<Li> Alan Rosenberg as Shelly Berger, the Temptations' manager . </Li> <Li> Obba Babatundé as Berry Gordy, Jr, founder of Motown Records . </Li> <Li> Erik Michael Tristan as a young Smokey Robinson, the lead singer of The Miracles and The Temptations' primary songwriter and producer during the early 1960s . <Ul> <Li> The real - life Smokey Robinson appears as himself in a cameo at the end of Part Two, where he sings at Melvin's funeral . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> The real - life Smokey Robinson appears as himself in a cameo at the end of Part Two, where he sings at Melvin's funeral . </Li> </Ul>

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