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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".
The Five Heartbeats. 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]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Prior to forming the Delfonics, William "Poogie" Hartsang in a variety of groups including Little Hart and The Everglows, the Veltones, the Four Guys, and the Four Gents. Members of some of these early groups included brothers William and Wilbert Hart, Ritchie Daniels, Randy Cain, and Jimmy Wroten, Stan Lathan, and Donald Cannon, friends who ...
The Dells were confined mostly to the oldies market afterwards until they were asked to be creative consultants to Robert Townsend's acclaimed 1991 film, The Five Heartbeats, which was loosely based on the lives of The Dells and other groups of its era. [10] The group recorded a composition titled "A Heart Is a House for Love". The song reached ...