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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.
Suzzanne Douglas (April 12, 1957 – July 6, 2021) was an American actress. [2] She was best known for her role as matriarch Geraldine "Jerri" Peterson on The WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood, [2] starring Robert Townsend, which originally ran from 1995 to 1999.
Hollywood Shuffle would star Townsend as Bobby Taylor, an aspiring actor who yearns to ditch his minimum-wage day job at a hot dog ... Director Robert Townsend with Beyoncé on set of 2001's ...
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
Suzzanne Douglas, well-loved for her leading role as matriarch Jerri Peterson on Robert Townsend's WB sitcom The Parent ‘Hood and for her part in Netflix's When They See Us, has died. She was 64 ...
The series starred Robert Townsend and Suzzanne Douglas. Originally to be titled Father Knows Nothing (a parody of the title of the 1950s sitcom Father Knows Best ), [ 1 ] the series was one of the four sitcoms that aired as part of the original two-hour Wednesday night lineup that helped launch The WB (along with The Wayans Bros. , Unhappily ...
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.
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.