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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sheepdog
2024
as Whitney St. Germain
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
2024
as Lester Maxberry
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
2022
as Reverend West
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
2022
as Samuel
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
2021
as Barry Boucher
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
2021
as Mel
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
2021
as Self
'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
2019
as Reverend Green
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
2018
as Greg Bryant
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
2018
Director
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
2016
Director
The life story of R&B singer-songwriter and producer, Toni Braxton.

Experimenter
2015
as Thomas Shine
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering pain...

Cymbeline
2014
as Caius Lucius
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.

Black Nativity
2013
as Pawnbroker
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
2012
Director
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
2009
as Captain James Brasser
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
2009
as Dixon
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".

Honeydripper
2007
as Slick
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
2007
as Sunny Jim Kelsey
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
2006
Director, Writer
An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.

Deceit
2004
as Detective Hal Kazin
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
2004
Director
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
2002
as Augustus Elliot
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
2001
Director
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.

Turn It Up
2000
as Cliff
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
2000
as Daniel Wall
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
1999
as Vincent Morgan
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
1997
as Lloyd Price
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.

Eve's Bayou
1997
as Julian Grayraven
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
1997
as D-Reper
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
1997
Director, Screenplay
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
1996
as Captain Prince
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
1996
as Dr. Hugo
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
1996
as Minos P. Dautrieve
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
1996
as Lt. Colonel Sam Rhodes
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
1995
as Davis
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
1995
as Carver
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
1994
as Rocky Seavers
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
1994
as Voice-Print Analyst
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Crooklyn
1994
as Uncle Brown
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
1994
as Jessup Bush
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
1994
as Mark Doby
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
1994
as Louche Amarant
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.

There Was a Little Boy
1993
as Danforth
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
1993
as Not Economically Viable Man
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Passion Fish
1992
as Sugar LeDoux
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
1992
as Vinnie
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
1992
as C. Yernon Mason
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
1991
as Det. Gary Hopkins
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
1991
as Father Wills
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

Heat Wave
1990
as Clifford Turpin
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Die Hard 2
1990
as Miller
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
1989
as Detective
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
1989
as Ed
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
1988
as Basketball Game Vendor
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
1988
as Speaker
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...