Biography
Fresh out of Temple University, actor Robert Hooks was billing himself as Bobby Dean Hooks when he made his 1962 Broadway bow in Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. Hooks' first film was the independently produced Sweet Love, Bitter (1966), though many reference books regard
Hurry Sundown (1967) as the actor's big-screen debut. In 1967, he was co-starred with
Jack Warden in the New York-based TV cop series
NYPD, and in 1988 he was top-billed as Captain Jim Coleman in the military weekly
Supercarrier (1988). A co-founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Hooks was also the creator of the DC Black Repertory Company, based in his hometown of Washington. Robert Hooks is the father of actor/director
Kevin Hooks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide