Kevin Hooks was born on September 19,1958 and is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable for his roles in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but may be best known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow.
14 Facts About Kevin Hooks
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Kevin Hooks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Yvonne, a state employee, and Robert Hooks, a director and actor who starred in many films in the 1970s.
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Kevin Hooks attended Potomac High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
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Kevin Hooks appeared in the hit 1972 movie Sounder as the pre-teen elder son of Paul Winfield's and Cicely Tyson's characters, providing the point of view of the film.
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Kevin Hooks held the story together as a boy thrust into being "man of the family" on a sharecropping farm during the Depression.
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Kevin Hooks won a role in the last film directed by Gordon Parks, Jr.
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Kevin Hooks went on to portray high school basketball player Morris Thorpe in the successful TV series about high-school basketball, The White Shadow, which ran from 1978 to 1981.
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In 1991, Kevin Hooks directed the film Strictly Business, and appeared in one scene opposite Kim Coles.
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Kevin Hooks directed Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57, Cynthia Rothrock and Stacy Keach in Irresistible Force, Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin in Fled, and Patrick Swayze in Black Dog.
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Kevin Hooks worked as a director and producer on the series Prison Break.
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Kevin Hooks directed two episodes from the first season of Lost, "White Rabbit" and "Homecoming".
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Kevin Hooks directed ABC's Wonderful World of Disney's TV remake of the film, with Paul Winfield, his co-star from the original, playing a different role.
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Kevin Hooks directed the film Prison Break: The Final Break based on the series.
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Kevin Hooks is credited as the director of the 2017 Madiba, a three-part BET television special about the life of the late Nelson Mandela and the struggle of the ANC which with the leadership of Mandela, famously succeeded to overthrow the regime of apartheid in South Africa, starring Laurence Fishburne in the role of Mandela.