Randy Brooks
Birthday: Born in 1950-01-30 in New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: Alive
Frederick Randolph Brooks (born January 30, 1950) is an American television and film actor known for his role as L.A.P.D. Detective Holdaway in the 1992 hit cult film Reservoir Dogs. Brooks also starred in the 1988 hit drama film Colors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Brooks (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Brothers and Sisters
Character: Ronald Holmes III
Brothers and Sisters is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from January to April 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the 1978 motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the second of three frat-house comedy series to air in early 1979....
Family Law
Character: John Marker
Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment....
Emerald Point N.A.S.
Character: Ben Eastman
The lives and trials of the staff and civilian residents of a US naval base....
The Renegades
Character: Eagle
The Renegades is a short-lived ABC TV show from 1982 about a gang that is given the option of going to jail for their crimes or becoming a special police undercover unit. The star of The Renegades, and leader of the gang, was The Bandit played by Patrick Swayze. The gang's police handler is Captain Scanlon played by Kurtwood Smith. Kurtwood Smith went on to play the father in the That '70s Show....
Mork & Mindy
Character: Stan Jackson
A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same....
21 Jump Street
Character: Reggie Wilkes
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults....
Tour of Duty
Character: Lt. Sherman Douglas
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War....
One Day at a Time
Character:
The misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent in Indianapolis....
Hunter
Character: Len Flood
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los ...
The West Wing
Character: Arthur Leeds
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life....
The West Wing
Character: Lyle
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life....
The West Wing
Character: Reporter
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life....
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Detective John Coop Jr.
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Movie Credits
Freedom
Character:
Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way....
Reservoir Dogs
Character: Detective Holdaway
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel....
Colors
Character: Ron Delaney
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear....
Defenseless
Character: Monroe
A Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain....
8 Million Ways to Die
Character: Willie 'Chance' Walker
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage....
Reservoir Dogs: Playing It Fast & Loose
Character: Self (archive footage)
An insightful documentary about the impact and ripple effect of "Reservoir Dogs" from its release in 1992 and how it has helped redefine contemporary cinema....
The Monkey Hustle
Character: Win
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party....
Halls of Anger
Character: Sabin
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help....
Forbidden Love
Character: Gregory
A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other....
Scared Straight! Another Story
Character: Sam
A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary....
Redemption
Character: Phillips
A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force....
The Renegades
Character: Eagle
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs....
Loose Change
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Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s....
Nightingales
Character: Dr. Warren
"Nightingales" are eight student nurses living off campus in Southern California in this stylish Aaron Spelling production that ultimately was developed into a short-lived series which aired on NBC at the beginning of 1989. Subsequently edited down to 90 minutes, the film later served as the premiere episode for the series, which was reworked to add Suzanne Pleshette and Barry Newman as stars....
Underground Aces
Character: Ollie
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants....
Sorority Sister Slaughter
Character: Billy Bart
The Girls of Kappa Tau Omega are popular, pretty, and love to party! However, the party will soon be dead! There's an uninvited guest in their new sorority house whose motto is Kappa Kappa Kill! Who will survive this hellacious night of blood, babes, and butchering?...
Rocket's Red Glare
Character: Owen
A troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the help of his ex-astronaut grandfather. When a NASA emergency leaves a space shuttle and its crew in danger, Todd's rocket is the only one ready for immediate launch....
House of Grace
Character:
A homeless couple, Keisha and Pookie, find themselves down and out, hooked on crack cocaine and living on the street. Choir music from the church across the street reminds Keisha of her younger years as a singer and she looks to the church for inspiration. With the help of the church's prayer group and the pastor, she is healed and begins to get clean. Meanwhile, her proud man, Pookie, spirals further down into street poverty and crack addiction. But, when Pookie steals Keisha's purse in final d...
She Was Marked for Murder
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While jogging in New York Central Park, the rich widow Elena meets Eric. Although he's 10 years younger, she falls in love with him and they marry shortly after. Soon she discovers that he has a long-going affair with her secretary Claire. Elena suspects they're after her money....
The Seduction of Gina
Character: John
Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last....
Daughter of the Streets
Character: Byron
A divorcée struggling to make ends meet, but still utilizing her spare time for social causes neglects her daughter in this fact-based story. At 18, the daughter starts drifting into bad company and eventually becomes a prostitute. To try to get her back in a proper life, her mother abducts her off the street and forcibly brings her home....
Assassination
Character: Tyler Loudermilk
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara....
Fly Away Home
Character: Shenandoah Brookford
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption....
Voodoo Curse: The Giddeh
Character: Harris
A diverse mix of fun loving college co-eds go on a weekend cabin trip together. However their partying is soon brutally interrupted. A classmate trying to get some play uses an ancient voodoo book stolen from his professor's office to impress one of the girls. He accidentally conjures up an evil African voodoo spirit the Giddeh. One by one the students are savagely dismembered when they look into the deadly eyes of the spirit. Now it's up to their professor to save them as he races up to their s...
Senior Trip
Character: David
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mick...
Rage!
Character: P.J.
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison....
Dark Horse
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Nick Fox and his friend Mac, a photographer, are contacted by a mother who's son is recruited by a training camp in South America....