Kevin Hooks
Highest Rated: 100% The Color of Friendship (2000)
Lowest Rated: 10% Strictly Business (1991)
Birthday: Sep 19, 1958
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Kevin Hooks is an American film and television actor, director, and producer. Hooks first gained notice for his portrayal of the son of a poor Southern sharecropper in the 1972 film "Sounder," a role that he would revisit in the 2003 remake for the "Wonderful World of Disney" TV series. He found steady work in such late '70s films as "Take Down" and "The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened," and in 1978 he landed a breakout role as conflicted high school basketball player Morris Thorpe on the award-winning series "The White Shadow." His later film appearances include roles in the sci-fi comedy "Innerspace" and the TV movie "Glory & Honor." Since 1983 Hooks has also worked as a TV and film director, and during the '80s he helmed multiple episodes of "St. Elsewhere," "Alien Nation," and "V." He earned several Emmy nominations for his work on the "ABC Afterschool Special" TV series, and found steady work directing films like "Passenger 57" and "Strictly Business." Hooks returned to series television in the early 2000s and has since directed multiple episodes of critically acclaimed series "Lost," "24," and "NYPD Blue." Hooks has also served as executive producer on a number of primetime series, including "Prison Break" and "Human Target."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 63% | Sounder |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 2003 |
| 100% | 77% | The Color of Friendship |
Director, Producer |
- | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Mutiny | Director | - | 1999 |
| 10% | 60% | Black Dog | Director | $12.8M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glory and Honor |
Sam June (Character), Director |
- | 1998 |
| 18% | 23% | Fled | Director | $17.2M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To My Daughter With Love | Director | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Irresistible Force | Director | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story | Director | - | 1992 |
| 24% | 38% | Passenger 57 | Director | $42.9M | 1992 |
| 10% | 57% | Strictly Business | Director | $7.4M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heat Wave | Director | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Roots: The Gift | Director | - | 1988 |
| 82% | 65% | Innerspace | Duane (Character) | $25.9M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vietnam War Story | Director | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Take Down | Jasper MacGrudder (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze | Nat Blake (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich | Tiger (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened | Hoover Sissle (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just an Old Sweet Song | Junior (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Aaron Loves Angela | Aaron (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 90% | 77% | Sounder | David Lee Morgan (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | J.T. | J.T. Gamble (Character) | - | 1969 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94% | 76% | This Is Us | Director | 2019-2020 2022 |
| 87% | 75% | Preacher | Director | 2019 |
| 72% | 75% | The Red Line | Director | 2019 |
| 88% | 79% | Castle Rock | Director | 2018 |
| 74% | 86% | The X-Files | Director | 2018 |
| 95% | 91% | Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Director | 2014-2015 2017 |
| 36% | 85% | Backstrom | Executive Producer | 2015 |
| 61% | 77% | Scorpion | Director | 2015 |
| 82% | 87% | Castle | Director | 2012 2014 |
| 92% | 76% | Person of Interest | Director | 2014 |
| 93% | 91% | The Good Wife | Director | 2013 |
| 93% | 75% | Supernatural | Director | 2013 |
| 79% | 83% | Last Resort | Director | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Mentalist | Director | 2012 |
| 81% | 77% | Alphas | Director | 2011 |
| 81% | 100% | Detroit 1-8-7 |
Executive Producer, Director |
2010-2011 |
| 91% | 89% | Monk | Director | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Ghost Whisperer | Director | 2005 |
| 87% | 86% | 24 | Director | 2004-2005 |
| 86% | 91% | Alias | Director | 2005 |
| 85% | 91% | Lost | Director | 2004-2005 |
| 83% | 83% | NYPD Blue | Director | 2001 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | Cold Case | Director | 2004 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Line of Fire | Director | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Without a Trace | Director | 2003-2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dragnet | Director | 2003 |
| 64% | No Score Yet | Philly |
Executive Producer, Director |
2001-2002 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | City of Angels | Director | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soul Food | Director | 2000 |
| 0% | No Score Yet | Rescue 77 | Director | 1999 |
| 82% | 98% | Tales From the Crypt | Director | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | 21 Jump Street | Director | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Director | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fame | Director | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Story | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The White Shadow | Morris Thorpe (Character) | 1978-1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |