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Michael Wright
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Michael Wright (April 6, 1956 – August 21, 2026) was 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", and on the 1997 HBO series Oz as Omar White from 2001-2003. And he played "Clinton", the leader of The Del Bombers in the cult film The Wanderers.
Wright's film roles include the 1987 drama The Principal as Victor Duncan, also starring James Belushi, and the 1994 film Sugar Hill with We…
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Michael Wright (April 6, 1956 – August 21, 2026) was 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", and on the 1997 HBO series Oz as Omar White from 2001-2003. And he played "Clinton", the leader of The Del Bombers in the cult film The Wanderers. Wright's film roles include the 1987 drama The Principal as Victor Duncan, also starring James Belushi, and the 1994 film Sugar Hill with Wesley Snipes, his most recent film is 2005's The Interpreter. He has also made guest appearances on other TV shows including New York Undercover. In 1982, he starred in Peter Byrne's production of Barrie Keefe's play Barbarians at the SoHo Rep Theater with Gregg Martin and the as yet unknown actor Kevin Spacey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Wright (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Michael Wright's Filmography
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2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
as Redds
D'Curse
as Officer Ruda
Jesse
as Juan
Before I Self Destruct
as First Victim
Diminished Capacity
as McCormick
Hardrock
Raving
as Security Guard
No Poster
Coalition
as Lou
El Cantante
as Shooting Gallery Man
The Interpreter
as Marcus
Downtown: A Street Tale
as Rudy
Piñero
as Edgar Bowser
Point Blank
as Sonny
Money Talks
as Aaron
The Cottonwood
as Simon Z
Confessions of a Hitman
as Charley
Sugar Hill
as Raynathan Skuggs
The Five Heartbeats
as Eddie
The Principal
as Victor Duncan
Bedtime Eyes
The Laundromat
as Shooter Stevens
Streamers
as Carlyle
The Moonstone Gem
as Narrator
Benny's Place
as Jimmy Mills
Dream House
as Mace
We're Fighting Back
as Melvin Gilford
The Wanderers
as Clinton