Robert Hooks Filmography

Born:
April 18, 1937 in Washington, DC
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
Fresh out of Temple University, actor Robert Hooks was billing himself as Bobby Dean Hooks when he made his 1962 Broadway bow in Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. Hooks' first film was the independently produced Sweet Love, Bitter (1966), though many reference books regard Hurry Sundown (1967) as the...Read More
Current News:
Review: `Quantum of Solace' feels too slight

Nov. 13, 2008 3:00 PM ET (AP)

  • 2008
  • Seventeen Again

    Actors: Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Tahj Mowry, Robert Hooks

    Synopsis: While twin sisters Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry gained fame playing twin sisters on the sitcom Sister Sister, this comic fantasy finds them stretching their talents by playing grandmother and granddaughter. When the Donovan family moves from California to Connecticut, 17-year-old Sydney (Tia Mowry) Read More

    2000
  • The Hoop Life

    Actors: Mykelti Williamson, Dorian Harewood, Rick Peters, Cirroc Lofton, Dan Lauria

    Synopsis: The off-court lives of a team of professional basketball players, as well as their friends and family, are the focus of The Hoop Life, a made-for-cable movie that serves as pilot and introduction for a series produced for the Showtime premium cable network. The New England Knights lose the final Read More

    1999
  • Fled

    Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Will Patton

    Synopsis: Though serving a prison sentence for using his computer to embezzle from an international corporation, Dodge (Stephen Baldwin) still thinks of himself as an ordinary criminal. His fellow convict, Piper (Lawrence Fishburne), whose basic decency leads him to protect Dodge from an assault by another Read More

    1996
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Scent of Murder

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Seth (William Windom) are invited to the South Carolina plantation owned by Seth's cousin, a wealthy botanist. The visit becomes somewhat less than pleasant when the cousin turns up murdered. Evidently there are several people who would have benefited from this death Read More

    1995
  • Posse

    Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Big Daddy Kane

    Synopsis: Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the frontier with this action-packed western that's also an homage to spaghetti Westerns. During the Spanish-American War, a squadron of black soldiers led by Jesse Lee (Van PeeblesRead More

    1993
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: It's Better to Have Loved and Lost It...

    Synopsis: Fed up with being kidded about his virgin status, Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) hopes against hope that the current girl in his life, Joann Morgan (Natalie Venetia Belcon), will be "Miss Right"--or as Will (Will Smith) would say, "Miss Right Now." Without revealing anything else about the episode, it Read More

    1993
  • Passenger 57

    Actors: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher, Bruce Greenwood

    Synopsis: This fast-paced action picture plays like Die Hard (1988) on an airplane. Grieving over the death of his wife at the hands of an armed robber and blaming himself for her death, anti-terrorism expert John Cutter (Wesley Snipes) is retiring from his dangerous job. The flight he's on is occupied by a Read More

    11/6/92
  • Appearances

    Actors: Ernest Borgnine

    Synopsis: Appearances began life as a 2-hour TV pilot film. A Midwestern family tries to carry on after the sudden death of the family's son. Everyone puts up a brave public front, but the artifice results in gradual erosion of family solidarity. Ernest Borgnine fares best as the clan's patriarch. Read More

    1990
  • The Flash

    Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the well-known DC comic book character the Flash must use his super-human abilities to stop the Dark Riders, an evil motorcycle gang who caused the death of his brother and now threatens to take over Central City. A TV series of the same name resulted from this pilot Read More

    1990
  • Heat Wave

    Actors: Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Margaret Avery

    Synopsis: Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood), who was the only journalist on staff able to cover the story, since White reporters were unable to gain access to the area and the rioters. Read More

    1990
  • A Different World: Risky Business

    Synopsis: Making another crossover appearance from The Cosby Show, Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad) arrives at Hillman College to conduct a business-etiquette seminar. She also hopes to persuade her daughter Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) to enroll in Hillman, but Vanessa turns out to have other plans. At the Read More

    1989
  • Sister, Sister

    Synopsis: Maya Angelou may be eminently qualified for her position as America's poet laureate, but her skills as a scriptwriter areat play in Sister Sister. Diahann Carroll plays a Southern schoolteacher who lives in the large house willed to her by her pullman-porter father; here she takes care of younger Read More

    2/5/88
  • Deadly Enemies

    Synopsis: The "Supercarrier" TV series comes to the big screen with a deadly virus running rampant on the U.S.S. Georgetown. (AKA Supercarrier) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1988
  • Supercarrier

    Synopsis: Featuring shots of aerial adventure and excitement, this is the pilot for a television series that chronicled the exploits of a group of specially trained Navy fighter pilots who live aboard a gigantic aircraft carrier and struggle daily to keep the world safe for democracy. The story centers on Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: Christopher Bundy-Died on Sunday

    Synopsis: Few men in the publishing industry have more enemies than Christopher Bundy (Bert Convy), who has converted a once respectable magazine into a lurid tabloid specializing in tell-all exposes and pictures of nude women. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) angrily shows up at Bundy's Connecticut headquarters Read More

    1986
  • The Execution

    Synopsis: Five Holocaust survivors conspire to have revenge upon the Nazi doctor who tormented them in this taut made-for-TV drama. All five are women living in Los Angeles and all have vividly painful memories of the atrocities he performed upon them. The memories come flooding back when they find him Read More

    1985
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

    Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, James Doohan

    Synopsis: When last we left the crew of the star ship Enterprise, they were heading home following a skirmish with the despotic Khan. The unpleasant incident had cost the life of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy)--or so it seemed. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) is informed by Spock's Vulcan father Sarek (Mark Lenard Read More

    1984
  • Words by Heart

    Actors: Robert Hooks, Charlotte Rae, Alfre Woodard

    Synopsis: Words by Heart is set in a northern farming town in 1910. The town's only black family, recently arrived from the south, is treated with barely concealed contempt by the white farmers--and with outright hostility when the family's daughter (Fran Robinson) wins a Bible-verse contest. The only white Read More

    1984
  • Quincy, M.E.: Bitter Pill

    Synopsis: The deaths of two teenagers alert Quincy (Jack Klugman) to the perils of deceptively harmless "lookalike drugs", which can be legally sold over any pharmacy counter. The crusading coroner is determined to ban these drugs and to punish those merchants who sell them to underaged customers. Read More

    1982
  • Fast-Walking

    Actors: James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz, Robert Hooks, M. Emmet Walsh

    Synopsis: James Woods plays "Fast-Walking" Miniver, a strikingly amoral prison guard, in this dark, hard-hitting comedy/drama. When not smoking dope or scaring up customers for Evie (Susan Tyrrell), the proprietor of the local house of prostitution, Fast-Walking tries to keep order in an Oregon prison. Read More

    1982
  • The Oklahoma City Dolls

    Synopsis: In this film, a group of frustrated feminists form a football team for their factory in an effort to foil male chauvinists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1981
  • Madame X

    Actors: Tuesday Weld, Edward Anhalt, Jerry Stiller

    Synopsis: The 1981 TV version of Madame X was the seventh filmization of the old war-horse play by Alexandre Bisson. This time around, Tuesday Weld (replacing Susan Blakely) plays the poor woman (an airline stewardess in this version) who marries "outside her class" (hubby is a Presidential candidate). She Read More

    1981
  • The Sophisticated Gents

    Actors: Paul Winfield, Bernie Casey, Roosevelt Grier

    Synopsis: The three-part TV miniseries The Sophisticated Gents covers 25 years in the lives of a group of close friends. Nine African-American members of a sports club gather for a quarter-century reunion. As they reminisce over the high and low points of their lives, some of the members await the arrival Read More

    1981
  • Backstairs at the White House

    Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

    Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

    1979
  • Hollow Image

    Synopsis: Hollow Image is an occasionally overwritten but generally impressive screenwriting debut for Lee Hunkins. Saundra Sharp plays an African-American career woman who has become a success in Manhattan's high-fashion world. She has risen from the grinding poverty of Harlem, but her roots are deeper Read More

    1979
  • To Kill a Cop

    Synopsis: Joe Don Baker stars as chief of detectives, Eischeid, in the 4-hour, 2-part TV film To Kill A Cop. Eischeid must contend with a series of seemingly unrelated bank robberies and the vicious murders of two police officers. Eischeid deduces that the culprits are members of a violent African-American Read More

    1978
  • A Woman Called Moses

    Actors: Orson Welles

    Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the Read More

    1978
  • The Courage and the Passion

    Synopsis: This film is a failed TV pilot. The action drama chronicles the lives and exploits of Air Force test pilots. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1978
  • Airport '77

    Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

    Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

    1977
  • The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

    Synopsis: The Killer Who Wouldn't Die was the original network title for the 1976 TV movie also known as Ohanian. Mike Connors plays Ohanian, an Armenian-American ex-cop who runs a charter boat service. He's pulled back into the investigation game when one of his old friends is killed in Hawaii by a foreign Read More

    1976
  • Just an Old Sweet Song

    Synopsis: Originally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS "General Electric Theater" special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of three pilots for Down Home, a proposed TV series created by filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Robert Hooks and Cicely Tyson star as Nate and Priscilla Simmons, the patriarch and Read More

    1976
  • Aaron Loves Angela

    Actors: Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Ernestine Jackson

    Synopsis: Fame star Irene Cara made her film bow in Aaron Loves Angela. Cara plays Angela, a Puerto Rican girl who falls in love with Aaron, a black ghetto youth (Kevin Hooks, whose father Robert Hooks also appears in the film). The unrelenting grimness of their lives is leavened ever so slightly by Read More

    1975
  • The Cut Man Caper

    Actors: Robert Hooks, Godfrey Cambridge

    Synopsis: The Cut Man Caper originated as a 90-minute episode of the weekly TV anthology Police Story. Heading the cast is Robert Hooks as Ernie Tillis, a detective in the robbery-homicide division. On the trail of loan-company robbers, Hooks is forced to rely upon shifty informer Freddy (Lou Gossett Jr.). Read More

    1975
  • The Streets of San Francisco: Rampage

    Synopsis: A group of solid citizens, upset by the increase of crime in their neighborhood, form a vigilante team. During the team's assault on a sleazy bar, a street informer is killed and the head of the vigilantes--who happens to be an old college friend of detective Steve Keller (Michael Douglas)--is Read More

    1974
  • The F.B.I.: Deadly Ambition

    Synopsis: A young Harvey Keitel chews the scenery as Ernie Cahn, an arrogant hoodlum who aspires to emulate his movie idols Cagney, Bogart and Robinson. To this end, Ernie masterminds the biggest robbery of his career, first stealing explosives from a National Guard Armory, then hijacking an armored car. Read More

    1974
  • Trapped

    Actors: James Brolin

    Synopsis: Trapped stars James Brolin as an casual shopper who is mugged in the men's room of a huge department store. Rendered unconscious, Brolin awakens late at night, long after the store has closed. That's when he discovers himself at the mercy of six vicious guard dogs, trained to tear apart any and Read More

    1973
  • Trouble Man

    Synopsis: An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this streetwise blaxpolitation drama. T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective, and all-purpose ghetto fixer who operates out of a billiards parlor in South Central Los Angeles. T has done well for Read More

    1972
  • Two for the Money

    Synopsis: In this drama, two private investigators must find a serial killer after the 12-year investigation of the police fails miserably. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1972
  • Cross Current

    Actors: Robert Hooks, Simon Oakland, Jeremy Slate, Robert Wagner

    Synopsis: Also known as Cross Current, The Cable Car Murder emulates the 1971 theatrical feature Tick, Tick, Tick by teaming a black homicide lieutenant (Robert Hooks) with a white partner (Jeremy Slate). Simon Oakland costars as the team's apoplectic superior (is there any other kind?) Set in San Read More

    1971
  • Vanished

    Actors: Chet Huntley

    Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

    1970
  • The Last of the Mobile Hotshots

    Actors: James Coburn, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Hooks, Perry Hayes, Reggie King

    Synopsis: In this depressing slice of Southern decadence, Myrtle (Lynn Redgrave) is a woman of questionable virtue who marries an ailing man on a television game show. Jeb (James Coburn) hopes to sire an heir so his greedy half-brother (Robert Hooks) won't inherit the family fortune. Myrtle jumps into the Read More

    1969
  • Black Brigade

    Synopsis: With The Mod Squad sweeping the Tuesday night TV ratings in 1968, producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas hoped to get another multiracial adventure series on the air A.S.A.P. Carter's Army was the 72-minute pilot for this project. Set during World War II, the film stars Stephen Boyd as an Army Read More

    1969
  • The F.B.I.: Silent Partner

    Synopsis: The FBI suspects a case of jury tampering when, after the acquittal of notorious mob figure, juror Steven Harber (Robert Hooks) suddenly becomes conspicuously wealthy. Eventually, Harber's conscience kicks in, but it may already be too late. Not only is Harber being shaken down by a blackmailer Read More

    1969
  • Sweet Love, Bitter

    Actors: Dick Gregory, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Robert Hooks, Jeri Archer

    Synopsis: Loosely based on Charlie Parker's life and based on the book Night Song, this drama chronicles the friendship between a nearly washed up jazz sax player and a down-and-out college professor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1967
  • Hurry Sundown

    Actors: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Robert Hooks

    Synopsis: Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a land owner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. However, two parcels of land have escaped Read More

    1967

Movie data provided by AMG

Robert Hooks  not available

© 2007 Getty Images

Add this Person to Favorites