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Robert Townsend

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).

Highest rated movies

90% 82% A Soldier's Story
89% 48% The Mighty Quinn
88% 80% Hollywood Shuffle
71% 70% Streets of Fire
70% 90% American Flyers
39% 95% The Five Heartbeats
25% 36% The Meteor Man
25% 20% Ratboy

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 42% 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 69% Little Richard Director - 2000
No Score Yet 88% Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story Director - 2000
67% 92% Holiday Heart Director - 2000
No Score Yet 27% 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
79% 85% Eddie Murphy Raw Director,
Writer
$48.8M 1987
25% 20% Ratboy Manny (Character) $1.9K 1986
No Score Yet 26% Odd Jobs Dwight (Character) - 1986
70% 90% American Flyers Jerome (Character) - 1985
71% 70% Streets of Fire Lester (Character) - 1984
90% 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
49% 45% Kaleidoscope Director 2023
96% 70% 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