Michael Wright
Michael Wright (born April 6, 1956) is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie Kane, Jr. in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats. Wright's body of work in television includes the 1983 NBC science fiction miniseries V, the 1984 sequel "V: The Final Battle" and on "V: The Series" as Elias Taylor, TV series "Miami Vice" 1987 episode "The Savage", and on the 1997 HBO series Oz as Omar White from 2001-2003. And he played "Clinton", the leader of The Del Bombers in the cult film The Wanderers. Wright's film roles include the 1987 drama The Principal as Victor Duncan, also starring James Belushi, and the 1994 film Sugar Hill with Wesley Snipes, his most recent film is 2005's The Interpreter. He has also made guest appearances on other TV shows including New York Undercover. In 1982, he starred in Peter Byrne's production of Barrie Keefe's play Barbarians at the SoHo Rep Theater with Gregg Martin and the as yet unknown actor Kevin Spacey.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2216 |
| Birthday | 1956-04-30 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | 迈克尔·赖特, |
2005
The Interpreter
6.308/1535
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to i...
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The Interpreter
1979
The Wanderers
6.956/218
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by R...
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The Wanderers
1987
The Principal
6.465/303
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school...
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The Principal
1981
Dream House
0/0
Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite...
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Dream House
2009
Before I Self Destruct
4.854/24
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materia...
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Before I Self Destruct
1991
The Five Heartbeats
7.3/70
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky...
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The Five Heartbeats
1997
Money Talks
6/417
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
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Money Talks
1998
Point Blank
4.4/33
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapee...
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Point Blank
1985
The Laundromat
6/1
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
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The Laundromat
1994
Sugar Hill
5.6/101
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girl...
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Sugar Hill
1994
Confessions of a Hitman
6/2
A former hitman named Bruno steals some cash from his mobster uncle. He plans to go to Tahiti, but things go wrong and he finds himself headed for Veg...
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Confessions of a Hitman
1981
We're Fighting Back
6/1
Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and we...
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We're Fighting Back
1983
Streamers
5.617/30
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.
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Streamers
2001
Piñero
5.864/11
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pr...
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Piñero
2013
D'Curse
4/1
NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the m...
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D'Curse
2007
Hardrock
0/0
After a prominent judge's daughter dies from taking contaminated Ecstasy, the ensuing political scandal brings a world of grief to the city's street d...
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Hardrock
2011
Jesse
1.5/2
Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption,...
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Jesse
2006
Coalition
1/1
A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken down by minority non-union labor.
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Coalition
2004
Downtown: A Street Tale
1/1
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters,...
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Downtown: A Street Tale
2007
Raving
6.7/3
In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they encounter one another on a street corner.
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Raving
1987
Bedtime Eyes
3.6/5
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black Ame...
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Bedtime Eyes
1982
Benny's Place
10/1
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
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Benny's Place
1996
The Cottonwood
0/0
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
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The Cottonwood
2008
Diminished Capacity
5.6/19
A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impai...
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Diminished Capacity
2017
2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
1/2
Two hustlers come up the hard way. When a group of savage stick up boys start terrorizing the city.
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2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
2006
El Cantante
7.156/125
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
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El Cantante
1983
The Moonstone Gem
0/0
Deep in the heavily guarded vault of jovial King Gunther lies the most cherished and wonderful of all national treasures - the Moonstone Gem. The good...
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