Kevin Hooks

ProductionDirectorProducerActor Sep 19 (age 67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1961–2025 (64 year career)

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Biography

Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in Aaron Loves Angela & Sounder, but may be best-known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow. In 1986, he starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom He's the Mayor. He directed Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57 and also Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin in Fled. Hooks worked as a director and producer on the series Prison Break. He also directed two episodes from the fi…

Known For

Film

Supernatural

Director

Film

Prison Break

Co-Executive Producer

Film

The Mentalist

Director

Film

The X-Files

Director

Film

Scorpion

Director

Film

Lost

Director

Film

Bones

Director

Film

Marvel's The Punisher

Director

Filmography

Acting (17)

Movies (12)

Glory & Honor

1998

as Sam June

Strictly Business

as Married Man

Innerspace

as Duane

Friendly Fire

as Polk

Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story

as Nat Blake

Take Down

as Jasper MacGrudder

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

1977

as Hoover Sissle

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

1977

as Tiger

5.4

Just an Old Sweet Song

as Junior

Aaron Loves Angela

as Aaron

Sounder

as David Lee Morgan

J.T.

as J.T. Gamble

Television (5)

Soul Food

as Ginder T. Jones

He's the Mayor

The White Shadow

as Morris Thorpe

The Rookies

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

Crew (96)

Movies (20)

Woke

2025

Associate Producer

Intercept

2011

Director

10.0

Prison Break: The Final Break

2009

Director

7.5

Prison Break: The Final Break

Executive Producer

Sounder

Director

The Color of Friendship

2000

Director

6.7

The Color of Friendship

Producer

Mutiny

Director

Black Dog

Director

Glory & Honor

Director

Fled

1996

Director

5.6

To My Daughter With Love

Director

Irresistible Force

Director

Passenger 57

Director

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

Director

Strictly Business

Director

Heat Wave

Director

Roots: The Gift

Director

Class Act: A Teacher's Story

1987

Director

Teen Father

1986

Director

Television (76)

The Good Lord Bird

Director

The Red Line

Director

9-1-1

Director

Castle Rock

Director

The Good Cop

Director

The Orville

Director

Marvel's The Punisher

Director

Mr. Mercedes

Director

Madiba

Director

Madiba

Executive Producer

This Is Us

Director

Preacher

Director

Scorpion

Director

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Director

The Finder

Director

Last Resort

Director

Person of Interest

Director

Alphas

Director

Necessary Roughness

Director

Human Target

Director

Detroit 1-8-7

Director

Castle

Director

The Good Wife

Director

Drop Dead Diva

Director

The Mentalist

Director

Lincoln Heights

Director

Lincoln Heights

Producer

Bones

Director

Supernatural

Director

Prison Break

Co-Executive Producer

Prison Break

Director

Prison Break

Executive Producer

Ghost Whisperer

Director

Blind Justice

Producer

The Inside

Director

Lost

Director

North Shore

Director

Cold Case

Director

Las Vegas

Director

L.A. Dragnet

Co-Executive Producer

L.A. Dragnet

Director

Line of Fire

Director

Monk

Director

Without a Trace

Director

Boomtown

Director

Director

Alias

Director

Philly

Director

Philly

Executive Producer

Soul Food

Director

City of Angels

Director

City of Angels

Producer

Rescue 77

Director

Director

The X-Files

Director

Homicide: Life on the Street

Director

I'll Fly Away

Director

Equal Justice

Director

Tales from the Crypt

Director

Alien Nation

Director

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Director

The Young Riders

Director

Nightingales

Director

A Fine Romance

Director

China Beach

Director

Midnight Caller

Director

Probe

Director

21 Jump Street

Director

A Year in the Life

Director

Mariah

Director

Heart of the City

Director

Director

Cutter to Houston

Director

St. Elsewhere

Director

Fame

Director

Hotel

Director