Michael Wright

Michael Wright

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.

  • Title: Michael Wright
  • Popularity: 7.87
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1956-04-30
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: 迈克尔·赖特
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Michael Wright Movies

  • 2005
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    The Interpreter

    The Interpreter

    6.306 2005 HD

    After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Nicole Kidman

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  • 1979
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    The Wanderers

    The Wanderers

    7 1979 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ken Wahl

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  • 1987
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    The Principal

    The Principal

    6.486 1987 HD

    Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Jim Belushi

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  • 1981
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    Dream House

    Dream House

    1 1981 HD

    Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Schneider

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  • 2009
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    Before I Self Destruct

    Before I Self Destruct

    4.8 2009 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: 50 Cent

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  • 1991
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    The Five Heartbeats

    The Five Heartbeats

    7.32 1991 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Townsend

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  • 1997
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    Money Talks

    Money Talks

    6.022 1997 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chris Tucker

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  • 1998
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    Point Blank

    Point Blank

    4.483 1998 HD

    Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Mickey Rourke

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  • 1985
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    The Laundromat

    The Laundromat

    6 1985 HD

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

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Carol Burnett

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  • 1994
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    Sugar Hill

    Sugar Hill

    5.641 1994 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Wesley Snipes

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  • 1994
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    Confessions of a Hitman

    Confessions of a Hitman

    6 1994 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: James Remar

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  • 1981
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    We're Fighting Back

    We're Fighting Back

    6 1981 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Kevin Mahon

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  • 1983
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    Streamers

    Streamers

    5.9 1983 HD

    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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Matthew Modine

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  • 2001
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    Piñero

    Piñero

    6.2 2001 HD

    "Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Benjamin Bratt

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  • 2013
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    D'Curse

    D'Curse

    4 2013 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Michael Wright

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  • 2007
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    Hardrock

    Hardrock

    1 2007 HD

    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...

    Genre:

    Cast: Michael Wright

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  • 2011
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    Jesse

    Jesse

    2 2011 HD

    Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption,...

    Genre:

    Cast: Stephanie Finochio

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  • 2006
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    Coalition

    Coalition

    1 2006 HD

    A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken down by minority non-union labor.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Raekwon

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  • 2004
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    Downtown: A Street Tale

    Downtown: A Street Tale

    1 2004 HD

    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,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joey Dedio

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  • 2007
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    Raving

    Raving

    6.7 2007 HD

    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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Zooey Deschanel

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  • 1987
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    Bedtime Eyes

    Bedtime Eyes

    3.3 1987 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kanako Higuchi

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  • 1982
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    Benny's Place

    Benny's Place

    10 1982 HD

    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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    Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

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  • 1970
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    Street Justice

    Street Justice

    1 1970 HD

    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.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Dean Winters

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  • 1996
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    The Cottonwood

    The Cottonwood

    1 1996 HD

    Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Pruitt Taylor Vince

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  • 2008
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    Diminished Capacity

    Diminished Capacity

    5.6 2008 HD

    A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Matthew Broderick

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  • 1989
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    Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

    7.5 1989 HD

    The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Don Johnson

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  • 1999
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    New York Undercover

    New York Undercover

    7.156 1999 HD

    New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Malik Yoba

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  • 2021
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    Black Lightning

    Black Lightning

    7 2021 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Cress Williams

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  • 1983
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    V

    V

    7.733 1983 HD

    Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Jane Badler

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  • 1985
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    V

    V

    6.9 1985 HD

    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...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Jane Badler

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  • 1984
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    1 1984 HD

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast:

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  • 1984
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    V: The Final Battle

    V: The Final Battle

    7.2 1984 HD

    A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Jane Badler

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  • 2003
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    Oz

    Oz

    8.011 2003 HD

    The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians,...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Lee Tergesen

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  • 1997
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    Oz (TV Series 1997-2003)

    Oz (TV Series 1997-2003)

    1 1997 HD

    Inmates and correctional officers inside the Oswald State Correctional Facility, nicknamed "Oz," battle for power and survival amid warring factions...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Ernie Hudson

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