Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in Aaron Loves Angela & Sounder, but may be best-known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow. In 1986, he starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom He's the Mayor. He directed Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57 and also Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin in Fled. Hooks worked as a director and producer on the series Prison Break....
Known For
Complete Filmography
Intercept
2011
Director
Four college students get roped into solving crimes when one of them creates a high-tech communication device that intercepts conversations throughout...
Prison Break: The Final Break
2009
Director, Executive Producer
Prison Break: The Movie. Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christ...
Sounder
2003
Director
This is a coming-of-age story of a boy living in the Depression era of the South. "Boy" (Daniel Lee Robertson III) learns the hard way about the reali...
The Color of Friendship
2000
Director, Producer
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African ...
Mutiny
1999
Director
Fact-based story about 300 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco. Three week...
Black Dog
1998
Director
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to su...
Glory & Honor
1998
Director
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
Fled
1996
Director
During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to s...
To My Daughter With Love
1994
Director
Joey and Alice have hardly enough to keep their heads above water. Alice's wealthy parents disapproved of their daughter marrying Joey but after a whi...
Irresistible Force
1993
Director
A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiast...
Passenger 57
1992
Director
Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself stuck on a flight being hijacked by notori...
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
1992
Director
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academ...
Strictly Business
1991
as Married Man
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful...
Strictly Business
1991
Director
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful...
Heat Wave
1990
Director
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Roots: The Gift
1988
Director
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of r...
Innerspace
1987
as Duane
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, J...
Class Act: A Teacher's Story
1987
Director
Rich businessman decides to return to teaching after working in the stock market. He inherits a class of under-achievers and sets out to make them win...
Teen Father
1986
Director
College bound 18-year-old has his life turned upside down when his 16-year-old girlfriend announce she is pregnant.
Friendly Fire
1980
as Polk
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam...
Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story
1979
as Nat Blake
The true and tragic story of a very young and very talented comedian from the 70's whose sudden rise to fame had some of its benefits -- and some of i...
Take Down
1979
as Jasper MacGrudder
An unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch eff...
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
1977
as Tiger
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
1977
as Hoover Sissle
Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
Just an Old Sweet Song
1976
as Junior
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. E...
Aaron Loves Angela
1975
as Aaron
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 wa...
Sounder
1972
as David Lee Morgan
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for steali...
J.T.
1969
as J.T. Gamble
J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alle...