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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.
Townsend and Wayans, best friends from their days performing at The Improv in New York in the late-’70s, penned Hollywood Shuffle, a biting, ahead-of-its-time satire of being Black in the movie ...
With his 1987 debut now part of the Criterion Collection, filmmaker Robert Townsend looks back on its making and legacy: 'I broke every rule.' He put $40,000 on credit cards to make his first film ...
Samuel L. Jackson, Gabrielle Union, and Robert Townsend are among the many celebrities to write tributes to Roundtree, who died […] The post Celebs respond to death of Richard Roundtree appeared ...
The film tracks the attempts of Bobby Taylor to become a successful actor and the mental and external roadblocks he encounters, represented through a series of interspersed vignettes and fantasies. Produced, directed, and co-written by Robert Townsend , the film is semi-autobiographical, reflecting Townsend's experiences as a black actor when ...
Cooley High is seen as "changing the landscape" for black people in film, with its humane focus on the dreams of young inner-city black men, according to actor and film director Robert Townsend, who got his start in film with a one-line walk-on role in Cooley High. [12]
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 (author) (1920–1998), American author, CEO of Avis Rent a Car; Ed Townsend (swimmer) (Robert Edward Townsend Jr., born 1943), American swimmer; Rob Townsend (born 1947), English rock drummer; Robert M. Townsend (born 1948), professor of economics at MIT; Robert Townsend (actor) (born 1957), American actor and filmmaker