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Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high-school seniors prepare for post-high-school life. The chums are Glynn Turman as "Preach," who loves to read poetry and history and wants to become a Hollywood screenwriter, but who has the worst grades in the school; and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Cochise, the high-school basketball star and suave lady-killer. Preach has to contend with love problems in the form of Brenda (Cynthia Davis), school problems with emphatic teacher Mr. Mason (Garrett Morris), and law problems with street toughs Stone (Shermann Smith) and Robert (Norman Gibson).
Original Release
06/25/1975
US Release
06/25/1975
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Glynn Turman | Leroy "Preach" Jackson / Preach |
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs | Richard "Cochise" Morris / Cochise |
Garrett Morris | Mr. Mason |
Cynthia Davis | Brenda |
Corin Rogers | Pooter |
Maurice Leon Havis | Willie |
Joseph Carter Wilson | Tyrone |
Sherman Smith | Stone |
Norman Gibson | Robert |
Maurice Marshall | Damon |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Glynn Turman | Leroy "Preach" Jackson / Preach |
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs | Richard "Cochise" Morris / Cochise |
Garrett Morris | Mr. Mason |
Cynthia Davis | Brenda |
Corin Rogers | Pooter |
Maurice Leon Havis | Willie |
Joseph Carter Wilson | Tyrone |
Sherman Smith | Stone |
Norman Gibson | Robert |
Maurice Marshall | Damon |
Steven Williams | Jimmy Lee |
Jackie Taylor | Johnny Mae |
Christine Jones | Sandra |
Lynn Caridine | Dorothy |
Mary Larkins | Preach's Mother |
Cherene Snow | Tooty |
Alicia Williams | Dee |
Lily Schine | Cochise's Mother |
Mukai Richardson | Beverly |
Juanita McConnell | Martha |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Samuel Z. Arkoff | Executive Producer |
Steve Krantz | Producer |