cop protagonists, Ray and Danny (Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal), this entertaining crime drama is well worth a visit. Ray and Danny are nearly blown away by super bad guy Julio (Jimmy Smits), and their boss is peeved at them as usual. So Read More

Amazing Stories: The Amazing Falsworth

Actors: Gregory Hines, Richard Masur

White Nights

Actors: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini Read More

The Cotton Club

Crew: Choreography

Actors: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience. Mixing historical figures Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Puss-In-Boots

Synopsis: Ben Vereen stars as the clever title character in this delightful episode of Shelley Duvall's made for cable series Faerie Tale Theatre. A quick-witted talking cat dons boots, a cloak, and a hat in order to carry out his plan to turn his master -- a poor peasant played by Gregory Hines -- into a Read More

Deal of the Century

Actors: Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory Hines, Vince Edwards, William Marquez

Synopsis: The humor in this Chevy Chase comedy lies solely in the eyes of the beholder. The comic plays Eddie Muntz, an arms dealer looking to make a big sale of war planes to a South American dictator. In order to do so, his girlfriend (Sigourney Weaver) has to sleep with the dictator and his friend (Gregory Hines Read More

Eubie!

Synopsis: Eubie! began life as a Broadway musical, celebrating the life and work of legendary black entertainer/composer Eubie Blake. This taped version was specially prepared for cable TV in 1981, then released on videocassette a few years later. Gregory and Maurice Hines head the exuberant, toe-tapping Read More

Wolfen

Actors: Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: Wolfen, a frightening horror movie based upon a novel by Whitley Strieber, is an absorbing update on the werewolf legend. Detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is assigned to investigate the strange murder of a millionaire and his wife in a downtown park. Wilson and his friend, city coroner Read More

History of the World -- Part I

Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More

Saturday Night Live: Gary Busey

Actors: Gary Busey, Gregory Hines, Eubie Blake

Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by actor Gary Busey and features Gregory Hines and Eubie Blake as the musical guests. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

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