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Children. 1. Leon Preston Robinson(born March 8, 1962), usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor and singer who began his professional career as a film actor in the early 1980s. He is best known for his roles as J.T. Matthews in the 1991 Robert Townsendfilm The Five Heartbeats, Derice Bannock in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, Shep in ...
The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans.Produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film's main cast includes Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas, and Diahann Carroll. [1]
Box office. $154.9 million. Cool Runnings is a 1993 American sports comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay by Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, and Michael Goldberg, and a story by Siefert and Michael Ritchie. It is loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and stars Leon, Doug ...
November 2, 1998. ( 1998-11-02) The Temptations is a four-hour television miniseries broadcast in two-hour halves on NBC, based upon the history of one of Motown 's longest-lived acts, The Temptations. Executive produced by former Motown executive Suzanne de Passe, produced by Otis Williams and Temptations manager Shelley Berger, and based upon ...
Leon made his singing debut playing a reggae singer in “The Price of Kissing” in which he sang a reggae rendition of “Daddy’s Home”. In 2008, Leon & The Peoples song, "Life Is A Funny Game" was featured as the closing credit song on the 20th Century Fox movie "Cover" directed by Bill Duke. The band has appeared on BET ’s “ 106 and ...
Jefferson Keane (Leon Robinson, Season 1, 6) – The original leader of the Homeboys, serving life without parole for killing a couple on their wedding day. He loathes the Wiseguys, especially after Ortolani beats his brother Billie.
Leon Robinson was hired to play the role of a saint inspired by Martin de Porres, the patron saint of mixed-race people. The highly controversial [64] accompanying music video for "Like a Prayer" was directed by Mary Lambert and was filmed in January 1989 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California, and at San Pedro Hills in San Pedro ...
Band of the Hand is a 1986 American action crime neo noir thriller film directed by Paul Michael Glaser starring Stephen Lang, Leon Robinson, James Remar, Lauren Holly, and Laurence Fishburne. [2] The film's score was composed and performed by Michel Rubini and the title track was written and performed by Bob Dylan, backed by Tom Petty and the ...