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At any rate, this is a good miniseries with a lot of well-known actors and actresses including Olivia Cole (excellent at Maggie Rogers), Cloris Leachman (as the snarky Mrs. Jaffrey), Louis Gossett, Jr. and Robert Hooks as Levi Mercer and Mays (two good friends of Maggie's) and countless other stars representing the First Families. Robert Hooks - Address & Phone Number | Whitepages [2][3] The Negro Ensemble Company is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Well, the producer let everybody know he was going to do this. Tonys on the apron of the stage and theyre talking, and I walk in, and Tony looks at me as if to say, Come on, Bobby, Im rehearsing here. I walked over to Tallulah and I whispered in her ear that John F. Kennedy had just been shot and hes dead in Dallas. Kevin Hooks Net Worth 2023: Wiki Bio, Married, Dating, Family, Height 1962 Robert Morse - J. To become an Actor or Actress. I didnt want to yellIm nine years old, and there was no noise in bedso I tearfully relented and agreed to do the play. Hooks played the lead in his first play The Pirates of Penzance at the age of nine. [3], In 2020, he directed an episode on The Good Lord Bird. All rights reserved. Just a lot of excited young theatre wannabees, 18- and 19-year-olds.Because these were youngsters, and I wanted to experiment and do a real adult stage piece, the young performers would have to play grown-up roles. We had a training program; incidentally, the Group Theatre Workshop, my early company, became the training program for the NEC. Current address. Previously, he was married to Yvonne Hickman and Rosie Lee Hooks. But Im also thinking, Ed Hall was the understudy for Louis and Ivanwhy isnt he replacing Louis in the role? In 1965, you played the lead in the New York Shakespeare Theatre Festivals production of Henry V. It was called a triumph by a critic, who said, Robert Hookss King Henry was especially good, combining fiery grace with an almost tragic sensitivity. You were 28 and you were the talk of the town.