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Robert Townsend

Highest Rated: 90% 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).

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Highest-Rated Movies

90% 82% A Soldier's Story
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89% 48% The Mighty Quinn
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88% 80% Hollywood Shuffle
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79% 85% Eddie Murphy Raw
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71% 70% Streets of Fire
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70% 90% American Flyers
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67% 92% Holiday Heart
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50% 70% Carmen: A Hip Hopera
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39% 95% The Five Heartbeats
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27% 37% The Meteor Man
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Robert Townsend

Robert Townsend 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 AMERICAN FLYERS, (l-r): Robert Townsend, David Grant, Kevin Costner, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul (r.), 1985, (c)Warner Bros. THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, Tico Wells (l.), Robert Townsend (foreground), 1991, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, Anne-Marie Johnson, Robert Townsend, 1987, (c) Samuel Goldwyn 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. View more photos

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Ms. Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy? 88% 2022 Director Making The Five Heartbeats 2018 Actor, Director, Writer, Producer Deadly Intent 2016 Producer Playin' for Love 2013 Coach Banks Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer In the Hive 78% 2011 Director Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy 67% 2009 Director Of Boys and Men 64% 2008 Holden Cole Actor, Executive Producer Phantom Punch 42% 2008 Director Tao of the Golden Mask 2007 Lead Actor Black Listed 2003 Alan Chambers Actor, Director, Writer I Was a Teenage Faust 47% 2002 Mr. Five Actor 10,000 Black Men Named George 78% 2002 Director Book of Love 77% 2002 Actor Carmen: A Hip Hopera 50% 70% 2001 Director Little Richard 70% 2000 Director Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story 88% 2000 Director Holiday Heart 67% 92% 2000 Director Up, Up and Away 27% 2000 Jim Marshall/Bronze Eagle Actor, Director Love Songs 73% 1999 Champ Actor, Director The Taxman 33% 1999 Peyton Cody Actor Jackie's Back! 87% 1999 Director Joseph's Gift 1998 James Saunders Actor B.A.P.S 15% 67% 1997 Director Mercenary 2: Thick and Thin 1997 Charlie Love Actor The Meteor Man 27% 37% 1993 Jefferson Reed Actor, Director
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