
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
Known For

Poker Face
Deuteronomy · (1 episode)
2023

The First Lady
Martin Luther King Sr. · (1 episode)
2022

tick, tick... BOOM!
"Sunday" Legend #1
2021

Vacation Friends
Larry
2021

Power Book II: Ghost
Reverend Macedon · (1 episode)
2020

Little Voice
Percy · (6 episodes)
2020

The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Leonato
2019

A Vigilante
Lawyer
2019

God Friended Me
Larry · (1 episode)
2018

New Amsterdam
Leon Hargrow · (1 episode)
2018

The Blacklist: Redemption
General Phillips · (1 episode)
2017

Bull
Judge Elmendorf · (1 episode)
2016

Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
2015

Madam Secretary
General Mitch Sarno, Commandant of National War College · (1 episode)
2014

Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet
2014

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Chauncey Eskridge
2013

House of Cards
Barney Hull · (3 episodes)
2013

White Collar
Parole Officer · (1 episode)
2009

The Good Wife
Gerard Gallo · (1 episode)
2009

Noise
Judge Gibson
2007

American Gangster
Private Doctor
2007

Gossip Girl
Horace Rogers · (2 episodes)
2007

Evening
Ray
2007

Chapter 27
Cabbie
2007

A Crime
Will
2006

Find Me Guilty
James Washington
2006

Downtown: A Street Tale
Sergeant Williams
2004

Hack
Hayden · (1 episode)
2002

Without a Trace
Barry's Ex-Boss · (1 episode)
2002

100 Centre Street
Charlie the Bridgeman · (6 episodes)
2001

The Opportunists
Arnon Morris
2000

Our Song
Benjamin
2000

Third Watch
Lieutenant Kyle · (1 episode)
1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Mr. Tassler · (1 episode)
1999

The Hurricane
Earl Martin
1999

Strangers with Candy
Sack Race Referee · (1 episode)
1999

Gloria
Male Guard
1999

The Peacemaker
NYPD Cop
1997

The Juror
Stockbroker
1996

New York Undercover
Sawyer · (1 episode)
1994

North
Umpire
1994

NYPD Blue
Bus Driver · (1 episode)
1993

Malcolm X
Customer
1992

Law & Order
Walters' Attorney · (1 episode)
1990

Law & Order
Art Samuels · (1 episode)
1990

Law & Order
Lester Poole · (1 episode)
1990

Law & Order
Rolando August · (1 episode)
1990

Law & Order
Drew MacDaniel · (1 episode)
1990

Criminal Justice
Judge Whitney
1990

Action Family
Cop
1987

Road Show
Papa Mizner