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      Robert Townsend

      Robert Townsend

      Highest Rated: 91% A Soldier's Story (1984)

      Lowest Rated: 15% B.A.P.S (1997)

      Birthday: Feb 6, 1957

      Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

      Robert Townsend is known as a multi-talented figure who graduated from stand-up comedy to film, making his screen acting debut in Paul Mazursky's "Willie and Phil" (1980) and contributing a fine dramatic performance in "A Soldier's Story" (1984).

      Highest rated movies

      A Soldier's Story
      The Mighty Quinn
      Hollywood Shuffle
      American Flyers
      Streets of Fire
      The Five Heartbeats
      The Meteor Man
      Ratboy

      Photos

      Robert Townsend Robert Townsend at arrivals for 50th NAACP Image Awards - Part 2, Loews Hollywood Hotel, Los Angeles, CA March 30, 2019. Photo By: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Robert Townsend at arrivals for NAACP Image Awards, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA February 1, 2013. Photo By: Emiley Schweich/Everett Collection HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, Robert Townsend, 1987, (c) Samuel Goldwyn A SOLDIER'S STORY, Robert Townsend, 1984, (c)Columbia Pictures RATBOY, Sharon Baird, Robert Townsend, 1986, (c)Warner Bros. HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, Robert Townsend, 1987, (c) Samuel Goldwyn HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, Robert Townsend, Helen Martin, 1987, (c) Samuel Goldwyn THE METEOR MAN, Robert Townsend (far right), 1993. (c)MGM A SOLDIER'S STORY, Robert Townsend, Howard E.Rollins, 1984. A SOLDIER'S STORY, Howard Rollins, Robert Townsend, 1984. (c) Columbia Pictures. RATBOY, Louie Anderson, Sharon Baird, Sondra Locke, Gerrit Graham, Robert Townsend, 1986, (c)Warner Bros. THE METEOR MAN, Robert Townsend, 1993, (c)MGM THE METEOR MAN, James Earl Jones, Cynthia Belgrave, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Marilyn Coleman, Robert Guillaume, Bill Cosby, Marla Gibbs, Robert Townsend, 1993, (c)MGM THE METEOR MAN, Robert Townsend (second from left), Sinbad, Stephanie Williams, 1993. (c)MGM HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, Jimmy Woodard, Robert Townsend, 1987, (c) Samuel Goldwyn THE METEOR MAN, Robert Townsend, 1993, (c)MGM THE METEOR MAN, Sen-Dog (from Cypress Hill), Vinnie (from Naughty by Nature), Treach (from Naughty by Nature), B Real (from Naughty by Nature) and director Robert Townsend on set, 1993, (c)MGM HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, Robert Townsend (center), 1987, (c) Samuel Goldwyn ODD JOBS, Paul Reiser (second from left), Rick Overton, Robert Townsend, 1986, (c)TriStar Pictures
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet 100% Ms. Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy? Director - 2022
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Making The Five Heartbeats Unknown (Character),
      Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 2018
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Deadly Intent Producer - 2016
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Playin' for Love Coach Banks (Character),
      Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer       		- 2013
      No Score Yet 78% In the Hive Director - 2011
      No Score Yet 67% Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy Director - 2009
      No Score Yet 64% Of Boys and Men Holden Cole (Character),
      Executive Producer       		- 2008
      No Score Yet 43% Phantom Punch Director - 2008
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Tao of the Golden Mask Lead (Character) - 2007
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Listed Alan Chambers (Character),
      Director,
      Writer       		- 2003
      No Score Yet 47% I Was a Teenage Faust Mr. Five (Character) - 2002
      No Score Yet 78% 10,000 Black Men Named George Director - 2002
      No Score Yet 77% Book of Love Unknown (Character) - 2002
      50% 70% Carmen: A Hip Hopera Director - 2001
      No Score Yet 68% Little Richard Director - 2000
      No Score Yet 86% Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story Director - 2000
      67% 92% Holiday Heart Director - 2000
      No Score Yet 30% Up, Up and Away Jim Marshall/Bronze Eagle (Character),
      Director       		- 2000
      No Score Yet 73% Love Songs Champ (Character),
      Director       		- 1999
      No Score Yet 33% The Taxman Peyton Cody (Character) $5.7K 1999
      No Score Yet 87% Jackie's Back! Director - 1999
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Joseph's Gift James Saunders (Character) - 1998
      15% 67% B.A.P.S Director $7.2M 1997
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Mercenary 2: Thick and Thin Charlie Love (Character) - 1997
      25% 36% The Meteor Man Jefferson Reed (Character),
      Director       		$8.0M 1993
      39% 95% The Five Heartbeats Duck (Character),
      Director,
      Producer,
      Screenwriter       		$7.3M 1991
      89% 48% The Mighty Quinn Maubee (Character) $4.0M 1989
      88% 80% Hollywood Shuffle Bobby Taylor/Jasper/Speed/Sam Ace/Rambro (Character),
      Director,
      Producer,
      Screenwriter       		$5.2M 1987
      78% 85% Eddie Murphy Raw Director,
      Writer       		$48.8M 1987
      25% 18% Ratboy Manny (Character) $1.9K 1986
      No Score Yet 26% Odd Jobs Dwight (Character) - 1986
      70% 86% American Flyers Jerome (Character) - 1985
      69% 70% Streets of Fire Lester (Character) - 1984
      91% 82% A Soldier's Story Corporal Ellis (Character) - 1984
      No Score Yet No Score Yet In Love With an Older Woman James (Character) - 1982

      TV

      Credit
      96% 74% The Wonder Years Director 2021
      92% 50% Black Lightning Napier Frank (Guest Star),
      Director       		2018-2019
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Soul Food Director 2002
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Parent 'Hood Robert Peterson (Character),
      Director       		1995-1999
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child Unknown (Voice) 1995
      60% No Score Yet Townsend Television Unknown (Character) 1993
      No Score Yet 82% Amazing Stories Unknown (Character) 1987
      No Score Yet 87% M*A*S*H Patient (Guest Star) 1982