Robert Townsend
American actor and director
0.16body-of-work score · ranked #2357 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library
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- Born
- February 6, 1957 · Chicago
- Nationality
- United States
- Work
- actor, film director, screenwriter, television actor
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.161 citation
Complete filmography
All 18 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1987Eddie Murphy Raw
- 1987Hollywood Shuffle
- 1991The Five Heartbeats
- 1993The Meteor Man
- 1997B.A.P.S.
- 1999Jackie's Back
- 2000Holiday Heart
- 2000Little Richard
- 2000Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
- 2000Up, Up and Away
- 2001Carmen: A Hip Hopera
- 200210,000 Black Men Named George
- 2003Black Listed
- 2008Phantom Punch
- 2009Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
- 2012In the Hive
- 2013Playin' for Love
- 2014Bill Cosby 77