​Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in Aaron Loves Angela & Sounder, but may be best-known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow. In 1986, he starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom He's the Mayor. He directed Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57 and also Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin in Fled. Hooks worked as a director and producer on the series Prison Break. He also directed two episodes from the first season of Lost, "White Rabbit" and "Homecoming". In 2003, Hooks revisited Sounder. He directed ABC's Wonderful World of Disney's TV remake of the film, with Paul Winfield, his co-star from the original, playing a different role. Hooks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Yvonne, a state employee, and Robert Hooks, a director and actor who starred in many films in the 1970s. Kevin's nickname amongst his friends is "King Royal".

Filmography

• 2025Woke — Associate Producer
• The Good Lord Bird — Director
• The Red Line — Director
• 9-1-1 — Director
• Castle Rock — Director
• The Good Cop — Director
• Madiba — Director, Executive Producer, Creator
• Marvel's The Punisher — Director
• Mr. Mercedes — Director
• The Orville — Director
• Preacher — Director
• This Is Us — Director
• Scorpion — Director
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Director
• Last Resort — Director
• The Finder — Director
• Alphas — Director
• 2011Intercept — Director
• Necessary Roughness — Director
• Person of Interest — Director
• Detroit 1-8-7 — Director
• Human Target — Director
• Castle — Director
• Drop Dead Diva — Director
• 2009Prison Break: The Final Break — Director, Executive Producer
• The Good Wife — Director
• The Mentalist — Director
• Lincoln Heights — Director, Producer
• Blind Justice — Producer
• Bones — Director
• Ghost Whisperer — Director
• Prison Break — Director, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer
• Supernatural — Director
• The Inside — Director
• Lost — Director
• North Shore — Director
• Cold Case — Director
• L.A. Dragnet — Director, Co-Executive Producer
• Las Vegas — Director
• Line of Fire — Director
• 2003Sounder — Director
• Boomtown — Director
• Monk — Director
• Without a Trace — Director
• 24 — Director
• Alias — Director
• Philly — Director, Executive Producer
• City of Angels — Director, Producer
• Soul Food — Ginder T. Jones, Director
• 2000The Color of Friendship — Director, Producer
• 1999Mutiny — Director
• Rescue 77 — Director
• 1998Black Dog — Director
• 1998Glory & Honor — Sam June, Director
• 1996Fled — Director
• ER — Director
• 1994To My Daughter With Love — Director
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Director
• 1993Irresistible Force — Director
• NYPD Blue — Director
• The X-Files — Director
• 1992Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story — Director
• 1992Passenger 57 — Director
• I'll Fly Away — Director
• 1991Strictly Business — Married Man, Director
• Equal Justice — Director
• 1990Heat Wave — Director
• A Fine Romance — Director
• Alien Nation — Director
• Doogie Howser, M.D. — Director
• Nightingales — Director
• Tales from the Crypt — Director
• The Young Riders — Director
• China Beach — Director
• Midnight Caller — Director
• Probe — Director
• 1988Roots: The Gift — Director
• 21 Jump Street — Director
• A Year in the Life — Director
• 1987Class Act: A Teacher's Story — Director
• 1987Innerspace — Duane
• Mariah — Director
• He's the Mayor
• Heart of the City — Director
• 1986Teen Father — Director
• V — Director
• Cutter to Houston — Director
• Fame — Director
• Hotel — Director
• St. Elsewhere — Director
• 1980Friendly Fire — Polk
• 1979Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story — Nat Blake
• 1979Take Down — Jasper MacGrudder
• The White Shadow — Morris Thorpe
• 1977A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich — Tiger
• 1977The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened — Hoover Sissle
• 1976Just an Old Sweet Song — Junior
• 1975Aaron Loves Angela — Aaron
• 1972Sounder — David Lee Morgan
• The Rookies
• 1971J.T. — J.T. Gamble

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Mike Douglas Show — Self