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as Sam Yarbrough

2025

as Isaiah Bradley

2022

as Willie

2021

as Isaiah Bradley (archive footage)

2019		Doctor Sleep as Dick Halloran
2019		Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Miles Davis (voice)

2017

as Mr. Wilson

2015		Justice League: Gods and Monsters as Silas Stone (voice)
2015		Quitters as Dr. Weiss

2012

as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter / Ma'alefa'ak (voice)

2010		Black Panther as Uncle S'Yan
2010		Nominated as Ray Cowan

2008

as Dr. Ellis Parks

2007

as Samuel Nujoma

2004		Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004		Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie as J'onn J'onzz (voice)

2003		Warming by the Devil's Fire as Narrator
2003		Justice League: Paradise Lost as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice)
2003		Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Nat Turner - Gray
2003		Sounder as The Father

2002

as J.M. Hoagland

2001

as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice)

2000		Men of Honor as Mac Brashear
2000		Little Richard as Bud Penniman
2000		The Color of Friendship as Ron Dellums

1999

as Detective Mollo

1998		How Stella Got Her Groove Back as Judge Spencer Boyle
1998		The Wedding as Lute McNeil
1998		Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero as Additional Voices (voice)

1997		Buffalo Soldiers as John Horse
1997		The Ditchdigger's Daughters as Donald Thornton

1996		Nightjohn as Nightjohn
1996		America's Dream as Cal (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")

1994		Cagney & Lacey: The Return as Marcus Petrie
1994		On Promised Land as Floyd Ween
1994		M.A.N.T.I.S. as Dr. Miles Hawkins
1994		Out of Darkness as Addison

1992		South Central as Ali
1992		Back to the Streets of San Francisco as Charlie Walker

1991		Eyes of a Witness as Mambulu
1991		Brother Future as Denmark Vessy
1991		The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry as Self

1990		To Sleep with Anger as Junior
1990		Pacific Heights as Lieutenant Lou Baker
1990		Moe's World

1988

as Narvel Blue

1987		Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 as Bobby Seale
1987		The Bedroom Window as Quirke

1984

as John Parker

1981		Caveman as Bork
1981		Lifepod as Keshah

1979		Undercover with the KKK as Rev. Lowell
1979		Escape from Alcatraz as Inmate