Biography
Robert Hooks is an American actor, producer, and activist. Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, he founded The Negro Ensemble Company. The Negro Ensemble Company is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the D.C. Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop.
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Awards & recognition
- Theatre World Award · 1966
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical · 1968 · nominated
Filmography44 titles
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Seinfeld
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
WKRP in Cincinnati
Murder, She Wrote
Quincy, M.E.
The Flash
The Parent 'Hood
21 Jump Street
The Execution
Dragnet
Abandoned and Deceived
Diagnosis: Murder
A Different World
L.A. Law
V
The Facts of Life
Seventeen Again
Words by Heart
A Woman Called Moses
Police Story
The Streets of San Francisco
The Rookies
Heat Wave
Family Matters
227
Hart to Hart
Mannix
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Hardcastle and McCormick
T. J. Hooker
Dynasty
Head of the Class
Hurry Sundown
Trouble Man
Passenger 57
Fast-Walking
Fled
Airport '77
The F.B.I.
Posse
Aaron Loves Angela
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Carter's Army