Biography
Obba Babatundé (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor of stage and screen, known for his Emmy-nominated performance in the television movie Miss Evers' Boys, a NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in the TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and a Tony Award-nominated role for his performance as C.C. White in the original cast of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Babatundé was a protege of Sammy Davis, Jr., who said of him, "This is the only cat who can do everything I can do." B...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Wrong Place, Wrong Time
2025
as Captain Green
After a cop’s daughter witnesses a brutal murder, she teams up with an unlikely ally to unravel the mystery before becoming the killer’s next target.

Noble Intentions
2023
as Pastor Stevens
A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does no...

Noble Intentions
2023
Writers' Assistant
A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does no...

The Millennial
2022
as Mr. Burke
A young privileged African American millennial recently receives his master' degree from a prestigious university and sets out to pursue a career in h...

Trigger
2020
as Chief Keaton
Collin escaped the hood and found his wife and fortune. His brother Trey is paroled from a murder charge and comes to stay with him. After a disastrou...

Revival!
2019
as Nicodemus
A unique visual and musical experience based on the Gospel of John. Originally a Passion play, it freely blends elements of stage and cinema, creating...

Jingle Belle
2018
as Charles Williams
Every year, Isabelle (Tatyana Ali) and her high school sweetheart Mike (Cornelius Smith Jr.), rocked their small town’s annual Christmas Eve Pageant w...

Kinky
2018
as Mr. Bernard
A talented African-American surgeon enters into a torrid relationship with a wealthy entrepreneur.

City of Lies
2018
as Chief of Police
Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case -- the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupa...

'Til Death Do Us Part
2017
as John Harris
Michael and Madison Roland planned to spend the rest of their lives together, but Michael's controlling ways turn their perfect marriage into an abusi...

Pup Star: Better 2Gether
2017
as Big Ears (voice)
Pup Star is back for an all-new adventure! After winning the canine competition show Pup Star and becoming an international pup sensation, Tiny, the a...

The Watcher
2016
as Stark
Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clear that they may not be alone in the house... and t...

Pup Star
2016
as Big Ears (voice)
A Yorkshire Terrier, competing in a televised singing competition, is separated from her owner by an opportunist dog pound worker.

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
2015
as Jonathan Black
When a professor of religious studies is forced to investigate why his students are being murdered, he discovers what ended his own life and is then r...

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
2015
Executive Producer
When a professor of religious studies is forced to investigate why his students are being murdered, he discovers what ended his own life and is then r...

Death's Door
2015
as Mesmer
It all begins with an anonymous text message with a party invitation. A dozen young men and women gather, eat, drink, party, and have the time of thei...

American Bad Boy
2015
as Pastor Lovely
Samuel's dream of buying a recording studio, making a hit record, and becoming a famous hip-hop artist has hit a snag. The money he borrowed to make i...

American Bad Boy
2015
Director
Samuel's dream of buying a recording studio, making a hit record, and becoming a famous hip-hop artist has hit a snag. The money he borrowed to make i...

Lap Dance
2014
as Roscoe
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple ma...

Dolls of Voodoo
2013
as Iklif
Two worlds collide when a successful Haitian American attorney marries the love of his life only to have his past haunt him when the father of a forme...

Angels Around Me
2013
Additional Writing
(Long Synopsis) "Crime boss Big D rules the streets of Boston with an iron fist and a legion of henchmen. When it comes to business, anyone who crosse...

Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
2012
as Mayor Denny
When Mrs. Claus travels to Pineville, the merriest place on the planet, a quartet of magical puppies stow away on her sled, granting joyful wishes to ...

The Last Fall
2012
as Larry Armstrong
An NFL journeyman struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over.

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
2012
as Vampire Actor #4 (voice)
Scooby and the gang have their first musical mystery in “Scooby Doo: Music of the Vampire.” It begins when they take a sing-a-long road trip into bayo...

Joy Road
2011
as Dr. Howard Perkins
Tony Smalls is a burned out lawyer looking for a new direction in life. He's forced to put his plans on hold when his sister Nia asks him to defend he...

The Trap Door
2011
as Mesmer
An anonymous message is sent to the cell phones of a dozen young men and women. The message is an invitation to attend one killer of a party. No one c...

Trapped: Haitian Nights
2011
as Ikliff
When Nadine Lazard (Kenya Moore), wife of Richard Lazard (Rudulph Moise), comes up missing, the focus immediately turns on her husband, a prominent Ha...

All Star Superman
2011
as Judge / Bibliobot (voice)
Lex Luthor enacts his plan to rid the world of Superman, once and for all. Succeeding with solar radiation poisoning, the Man of Steel is slowly dying...

Black Dynamite
2009
as Osiris
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded...

Why Am I Doing This?
2009
as Cliff
Lester is trying be the next Louis CK… except everyone wants him to be Chris Rock. Tony is trying to be the next Tom Hanks… except everyone wants him...

I Do... I Did!
2009
as Mr. Johnson
Marcus finds himself in love and married to not one woman, but two.

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
as Self
The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

The Eye
2008
as Dr. Haskins
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while re...

April Fools
2007
as Detective Combs
A year ago, DeAnna a young hottie, seduces Melvin the class nerd, only to set him up for a cruel April Fools' joke that inadvertently ended in murder....

Cover
2007
as Attorney Miller
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that h...

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary
2007
as TV Anchor Man
A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
as Narrator
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...

Material Girls
2006
as Craig
Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them ...

The Celestine Prophecy
2006
as Miguel
A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a w...

Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!
2004
as Chief Ankamuti (voice)
Kangaroo Jack is back but this time he's animated! Three Teenagers go to the Outback, and find themselves back in Vegas - trying to get Jack home!

After the Sunset
2004
as Zacharias
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - or may not - be the biggest score of their careers...

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Senator Wells
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

The Notebook
2004
as Band Leader
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life ...

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
as Self
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and hi...

Oscar's Black Odyssey: From Hattie to Halle
2003
Director
Between 1939 and 2002, Black actors and Actresses received a combined total of 30 Academy Award nominations - only a handful made the odyssey to the p...

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003
as Host
Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame racism and...

John Q
2002
as Sgt. Moody
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because ...

Redeemer
2002
as Charles Henderson
When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Ch...

How High
2001
as Dean Carl Cain
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance ...

One Special Moment
2001
An action adventure film star becomes smitten with an idealistic high school teacher when he agrees to participate in a business deal involving the te...
The Visit
2001
as Tony
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.

The Apartment Complex
1999
as Chett
A psychology graduate student becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after he takes a job as manager of Wonder View Apartments.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
as Harold Nicholas
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Ye...

Life
1999
as Willie Long
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Miss Evers' Boys
1997
as Willie Johnson
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure...

The Cherokee Kid
1996
as Isom Dart
Isaih Turner didn’t want to be a hero-all he wanted was revenge. Orphaned when both his parents were cruelly murdered by the wealthy and powerful Cyru...

That Thing You Do!
1996
as Lamarr
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.

The Tomorrow Man
1996
as Brian Parish
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a g...

Carpool
1996
as Jeffery
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick...

Multiplicity
1996
as Paul
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves ...

Soul of the Game
1996
as Cum Posey
In 1945, the world of baseball is divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time has come for change. One team will be the first to s...

The Net
1995
as FBI Agent
Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'su...

Born to Be Wild
1995
as Interpreter
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage ...

Fatal Pursuit
1995
as Trinidad
A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery

M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994
as Cornell
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N....

Philadelphia
1993
as Jerome Green
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes...

Necronomicon
1993
as Paul
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of ...

Undercover Blues
1993
as Sawyer
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...

The Importance of Being Earnest
1992
as Lane
An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.

The Silence of the Lambs
1991
as TV Anchor Man
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatri...

Miami Blues
1990
as Blink Willie
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds S...

Married to the Mob
1988
as The Face of Justice
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...

God Bless the Child
1988
as Raymond Watkins
Single mother, Theresa Johnson, becomes homeless, loses her job and tries to survive with her young daughter, Hillary, through charities and public sh...

Leonard Part 6
1987
as Bongo Drummer
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his da...

Treemonisha
1982
as Zodzetrick
A 1982 production of Scott Joplin's American Opera TREEMONISHA preformed at the Houston Grand Opera. The plot centers on 18-year-old Treemonisha, daug...

Baryshnikov on Broadway
1980
as Dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov and his guests perform numbers from over a dozen renowned Broadway musicals including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Can-Can, The...

An Evening with Liza Minnelli
1980
as Himself
Liza Minnelli in concert at the New Orleans Theatre of the Performing Arts. This show was a combination of the two performances Minnelli did on Novemb...
Start Without Me
N/A
as Leo
Adam, a newly sober former musician, and Marissa, a flight attendant whose marriage is in crisis, wind up on an epic Thanksgiving Day road trip, as th...
People Not Places
N/A
An elderly widow living in Atlantic City meets an erratic homeless man who sleeps in cars. Their shared loneliness causes them to bond, as they find t...

Children of the Dead (Concept Trailer)
N/A
When zero hour strikes, three kids are caught up in the mayhem of a violent outbreak as they escape from school and try to reunite with their parents.

Run
N/A
When Melissa leaves her fiancé Andre at the alter, her best friends convince her to go to a Cabin in the woods on a much needed “Girls Trip” to get he...

Mississippi Scholar
N/A
as Reginald
MISSISSIPPI SCHOLAR reveals the impediments one underprivileged intellectual must overcome to realize his dreams of the future.

Mississippi Scholar
N/A
Writer
MISSISSIPPI SCHOLAR reveals the impediments one underprivileged intellectual must overcome to realize his dreams of the future.