Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barry Shabaka Henley (born Barry Joseph Henley; September 15, 1954) is an American character actor. Henley is a fixture in many films, most often the films of director Michael Mann, having worked with the director four times. Henley played Herbert Muhammad in Ali. In Collateral he made an impression as a sensitive jazz musician living on borrowed time. He also starred in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. In Miami Vice, Henley succeeded Edward James Olmos a...
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Complete Filmography

Due Season
2022
as Uncle Ken
After being accepted into the conservatory of her dreams, Vicky Waters must win a competition to stay, but to do so she'll need a secret weapon: Gospe...

100 Years From Mississippi
2021
as voiceover poetry
Mamie Lang Kirkland still remembers the night in 1915 when panic filled her home in Ellisville, Mississippi. Her family was forced to flee in darkness...

100 Years From Mississippi
2021
Associate Producer
Mamie Lang Kirkland still remembers the night in 1915 when panic filled her home in Ellisville, Mississippi. Her family was forced to flee in darkness...

Dolemite Is My Name
2019
as Demond
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.

American Nightmares
2018
as Bishop Love
Two voyeuristic nerds are hacking the devices of people as they themselves are hacked by the feed from story tellers Mister Malevolent and Mystic Woma...

Miscreant
2018
as Detective Lambert
A young law school student explains to detectives just how he came to be found in a house with three dead bodies.

A Star Is Born
2018
as Little Feet
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big a...

Office Uprising
2018
as Clarence
The compound of an arms manufacturer turns into a zombie nightmare when its workers are given the wrong formula.

Lucky
2017
as Joe
Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of ...

Chasing Titles Vol. 1
2017
as Luke Parker
Father, Joe can't get it together to provide for his family. Desperate for money, he runs a side hustle while working for an express mail company. His...

Mad Families
2017
as Pops
Three families compete for a camping spot during a busy Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Paterson
2016
as Doc
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famo...

White Water
2015
as Rev. Stokes
White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from th...

Water & Power
2014
as Preacher Broyard
Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political and...

Carrie
2013
as Principal Henry Morton
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

Remember Sunday
2013
as Baptiste
A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly g...

Stolen
2012
as Reginald
Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in...

The Big Year
2011
as Dr. Neil Kramer
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare b...

The Dry Land
2010
as Colonel Stephen Evans
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.

Streets of Blood
2009
as Captain Friendly
A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows...

State of Play
2009
as Gene Stavitz
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Horsemen
2009
as Tuck
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing...

Miami Vice
2006
as Lt. Martin Castillo
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox C...

Shackles
2005
as Virgil
An aspiring teacher (Hughley) takes the one job he's offered, a position at a school inside a prison.

Four Brothers
2005
as Councilman Douglas
Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

Lackawanna Blues
2005
as Shakey Winfield
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he liv...

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004
as Self
This documentary chronicles the making of the film Collateral (2004). We get to see Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx training for their roles, as well as Jad...

Collateral
2004
as Daniel Baker
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

The Terminal
2004
as Thurman
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Pavement
2002
as Lieutenant Marks
Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, ...

Ali
2001
as Herbert Muhammad
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an enti...

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

Patch Adams
1998
as Emmet
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his pa...

Rush Hour
1998
as Bobby
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Dete...

How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
as Buddy
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really li...

Bulworth
1998
as Man at Frankie's
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti...

Fallen
1998
as Uniformed Cop
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are v...

Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
as Woodcutter
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a my...

Lord of Illusions
1995
as Dr. Toffler
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of...

Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995
as Dravec
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren'...

The Scout
1994
as McDermott
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potent...

Fear of a Black Hat
1994
as Geoffrey Lennox
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button i...

The Thing Called Love
1993
as Reverend Raymond
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.

What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
as El Paso Doctor
Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

Till Death Us Do Part
1992
as Judge Barton
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Ch...

Origami
N/A
In a post apocalyptic world, two survivors make an epic journey where staying alive is only the beginning.