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Box office. $8,750,400 [citation needed] The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans. Produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film's main cast includes Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas, and Diahann ...
Hawthorne James is an American character actor and director, known for his role as Big Red Davis in the 1991 film The Five Heartbeats. [1]He is also known for his role as Sam, the injured bus driver, in Speed, [2] George, the Night Guard at the Library, in Seven and series as NYPD Blue [2] and guest-starring on Frasier as Bill in the season one episode "Miracle on Third or Fourth Street".
In 1991, they released the top 10 R&B hit "Nights Like This" for The Five Heartbeats movie soundtrack. That same year, they took the road as Whitney Houston's opening act on her I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour. [9] After 7's second album Takin' My Time was released in August 1992. The album is notable for being their only album without any ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Five Heartbeats, Robert Townsend's story about the trials and tribulations of a band of five talented guys in a musical group during the rise of Motown, is on its way to Broadway.
Michael Wright is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie King Jr. in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats, [1] Carlyle in Streamers (1983), and Raynathan in Sugar Hill (1994). and known for his television roles such as Elias Taylor in V (The Series) (1984–1985), [2] Omar White in Oz (2001–2003), and Lazarus Prime in Black Lightning (2019).
Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Townsend is best known for directing the films Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Eddie Murphy Raw (1987), The Meteor Man (1993), The Five Heartbeats (1991) and various other films and stand-up specials. He is especially known for his portrayal of ...
Tico Wells. Tico Wells is an American actor, known for his role as Choir Boy in the 1991 film The Five Heartbeats. [1] He has also appeared on The Cosby Show, 227, Hallmark movies and Beverly Hills, 90210. He was Tim in the movie The Wish List, and played Dexter Williams, the younger brother of Denzel Washington 's character Demetrius Williams ...
[6] [4] The Delfonics and Bell had to work with a basic budget on the first creation as Thom explained "When I took them into the studio we didn't have any money to pay for string players and an orchestra so I played most of the instruments myself!"—a far cry from the full classical productions from 1968 to the beginning of the 1970s. [7] "