Obba Babatundé

Obba Babatundé

1951-12-01 Queens, New York City, New York, USA 83 Credits

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...

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

2025

as Captain Green

Acting

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

Noble Intentions

2023

as Pastor Stevens

5.7
Acting

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

Noble Intentions

2023

Writers' Assistant

5.7
Writing

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

The Millennial

2022

as Mr. Burke

5.5
Acting

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

Trigger

2020

as Chief Keaton

5.5
Acting

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!

Revival!

2019

as Nicodemus

Acting

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

Jingle Belle

2018

as Charles Williams

5.9
Acting

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

Kinky

2018

as Mr. Bernard

6.5
Acting

A talented African-American surgeon enters into a torrid relationship with a wealthy entrepreneur.

City of Lies

City of Lies

2018

as Chief of Police

6.4
Acting

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

'Til Death Do Us Part

2017

as John Harris

5.9
Acting

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

Pup Star: Better 2Gether

2017

as Big Ears (voice)

6.2
Acting

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

The Watcher

2016

as Stark

5.3
Acting

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

Pup Star

2016

as Big Ears (voice)

5.2
Acting

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

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

2015

as Jonathan Black

Acting

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

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

2015

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Death's Door

2015

as Mesmer

3.9
Acting

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

American Bad Boy

2015

as Pastor Lovely

2.5
Acting

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

American Bad Boy

2015

Director

2.5
Directing

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

Lap Dance

2014

as Roscoe

4.4
Acting

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

Dolls of Voodoo

2013

as Iklif

1.5
Acting

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

Angels Around Me

2013

Additional Writing

1.0

(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

Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups

2012

as Mayor Denny

6.1
Acting

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

The Last Fall

2012

as Larry Armstrong

5.8
Acting

An NFL journeyman struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over.

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

2012

as Vampire Actor #4 (voice)

7.7
Acting

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

Joy Road

2011

as Dr. Howard Perkins

7.0
Acting

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

The Trap Door

2011

as Mesmer

2.0
Acting

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

Trapped: Haitian Nights

2011

as Ikliff

8.7
Acting

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

All Star Superman

2011

as Judge / Bibliobot (voice)

6.8
Acting

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

Black Dynamite

2009

as Osiris

7.1
Acting

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?

Why Am I Doing This?

2009

as Cliff

4.5
Acting

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!

I Do... I Did!

2009

as Mr. Johnson

2.8
Acting

Marcus finds himself in love and married to not one woman, but two.

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

2008

as Self

8.0
Acting

The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

The Eye

The Eye

2008

as Dr. Haskins

5.9
Acting

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

April Fools

2007

as Detective Combs

2.0
Acting

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

Cover

2007

as Attorney Miller

5.2
Acting

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

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary

2007

as TV Anchor Man

Acting

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

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

2007

as Narrator

8.5
Acting

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

Material Girls

2006

as Craig

5.3
Acting

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

The Celestine Prophecy

2006

as Miguel

5.1
Acting

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.!

Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!

2004

as Chief Ankamuti (voice)

4.1
Acting

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

After the Sunset

2004

as Zacharias

6.2
Acting

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

The Manchurian Candidate

2004

as Senator Wells

6.5
Acting

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

The Notebook

2004

as Band Leader

7.9
Acting

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

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004

as Self

4.0
Acting

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

Oscar's Black Odyssey: From Hattie to Halle

2003

Director

Directing

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

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

2003

as Host

7.5
Acting

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

John Q

John Q

2002

as Sgt. Moody

7.1
Acting

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

Redeemer

2002

as Charles Henderson

6.6
Acting

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

How High

2001

as Dean Carl Cain

6.3
Acting

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

One Special Moment

2001

Acting

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

7.6
Acting

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

The Apartment Complex

1999

as Chett

5.8
Acting

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

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999

as Harold Nicholas

6.5
Acting

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

Life

1999

as Willie Long

6.7
Acting

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

Miss Evers' Boys

1997

as Willie Johnson

6.3
Acting

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

The Cherokee Kid

1996

as Isom Dart

5.2
Acting

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!

That Thing You Do!

1996

as Lamarr

6.9
Acting

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

The Tomorrow Man

1996

as Brian Parish

4.6
Acting

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

Carpool

1996

as Jeffery

5.1
Acting

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

Multiplicity

1996

as Paul

5.8
Acting

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

Soul of the Game

1996

as Cum Posey

4.9
Acting

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

The Net

1995

as FBI Agent

6.0
Acting

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

Born to Be Wild

1995

as Interpreter

5.3
Acting

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

Fatal Pursuit

1995

as Trinidad

2.8
Acting

A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery

M.A.N.T.I.S.

M.A.N.T.I.S.

1994

as Cornell

4.5
Acting

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

Philadelphia

Philadelphia

1993

as Jerome Green

7.7
Acting

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

Necronomicon

Necronomicon

1993

as Paul

6.0
Acting

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

Undercover Blues

1993

as Sawyer

6.0
Acting

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

The Importance of Being Earnest

1992

as Lane

Acting

An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.

The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs

1991

as TV Anchor Man

8.3
Acting

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

Miami Blues

1990

as Blink Willie

6.0
Acting

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

Married to the Mob

1988

as The Face of Justice

6.0
Acting

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

God Bless the Child

1988

as Raymond Watkins

6.3
Acting

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

Leonard Part 6

1987

as Bongo Drummer

2.8
Acting

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

Treemonisha

1982

as Zodzetrick

Acting

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

Baryshnikov on Broadway

1980

as Dancer

7.0
Acting

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

An Evening with Liza Minnelli

1980

as Himself

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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)

Children of the Dead (Concept Trailer)

N/A

Acting

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

Run

N/A

Acting

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

Mississippi Scholar

N/A

as Reginald

Acting

MISSISSIPPI SCHOLAR reveals the impediments one underprivileged intellectual must overcome to realize his dreams of the future.

Mississippi Scholar

Mississippi Scholar

N/A

Writer

Writing

MISSISSIPPI SCHOLAR reveals the impediments one underprivileged intellectual must overcome to realize his dreams of the future.