Robert Wisdom
Also Known As: Bob Wisdom, Robert Ray Wisdom, روبرت ويسدم
Biography: Robert Ray Wisdom is an American actor, best known for his roles as Howard "Bunny" Colvin in the HBO drama series The Wire, Norman "Lechero" St. John in the Fox drama series Prison Break, and Harold Conway in the 2021 Hulu comedy film Vacation Friends. Wisdom was born in Washington, D.C., to Jamaican parents. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in history and economics. He worked as a producer for NPR's All Things Considered before pursuing a career in acting. Wisdom has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including That Thing You Do!, Face/Off, Ray, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Good Wife. He has also had recurring roles on the television series The Practice, NYPD Blue, and The Shield. In 2012, Wisdom was cast as a series regular in the ABC drama series Nashville. He played the role of Coleman Carlisle, a music producer. The show ran for four seasons. In 2021, Wisdom starred in the Hulu comedy film Vacation Friends. He played the role of Harold Conway, a couple's therapist who becomes involved in a wild weekend with two other couples. The film was a critical and commercial success. Wisdom is a versatile actor who has played a wide range of roles. He is a respected member of the acting community and has won numerous awards for his work, including a NAACP Image Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Birthday: September 14, 1953
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Gender: Male
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The Heist
Overview: Two brothers turn against each other when confronted with the possibility of getting millions of dollars found in a stolen armored car.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-17
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Freedom Writers
Overview: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-05
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The Collector
Overview: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-09
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Mozart and the Whale
Overview: A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Masked and Anonymous
Overview: A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on raking in huge sums for himself from the event. Headlining is legendary musician Jack Fate, whose prison time is cut short with Sweetheart's help. Meanwhile, journalist Tom Friend investigates the corrupt concert and sets out to unmask the truth to the public.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-25
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Killer Diller
Overview: A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Mighty Joe Young
Overview: As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When Gregg O'Hara arrives from California and sees the animal, he convinces Jill that Joe would be safest at his wildlife refuge. But Strasser follows them to the U.S., intent on capturing Joe for himself.
Genres: Adventure Family Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Haven
Overview: During a weekend, two shady businessmen flee to the Cayman Islands to avoid federal prosecution. But their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads a British native to commit a crime that changes the nation.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Live from Baghdad
Overview: A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-07
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The Hawk Is Dying
Overview: A Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer attempts to subvert his mundane life by training a wild, red-tailed hawk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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Sahara
Overview: After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-25
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Storytelling
Overview: College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-08
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Clean Slate
Overview: Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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That Thing You Do!
Overview: A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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The Loft
Overview: For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned, and marriages crumble while fear and suspicion run rampant.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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Rampart
Overview: The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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Three Businessmen
Overview: An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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Jamaica Beat
Overview: When a renowned New York photographer and her new husband arrive for a holiday in a close-knit Jamaican resort town, their dream vacation becomes a scenario out of a murder mystery.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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Coastlines
Overview: An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-15
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Lifeform
Overview: When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to examine its surroundings and shows an interest in humans including a soft caress of a female scientist prior to the Army killing it. This only enrages its sibling.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-24
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Rocky Road
Overview: This modern dramedy explores the problems and prejudices one interracial couple experiences from their families and society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-14
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Ray
Overview: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Overview: At the Blue Iguana, L.A.'s most notorious strip club, the lives of five exotic dancers converge, clash and ultimately bond over the course of one week.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-10
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Freelancers
Overview: The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, trust and respect. When the truth about his father's death is revealed revenge takes him over and he won't stop until justice has been truly served.
Genres: Mystery Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-10
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The Forgotten
Overview: Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction Drama Action Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Cosmic Slop
Overview: In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative African American politician must choose between his people's survival and appeasing his white colleagues when space aliens propose to share their profound knowledge in exchange for all black people on earth. Part II: The Virgin Mary's appearance in an inner-city housing project forces a Hispanic priest to face the hidden cultural origins of Western religion. Part III: On the dawn of the "Black Revolution," an African American couple discovers who the "real" enemy is.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-08
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The Dark Knight Rises
Overview: Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-17
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Duplex
Overview: When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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Live Cargo
Overview: Nadine and Lewis move to a small Bahamian island hoping to restore their relationship in the wake of a tragedy, only to find the picturesque island torn in two: on one side a dangerous human trafficker and on the other an aging patriarch, struggling to maintain order.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-15
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Face/Off
Overview: In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Dreams in Nightmares
Overview: After an abrupt layoff, Z embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, these three queer black femmes find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-01
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Stir
Overview: A woman searches for clues that led to the murder of her scientist husband whom was experimenting with a possible AIDS vaccine.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-01
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Unforgettable
Overview: Barely coping with the end of her marriage, Tessa Connover learns that her ex-husband, David, is now happily engaged to Julia. Trying to settle into her new life after moving in with David, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her forget her troubled past. Soon, Tessa's jealousy starts to consume her, and she will stop at nothing to turn Julia's paradise into the ultimate nightmare.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-06
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Sex and Death 101
Overview: A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Sympathy for Delicious
Overview: A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Passion Play
Overview: An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-10
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If These Walls Could Talk
Overview: A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Overview: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time against urban developers looking to replace mom & pop establishments with name-brand chains. The world changes, but some things never go out of style--from current events and politics to relationships and love, you can still say anything you want at the barbershop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-20
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Beast of Burden
Overview: Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Motherless Brooklyn
Overview: New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-31
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Hollywood Palms
Overview: Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how people there live, and the intertwining stories of the residents who develop interesting relationships with one another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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Volcano
Overview: An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-25
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Vacation Friends
Overview: When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home and decide to play tricks on them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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A Journal for Jordan
Overview: Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and their child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-22
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