Michael Wright

Born: 1956-04-30

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Wright (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Interpreter

as Marcus
Released: 2005-04-08

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an...

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Bedtime Eyes

as uncredited
Released: 1987-04-25

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship...

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The Wanderers

as Clinton
Released: 1979-07-13

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is...

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The Principal

as Victor Duncan
Released: 1987-09-18

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick...

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Money Talks

as Aaron
Released: 1997-08-22

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

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The Five Heartbeats

as Eddie
Released: 1991-03-29

In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group...

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Sugar Hill

as Raynathan Skuggs
Released: 1994-02-25

In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his...

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Downtown: A Street Tale

as Rudy
Released: 2004-11-07

A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their...

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Before I Self Destruct

as First Victim
Released: 2009-11-16

A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his...

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Streamers

as Carlyle
Released: 1983-09-05

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one...

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Confessions of a Hitman

as Charley
Released: 1994-05-04

A former hitman named Bruno steals some cash from his mobster uncle. He plans to go to Tahiti,...

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Point Blank

as Sonny
Released: 1998-05-12

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow...

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We're Fighting Back

as Melvin Gilford
Released: 1981-04-28

Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise...

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Raving

as Security Guard
Released: 2007-04-29

In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they...

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D'Curse

as Officer Ruda
Released: 2013-01-17

NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black...

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Dream House

as Mace
Released: 1981-11-28

Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely...

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Street Justice

as Ernie Rays
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When two detectives are fed up with the system that's not working, they seek the help of a...

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The Laundromat

as Shooter Stevens
Released: 1985-04-01

Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.

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Piñero

as Edgar Bowser
Released: 2001-10-05

"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor...

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Jesse

as Juan
Released: 2011-01-01

Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's...

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Hardrock

as uncredited
Released: 2007-10-30

After a prominent judge's daughter dies from taking contaminated Ecstasy, the ensuing political...

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Benny's Place

as Jimmy Mills
Released: 1982-05-31

Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at...

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Oz

as Omar White
First aired: 1997-07-12

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum...

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Miami Vice

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-16

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...

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Black Lightning

as Lazarus Prime
First aired: 2018-01-16

Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal...

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V

as Elias Taylor
First aired: 1984-10-26

Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true...

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V

as Elias Taylor
First aired: 1983-05-01

Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The...

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New York Undercover

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-09-08

New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and...

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V: The Final Battle

as Elias Taylor
First aired: 1984-05-06

Is there life out there? Finally we know. Beause they are there. Alien spacecraft with humanlike...

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as Elias Taylor
First aired: 1983-05-01

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