Robert Townsend

  Robert Townsend takes the stage at the 2016 Allstate Tom Joyner Family Reunion to announce the world premiere of The Five Hearbeats screening to a select group of participants in Orlando.   “Today I am screening the documentary. People always ask how I made and cast the movie, so we’re going to have the world […]

Now that he’s gone, it seems like everyone has a Prince story. From this year’s Fantastic Voyage, actor Leon and Robert Townsend talk about their…

We caught up with the legendary Robert Townsend, who gave us the scoop on his new film 'Playing For Love' co-starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield.

  Playin’ For Love will be released on DVD tomorrow and the star-studded film features Salli Richardson Whitfield, Jenifer Lewis and Robert Townsend. Movie veteran Robert…

  Before the world knew Harry Lennix as Assistant FBI Director Harold Cooper on NBC’s crime thriller, Blacklist, many of us knew the talented actor…

  Robert Townsend will host a showing of the film The Five Heartbeats on the 2016 Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage presented by Ford in celebration of…

  Robert Townsend has been a film and TV director for many years but in his new film Playing For Love premiering on Up TV on…

Some 30 years after late actor/comedians Richard Pryor and John Candy starred in the comedy reboot of Brewster’s Millions, The Five Heartbeats co-writer and director,…

I bet if you close your eyes and listen, you’d think this was Beyonce talking but it’s not! It’s Robert Townsend‘s daughter Skye Townsend. She’s…

For Robert Townsend, working with Bill Cosby was a chance to get paid and learn at the same time. Townsend directed Far From Finished, Cosby’s first…

If you watch awards shows, you’ve noticed that there’s not a whole lot of African-Americans winning awards for our work behind the scenes. That’s because…