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 actor's big-screen debut. In 1967, he was co-starred with Jack Warden in the New York-based TV cop series NYPD, and in 1988 he was top-billed as Captain Jim Coleman in the military weekly Supercarrier (1988). A co-founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Hooks was also the creator of the DC Black Repertory Company, based in his hometown of Washington. Robert Hooks is the father of actor/director Kevin Hooks.
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Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Participant |
2008 | |||
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Seventeen Again
Actor |
2000 | |||
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The Hoop Life
Actor |
1999 | |||
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Fled
Actor |
1996 | |||
| 1995 | ||||
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Posse
Actor |
1993 | |||
| 1993 | ||||
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Passenger 57
Actor |
1992 | |||
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Appearances
Actor |
1990 | |||
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Heat Wave
Actor |
1990 | |||
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The Flash
Actor |
1990 | |||
| 1989 | ||||
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Deadly Enemies
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Supercarrier
Actor |
1988 | |||
| 1986 | ||||
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The Execution
Actor |
1985 | |||
| 1984 | ||||
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Words by Heart
Actor |
1984 | |||
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Fast-Walking
Actor |
1982 | |||
| 1982 | ||||
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Sister, Sister
Actor |
1982 | |||
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Madame X
Actor |
1981 | |||
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The Oklahoma City Dolls
Actor |
1981 | |||
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The Sophisticated Gents
Actor |
1981 | |||
| 1979 | ||||
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Hollow Image
Actor |
1979 | |||
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A Woman Called Moses
Actor |
1978 | |||
| 1978 | ||||
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To Kill a Cop
Actor |
1978 | |||
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Airport '77
Actor |
1977 | |||
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Just an Old Sweet Song
Actor |
1976 | |||
| 1976 | ||||
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Aaron Loves Angela
Actor |
1975 | |||
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The Cut Man Caper
Actor |
1975 | |||
| 1974 | ||||
| 1974 | ||||
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Trapped
Actor |
1973 | |||
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Trouble Man
Actor |
1972 | |||
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Two for the Money
Actor |
1972 | |||
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Cross Current
Actor |
1971 | |||
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Vanished
Actor |
1970 | |||
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Black Brigade
Actor |
1969 | |||
| 1969 | ||||
| 1969 | ||||
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Hurry Sundown
Actor |
1967 | |||
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Sweet Love, Bitter
Actor |
1967 |

