Michael Wright

Michael Wright

Birthday: 1956-04-30

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: 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.

Movies

The Interpreter
The Interpreter

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

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The Wanderers
The Wanderers

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

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The Principal
The Principal

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

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Dream House
Dream House

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

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Before I Self Destruct
Before I Self Destruct

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

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The Five Heartbeats
The Five Heartbeats

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

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Money Talks
Money Talks

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

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Point Blank
Point Blank

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

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Sugar Hill
Sugar Hill

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

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The Laundromat
The Laundromat

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

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Confessions of a Hitman
Confessions of a Hitman

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

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We're Fighting Back
We're Fighting Back

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

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Streamers
Streamers

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

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Piñero
Piñero

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

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D'Curse
D'Curse

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

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Hardrock
Hardrock

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

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Jesse
Jesse

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

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Coalition
Coalition

A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken dow...

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Downtown: A Street Tale
Downtown: A Street Tale

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

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Raving
Raving

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

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Bedtime Eyes
Bedtime Eyes

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

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Benny's Place
Benny's Place

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

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The Cottonwood
The Cottonwood

Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from...

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Diminished Capacity
Diminished Capacity

A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural h...

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2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
2 Aces and a Dirty Heart

Two hustlers come up the hard way. When a group of savage stick up boys start terrorizing the city....

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El Cantante
El Cantante

The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wif...

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The Moonstone Gem
The Moonstone Gem

Deep in the heavily guarded vault of jovial King Gunther lies the most cherished and wonderful of al...

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