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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Robert Townsend
Filmography
Movies
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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 |
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In the Hive | Director | - | 2011 |
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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Director | - | 2009 |
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Of Boys and Men |
Holden Cole (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2008 |
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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 |
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I Was a Teenage Faust | Mr. Five (Character) | - | 2002 |
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10,000 Black Men Named George | Director | - | 2002 |
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Book of Love | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
50% |
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Carmen: A Hip Hopera | Director | - | 2001 |
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Little Richard | Director | - | 2000 |
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Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story | Director | - | 2000 |
67% |
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Holiday Heart | Director | - | 2000 |
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Up, Up and Away |
Jim Marshall/ Director |
- | 2000 |
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Love Songs |
Champ (Character), Director |
- | 1999 |
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The Taxman | Peyton Cody (Character) | $5.7K | 1999 |
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Jackie's Back! | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joseph's Gift | James Saunders (Character) | - | 1998 |
15% |
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B.A.P.S | Director | $7.2M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mercenary 2: Thick and Thin | Charlie Love (Character) | - | 1997 |
25% |
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The Meteor Man |
Jefferson Reed (Character), Director |
$8.0M | 1993 |
39% |
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The Five Heartbeats |
Duck (Character), Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
$7.3M | 1991 |
89% |
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The Mighty Quinn | Maubee (Character) | $4.0M | 1989 |
88% |
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Hollywood Shuffle |
Bobby Taylor/ Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
$5.2M | 1987 |
79% |
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Eddie Murphy Raw |
Director, Writer |
$48.8M | 1987 |
25% |
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Ratboy | Manny (Character) | $1.9K | 1986 |
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Odd Jobs | Dwight (Character) | - | 1986 |
70% |
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American Flyers | Jerome (Character) | - | 1985 |
71% |
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Streets of Fire | Lester (Character) | - | 1984 |
90% |
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A Soldier's Story | Corporal Ellis (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Love With an Older Woman | James (Character) | - | 1982 |
TV
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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 |