Julian Jacobson - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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The Fourth Protocol (1987)

Drowning in the Shallow End (1989)

We Think the World of You (1988)

The Fourth Protocol (1987)

The Art of the Piano (2000)

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Mighty Quinn, The (1989) -- (Movie Clip) There's Been A Homicide

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, There's A Bat In My House

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Fourth Protocol (1987)

Music (Feature Film)

Drowning in the Shallow End (1989)

We Think the World of You (1988)

The Fourth Protocol (1987)

Misc. Crew (Special)

The Art of the Piano (2000)

Life Events

Videos

Mighty Quinn, The (1989) -- (Movie Clip) There's Been A Homicide In dress-whites at a wedding in the Jamaica-like (where it was shot) island nation, title character, police chief Denzel Washington takes an urgent call and nearly collides with childhood friend Maubee (Robert Townsend), early in The Mighty Quinn, 1989.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, There's A Bat In My House Co-writer (with Keenen Ivory Wayans), director, producer, star and self-financier Robert Townsend opens his famous independent feature, rehearsing in the bathroom, Craigus R. Johnson his little brother, Starletta DuPois his mother, Helen Martin his grandmother, Brad Sanders as “Batty,” in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Black Acting School After a couple of introductory vignettes and with spicy language, writer-director Robert Townsend appears in the fantasy sequence, confirming that he’s imagining all this while waiting at a Hollywood audition, Grand L. Bush as both “Mandingo” and “Ricky Taylor,” also Tony Edwards, in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Sneakin' In The Movies Another of the more famous digressions, director, co-writer, star and producer Robert Townsend as Bobby, fantasizing as he awaits word on his audition, with Jimmy Woodard as pal Tyrone, imagines himself hosting a knock-off Siskel & Ebert show, with still more not-usually appropriate language, in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) White Folks In The Town Robert Townshend is Corporal Ellis, enthusiastic driver for Captain Davenport (Howard E Rollins), the prosecutor sent to Louisiana to investigate the murder of a black sergeant, and who must report to Colonel Nivens (Trey Wilson), who has an attitude, in A Soldier’s Story, 1984, directed by Norman Jewison from Charles Fuller’s play and screenplay.

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