Biography
Eriq La Salle (born July 23, 1962) is an American actor and director, known for Coming to America and ER.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Second Chance at Love
2022
as Jack Roberts
The film centers around Alicia and Arnold’s picture-perfect marriage, but underneath the surface, there is something amiss. Arnold is ready to grow th...

Logan
2017
as Will Munson
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and ...

Notes from Dad
2013
Director
Trumpet player Roy Allen starts anew as a music teacher in a school full of kids with little exposure to music. Roy connects with a talented virtuoso ...

Blackout sur Los Angeles
2012
as George
After being charged with hacking into the Pentagon security system, computer-whiz Josh Martin is kidnapped during house arrest and delivered to a shad...

MegaFault
2009
as Charley 'Boomer' Baxter
When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North A...

Relative Stranger
2009
as Walter Clemons
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War documents the work Martin Luther King did in attempting to bring peace to people during the turmoil of the Vietnam...

Johnny Was
2006
as Julius
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison...

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
as Self - Presenter
A one-hour, commercial-free benefit concert television special that aired simulcast worldwide on September 9, 2005, at 8 pm ET/CT live.

Inside Out
2005
as Doctor Peoples
Families in an idyllic suburban neighborhood are taunted by a mysterious doctor who moves in to town and spins a web of psychological chaos that chang...

Biker Boyz
2003
as Tariq "Slick Will" (uncredited)
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle clu...

Crazy As Hell
2002
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All ...

Crazy As Hell
2002
Director, Producer
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All ...

One Hour Photo
2002
as Det. James Van Der Zee
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy...

The Salton Sea
2002
Producer
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriend...

Ultimate Jordan
2001
as Narrator
Marking 20 years since Michael Jordan's celebrated arrival in the NBA, this truly historic 3-disc Collector's Edition chronicles the amazing career of...

Mind Prey
1999
as Lucas Davenport
A mentally deranged man takes his former psychiatrist and her two children hostage in revenge for the torment he feels he suffered while being incarce...

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
as Diego
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison...

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
Director
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison...

Michael Jordan: Above and Beyond
1996
as Narrator
"Michael Jordan Above and Beyond" provides a much-needed look at Michael Jordan's fantastic return from retirement in 1995. The first 20 minutes or so...

Drop Squad
1994
as Bruford Jamison Jr
Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spi...

Color of Night
1994
as Anderson
A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense a...

Empty Cradle
1993
as Detective Knoll
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However f...

Murder in Oakland
1991
as Eric
Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new additions...
Eyes of a Witness
1991
as Mchumbo
Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are slaughtering prote...

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1990
as Jack Spade
After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.

Jacob's Ladder
1990
as Frank
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rap...

When We Were Young
1989
as Virgil Hawkins
A group of young people in 1959 get ready to set out on their journey to adulthood.

Magic Moments
1989
as Dancing Guy (uncredited)
A successful magician is approached to do a TV special, which he has not done before. He and the beautiful producer of the show fall in love with each...

Coming to America
1988
as Darryl Jenks
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise...

What Price Victory
1988
as Trumayne James
What Price Victory is about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on two star high school athletes.

Five Corners
1987
as Samuel Kemp
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who pr...

Where Are the Children?
1986
as Deputy Bernie Miles
In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief ...

Teen Father
1986
as Charlie
College bound 18-year-old has his life turned upside down when his 16-year-old girlfriend announce she is pregnant.

Out of the Darkness
1985
as Bobby
A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked Ne...

Cut and Run
1985
as Fargas
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massa...

Rappin'
1985
as Ice
An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.