Michael Wright

Michael Wright

Born: April 30, 1956
in New York City, New York, USA
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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Free The Menendez Brothers
Title: Free The Menendez Brothers
Character: Erik Menendez
Released: March 12, 2021
Type: Movie
In August of 1989, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their abusive parents in their Beverly Hills Mansion. The brothers are victims of graphic sexual abuse and egregious media demonizing and mischaracterizations. This short film is based on the true events surrounding the murder of their parents in hopes to open the publics eyes and start a national campaign.
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Title: Black Lightning
Character: Lazarus Prime
Released: January 16, 2018
Type: TV
Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.
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D'Curse
Title: D'Curse
Character: Officer Ruda
Released: January 17, 2013
Type: Movie
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 mother of a boy shot by cops. Now the NYPD needs Ruda to help break the curse.
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Jesse
Title: Jesse
Character: Juan
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption, and shocking deception.
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Before I Self Destruct
Title: Before I Self Destruct
Character: First Victim
Released: November 16, 2009
Type: Movie
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 materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, Clarence (played by Jackson) is consumed by revenge and takes up a life of crime in order to support his younger brother.
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Hardrock
Title: Hardrock
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
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 dealers in this gritty actioner. Under threat of being shut down, the city's top two rival dealers must work together to unearth the source of the tainted drug -- or take the fall themselves. Raekwon and Michael Wright star.
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Raving
Title: Raving
Character: Security Guard
Released: April 29, 2007
Type: Movie
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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Coalition
Title: Coalition
Character: Lou
Released: November 7, 2006
Type: Movie
A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken down by minority non-union labor.
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The Interpreter
Title: The Interpreter
Character: Marcus
Released: April 8, 2005
Type: Movie
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
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Downtown: A Street Tale
Title: Downtown: A Street Tale
Character: Rudy
Released: November 7, 2004
Type: Movie
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, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
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Point Blank
Title: Point Blank
Character: Sonny
Released: May 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
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Money Talks
Title: Money Talks
Character: Aaron
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
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The Cottonwood
Title: The Cottonwood
Character: Simon Z
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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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Title: New York Undercover
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: TV
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.
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Confessions of a Hitman
Title: Confessions of a Hitman
Character: Charley
Released: May 4, 1994
Type: Movie
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 Vegas via Death Valley in a comandeered airport limousine, pursued by his uncle's henchmen and accompanied by a limo driver and an enigmatic blonde.
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Sugar Hill
Title: Sugar Hill
Character: Raynathan Skuggs
Released: February 25, 1994
Type: Movie
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
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The Five Heartbeats
Title: The Five Heartbeats
Character: Eddie
Released: March 29, 1991
Type: Movie
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 start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
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The Principal
Title: The Principal
Character: Victor Duncan
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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Bedtime Eyes
Title: Bedtime Eyes
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: Movie
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 American GI on the margins of the law.
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The Laundromat
Title: The Laundromat
Character: Shooter Stevens
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
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Title: V
Character: Elias Taylor
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: TV
Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.
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Title: Miami Vice
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Title: V: The Final Battle
Character: Elias Taylor
Released: May 6, 1984
Type: TV
Is there life out there? Finally we know. Beause they are there. Alien spacecraft with humanlike passengers have come to Earth. They say they come in peace for food and water. The water they find in our reservoirs. The food they find walking about everywhere on two legs.
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Streamers
Title: Streamers
Character: Carlyle
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: Movie
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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Title: V
Character: Elias Taylor
Released: May 1, 1983
Type: TV
Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and extend the hand of friendship. Our planet's resources are just what these aliens need to survive. And for its future survival, unsuspecting humankind will need... a miracle!
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Character: Elias Taylor
Released: May 1, 1983
Type: TV
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Benny's Place
Title: Benny's Place
Character: Jimmy Mills
Released: May 31, 1982
Type: Movie
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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Dream House
Title: Dream House
Character: Mace
Released: November 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite her initial rejection of him, sets out to build a dream house for both of them.
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We're Fighting Back
Title: We're Fighting Back
Character: Melvin Gilford
Released: April 28, 1981
Type: Movie
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 went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens' patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.
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The Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers
Character: Clinton
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
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 Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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Street Justice
Title: Street Justice
Character: Ernie Rays
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When two detectives are fed up with the system that's not working, they seek the help of a martial arts master to bring Justice to the Streets.