The Five Heartbeats are back. No, award-winning actor, comedian, and filmmaker Robert Townsend has not created a sequel or a remake of his 1991 classic about the rise and fall of a 1960s R&B vocal ...

“Hollywood Shuffle” is his most defining project, the one that transformed Robert Townsend — an actor with roots in theater, stand-up and improvisational comedy — into Robert ...

Townsend shares an equal fondness for Edebiri ... “He wanted to be an actor and he was so game and humble in that way.” It’s moments like those captured in the dining room of Emmanuel ...

But if you’re Skye Townsend the daughter of Robert Townsend, famed actor, comedian and film director, you’re busy filming and starring in an awesome BET.com web series called “8 Days a Week.” ...

It's the age of reboots and sequels in television and film — and actor and director Robert Townsend has been teasing his fans on social media by asking about their interest in follow-ups to some ...

Davey D of Hard Knock Radio recently sat down with Robert Townsend, an acclaimed actor, director, and filmmaker. Townsend is recognized not just for his significant contributions to film and ...

Robert Townsend is an actor, director, writer, and filmmaker with over 30 years in show business. Noticing the difficulty Black actors had finding jobs and the lack of good work available in the ...

Robert Townsend has resigned as executive director ... “I’m tired.” A former actor with a wealth of nonprofit arts management, including a job directing a Shakespeare festival in St. Louis ...

Director, actor and comedian Robert Townsend’s groundbreaking satire “Hollywood Shuffle” turned 35 this year. The film is a scathing satire of many Black actors’ experience in the film industry. Since ...

Robert Townsend, director of the groundbreaking 1987 movie industry ... while Jones won the Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture. The dialogue is so well written, honest, heartfelt, ...

McKnight later portrayed Pastor Stone in the Townsend-directed The Five Heartbeats (1991) and was the father of Townsend’s Robert Peterson ... and adroit character actor whose contributions ...

Hanson Jr. presents a rebroadcast of a conversation with Robert Townsend, comedian, actor, film director/producer, writer and former cable network programming CEO. His projects include Hollywood ...