Hill Harper
Also Known As: Frank Harper, F. Hill Harper, Francis Harper, Χιλ Χάρπερ, هیل هارپر
Biography: Frank Eugene "Hill" Harper is an American actor and political candidate. He is known for his roles as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes in CSI: NY, Agent Spelman Boyle in Limitless, and Dr. Marcus Andrews in The Good Doctor. He is the son of two medical doctors, Harry D. Harper, a psychiatrist, and Marilyn Harper (née Hill), who was one of the first black practicing anesthesiologists in the United States and co-authored a book called Wearing Purple. Born Frank Eugene Harper, he adopted the name "Hill" as a tribute to both his maternal and paternal ancestors. Harper graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1988, with a BA degree in economics and sociology and was valedictorian of his department. In 1992, he graduated with a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He received an MPA degree with honors from John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. During his years at Harvard, he was a full-time member of Boston's Black Folks Theater Company, one of the oldest and most acclaimed black theater troupes in the country. While a student at Harvard, Harper befriended Barack Obama, with whom he played basketball. In 2012, Harper was appointed to The President's Cancer Panel, a three-member body assigned to work with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and make recommendations to the White House around cancer policy. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He has received eight honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from both Westfield State College and Howard University.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Birthday: May 17, 1966
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Male
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The Breed
Overview: Brothers John and Matt have inherited an island cabin from their recently deceased uncle. Along with Matt's girlfriend, Nicki, and other mutual friends, the siblings travel to the cabin for a relaxing weekend getaway. But, not long after arriving, the group is besieged by ravenous dogs. They watch in horror as another vacationer, Luke, is eaten alive. Soon, they discover a training facility where the dogs have been bred to kill.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-17
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In Too Deep
Overview: Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-25
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Slaves of Hollywood
Overview: Slaves of Hollywood follows the lives of a group of recent college graduates at their first jobs in corporate Hollywood. Thomas, Pink, Fisher, Dean, and Roman have just moved out to Los Angeles and they aspire to become "players". But first they have to start at the bottom, working as personal assistants to a variety of maniacal producers, agents, and studio executives. The glamour of working in Hollywood quickly begins to fade after endless days of making coffee and babysitting the boss' children. As time moves on, our lead characters struggle to move up the corporate ladder while keeping their sanity and morals intact.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-25
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The Skulls
Overview: A senior at an Ivy League college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a price.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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He Got Game
Overview: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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This Is Not a Test
Overview: This Is Not A Test is a comedy/drama directed by Christopher Angel. The film is based around a man called Carl (Hill Harper) who's living his everyday life whilst trying to cope with his fear of terrorist nuclear attacks. However, with the threat so high he soon lets loose and jeopardizes his family and friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-20
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Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
Overview: Thrill-seeking teenagers resurrect a demon from his grave and a bloody rampage for revenge begins.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones
Overview: A sexy urban comedy about how a guy who is addicted to watching pornography discovers love is stronger than fantasy when he meets and falls in love with the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-06
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For Colored Girls
Overview: About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Constellation
Overview: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Premium
Overview: Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas station to repay him for covering his college tuition. One day at the station, his ex-fiancé - and one true love - reappears at the pumps after 3 years of silence. Cool discovers that it is 36 hours until her wedding to a local lawyer. As Cool embarks on last-ditch attempts to win her back, he takes on the biggest "role" of his life while also learning the secret to mastering his craft.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-02
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Stonehenge Apocalypse
Overview: When a group of archaeologists dig up a human skeleton near Stonehenge, an ancient piece of machinery hidden beneath the bedrock is discovered. Not knowing what it could be, the workers accidentally trigger the mechanism and start a chain of events that may very well end the world as we know it
Genres: Science Fiction Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-12
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30 Days
Overview: Two star basketball players, Donnell, a black kid from the inner city high school, and Jason, a white kid from the affluent suburbs, are sentenced to 30 days of labour in each other's communities after a brawl between their two teams. When they return to their home turf, both see their new attitudes put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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Hav Plenty
Overview: Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is a rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her home for New Year's Eve, they start to build up a romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-11
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Higher Ed
Overview: Ed (Pras from the Fugees) enters college on a track scholarship to escape some thugs from his past. Campus life, however, is filled with hurdles, and Ed's stoner roommate, Bud (Aries Spears), makes it hard not to fall back on old habits. But Ed's romantic interest, Lisa (Leila Arcieri), provides the incentive for Ed, if only he can win her away from her jock boyfriend, Craig (Hill Harper).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Loving Jezebel
Overview: A man is cursed with falling in love with other men's women.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-05
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The Nephew
Overview: Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad falls for Aislin, who has a bit of a crush on him too. But there is an old conflict going on between her father and Chad's uncle. This conflict resurfaces and begins to draw circles, wider and wider.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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America Brown
Overview: A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-28
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Junction
Overview: Junction addresses the modern day opioid crisis in America, and asks how did this happen, from three different points of view. The CEO of a pharmaceutical company, a doctor, and a patient.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-26
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The Badge
Overview: A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-07
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1982
Overview: 1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally come home via her drug-addicted mother. As his wife becomes more distant and unreliable, he struggles to raise his daughter on his own, while still striving to help his wife become clean. In the process, he learns some hard truths about his marriage and his life, which will ultimately test him as a parent, a husband, and a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Drifting School
Overview: A spy satellite has malfunctioned and is going to crash into the Earth. The US government bring on line a power laser. When the laser strikes the satellite, it causes a rip and time and sends Monroe High school 200 years into the future, including teachers, students and an escaping criminal. The students find themselves in a barren world, where they are set upon by the escaped criminal and a fierce monster.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Concussion
Overview: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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Parts Per Billion
Overview: The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-25
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Pearly Gates
Overview: Pearly Gates is a story about wanting to be remembered, and knowing that long after death, a person can live on through the memories of family, friends associates and even strangers whose lives that person touched.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-26
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The Boy Next Door
Overview: A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Get on the Bus
Overview: Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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Destined
Overview: A man navigates parallel realities: one as a hardened criminal who has spent years building his drug empire; the other as an ambitious architect who has been working his way up the corporate ladder.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-17
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Mama, I Want to Sing!
Overview: Preacher's daughter Amara Winter sings in the church choir before being discovered by a well-established musician. She soon rises to international fame as a pop singer.
Genres: Music Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-19
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Overview: An examination of the romantic lives of three contemporary Black women: shrewd Rachel, upright Charlene, and independent Monica. As the trio grapples with relationship problems and tries to find Mr. Right, they gradually conquer their inner demons and put past mistakes behind them.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-03
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Steel
Overview: When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war... if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-15
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Lackawanna Blues
Overview: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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The Black List: Volume Three
Overview: Documentary film interviews leading African Americans on race, identity, and achievement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-08
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Shadow Hill
Overview: In the small, rural town of Shadow Hill, South Dakota, Malin Vorona lives a life of fear as day by day she awaits the inevitable. Though her long-time psychiatrist attempts to find the key to healing her of a life of horrendous abuse, Malin finds herself caught between what is real and what is uninvited imagination. The signs of imminent evil grow increasingly stronger, adding to her seemingly insane notion that something horrific will soon occur. Her worst fears and intuitions finally come true as her beloved younger sister Patty and her troubled boyfriend investigate a familiar local legend and mistakenly get in deeper than they ever could have imagined. Along with a group of eclectic locals, the young couple quickly finds themselves trapped on an abandoned rural property with a disturbing history. It is there that their lives are threatened by a powerful supernatural force that has returned solely to destroy Malin, her sister, and anyone in its path. With few options, the group ...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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An Interview with God
Overview: An up-and-coming journalist finds his world and faith increasingly challenged when he's granted the interview of a lifetime – with someone who claims to be God.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-20
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The Visit
Overview: A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-20
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Park Day
Overview: Residents of a black Missouri community experience a long and eventful day of reckoning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-06
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The Volunteer
Overview: After quitting her stable but soul-crushing job, Leigh passes her days in an apathetic fog until she decides to volunteer at a soup kitchen. There she meets Ethan, a homeless man with whom she begins an electric, but turbulent affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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Beloved
Overview: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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Zooman
Overview: Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer's name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though dozens of neighbors saw the unintentional shooting, no one is willing to come forward with information. Life goes on, a killer goes free, and one grieving, broken father (Louis Gossett Jr.) is forced to take his cry for justice to the media, hoping to spark a confrontation with his daughter's murderer. Charles Dutton and CCH Pounder costar in this powerful original drama.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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The Sun Is Also a Star
Overview: Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-16
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Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Overview: In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-22
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Love by Drowning
Overview: A man reunites with a mysterious woman who has dangerous ties to a boating accident that tore his family apart 17 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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Whitepaddy
Overview: During changing times a White family find themsleves falling in-love with their Black next door neighbors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Prison Within
Overview: Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the debilitating constraints of trauma, and shattering preconceptions of "us and them."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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