Robin Harris was posthumously nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in film House Party.
10 Facts About Robin Harris
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Robin Harris's father, Earl, was a welder, and his mother, Mattie, was a factory seamstress.
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Robin Harris worked for Hughes Aircraft, a rental car company, and Security Pacific Bank to pay his bills.
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Robin Harris made his acting debut playing a bartender in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
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Robin Harris had roles in 1989's Do the Right Thing and Harlem Nights.
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Robin Harris played the father of Kid in House Party.
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Robin Harris followed up later that year with a small role as a jazz club MC in Mo' Better Blues.
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The Hudlin Brothers had intended to make a feature film based upon the "Be-be's Kids" sketches, but Robin Harris died while the film was in pre-production.
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Robin Harris was transported back to California and interred in an indoor mausoleum at Inglewood Park Cemetery, near Los Angeles.
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In 2006, a posthumous DVD, titled We Don't Die, We Multiply: The Robin Harris Story, was released.