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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% 36% 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

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 70% 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
27% 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

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Credit
86% 72% Poppa's House Director 2024
49% 45% Kaleidoscope Director 2023
96% 70% The Wonder Years Director 2021
92% 49% 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