The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Decision at Sundown | You Can't Hurry Love | Wild About Hurry | Sundown | Sundown (rapper) | Sundown (Lost) | Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot song) | Strange Things Happen at Sundown | Hurry on Down | Come Around Sundown |
Significant roles for which Hooks is known include Reeve Scott in Hurry Sundown (1967), Mr. T. in the blaxploitation film Trouble Man (1972), grandpa Gene Donovan in the comedy Seventeen Again (2000), and Fleet Admiral Morrow in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
He wrote most of the songs for the Outlaws, including "Hurry Sundown", "There Goes Another Love Song," and "Green Grass and High Tides".
Notable songs include "Hurry Sundown," which was released as a single, and "Norman Normal," which provided the basis of a 1968 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon of the same name, co-credited to Noel Stookey.