Robert Hooks
Robert Hooks was born in Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States on April 18th, 1937 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 87, Robert Hooks biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist.
He is best known for his over 100 film, television, and stage appearances.
Hooks and Douglas Turner Ward founded The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), the most notable of which.
The NEC is credited with the birth of many leading black artists of all genres of literature, as well as a body of performance literature over the past 30 years, which has provided the backbone of African-American theatre classics.
In addition, Hooks is the sole founder of two major black theatre companies, the D.C. Black Repertory Company and the New York Group Theatre Workshop.
Personal life
Hooks is the father of actor, television, and film director Kevin Hooks. On June 15, 2008, Lorrie Gay Marlow (actress, writer, artist) married him. He was married to Yvonne Hickman and Rosie Lee Hooks before being married.
Emory University began including scripts, printed books, employment, and financial data describing Hooks' career in 2021, as well as notes, letters, journals, and digital files.
Career
Hooks moved to New York to pursue acting after attending Bessie V. Hicks School of Theatre in Philadelphia and seeing A Raisin in the Sun in its Philadelphia tryout in February 1959. Bobby Dean Hooks made his Broadway debut in A Raisin in the Sun in April 1960, replacing Louis Gossett, Jr., who would be directing the film version. He then began to do its national tour. He then stepped into A Taste of Honey, replacing Billy Dee Williams; then repeating the same national tour path as he had for "Raisin" last year. In early 1962, he appeared as the lead in Jean Genet's The Blacks, replacing James Earl Jones as the male lead and then appearing on Broadway for the first time in Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, and then back to the lead role in The Blacks in 1963. He later returned to Broadway, first in Ballad for Bimshire and then in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, a short-lived 1964 David Merrick revival, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter in his first stage appearance. Clay in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman appeared immediately after, on March 24, 1964. Hooks became Robert Hooks as a result of this play, on Roscoe Lee Brown's direction. Where's Daddy? was also a performer on the New York stage. He received the Theatre World Award and was nominated for Best Male Lead in a Musical for Hallelujah Baby while performing in David Susskind's N.Y.P.D. — the first African American lead on a television drama in Africa.
Like It Is, the host of the new public affairs television show Like It Is, began in 1968.
Hooks was nominated for a Tony for his lead role in the film Hallelujah, Baby! He has been nominated for both the Pioneer Award and the NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as inducting into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Voices of Our People, a PBS special, also received an Emmy for his PBS special, Voices of Our People.
Reeve Scott (1967), Mr. T. in the film In the 1970s, Mr. T. (1972), and Fleet Admiral Morrow in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). In 1978, he appeared on television in an episode of the NBC crime drama series The Eddie Capra Mysteries, and he also appeared in the 1980s television series Dynasty portrayed Doctor Walcott.
Awards
- 1966 – Theatre World Award (1965–66) for "Where's Daddy?" (The Billy Rose Theatre)
- 1979 – American Black Achievement Award – Ebony Magazine
- 1982 – Emmy Award for Producing (1982) Voices of Our People: In Celebration of Black Poetry (KCET-TV/PBS)
- 1966 – Tony Nomination, Lead Role in a Musical for Hallelujah, Baby
- 1985 – Inducted into The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, recipient Oscar Micheaux Award (1985)
- 1986 – March 2 declared Robert Hooks Day by the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley
- 1987 – Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities from CEBA (Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities)
- 2000 – Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa honorary degree, Bowie State University
- 2000 – May 25 declared Robert Hooks Day in Washington, D.C.
- 2005 – Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 2005 – Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Trailblazer Award to the Negro Ensemble Company
- 2005 – Trailblazer Award – City of Los Angeles
- 2006 – The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL), Lifetime Achievement Award (Dallas)
- 2007 – The Black Theatre Alliance Awards / Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2015 – Living Legend Award (2015) National Black Theatre Festival
- 2018 – October 18 proclaimed Robert Hooks Day by Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington, D.C.
- 2018 – Hooks is entered into The Congressional Record by the Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton, September 4, 2018, Vol. 164
- 2018 – Visionary Founder and Creator Award – D.C. Black Repertory Company on its 47th anniversary