Acting

2019

(7 episodes) as Old Man / Will Reeves

2017

(1 episode) as Carl Reddick

2015		The Spoils Before Dying (6 episodes) as Duke Webster
2015		The Book of Negroes (6 episodes) as Daddy Moses

2014		Madam Secretary (1 episode) as Father Laurent Vasseur
2014		Extant (4 episodes) as Quinn

2010

(1 episode) as Lou's father

2009

(1 episode) as Self

2006

(1 episode) as Lloyd Marr

2005

(3 episodes)

2004

(3 episodes) as Lucius Fox (voice)

2002		Half & Half (2 episodes) as Ray Willis
2002		The Dead Zone (1 episode)

1999

(1 episode) as Drill Sargent (voice)

1998

(1 episode) as Chiron (voice)

1997

(5 episodes) as Gerak

1996		Early Edition (1 episode)
1996		Promised Land (1 episode) as Anderson Walker

1994

(1 episode) as Leo Malcolm

1993

(4 episodes) as Isom Pickett

1990

(2 episodes) as Commander Clash (voice)

1989

(5 episodes)

1988

(1 episode) as Self - Narrator

1983

(2 episodes) as Anwar al-Sadat

1982

(22 episodes) as Walter "Walt" Shepherd (D'Hai)

1980

(1 episode)

1979		The Lazarus Syndrome (10 episodes) as MacArthur St. Clair
1979		Backstairs at the White House (4 episodes) as Levi Mercer, Houseman

1978

(2 episodes) as Lem Harper

1977		Bitte umblättern (1 episode) as Self
1977		Roots (3 episodes) as Fiddler

1975		Saturday Night Live (1 episode) as Self - Host
1975		The Jeffersons (1 episode)

1974		The Rockford Files (1 episode) as Marcus Aurelius 'Gabby' Hayes (1 episode) as Marcus Aurelius Hayes / O'Brien
1974		Harry O (1 episode)
1974		Petrocelli (1 episode) as District Attorney Kurt Olson (1 episode) as Kurt Olson, DA
1974		Little House on the Prairie (1 episode)
1974		Good Times (2 episodes)
1974		The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode) as O'Flaherty

1973		The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1 episode) as Self
1973		Police Story (2 episodes)

1972

(1 episode)

1971		Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1 episode) as Lt. Carl Fellows
1971		Alias Smith and Jones (1 episode)

1970		The Partridge Family (1 episode) as Sam Simon
1970		The Young Rebels (15 episodes)
1970		McCloud (1 episode)

1969		Love, American Style (1 episode) as Freddy
1969		The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1 episode) as Dr. Karnes
1969		The Bill Cosby Show (1 episode) as Hurricane Smith

1968

(1 episode) as Charley Jameson (1 episode) as Lloyd (1 episode) as Smitty

1967		Cowboy in Africa (1 episode) as Joseph Hemera (1 episode) as Fulah
1967		The Invaders (1 episode) as Ollie

1966

(1 episode) as Mkono

1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (2 episodes) as Self
1962		The Merv Griffin Show (1 episode) as Self

1961

(1 episode) as Self

1959

(1 episode) as Buck Walter

1953

(2 episodes) as Self

1948

(1 episode) as Self - America Be Seated Cast

Directing

1982

(1 episode) … Director