

Cast & creator
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, The View
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), Rodney Little in Clockers (1995), and Paul, a Vietnam War veteran, in Da 5 Bloods (2020), the latter of which earned him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. For his role as blues player Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lindo is also known for playing Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Isaak O'Day in Romeo Must Die (2000) Joe Black in This Christmas (2007), and Bass Reeves in The Harder They Fall (2021). He also voiced the character Beta in the Pixar animated film Up (2009). On television, he portrayed Matthew Henson in the 1998 television film Glory & Honor, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice (1999). Lindo later starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Delroy George Lindo
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1952–2027 · acting roles
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Victor Moran
1999
Gabriel (voice)
1989
Self
1997
Self - Guest
2015
Self
2022
Self - Guest
2022
Self - Guest
1988
Self - Guest
2022
Judge Ernest Bradley
2016
Self - Guest
2019
Adrian Boseman
2017
Delta Slim
2025
Self
1953
Beta (voice)
2009
Self
1952
Self
2019
Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
1997
Det. Roland Castlebeck
2000
(voice)
1994
Bonafide
1993
Colonel Max Wilkins
1996
Self
1995

Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
2003
Edwin Alexander
2023
Executive Producer
2023
Latimer King
2006
Dr. Milton Winter
2014
FBI Instructor
2015
Self - Guest
1996
Gen. Wheeler
2001
Alderman Ronin Gibbons
2011
Bass Reeves
2021
Arthur Rose
1999
Isaak O'Day
2000
MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
2001
West Indian Archie
1992
Sheriff Tip Harrison
2015
Captain Brix
1991
Bo Catlett
1995
Carl
2005
Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
1995
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
1996
Jackson
1997

Claremont Williams
2005
Bobby 'Bob' Blane
2001

Paul
2020
Beta (voice)
2009
Howard
1993
Mbulu
1989
Joe Black
2007
Belarius
2014
Skeres
2011
Satchel Paige
1996
Malachi
2015
Army Sergeant
1979
Red
1996
Rodney Little
1995
Mabruki
1990
Dr. Clark
2018
Woody Carmichael
1994
Donald Stein
2020
Mr. Lucious
2005
Mr. Nancy
Director
Producer

Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
2006
Harley
1990
Calhoun
1997Self
2025
Professor
1999
Isaac Stubbs
1987
Berger
1989
Kingman
1996
Dennis
2004
Mathew Henson
1998
Self
2002
Delbert Tibbs
2006
John Williams (voice)
2015
Arthur
2017
Clarence Thomas
1999
Sam
1976
Kyle
1999
Himself
2012
Ricardo Thornton
2003
Self
2008
Drug Kingpin
1976
Narrator
2008