Robert Hooks
Also Known As: Bobby Dean Hooks
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Birthday: April 18, 1937
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Gender: Male
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Overview: Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-06
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Passenger 57
Overview: An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand for this sort of thing.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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Trouble Man
Overview: It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks like it's up to T to hold a gang war from breaking out, keep the police off his back, and earn his fee from Chalky and Pete.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Carter's Army
Overview: A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.
Genres: TV Movie War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-25
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Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Overview: Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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Airport '77
Overview: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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The Courage and the Passion
Overview: The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-27
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Fast-Walking
Overview: A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-11
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Fled
Overview: During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to stolen money that the Mafia is after, and some computer files that somebody wants desperately to bury. The pair, who don't exactly enjoy each other's company, escape and must work together if they are to reach Atlanta alive. Luckily, they meet a woman who may be willing to help them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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Seventeen Again
Overview: Cat and Gene have been divorced for several years. They are both visiting their son and their grandchildren, Sydney and Willie. Willie's a genius who develops a formula that makes who uses it young again, it inadvertently spills into some soap that Willie places in his grandparents room. When each of them uses it they finds themselves 17 again. Willie had to find a way to reverse the process but will his grandparents want to be old again?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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Sweet Love, Bitter
Overview: A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of feeling sorry for himself.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-30
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Words by Heart
Overview: The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Trapped
Overview: A man is accidentally locked in a department store overnight and finds himself held at bay by six vicious Doberman guard dogs.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-13
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Hurry Sundown
Overview: Post-WWII, a corporation seeks Georgia farmland, but two owners—a white veteran and a black man—refuse to sell, forming an alliance against the greedy husband of the majority landowner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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Aaron Loves Angela
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Free of Eden
Overview: Story about Will Cleamons, a former teacher-turned-businessman who agrees to tutor 18-year-old high school dropout, Nicole Turner. Much to his surprise, their relationship not only helps Nicole build a future, but helps Cleamons put his personal life back together.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-21
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The Flash
Overview: A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-04
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Two for the Money
Overview: Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-26
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Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Overview: A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-14
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Crosscurrent
Overview: Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Appearances
Overview: A drama centering on the joys, conflicts, and crises on a middle-class family and on its ex-football star father's efforts to keep it on track and intact despite the death of a child and the strain between his wife and father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-17
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The Execution
Overview: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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The Oklahoma City Dolls
Overview: Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-23
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Heat Wave
Overview: A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-13
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Sister, Sister
Overview: Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-07
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Madame X
Overview: Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-16
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Overview: A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Abandoned and Deceived
Overview: The film is the story of woman who is denied the pensions for her children by her ex-husband. Therefore she has to fight for her rights by appealing the courts of justice and the bureaucracy of the state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-20
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The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Overview: After his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-04
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Posse
Overview: A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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Just an Old Sweet Song
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-25
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To Kill a Cop
Overview: Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Genres: Crime Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-10
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Hollow Image
Overview: A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-24
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