Carl Lumbly 1951 74

Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as television's first black superhero in M.A.N.T.I.S., Dick Hallorann in Doctor Sleep, NYPD detective Marcus Petrie on the CBS police drama Cagney & Lacey, CIA agent Marcus Dixon on the ABC espionage drama series Alias, and as the voice of J'onn J'onnz / Martian Manhunter in the animated series Justice League, Static Shock, and Justice League Unlimited, all part of the DC Animated Universe. As a reference to his voice work as J'onn, Lumbly portrayed J'onn J'onnz's father, M'yrnn, on The CW's Arrowverse on Supergirl from 2017 until 2019. He also plays Isaiah Bradley, the first Black super-soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) installments The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and the forthcoming Captain America: Brave New World (2025).

He was married to Vonetta McGee from 1987 until her death in 2010.

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2025 The Life of Chuck as Sam Yarbrough

2025 Captain America: Brave New World as Isaiah Bradley

2022 I'm Charlie Walker as Willie

2021 Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as Isaiah Bradley (archive footage)

2020 Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook as Self

2019 Doctor Sleep as Dick Halloran

2019 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Miles Davis (voice)

2017 A Cure for Wellness as Mr. Wilson

2016 Love Twice as Rodrigo

2015 Justice League: Gods and Monsters as Silas Stone (voice)

2015 Quitters as Dr. Weiss

2012 Justice League: Doom as Martian Manhunter (voice)

2010 Black Panther as Uncle S'Yan

2010 Nominated as Ray Cowan

2008 The Alphabet Killer as Dr. Ellis Parks

2007 Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation as Samuel Nujoma

2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)

2004 Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie as J'onn J'onzz (voice)

2003 Warming by the Devil's Fire as Narrator

2003 Justice League: Paradise Lost as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice)

2003 Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Nat Turner - Gray

2003 Sounder as The Father

2002 Justice League: The Savage Time as Martian Manhunter

2002 Just a Dream as J.M. Hoagland

2001 Justice League: Secret Origins as J'onn J'onzz (voice)

2000 Justice League: The First Mission as Martian Manhunter

2000 Men of Honor as Mac Brashear

2000 Little Richard as Bud Penniman

2000 The Color of Friendship as Ron Dellums

1999 Border Line as Detective Mollo

1998 How Stella Got Her Groove Back as Judge Spencer Boyle

1998 The Wedding as Lute McNeil

1998 Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero as Additional Voices (voice)

1997 Buffalo Soldiers as John Horse

1997 The Ditchdigger's Daughters as Donald Thornton

1996 Nightjohn as Nightjohn

1996 America's Dream as Cal (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")

1994 Cagney & Lacey: The Return as Marcus Petrie

1994 On Promised Land as Floyd Ween

1994 M.A.N.T.I.S. as Dr. Miles Hawkins

1994 Out of Darkness as Addison

1992 South Central as Ali

1992 Back to the Streets of San Francisco as Charlie Walker

1991 Eyes of a Witness as Mambulu

1991 Brother Future as Denmark Vessy

1991 The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry as Self

1990 To Sleep with Anger as Junior

1990 Pacific Heights as Lieutenant Lou Baker

1990 Moe's World

1988 Everybody's All-American as Narvel Blue

1987 Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 as Bobby Seale

1987 The Bedroom Window as Quirke

1985 The Gospel at Colonus as Theseus

1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension as John Parker

1981 Caveman as Bork

1981 Lifepod as Keshah

1979 Undercover with the KKK as Rev. Lowell

1979 Escape from Alcatraz as Inmate

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