1. Robert Hooks was born on Bobby Dean Hooks; April 18,1937 and is an American actor, producer, and activist.
16 Facts About Robert Hooks
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Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the DC Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop.
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The youngest of five children, Robert Hooks was born in Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC, to Mae Bertha, a seamstress, and Edward Robert Hooks, who had moved from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, with their four other children, Bernice, Caroleigh, Charles Edward "Charlie", and James Walter "Jimmy".
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Robert Hooks experienced his first integrated school experience at West Philadelphia High School.
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Robert Hooks soon joined the drama club and began acting in plays by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett.
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Robert Hooks then returned to Broadway, first in Ballad for Bimshire and then in the short-lived 1964 David Merrick revival of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter in his only stage performance.
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In 1968, Robert Hooks was the host of the new public affairs television program Like It Is.
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Robert Hooks won an Emmy for his PBS special Voices of Our People.
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Significant roles for which Hooks is known include Reeve Scott in Hurry Sundown, Mr T in the blaxploitation film Trouble Man, grandpa Gene Donovan in the comedy Seventeen Again, and Fleet Admiral Morrow in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
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Robert Hooks appeared on television in an episode of the NBC crime drama series The Eddie Capra Mysteries in 1978, and portrayed Doctor Walcott in the 1980s television series Dynasty.
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In 1964, as a result of a speaking engagement at the Chelsea Civil Rights Committee, Robert Hooks founded The Group Theatre Workshop, a tuition-free environment for disadvantaged urban teens who expressed a desire to explore acting.
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From 1969 to 1972, Hooks served as an original board member of Black Academy of Arts and Letters, located in New York, alongside C Eric Lincoln, President; John O Killens, Alvin F Poussaint, and Charles White.
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Robert Hooks was intended as a further exploration of the ability of the arts to create healing.
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Robert Hooks is the father of actor, television and film director Kevin Robert Hooks.
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Robert Hooks married Lorrie Gay Marlow on June 15,2008.
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In 2021, Emory University began adding to its official archives material documenting Robert Hooks' career, including scripts, printed material, contracts and financial records, notes, correspondence, writings, books and periodicals, audiovisual and digital files.