“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 ...

Robert Townsend has never stopped moving ... Townsend plays Bobby Taylor, an aspiring actor in Los Angeles. To make ends meet he works at small hot dog stand, Winky Dinky Dog, while suffering ...

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 ...

“You always knew who your character was when they sent you the sides,” said Robert Townsend of the frustration he felt as a young Black actor auditioning in Hollywood. “The name was ...

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 ...

Actor/director Robert Townsend arrives at the “Jubilee” show’s grand re-opening at Bally’s Las Vegas on March 29, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic) *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 ...

Such is the case with Robert Townsend’s seminal debut ... In Hollywood Shuffle, Townsend plays Bobby Taylor, an aspiring actor still living in his mother’s house and working at a fast-food ...

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 ...

This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with director and actor Robert Townsend, whose groundbreaking film “Hollywood Shuffle” turned 35 this year. Next, photographer Carell Augustus talks about ...

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, ...