Ossie Davis

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Self (archive footage)

The Peace!

Self

Deacons for Defense

Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

The History Makers: Success

Self

Unstoppable

Self

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

Self

She Hate Me

Judge Buchanan

Proud

Lorenzo DuFau

Baadasssss!

Granddad

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Self

The L Word

Melvin Porter · (4 episodes)

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Self

The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars

Narrator

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Himself

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Self

Bubba Ho-tep

John F. "Jack" Kennedy

Feast of All Saints

Jean-Jacques

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

Narrator

The Legend of the Candy Cane

Julius (voice)

Here's to Life!

Duncan Cox

Dinosaur

Yar (voice)

Finding Buck McHenry

Buck McHenry

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

Caretaker

The Soul Collector

Mordecai

Third Watch

Mr. Parker · (3 episodes)

The Secret Path

Too Tall

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Self

A Vow to Cherish

Alexander Billman

Doctor Dolittle

Archer Dolittle

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Self

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Self

12 Angry Men

Juror 2

4 Little Girls

Self - Actor and Playwright

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers

Narrator

Miss Evers' Boys

Mr. Evers

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

Self

I'm Not Rappaport

Midge Carter

Get on the Bus

Jeremiah

JAG

Terrence Minnerly · (1 episode)

The Android Affair

Dr. Winston

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Uncle Phil

Touched by an Angel

Gabriel · (2 episodes)

The Client

Harry Roosevelt

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Uncle Phil

The Stand

Judge Richard Farris

The Stand

Judge Richard Farris · (2 episodes)

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Self

Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

Narrator

Grumpy Old Men

Chuck

Cop & ½

Detective in Squad Room

Goin' Back to T-Town

Narrator

The Ernest Green Story

Grandfather

Lincoln

Frederick Douglas (voice)

Malcolm X

Eulogy Performer (voice)

Gladiator

Noah

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Self

Jungle Fever

Reverend Purify

Evening Shade

Ponder Blue · (100 episodes)

Joe Versus the Volcano

Marshall

The Red Shoes

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Self

Do the Right Thing

Da Mayor

School Daze

Coach Odom

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

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

Avenging Angel

Capt. Harry Moradian

Tyler Texas Black Film Collection

Himself

Harry & Son

Raymond

Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood

Narrator

The House of God

Dr. Sanders

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

Chuffy Russell

Death of a Prophet

All God's Children

Blaine Whitfield

Freedom Road

Narrator

Hot Stuff

Captain John Geiberger

Freedom Man

Benjamin Banneker

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

Dr. Fredericks

The Tenth Level

Reed

Countdown at Kusini

Ernest Motapo

Let's Do It Again

Elder Johnson

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Narrator

Wattstax

Self (uncredited)

Malcolm X

Eulogy (voice)

The Sheriff

James Lucas

Kongi's Harvest

Narrator

Night Gallery

Osmond Portifoy

Slaves

Luke

Sam Whiskey

Jed Hooker

Teacher, Teacher

Charles Carter

The Fall

Hawaii Five-O

Ramon Borelle · (1 episode)

The Scalphunters

Joseph Lee

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

Narrator

The Outsider

Lt. Wagner

Black Liberation

Narrator

A Man Called Adam

Nelson Davis

Run for Your Life

Frankie Morton · (1 episode)

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

Jason King (archive footage)

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

Jason King (archival footage)

The Hill

Jacko King

Shock Treatment

Capshaw

The Cardinal

Father Gillis

Gone Are the Days!

Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

Hands of Inge

Narrator (voice)

John Brown's Raid

Dangerfield Newby

Fourteen Hours

Cab Driver (uncredited)

Haití: Killing the Dream

Folk Britannia

Self (archival footage) · (1 episode)

TV Revolution

(2 episodes)

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

Narrator · (2 episodes)

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

Himself - Narrator · (4 episodes)

Thomas Jefferson

Narrator (voice) · (2 episodes)

Promised Land

(1 episode)

Promised Land

Erasmus Jones · (2 episodes)

The West

Self · (9 episodes)

The West

Self / John R. Gills (voice) · (1 episode)

The Client

Judge Harry Roosevelt · (21 episodes)

Touched by an Angel

Erasmus Jones · (4 episodes)

Baseball

Various (voice) · (0 episode)

Baseball

(voice) · (7 episodes)

The Stand

Judge Richard Farris (credit only) · (2 episodes)

Alex Haley's Queen

Parson Dick · (3 episodes)

B.L. Stryker

Oz Jackson · (12 episodes)

American Experience

Self - Harlem Resident · (1 episode)

American Masters

Self · (1 episode)

Reading Rainbow

Himself - Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)

Roots: The Next Generations

Dad Jones · (7 episodes)

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self · (1 episode)

King

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. · (3 episodes)

The Name of the Game

Kubani · (1 episode)

Run for Your Life

Sgt. Dave Corbett · (1 episode)

Run for Your Life

Dave Corbett · (1 episode)

12 O'Clock High

Major Glenn Luke · (1 episode)

The Great Adventure

John Ross · (1 episode)

The Fugitive

Lt. Johnny Gaines · (1 episode)

The Defenders

Nixie · (1 episode)

The Defenders

Officer Bond · (1 episode)

The Defenders

District Attorney · (2 episodes)

The Defenders

Assistant District Attorney · (1 episode)

The Defenders

District Attorney Daniel Jackson · (3 episodes)

Bonanza

Sam Davis · (1 episode)

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter · (1 episode)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Charles Carter · (1 episode)

No Way Out

John Brooks (uncredited)

Kraft Television Theatre

The Emperor Jones · (1 episode)