Leon
Date of birth: 1962-03-08
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Leon Robinson, Leon Preston Robinson
Biography
Leon Preston Robinson IV (usually credited as simply "Leon") is an American actor and singer, who began his professional career as an actor in 1981.
Movie Credits
Cool Runnings
1993-10-01
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored
Bats
1999-10-22
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Cliffhanger
1993-05-28
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partne
37
2014-08-08
A rocker makes a pact to kill himself on his 37th birthday. 12 weeks before the release of his final
Sole Survivor
1984-03-16
After inexplicably surviving a plane crash, TV station worker Denise tries to get on with her life.
The Five Heartbeats
1991-03-29
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group cal
And Then There Was You
2013-10-19
Natalie and Joshua appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie
B.A.P.S
1997-03-28
Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world's first co
Friends & Lovers
1999-04-16
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's fathe
The Flamingo Kid
1984-12-21
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-w
A Day to Die
2022-03-04
A disgraced parole officer is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dan
Colors
1988-04-15
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barri
The Price of Kissing
1997-04-01
Pauley Perrette plays Renee, a young woman discovering her own meaning of love. From childhood memor
Mean Streak
1999-06-27
The hitting record of Joe Di Maggio is about to broken by a black player. However a person who feels
Spirit Lost
1997-03-24
John Chapman and his beautiful wife Willie have just moved into a seaside village on the North Carol
Mr. Rock n Roll: The Alan Freed Story
1999-10-31
This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, and he discovered how am
Little Richard
2000-02-20
The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials a
Side Streets
1998-09-05
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.
Madonna: Madame X
2021-09-23
Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon’s rare and rapturous tour performance, ha
The Lawless Land
1988-01-15
Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower cl
The Father Clements Story
1987-12-13
In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catho
First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story
2023-10-05
Inspired by the true life of Detroit native Tonesa Welch. It charts Welch's rise from a teenager's m
Above the Rim
1994-03-23
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug
Band of the Hand
1986-04-11
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
The Cheaters Club
2014-12-31
Samantha, Trina and Rain are three sexy friends who form "The Cheater's Club", an agency designed to
Friends and Lovers
2005-03-01
Based on the best-selling novel by author Eric Jerome Dickey, this funny and insightful drama follow
Buffalo Soldiers
2002-10-31
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
1996-01-26
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the d
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989-12-03
The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her
The Women of Brewster Place
1989-03-19
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Streetwalkin'
1985-09-20
Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her you
I Really Hate My Ex
2015-04-14
How far would you go to get over your ex? After recent bad relationships with men, best friends Brea
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
They have raged on for forty years, cutting a swath across continents and lighting the fuse of revol
All the Right Moves
1983-10-21
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Wes
The Rhythm and the Blues
2024-02-06
Blues legend Eddie Taylor struggles against financial hardship and music industry exploitation to ma
Cover
2007-05-08
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-m
From This Day Forward
2012-05-12
Patrice and Corrine are two sexy, confident women with great relationships, but they've got it all w
Her Only Choice
2018-10-06
A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of inf
Waiting to Exhale
1995-12-22
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "
Flying Blind
1990-07-30
Melodrama set in Philadelphia, PA in 1965. Eddie Panvini (Panebianco), a teenage photographer from S
Soul Ties
2015-09-21
When a young woman's faith in her beloved collides head on with her faith in people, what begins as
Diary of a Single Mom
2009-01-27
Ocean a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartme
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005-11-09
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
The Glorias
2020-12-18
An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her
Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
2020-12-05
Five guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Be
Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
1990-11-13
The Immaculate Collection is the first commercially released greatest videos compilation by singer M
Runaway Car
1997-01-27
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man
Where Children Play
2015-01-01
A young woman is forced to nurse the father who abused her after her mother's death.
Bad Attitude
1993-12-01
Eddie Johnson is looking for a new line of work. He's a battle-scarred undercover cop, working in a
Wildcards
A jury deliberating the case of Theodore Sterling, a privileged young man accused of sexual assault
The Brooklyn Heist
2009-11-27
Three teams of criminals share the same Brooklyn block, but each exists in a separate genre of film.