Question: who played the robber in coming to america
Answer: Townsend , Akeem and Semmi 's landlord in Queens ; Vanessa Bell as Imani Izzi , Akeem 's arranged wife , and Calvin Lockhart as Colonel Izzi , her father ; Louie Anderson as Maurice , a McDowell 's employee ; Allison Dean as Patrice McDowell , Cleo 's youngest daughter and Lisa 's sister ; Samuel L. Jackson as a robber ; Vondie Curtis - Hall as the Basketball game vendor ; Garcelle Beauvais as a rose bearer ; Victoria Dillard as one of Akeem 's Zamundan attendants , and Clint Smith as Sweets .