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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 Carroll. [1]
He was cast as Saint Martin de Porres in Madonna's controversial 1989 music video "Like a Prayer". Leon's early film roles included a football teammate of Tom Cruise in All the Right Moves (1983) as Shadow Nading, and the Notre Dame -bound basketball-playing co-worker of Matt Dillon , in The Flamingo Kid (1984). [ 2 ]
Harold Joseph Lennix III [1] (born November 16, 1964) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Terrence "Dresser" Williams in the Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats (1991) and as Boyd Langton in the science-fiction series Dollhouse.
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.
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.
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".
Michael Wright 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, [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).
“I think a lot has changed,” says Townsend, who went on to star in and direct films The Five Heartbeats (1991) and Meteor Man (1993) and now mostly works in television (The Last O.G. , The ...