1937-06-01 Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series The Electric Company. Freeman then appeared in the Shakespearean plays Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the former of which earned him an Obie Award. His breakout role was in Street Smart (1987), playing a hustler, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He achieved further stardom in Glory, the biographical drama Lean on Me, and comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (all 1989), the latter of which garnered him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1992, Freeman starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the western revenge film Unforgiven; this would be the first of several collaborations with Eastwood. In 1994, he starred in the prison drama The Shawshank Redemption for which he received another Academy Award nomination. Freeman also starred in David Fincher's crime thriller Se7en (1995), and Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997). Freeman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama Million Dollar Baby. In 2009, he received his fifth Oscar nomination for playing former South African President Nelson Mandela in Eastwood's Invictus. Freeman is also known for his performance as Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). In addition to acting, Freeman has directed the drama Bopha! (1993). He also founded film production company Revelations Entertainment with business partner Lori McCreary. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. For his performances in theatrical productions, he has won three Obie Awards, one of the most prestigious honors for recognizing excellence in theatre.
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't | Thaddeus Bradley | 2025-11-12 |
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Clint Eastwood : la légende | Self | 2025-05-23 |
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Gunner | Kendrick Ryker | 2024-08-16 |
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Odysseus Returns | Narrator | 2024-01-17 |
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SBALKANU | (narrator) | 2024-12-22 |
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How to Rob a Bank | Azeem (archive footage) | 2024-06-04 |
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My Dead Friend Zoe | Dr. Cole | 2024-03-09 |
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57 Seconds | Anton Burrell | 2023-09-29 |
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A Good Person | Daniel | 2023-03-23 |
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761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers | Self | 2023-08-20 |
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The Ritual Killer | Dr. Mackles | 2023-03-09 |
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Sidney | Self | 2022-09-10 |
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Betty White: A Celebration | Self | 2022-01-17 |
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Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende | Self (archive footage) | 2022-11-13 |
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The Minute You Wake Up Dead | Sheriff Thurmond Fowler | 2022-11-04 |
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Paradise Highway | Gerick | 2022-07-29 |
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Power of Chi | Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-01 |
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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Self | 2021-06-18 |
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Coming 2 America | Morgan Freeman | 2021-03-04 |
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Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking | Self | 2021-07-10 |
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Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers | Self | 2021-01-01 |
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | Senior | 2021-06-14 |
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Vanquish | Damon | 2021-04-16 |
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Meeting the Beatles in India | Narrator (voice) | 2020-09-09 |
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Into Nature's Wild | Narrator (voice) | 2020-02-14 |
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The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II | Self | 2020-05-10 |
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The Comeback Trail | Reggie Fontaine | 2020-11-12 |
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Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United | Self | 2019-02-27 |
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Brian Banks | Jerome Johnson (uncredited) | 2019-08-09 |
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The Poison Rose | Doc | 2019-05-23 |
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Angel Has Fallen | Alan Trumbull | 2019-08-21 |
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America's Musical Journey | Narrator (voice) | 2018-05-17 |
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Die Clint Eastwood Story | Self | 2018-02-07 |
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Drosselmeyer | 2018-10-26 |
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Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies | Self | 2017-11-12 |
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Just Getting Started | Duke | 2017-12-01 |
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs | Self | 2017-08-01 |
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The Words That Built America | Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence | 2017-07-04 |
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Going in Style | Willie Davis | 2017-04-06 |
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L'empereur | Narrator (English voice) | 2017-02-15 |
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London Has Fallen | Alan Trumbull | 2016-03-02 |
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Now You See Me 2 | Thaddeus Bradley | 2016-06-02 |
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Ben-Hur | Sheik Ilderim | 2016-08-17 |
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The C Word | Narrator (voice) | 2016-07-28 |
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Ted 2 | Patrick Meighan | 2015-06-25 |
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JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-04 |
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Momentum | Senator | 2015-10-15 |
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Last Knights | Bartok | 2015-04-03 |
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Lucy | Professor Norman | 2014-07-25 |
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We the People | Narrator (voice) | 2014-01-06 |
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Wish Wizard | Maxwell Omni | 2014-04-29 |
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5 Flights Up | Alex Carver | 2014-05-10 |
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Island of Lemurs: Madagascar | Narrator (voice) | 2014-04-03 |
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The Lego Movie | Vitruvius (voice) | 2014-02-06 |
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Transcendence | Joseph Tagger | 2014-04-16 |
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Dolphin Tale 2 | Dr. Cameron McCarthy | 2014-09-11 |
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JFK: A President Betrayed | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-23 |
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Self | 2013-04-27 |
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Now You See Me | Thaddeus Bradley | 2013-05-29 |
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Last Vegas | Archibald 'Archie' Clayton | 2013-10-31 |
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Oblivion | Beech | 2013-04-10 |
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Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | Self | 2013-01-15 |
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Olympus Has Fallen | Alan Trumbull | 2013-03-20 |
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The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
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The Magic of Belle Isle | Monte Wildhorn | 2012-07-06 |
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B.B. King: The Life of Riley | Narrator (voice) | 2012-10-15 |
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Echoes 'Cross the Tracks | Self | 2012-03-01 |
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Ending the Knight | Self | 2012-12-04 |
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Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo | Narratore | 2012-03-21 |
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Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Self | 2012-01-16 |
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The Dark Knight Rises | Fox | 2012-07-17 |
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Born to Be Wild | Narrator (voice) | 2011-04-08 |
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Dolphin Tale | Dr. McCarthy | 2011-09-22 |
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Clint Eastwood's West | Self | 2011-07-06 |
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Quebrando o Tabu | Narrator (voice) | 2011-06-03 |
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Conan the Barbarian | Narrator (voice) | 2011-08-17 |
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The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office | Narrator (voice) | 2010-11-24 |
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The 16th Man | Narrator (voice) | 2010-05-04 |
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The Eastwood Factor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2010-02-16 |
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For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Self (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
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RED | Joe Matheson | 2010-10-13 |
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Invictus | Nelson Mandela | 2009-12-11 |
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The People Speak | Self | 2009-12-13 |
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The Maiden Heist | Charles Peterson | 2009-05-09 |
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Thick as Thieves | Keith Ripley | 2009-01-09 |
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Prom Night in Mississippi | Narrator (voice) | 2009-01-15 |
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The Dark Knight | Lucius Fox | 2008-07-16 |
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Where the Water Meets the Sky | 2008-06-06 | |
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A Raisin in the Sun | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2008-02-25 |
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Wanted | Sloan | 2008-06-19 |
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Evan Almighty | God | 2007-06-09 |
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The Bucket List | Carter Chambers | 2007-12-25 |
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AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self | 2007-06-20 |
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All About Us | Self | 2007-10-01 |
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Gone Baby Gone | Jack Doyle | 2007-09-18 |
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Feast of Love | Harry Stevenson | 2007-09-28 |
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Jaques (segment "As You Like It") | 2006-05-02 |
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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self | 2006-06-13 |
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The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits | Self | 2006-11-25 |
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10 Items or Less | 'Him' | 2006-09-11 |
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Lucky Number Slevin | The Boss | 2006-02-24 |
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The Contract | Frank Carden | 2006-04-05 |
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Unleashed | Sam | 2005-02-02 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2005-03-01 |
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Edison | Ashford | 2005-07-29 |
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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | Neil Armstrong (voice) | 2005-09-23 |
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An Unfinished Life | Mitch Bradley | 2005-09-09 |
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Blues Divas | Self | 2005-01-22 |
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James Lipton Takes on Three | Self | 2005-07-12 |
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Batman Begins | Lucius Fox | 2005-06-10 |
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Born to Fight | Self | 2005-07-12 |
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War of the Worlds | Narrator (voice) | 2005-06-28 |
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Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast | Self | 2005-09-02 |
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Genius. A Night for Ray Charles | Self | 2004-10-07 |
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Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation | 2004-03-09 | |
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The Hunting of the President | Narrator (voice) | 2004-04-27 |
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The Big Bounce | Walter Crewes | 2004-01-30 |
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Million Dollar Baby | Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris | 2004-12-05 |
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Declaration of Independence | Self | 2003-06-10 |
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Dreamcatcher | Col. Abraham Curtis | 2003-03-21 |
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Guilty by Association | Lt. Redding | 2003-07-22 |
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Bruce Almighty | God | 2003-05-23 |
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Levity | Miles Evans | 2003-03-16 |
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The Sum of All Fears | DCI William Cabot | 2002-05-31 |
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Partners of the Heart | Narrator (voice) | 2002-06-01 |
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Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Self | 2002-09-24 |
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All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | Self | 2002-09-24 |
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High Crimes | Charlie Grimes | 2002-04-05 |
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Along Came a Spider | Alex Cross | 2001-04-06 |
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Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature | Self | 2001-09-08 |
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Narrator (voice) | 2000-09-27 |
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Nurse Betty | Charlie | 2000-08-30 |
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Under Suspicion | Captain Victor Benezet | 2000-08-24 |
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Stephen King: Shining in the Dark | Self | 1999-09-09 |
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Hard Rain | Jim | 1998-01-16 |
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Deep Impact | President Tom Beck | 1998-05-08 |
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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Self | 1998-01-01 |
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Amistad | Theodore Joadson | 1997-12-10 |
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The Long Way Home | Narrator (voice) | 1997-09-19 |
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Kiss the Girls | Det. Alex Cross | 1997-09-29 |
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The Making of Se7en | Self | 1997-03-25 |
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Chain Reaction | Paul Shannon | 1996-08-02 |
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Moll Flanders | Hibble | 1996-06-14 |
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Cosmic Voyage | Narrator (voice) | 1996-08-09 |
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Inside the White House | Narrator (voice) | 1996-01-01 |
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Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial | Edward G. Robinson | 1996-02-27 |
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Se7en | Somerset | 1995-09-22 |
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Outbreak | General Billy Ford | 1995-03-10 |
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The Shawshank Redemption | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding | 1994-09-23 |
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Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Self | 1992-09-17 |
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The Power of One | Geel Piet | 1992-03-27 |
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Unforgiven | Ned Logan | 1992-08-07 |
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The True Story of Glory Continues | Narrator (voice) | 1991-06-19 |
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Azeem | 1991-06-14 |
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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Narrator (voice) | 1991-01-01 |
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Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie | Self | 1991-06-13 |
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Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born | Narrator (voice) | 1990-09-01 |
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Follow the Drinking Gourd | Narrator (voice) | 1990-09-01 |
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The Bonfire of the Vanities | Judge Leonard White | 1990-12-21 |
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Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
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The Earth Day Special | Walter Samson | 1990-04-22 |
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Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn | 1989-12-13 |
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Glory | Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins | 1989-12-15 |
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Lean On Me | Principal Joe Clark | 1989-03-03 |
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Johnny Handsome | Lt. A.Z. Drones | 1989-09-12 |
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Clinton and Nadine | Dorsey Pratt | 1988-05-04 |
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Clean and Sober | Craig | 1988-08-10 |
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Fight for Life | Dr. Sherard | 1987-03-23 |
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Street Smart | Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr. | 1987-03-20 |
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Resting Place | Luther Johnson | 1986-04-27 |
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That Was Then... This Is Now | Charlie Woods | 1985-11-08 |
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Marie: A True Story | Charles Traughber | 1985-09-27 |
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The Execution of Raymond Graham | Warden Pratt | 1985-11-17 |
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The Gospel at Colonus | Messenger | 1985-11-08 |
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Harry & Son | Siemanowski | 1984-03-02 |
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Teachers | Lewis | 1984-10-05 |
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Death of a Prophet | Malcolm X | 1981-01-01 |
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The Marva Collins Story | Clarence Collins | 1981-12-01 |
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Eyewitness | Lieutenant Black | 1981-02-13 |
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Attica | Hap Richards | 1980-03-02 |
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Brubaker | Walter | 1980-06-20 |
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Hollow Image | Sweet Talk | 1979-06-24 |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Uncle Hammer | 1978-06-02 |
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Energy Crisis | Self | 1974-04-05 |
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Out to Lunch | Self / Croupier | 1974-12-10 |
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Blade | Chris | 1973-12-01 |
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Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! | Afro | 1971-11-18 |
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Caught in the Middle | 1970-12-16 | |
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Grand Central Commuter (uncredited) | 1968-06-19 |
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Grand Central Commuter | 1968-06-19 |
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A Man Called Adam | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1966-03-16 |
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The Pawnbroker | Man on Street (Uncredited) | 1965-04-20 |
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Hate to See You Go | Sonny Bell | |
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Sniff | Joe Mulwray | |
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The Little Bedroom | ||
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CLINT | Narrator (voice) | |
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The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum | Narrator (voice) |
