Michael Wright

Acting

Michael Wright

Born April 30, 1956 · New York City, New York, USA (age 70)

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", an…

Known For

Bedtime EyesBedtime Eyes · 1987
Bedtime Eyes
4.71987
MovieDrama
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.
Money TalksMoney Talks · 1997
Money Talks
6.01997
MovieActionComedy
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
The InterpreterThe Interpreter · 2005
The Interpreter
6.32005
MovieCrimeThriller
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Diminished CapacityDiminished Capacity · 2008
Diminished Capacity
5.62008
MovieComedyDrama
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 impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
JesseJesse · 2011
Jesse
1.52011
MovieCrimeThriller
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.
The LaundromatThe Laundromat · 1985
The Laundromat
7.51985
MovieTV MovieDrama
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
The WanderersThe Wanderers · 1979
The Wanderers
6.91979
MovieDrama
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.’
The PrincipalThe Principal · 1987
The Principal
6.51987
MovieActionAdventure
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.

Movies

Bedtime EyesBedtime Eyes · 1987
Bedtime Eyes
4.71987
MovieDrama
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.
Money TalksMoney Talks · 1997
Money Talks
6.01997
MovieActionComedy
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
The InterpreterThe Interpreter · 2005
The Interpreter
6.32005
MovieCrimeThriller
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Diminished CapacityDiminished Capacity · 2008
Diminished Capacity
5.62008
MovieComedyDrama
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 impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
JesseJesse · 2011
Jesse
1.52011
MovieCrimeThriller
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.
The LaundromatThe Laundromat · 1985
The Laundromat
7.51985
MovieTV MovieDrama
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
The WanderersThe Wanderers · 1979
The Wanderers
6.91979
MovieDrama
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.’
The PrincipalThe Principal · 1987
The Principal
6.51987
MovieActionAdventure
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.
StreamersStreamers · 1983
Streamers
5.61983
MovieDramaWar
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.
The Five HeartbeatsThe Five Heartbeats · 1991
The Five Heartbeats
7.31991
MovieDramaMusic
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.
El CantanteEl Cantante · 2006
El Cantante
7.12006
MovieHistoryDrama
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Sugar HillSugar Hill · 1994
Sugar Hill
5.61994
MovieDramaAction
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
HardrockHardrock · 2007
Hardrock
2007
MovieCrime
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.
D'CurseD'Curse · 2013
D'Curse
2013
MovieAction
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.
PiñeroPiñero · 2001
Piñero
6.12001
MovieDrama
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
Point BlankPoint Blank · 1998
Point Blank
4.51998
MovieActionDrama
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.
2 Aces and a Dirty Heart2 Aces and a Dirty Heart · 2017
2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
1.02017
MovieCrime
Two hustlers come up the hard way. When a group of savage stick up boys start terrorizing the city.
The Moonstone GemThe Moonstone Gem · 1983
The Moonstone Gem
1983
MovieFamilyAdventure
Deep in the heavily guarded vault of jovial King Gunther lies the most cherished and wonderful of all national treasures - the Moonstone Gem. The good king's troubles begin when the evil baron manages to steal the priceless jewel.
The CottonwoodThe Cottonwood · 1996
The Cottonwood
10.01996
MovieComedy
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
We're Fighting BackWe're Fighting Back · 1981
We're Fighting Back
7.01981
MovieActionDrama
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.
Dream HouseDream House · 1981
Dream House
8.01981
MovieComedyRomance
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.
Before I Self DestructBefore I Self Destruct · 2009
Before I Self Destruct
4.92009
MovieActionDrama
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.
RavingRaving · 2007
Raving
6.52007
MovieDrama
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.
Downtown: A Street TaleDowntown: A Street Tale · 2004
Downtown: A Street Tale
5.52004
MovieDrama
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.

TV Shows

Miami ViceMiami Vice · 1984
Miami Vice
7.41984
SeriesCrimeDrama
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.
OzOz · 1997
Oz
8.11997
SeriesCrimeDrama
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Black LightningBlack Lightning · 2018
Black Lightning
6.92018
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
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.
New York UndercoverNew York Undercover · 1994
New York Undercover
7.31994
SeriesDramaCrime
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.
VV · 1984
V
7.11984
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
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.
VV · 1983
V
7.81983
SeriesDrama
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!
V: The Final BattleV: The Final Battle · 1984
V: The Final Battle
7.41984
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.