Michael Wright

Michael Wright

1956-04-30 New York City, New York, USA 28 Credits

Biography

Michael Wright (born April 6, 1956) is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie Kane, Jr. in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats. Wright's body of work in television includes the 1983 NBC science fiction miniseries V, the 1984 sequel "V: The Final Battle" and on "V: The Series" as Elias Taylor, TV series "Miami Vice" 1987 episode "The Savage", and on the 1997 HBO series Oz as Omar White from 2001-2003. And he played "Clinton", the leader of The...

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2 Aces and a Dirty Heart

2 Aces and a Dirty Heart

2017

as Redds

1.0
Acting

Two hustlers come up the hard way. When a group of savage stick up boys start terrorizing the city.

D'Curse

D'Curse

2013

as Officer Ruda

4.0
Acting

NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the m...

Jesse

Jesse

2011

as Juan

1.5
Acting

Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption, ...

Before I Self Destruct

Before I Self Destruct

2009

as First Victim

4.8
Acting

A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materia...

Diminished Capacity

Diminished Capacity

2008

as McCormick

5.4
Acting

A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impai...

Hardrock

Hardrock

2007

Acting

After a prominent judge's daughter dies from taking contaminated Ecstasy, the ensuing political scandal brings a world of grief to the city's street d...

Raving

Raving

2007

as Security Guard

6.7
Acting

In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they encounter one another on a street corner.

Coalition

2006

as Lou

1.0
Acting

A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken down by minority non-union labor.

El Cantante

El Cantante

2006

as Shooting Gallery Man

7.0
Acting

The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.

The Interpreter

The Interpreter

2005

as Marcus

6.3
Acting

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to i...

Downtown: A Street Tale

Downtown: A Street Tale

2004

as Rudy

1.0
Acting

A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, ...

Piñero

Piñero

2001

as Edgar Bowser

6.2
Acting

"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pr...

Point Blank

Point Blank

1998

as Sonny

4.5
Acting

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapee...

Money Talks

Money Talks

1997

as Aaron

6.1
Acting

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

The Cottonwood

The Cottonwood

1996

as Simon Z

Acting

Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.

Confessions of a Hitman

Confessions of a Hitman

1994

as Charley

6.0
Acting

A former hitman named Bruno steals some cash from his mobster uncle. He plans to go to Tahiti, but things go wrong and he finds himself headed for Veg...

Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill

1994

as Raynathan Skuggs

5.6
Acting

In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girl...

The Five Heartbeats

The Five Heartbeats

1991

as Eddie

7.4
Acting

In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky ...

The Principal

The Principal

1987

as Victor Duncan

6.5
Acting

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school...

Bedtime Eyes

Bedtime Eyes

1987

3.3
Acting

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black Ame...

The Laundromat

The Laundromat

1985

as Shooter Stevens

6.0
Acting

Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.

V: The Final Battle

V: The Final Battle

1984

as Elias Taylor

10.0
Acting
Streamers

Streamers

1983

as Carlyle

5.9
Acting

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.

Benny's Place

Benny's Place

1982

as Jimmy Mills

10.0
Acting

Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.

Dream House

Dream House

1981

as Mace

Acting

Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite ...

We're Fighting Back

We're Fighting Back

1981

as Melvin Gilford

6.0
Acting

Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and we...

The Wanderers

The Wanderers

1979

as Clinton

7.0
Acting

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by R...

Street Justice

Street Justice

N/A

as Ernie Rays

Acting

When two detectives are fed up with the system that's not working, they seek the help of a martial arts master to bring Justice to the Streets.