Robert Townsend

Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 4

1989

Writer · Executive Producer · Director

Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 3

1989

Director · Executive Producer · Writer

Making The Five Heartbeats

2018

Director · Producer

Playin' for Love

2015

Coach Banks · Director · Writer · Producer

Of Boys and Men

2008

Holden Cole · Producer

The Meteor Man

1993

Jefferson Reed · Director · Screenplay · Producer

The Five Heartbeats

1991

Duck · Director · Writer · Producer

Hollywood Shuffle

1987

Bobby Taylor · Director · Writer · Producer

Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 2

1988

Writer · Director

Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1

1987

Director · Writer

Uptown Comedy Express

1987

Writer

Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Bein' Me

1986

Self · Writer

Ms. Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy?

2022

Director

A Walk with Charles Burnett

2019

Self · Director

Bill Cosby: Far From Finished

2013

Director · Thanks

In the Hive

2012

Director

Diary of a Single Mom

2009

Director

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

2009

Self · Director

Phantom Punch

2008

Director

Black Listed

2003

Alan Chambers · Director

10,000 Black Men Named George

2002

Director

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

2001

Director

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story

2000

Director

Holiday Heart

2000

Director

Little Richard

2000

Director

Graine de Héros

2000

Jim Marshall / Bronze Eagle · Director

From Behind Closed Doors

1999

Director

Jackie's Back!

1999

Robert Townsend · Director

Love Songs

1999

Champ · Director

B.A.P.S

1997

Director

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987

Director

Scooby-Doo ! Le chant du vampire

2012

Vampire Actor #1 (voice)

I Was a Teenage Faust

2002

Mr. Five

Opération Funky

2002

Mr. UB

Taxman

1999

Peyton Cody

Mercenary II: Thick & Thin

1999

Charlie Love

Joseph's Gift

1999

James Saunders

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

1997

Archive Footage (Hollywood Shuffle)

Robin Harris: One Night Stand

1990

Bum #3

The Mighty Quinn

1989

Maubee

That's Adequate

1989

Standup Comic

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

1988

Minor Role (uncredited)

Ratboy

1986

Manny

Odd Jobs

1986

Dwight

Le Prix de l'exploit

1985

Jerome

A Soldier's Story

1984

Corporal Ellis

Les Rues de feu

1984

The Sorels - Lester

In Love with an Older Woman

1982

James

Senior Trip

1981

Randy

Willie & Phil

1980

Thin Boy

Women at West Point

1979

Russell Baker

Les Guerriers de la nuit

1979

Baseball Fury (uncredited)

The Monkey Hustle

1976

Musician

Mahogany

1975

Extra (uncredited)

Cooley High

1975

Basketball Player in Gym Class

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy

2026

Self

Directors on Directing

2009

Self

Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!

2003

Self

The Legend of Dolemite! Bigger & Badder

1994

Self

A Party For Richard Pryor

1991

Self

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

1988

Self

Tao of The Golden Mask

2007

Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs

2002

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

2000

The Parent 'Hood

1995

Robert Peterson · Director · Producer · Creator

Townsend Television

Creator

The Bear

2022

Emmanuel Adamu

Black Lightning

2018

Dr. Napier Frank · Director

Kaleidoscope

2023

Director

Power Book IV: Force

2022

Director

Les Années Coup de Cœur

2021

Director

South of Nowhere

2005

Director

Poppa's House

2024

Director

Colin en noir et blanc

2021

Director

Love Is___

2018

Director

M.A.S.H.

1972

Patient

Before

2024

Jackson

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995

Rumpelstiltskin (voice)

Histoires fantastiques

1985

Billy Burliss

Hollywood Squares

1998

Self - Panelist

Mel Brooks: Une légende de 99 ans

2026

Self - Comedian & Filmmaker

Black in the 80s

2005

Self

Motown Live

1998

Self - Host

Great Drives

1996

Self - Host

The Carol Burnett Show

1991