Cooley High is a 1975 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows the narrative of high school seniors and best friends, Leroy "Preach" Jackson...
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Thomas M. Cooley High School is an abandoned high school located at the intersection of Hubbell Avenue and Chalfonte Street, on the northwest side of...
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Edwin Gilbert Cooley Vocational High School (also known as Cooley Vocational High School and Upper Grade Center, commonly known as Cooley High) was a public...
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brothers' uncle Leon (1995). He played a concerned teacher in the film Cooley High (1975), Slide in Car Wash (1976), and Carl in The Census Taker (1984)...
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Silicon Valley–based law firm Cooley Peninsula, Ireland Cooley High School, Detroit, Michigan, United States Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan...
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series was based on the coming of age film Cooley High, which Monte wrote and which was based on his high school experiences. Born Kenneth Williams, he...
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Riverside, and Joe Cooley, from Compton, and General Jeff, from Los Angeles. Best known for tracks such as "Everlasting Bass," "Cooley High," and "This is...
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opera Peyton Place (1968–1969), high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film Cooley High, math professor and retired Army...
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Lawrence Hilton Jacobs (category High School of Art and Design alumni)
in a number of films and television shows, including Claudine (1974), Cooley High (1975), Roots (1977), Bangers and Mash (1983), Alien Nation (1989–1990)...
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franchise with Columbia Pictures, as well as the remake of the film Cooley High with Common at MGM. On the TV side, Franklin is producing a re-imagining...
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What's Happening!! was loosely based on the Eric Monte-penned film Cooley High. From 1985 until 1988, a sequel series titled What's Happening Now!!...
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songwriting team Freddie Perren and Christine Yarian for the 1975 film Cooley High. In the film, the song is performed by Motown artist G.C. Cameron, whose...
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and Eddie Searight, who provided Cooley with meals and a place to sleep. At Providence's Central High School, Cooley played basketball and twice earned...
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Thomas M. Cooley Law School of Lansing, Michigan, founded 1972, was named after Justice Cooley. Also, Cooley High School in Detroit and Cooley Elementary...
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Robert Townsend (actor) (category Austin Community Academy High School alumni)
1975 movie Cooley High, but says the film "changed his life" for what he perceived as its true-to-life portrayal of people like him. After high school, Townsend...
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S. Epatha Merkerson (category Cooley High School alumni)
influential in keeping her father in school". Merkerson graduated from Cooley High School in 1970 and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre at Wayne...
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Jem Targal (category Cooley High School alumni)
violin and the guitar. In 1965, Targal graduated from Cooley High School in Detroit. After high school, Targal attended Oakland Community College in Auburn...
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Willie Green (category Cooley High School alumni)
pick overall) and cash considerations. Green was a 1999 graduate of Cooley High School; after a college career at the University of Detroit Mercy, he...
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Canada. The Harder They Come, 1972 The Education of Sonny Carson, 1974 Cooley High, 1975 Walk Proud, 1979 The Outsiders, 1983 Rumble Fish, 1983 Colors,...
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films Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat and Cooley High, and many live-action television shows in Canada and Japan: The Space...
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an apparel salesman. Williams made his acting debut in the 1975 film Cooley High. He appeared in musical comedy The Blues Brothers (1980) as Trooper Mount...
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Marshall Rosenberg (category Cooley High School alumni)
Rosenberg's father bought a house in a better neighborhood, Rosenberg attended Cooley High School and graduated in 1952 as valedictorian. When considering medicine...
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Theater in Chicago. Taylor has acted in several films, most notably Cooley High (1975). In 1976, she opened the Black Ensemble Theater, whose mission...
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Cooley Law School (Cooley) is a private law school in Lansing, Michigan, and Riverview, Florida. It was established in 1972. At its peak in 2010, Cooley...
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Ricky Lawson (category Cooley High School alumni)
Five along with The Blazer, a band from Cooley High School in Detroit that included La Palabra. Also in high school, he played such sports as water polo...
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Transformers One (category Films directed by Josh Cooley)
action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It was directed by Josh Cooley from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and the writing duo of Andrew Barrer and...
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selected by the Redskins in the third round of the 2004 NFL draft. Cooley attended Logan High School in Logan, Utah, and lettered in football, wrestling, and...
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Thomas Lipscomb on August 22, 1981. Jones first appeared in the 1975 film Cooley High, and later the TV series City of Angels ("Palm Springs Answer," 1976)...
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Near North Career Metropolitan High School, located at Larrabee and Blackhawk, evolved from Cooley Vocational High School and served area students from...
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director Michael Schultz, fresh from the success of his first feature, Cooley High. Schultz offered Whitfield the opportunity to score his next picture...
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