Ossie Davis

JAG

Terrence Minnerly

Bonanza

Sam Davis

Hawaii Five-O

Ramon Borelle

Third Watch

Mr. Parker

Touched by an Angel

Gabriel

Touched by an Angel

Erasmus Jones

The Fugitive

Lt. Johnny Gaines

American Playhouse

Writer

American Experience

Self - Harlem Resident

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

The Defenders

Nixie

The Defenders

Officer Bond

The Defenders

District Attorney

The Defenders

Assistant District Attorney

The Defenders

District Attorney Daniel Jackson

The Name of the Game

Kubani

American Masters

Self

The L Word

Melvin Porter

Run for Your Life

Frankie Morton

Run for Your Life

Dave Corbett

Run for Your Life

Sgt. Dave Corbett

Kraft Television Theatre

The Emperor Jones

Reading Rainbow

Self - Narrator (voice)

12 O'Clock High

Major Glenn Luke

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self

Evening Shade

Ponder Blue

Promised Land

Promised Land

Erasmus Jones

The Stand

Judge Richard Farris

The Stand

Judge Richard Farris (credit only)

The Great Adventure

John Ross

Roots: The Next Generations

'Dad' Jones

Baseball

Various (voice)

Baseball

(voice)

The Client

Harry Roosevelt

Dinosaur

Yar (voice)

The Client

Judge Harry Roosevelt

Do the Right Thing

Da Mayor

Jungle Fever

Reverend Purify

Doctor Dolittle

Archer Dolittle

Alex Haley's Queen

Parson Dick

B.L. Stryker

Oz Jackson

Malcolm X

Eulogy Performer (voice)

12 Angry Men

Juror 2

Grumpy Old Men

Chuck

The West

Self

The West

Self / John R. Gills (voice)

Gladiator

Noah

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Charles Carter

East Side/West Side

Writer

Joe Versus the Volcano

Marshall

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Self (archive footage)

TV Revolution

Bubba Ho-tep

John F. "Jack" Kennedy

The Secret Path

Too Tall

Fourteen Hours

Cab Driver (uncredited)

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Director

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Screenplay

She Hate Me

Judge Buchanan

School Daze

Coach Odom

Get on the Bus

Jeremiah / 'Pop'

King

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

Thomas Jefferson

Narrator (voice)

The Scalphunters

Joseph Lee

Feast of All Saints

Jean-Jacques

A Man Called Adam

Nelson Davis

The Cardinal

Father Gillis

The Hill

Jacko King

The Ernest Green Story

Grandfather

Night Gallery

Osmond Portifoy

No Way Out

John Brooks (uncredited)

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

Himself - Narrator

Cop & ½

Detective in Squad Room

I'm Not Rappaport

Midge Carter

Sam Whiskey

Jed Hooker

Avenging Angel

Capt. Harry Moradian

Hot Stuff

Captain John Geiberger

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Self

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

The House of God

Dr. Sanders

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Uncle Phil

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Self

4 Little Girls

Self - Actor and Playwright

Let's Do It Again

Elder Johnson

A Vow to Cherish

Alexander Billman

Folk Britannia

Self (archival footage)

Miss Evers' Boys

Mr. Evers

Harry & Son

Raymond

John Brown's Raid

Dangerfield Newby

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Self

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Himself

The Tenth Level

Reed

The Legend of the Candy Cane

Julius (voice)

Slaves

Luke

Gone Are the Days!

Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

Gone Are the Days!

Writer

All God's Children

Blaine Whitfield

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Chuffy Russell

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

Narrator

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

Self

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Self

The Real Malcolm X

The Peace!

Self

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Narrator

The History Makers: Success

Self

Baadasssss!

Granddad

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Self

Death of a Prophet

The Soul Collector

Mordecai

The Sheriff

James Lucas

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Uncle Phil

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

Narrator

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Writer

Proud

Lorenzo DuFau

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

Caretaker

Black Girl

Director

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

Writer

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

Original Story

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

Dr. Fredericks

The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

Jason King (archival footage)

The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

Jason King (archive footage)

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

Self

Here's to Life!

Duncan Cox

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Self

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Self

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Thanks

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Self

Goin' Back to T-Town

Narrator

Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood

Narrator

Teacher, Teacher

Charles Carter

Freedom Road

Narrator

Finding Buck McHenry

Buck McHenry

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

Narrator

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)

Lincoln

Frederick Douglas (voice)

The Outsider

Lt. Wagner

Haiti: Killing the Dream

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

Narrator

Wattstax

Self (uncredited)

Shock Treatment

Capshaw

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Self

Now is the Time

Self

Deacons for Defense

Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

Gordon's War

Director

Black Liberation

Narrator

The Android Affair

Dr. Winston

Malcolm X

Eulogy (voice)

Kongi's Harvest

Narrator

Kongi's Harvest

Director

Purlie

Musical

Love in Exile

Love in Exile

Writer

Countdown at Kusini

Ernest Motapo

Countdown at Kusini

Director

Countdown at Kusini

Screenplay

The Red Shoes

The Fall

The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars

Narrator

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers

Narrator

Hands of Inge

Narrator (voice)

Freedom Man

Benjamin Banneker

Unstoppable

Self

Tyler Texas Black Film Collection

Himself