Kevin Hooks

Kevin Hooks is an American actor and director who began as a child performer, born in Philadelphia as the son of the actor and director Robert Hooks. He was ten when he starred in J.T., a 1969 CBS Children's Hour entry that won a Peabody Award, and he played the elder son in Sounder (1972), holding the story together as a boy on a Depression-era sharecropping farm. He appeared in Aaron Loves Angela (1975), then as basketball player Morris Thorpe in The White Shadow from 1978 to 1981. Turning to directing, he made Strictly Business (1991) and worked on films including Passenger 57, Fled and Black Dog, and on the series Prison Break. He directed episodes of Lost, the Emmy-winning The Color of Friendship, a 2003 television remake of Sounder, and the 2017 special Madiba.