Vondie Curtis-Hall

Vondie Curtis-Hall

1956-09-30 Detroit, Michigan, USA 57 Credits

Biography

Vondie Curtis-Hall (born September 30, 1956) is an American actor and film director. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Dr. Dennis Hancock on the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope created by David E. Kelley.

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Sheepdog

Sheepdog

2024

as Whitney St. Germain

7.0
Acting

A decorated combat Veteran is court ordered into treatment when an ex-convict shows up on his doorstep and reveals that he must put himself back toget...

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

2024

as Lester Maxberry

6.5
Acting

Three lifelong best friends known as “The Supremes” share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the jo...

Raymond & Ray

Raymond & Ray

2022

as Reverend West

6.3
Acting

Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they ...

18½

18½

2022

as Samuel

5.5
Acting

In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes...

Blue Bayou

Blue Bayou

2021

as Barry Boucher

7.5
Acting

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discove...

The Night House

The Night House

2021

as Mel

6.6
Acting

Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently de...

A Journey to Sundance

A Journey to Sundance

2021

as Self

Acting

'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all over the world, as well as my own struggles to fi...

Harriet

Harriet

2019

as Reverend Green

7.3
Acting

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and te...

Breaking Brooklyn

Breaking Brooklyn

2018

as Greg Bryant

7.8
Acting

A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old showman who takes them to live with his estranged fo...

Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story

Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story

2018

Director

8.4
Directing

On the day that Antoinette Tuff considered suicide, she realized that all of her challenges had prepared her for a purpose; to save an Atlanta school ...

Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart

Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart

2016

Director

6.1
Directing

The life story of R&B singer-songwriter and producer, Toni Braxton.

Experimenter

Experimenter

2015

as Thomas Shine

6.5
Acting

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering pain...

Cymbeline

Cymbeline

2014

as Caius Lucius

3.9
Acting

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.

Black Nativity

Black Nativity

2013

as Pawnbroker

5.0
Acting

A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged re...

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

2012

Director

7.7
Directing

A baby abducted at birth and raised by the woman who took her, eventually discovers she is a missing child, reconnects with her birth parents, and str...

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

2009

as Captain James Brasser

6.2
Acting

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to hi...

Life Is Hot in Cracktown

Life Is Hot in Cracktown

2009

as Dixon

6.0
Acting

Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".

Honeydripper

Honeydripper

2007

as Slick

5.8
Acting

In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric gui...

Talk to Me

Talk to Me

2007

as Sunny Jim Kelsey

6.9
Acting

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s...

Waist Deep

Waist Deep

2006

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.

Deceit

Deceit

2004

as Detective Hal Kazin

3.7
Acting

Ellen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to her is a liar - especially Ellen's missing spouse. Was t...

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

2004

Director

6.0
Directing

Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term...

Wicked Spring

Wicked Spring

2002

as Augustus Elliot

7.1
Acting

During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the r...

Glitter

Glitter

2001

Director

4.3
Directing

A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.

Turn It Up

Turn It Up

2000

as Cliff

4.7
Acting

Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying ...

Freedom Song

Freedom Song

2000

as Daniel Wall

5.5
Acting

Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle ...

Sirens

Sirens

1999

as Vincent Morgan

8.0
Acting

Who can you turn to when protectors become predators? Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, and Brian Dennehy star in this moving, suspenseful drama about one...

Don King: Only in America

Don King: Only in America

1997

as Lloyd Price

6.5
Acting

A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou

1997

as Julian Grayraven

6.3
Acting

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve...

Gridlock'd

Gridlock'd

1997

as D-Reper

6.7
Acting

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha...

Gridlock'd

Gridlock'd

1997

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha...

Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet

1996

as Captain Prince

6.8
Acting

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the...

Dr. Hugo

Dr. Hugo

1996

as Dr. Hugo

4.0
Acting

Dr. Hugo (Vondie Curtis-Hall) makes house calls, and makes all the young ladies swoon as they see him passing by. If he's not careful, he could find h...

Heaven's Prisoners

Heaven's Prisoners

1996

as Minos P. Dautrieve

5.2
Acting

A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash d...

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

1996

as Lt. Colonel Sam Rhodes

6.1
Acting

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warhea...

Zooman

Zooman

1995

as Davis

6.0
Acting

Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer's name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though doze...

Tuesday Morning Ride

Tuesday Morning Ride

1995

as Carver

6.3
Acting

Tuesday Morning Ride is based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance writer. Set in the 1930s, the story depicts...

Drop Squad

Drop Squad

1994

as Rocky Seavers

2.8
Acting

Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spi...

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

1994

as Voice-Print Analyst

6.7
Acting

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Crooklyn

Crooklyn

1994

as Uncle Brown

6.8
Acting

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in...

Dead Man's Revenge

Dead Man's Revenge

1994

as Jessup Bush

5.0
Acting

Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge i...

Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill

1994

as Mark Doby

5.6
Acting

In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girl...

Keys

Keys

1994

as Louche Amarant

3.7
Acting

A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.

There Was a Little Boy

There Was a Little Boy

1993

as Danforth

6.5
Acting

Julie and Gregg are about to become parents again, but they feel conflicted since their first child was kidnapped and never seen again. But the couple...

Falling Down

Falling Down

1993

as Not Economically Viable Man

7.4
Acting

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Passion Fish

Passion Fish

1992

as Sugar LeDoux

6.9
Acting

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nur...

What She Doesn't Know

What She Doesn't Know

1992

as Vinnie

7.0
Acting

An idealistic law school graduate comes to work in the New York D.A.'s office. Her first case leads her straight to her father, a veteran New York cop...

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

1992

as C. Yernon Mason

5.6
Acting

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academ...

In a Stranger's Hand

In a Stranger's Hand

1991

as Det. Gary Hopkins

5.8
Acting

Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway.

One Good Cop

One Good Cop

1991

as Father Wills

5.7
Acting

When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of th...

Healing Hurts

1991

Acting
Heat Wave

Heat Wave

1990

as Clifford Turpin

6.2
Acting

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Die Hard 2

Die Hard 2

1990

as Miller

7.0
Acting

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...

Black Rain

Black Rain

1989

as Detective

6.6
Acting

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to es...

Mystery Train

Mystery Train

1989

as Ed

7.3
Acting

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a yo...

Coming to America

Coming to America

1988

as Basketball Game Vendor

6.9
Acting

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...

Shakedown

Shakedown

1988

as Speaker

5.8
Acting

When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investiga...