Cast & creator
Fab 5 Freddy
Best known for Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Marvel's Luke Cage, American Gangster
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fred Brathwaite (born 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s, and later hosted the first hip-hop music video show on TV, "Yo! MTV Raps". Description above from the Wikipedia article Fab 5 Freddy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Fred Brathwaite, Fred Braithwaite, Fab Five Freddy, Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite
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film credits
10
television credits
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1978–2023 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (56)
Showing 56 of 56 credits
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
2001
Marvel's Luke Cage
Fab 5 Freddy
2016
American Gangster
Smalls Patron
2007
Yo! MTV Raps
Self
1988
Rachel Getting Married
Rehearsal Dinner Guest
2008
The Manchurian Candidate
Political Pundit
2004
The Defiant Ones
Self
2017
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
Self
2019
New Jack City
Master of Ceremonies
1991New Jack City
Associate Producer
1991
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Self
2022
Juice
Self
1992
TV Party
1978
The Hip Hop Years
Self
1999
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Executive Producer
2023
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Self
2019
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Self
2004
She's Gotta Have It
Dog 10
1986
Barry
Rameek
2016
Who's the Man?
Fab 5 Freddy
1993
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Self
2012Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Consulting Producer
2012
TV Party
Self
2005
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Self
2020Picasso Baby
Self
2013
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
Self
2020
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
2021
Tupac: Resurrection
Self (archival)
2003
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Self
2017
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Self
2010
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Self
2009
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self
2018
Blank City
Self
2011
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
2014
Downtown '81
Graffiti Artist
2001
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Self
2023
The Universe of Keith Haring
Self
2008
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Self (segment "Rapture")
2002
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
Self
2023
Grass Is Greener
Director
2019
Hold Your Fire
Producer
2021
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Self
2020
Wild Style
"Phade"
1982Wild Style
Music
1982Wild Style
Associate Producer
1982Wild Style
Original Concept
1982
NB80s
Narrator (voice)
2011
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
Self
2013
NB90s
2013
Good to Go
Mr. Aint
1986
The Freshest Kids
2002
Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster
Hustlers Convention
Self
2015
Downtown Calling
Self
2009Loose Talk
1983A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
Himself - Presenter
2019