Credit 78

2025 STRAW as Richard

2024 Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

2024 A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians as Self - Chiron

2023 Rustin as A. Philip Randolph

2023 Outlaw Johnny Black as Bullseye Black

2023 80 for Brady as Mickey

2022 Is That Black Enough for You?!? as Self

2022 Women of Theatre, New York Executive Producer

2022 The Legend of Glynn Turman as G.T. Writer

2022 The Devil You Know as Lloyd Cowans

2021 Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist as Self

2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen as Self - Presenter

2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Toledo

2020 The Way Back as Doc

2019 Sextuplets as Leland

2019 Justine as Papa Don Executive Producer

2019 Windows on the World as Lou

2018 Bumblebee as General Whalen

2018 Solace as Clay (Pastor Davis)

2017 The Killing Floor as Self

2017 Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart as Self

2017 August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

2016 Race as Harry E. Davis

2013 Act Like You Love Me as David Lofton

2013 John Dies at the End as Detective Lawrence 'Morgan Freeman' Appleton

2012 The Obama Effect as Slim Sugar

2012 City Teacher as Kevin Sawyer

2012 The Pastor's Secret

2011 Super 8 as Dr. Woodward

2010 Burlesque as Harold Saint

2010 Takers as Chief Detective Duncan

2009 Preaching To The Pastor as Bishop Hightower

2008 Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery as Sheriff Bob Monroe

2008 Kings of the Evening as Clarence Brown

2007 Uncle P as Dr. Niles

2005 Sahara as Dr. Frank Hopper

2004 The Seat Filler as Derrick's Dad

2001 Air Rage as Ted Bigelow

2001 The Visit as Parole Board Member Reingold

2001 Fire & Ice as Robert Aimes Sr.

2000 Men of Honor as Chief Floyd

2000 Freedom Song as T-Bone Lanier

1999 Light It Up as Principal Allan Armstrong

1998 How Stella Got Her Groove Back as Dr. Shakespeare

1997 Buffalo Soldiers as Sgt. Joshua 'Joyu' Judges Ruth

1996 Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Coach Powell

1996 Subterfuge as Stallworth Hubbs

1994 Someone Else's Child as Judge Roullard

1994 The Inkwell as Spencer Phillips

1992 Deep Cover as Russell Stevens Sr.

1986 Ask Max as Lloyd Lyman

1986 Out of Bounds as Lieutenant Delgado

1985 Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Joshua

1984 Secrets of a Married Man as Jesse

1984 Gremlins as Roy Hanson

1983 Manimal as Ty Earl

1982 Penitentiary II as Charles Johnson

1981 Thornwell as James Thornwell

1980 Attica as Raymond Franklin

1978 Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold as Preston de Cordiva

1977 A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich as Nigeria

1977 The Serpent's Egg as Monroe

1977 The Richard Pryor Special? as Booster Johnson

1977 Minstrel Man as Harry Brown Jr.

1976 The Tapestry

1976 J.D.'s Revenge as Isaac / 'Ike'

1976 The River Niger as Jeff Williams

1975 Cooley High as Leroy "Preach" Jackson

1975 Carter's Army as Pvt. George Brightman

1975 The Blue Knight as Edwin Beall

1975 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men as Theo

1974 The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

1974 Together Brothers as Dr. Johnson

1974 Thomasine & Bushrod as Jomo J. Anderson

1973 Five on the Black Hand Side as Gideon

1972 AWOL as Mohammed G.

1971 Honky as Sailor at Bus Station

1971 In Search of America as Bodhi

Genres

6.75 Science Fiction 2

6.66 Music 1

6.49 Mystery 4

6.41 Horror 3

6.16 Thriller 11

6.15 Western 4

6.04 Crime 8

5.91 Action 10

5.90 Documentary 6

5.82 Fantasy 2

5.80 Romance 8

5.75 Drama 39

5.56 Adventure 3

5.55 Family 2

5.46 Comedy 17

5.30 History 6

5.10 TV Movie 13

5.01 Animation 1

4.04 War 1