Ossie Davis
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch(2024)
Deacons for Defense(2005)
Reverend 'Rev' Gregory
Baadasssss!(2004)
Granddad
Proud(2004)
Lorenzo DuFau
She Hate Me(2004)
Judge Buchanan
The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars(2003)
Narrator
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property(2003)
Himself
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives(2003)
Bubba Ho-tep(2002)
John F. "Jack" Kennedy
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore(2001)
Narrator
Feast of All Saints(2001)
Jean-Jacques
The Legend of the Candy Cane(2001)
Julius (voice)
Dinosaur(2000)
Yar (voice)
Finding Buck McHenry(2000)
Buck McHenry
Here's to Life!(2000)
Duncan Cox
The Secret Path(1999)
Too Tall
The Soul Collector(1999)
Mordecai
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve(1999)
Caretaker
A Vow to Cherish(1999)
Alexander Billman
The Unfinished Journey(1999)
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Dolittle(1998)
Archer Dolittle
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist(1998)
12 Angry Men(1997)
Juror 2
Miss Evers' Boys(1997)
Mr. Evers
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers(1997)
Narrator
I'm Not Rappaport(1996)
Midge Carter
Get on the Bus(1996)
Jeremiah / 'Pop'
The Android Affair(1995)
Dr. Winston
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder(1995)
Uncle Phil
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World(1994)
Narrator
The Client(1994)
Harry Roosevelt
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice(1994)
Uncle Phil
Goin' Back to T-Town(1993)
Narrator
Grumpy Old Men(1993)
Chuck
The Ernest Green Story(1993)
Grandfather
Cop & ½(1993)
Detective in Squad Room
Malcolm X(1992)
Eulogy Performer (voice)
Gladiator(1992)
Noah
Lincoln(1992)
Frederick Douglas (voice)
The Real Malcolm X(1992)
Jungle Fever(1991)
Reverend Purify
Joe Versus the Volcano(1990)
Marshall
The Red Shoes(1990)
Do the Right Thing(1989)
Da Mayor
School Daze(1988)
Coach Odom
Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories(1986)
Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)
Avenging Angel(1985)
Capt. Harry Moradian
Tyler Texas Black Film Collection(1985)
Himself
Harry & Son(1984)
Raymond
The House of God(1984)
Dr. Sanders
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood(1984)
Narrator
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers(1983)
Death of a Prophet(1981)
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige(1981)
Chuffy Russell
Purlie(1981)
All God's Children(1980)
Blaine Whitfield
Hot Stuff(1979)
Captain John Geiberger
Freedom Road(1979)
Narrator
Freedom Man(1979)
Benjamin Banneker
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid(1977)
Dr. Fredericks
The Tenth Level(1976)
Reed
Countdown at Kusini(1976)
Let's Do It Again(1975)
Elder Johnson
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen(1975)
Narrator
Gordon's War(1973)
Malcolm X(1972)
Eulogy (voice)
Black Girl(1972)
The Sheriff(1971)
James Lucas
Kongi's Harvest(1970)
Cotton Comes to Harlem(1970)
Sam Whiskey(1969)
Jed Hooker
Teacher, Teacher(1969)
Charles Carter
Slaves(1969)
Luke
The Fall(1969)
Night Gallery(1969)
Osmond Portifoy
The Scalphunters(1968)
Joseph Lee
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class(1968)
Narrator
The Outsider(1967)
Lt. Wagner
Black Liberation(1967)
Narrator
A Man Called Adam(1966)
Nelson Davis
The Hill(1965)
Jacko King
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill(1965)
Jason King (archive footage)
Shock Treatment(1964)
Capshaw
Gone Are the Days!(1963)
The Cardinal(1963)
Father Gillis
Hands of Inge(1962)
Narrator (voice)
John Brown's Raid(1960)
Dangerfield Newby
Fourteen Hours(1951)
Cab Driver (uncredited)
No Way Out(1950)
John Brooks (uncredited)
Haiti: Killing the Dream