Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harold Joseph Lennix III (born November 16, 1964) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Terrence "Dresser" Williams in the Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats (1991) and as Boyd Langton in the science-fiction series Dollhouse. Lennix co-starred as Harold Cooper, assistant director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division, on the NBC drama The Blacklist. Lennix also played J'onn J'onzz/Calvin Swanwick/Martian Manhunter in the DC Extended Unive...
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Complete Filmography

Isla Monstro
2024
as General Dregg (voice)
When loser Duke, who has screwed up every hair-brained scheme he's ever come up with, accidentally falls off a cruise ship and wakes up on a mysteriou...

Nothing Is Impossible
2022
as Russell Banks
When an NBA team suddenly announces open tryouts, a high school janitor gets a second chance at both love and life.

Curse of the Macbeths
2022
as Banquo
In their unrelenting quest for power, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth engage in murder and mayhem to attain the Crown and keep it, in this modern-day version...

Winter Ball
2022
as Eddie
A minor league pitcher is about to get called up to the big leagues - or so he thinks. Instead, he's sent to the Dominican Republic to play Winter Bal...

Super Turnt
2022
as Mr. Denver
Libaraiers "Rilla" Stanford, has just been released from prison and finds that his immediate world has changed, knowing that the dangers of the street...

Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
2022
A documentary exploring the life, career, art and legacy of Marian Anderson.

A Christmas Together With You
2021
as Frank
During the Christmas season, Megan and her father-figure Frank head out on a road trip to find his long-lost love. Along the way, Megan finds the love...

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as General Calvin Swanwick / Martian Manhunter
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...

Lazaretto
2020
as Sufyan
A terrible disease has swept the nation. Amidst riots, food shortages and growing unrest, the government forcibly locked up 35% of the population, cit...

Emperor
2020
as Frederick Douglas
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

Rehabilitation of the Hill
2020
as Davidson Livingston
Rehabilitation of the Hill follows two quirky, headstrong women from opposing backgrounds as they battle over their vision for an urban neighborhood i...

Revival!
2019
as Pilate
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...

Revival!
2019
Writer
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...

Canal Street
2019
as DJ Terrence Palmer
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.

That's Harassment
2018
as Politician
This film is a series of six short films that depicts six different cases of sexual harassment in the workplace, all based on real events.

Romeo and Juliet in Harlem
2017
as Capulet
The first Shakespeare feature film adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" with a complete cast of color that stays true to the language and storyline.

Needlestick
2017
as Ray LeGro
A desperate doctor locks down South Union Cardiac Hospital to keep the greatest discovery in human history to himself, while a young intern races to s...

Timeless
2016
as Johnson
Time travel comedy with an international cast: In 1932, Arnold disappears and suddenly finds himself in 2020. After many hilarious encounters he meets...
Macbeth Unhinged
2016
as Banquo
This is a modern interpretation of the bard's tragedy, set in the claustrophobic confines of a stretch limousine which prowls the streets of a contemp...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Swanwick
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...

Alternate Universe: A Rescue Mission
2016
as Principal Sheehan
Three teens realize their science project is the key to finding their missing parents, in another world.

Chi-Raq
2015
as Commissioner Blades
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

The Algerian
2015
as Suleyman
The Algerian is an international political thriller about the colliding worlds of the Middle East and America. It follows Ali (Ben Youcef) across the ...

Back to School Mom
2015
as Lawrence Riley
Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish ...

72 Hours
2015
as God
The story revolves around Chef Cleavon 'Von' Burkett, a former ladies' man who was living the good life with a beautiful wife until one day he wasn't....

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
2015
as Black Manta (voice)
After the events of Justice League: War, Ocean Master and Black Manta have declared a war against the surface in retaliation of the aftermath of Apoko...
The Fright Night Files
2014
as Ronald
Three stories told by a lady fortune teller.

Stand Down Soldier
2014
as Officer Freeman
After Sergeant Stacy Armstrong returns from three deployments with PTSD, Jesse and Stacy are determined to save their twenty-year marriage from being ...

Cru
2014
as Diego Glass
A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their...

H4
2014
as King Henry IV
H4 translates Shakespeare's Henry IV plays to contemporary Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the community. By killing a popular black lea...

Cruel Will
2013
as Dr. Frances
Tragedy strikes married couple Paul and Lily, when Lily's father dies. Lily has her father cremated, brings the urn home and now Paul has to come to t...

Troubled Waters
2013
as Ron Waters
The story of a comedian, Ron Waters, who is a Richard Pryor-type of entertainer who makes commentary about the world rather than one-liners. After a s...

They Die by Dawn
2013
as Sheriff Bass Reeves
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhe...

Sunny and RayRay
2013
as Lenotti
After losing contact with, and the financial support of, her sexually abusive father, Sunny begins to unravel just as she meets a man with whom she be...

Evidence
2013
as Ben
Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas stati...

Man of Steel
2013
as General Calvin Swanwick
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w...

A Beautiful Soul
2012
as Jeff Freeze
An R&B singer snagged by the trappings of superstardom loses his way and turns his back on his church and faith-filled beginnings. Tragedy strikes...

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

Hound Dogs
2011
as Skip
Drawing from Ron Shelton's own experiences as a baseball player, Hound Dogs is set in the world of minor league baseball. It centers on minor league t...

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

Across the Universe
2007
as Army Sergeant
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shapi...

Resurrecting the Champ
2007
as Bob Satterfield Jr.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. Wha...

Stomp the Yard
2007
as Nate
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the hist...

Ray
2004
as Joe Adams
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make h...

Suspect Zero
2004
as Rich Charleton
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

Chrystal
2004
as Kalid
Many years after a devastating accident that took the life of his only son and permanently injured his wife, Joe finally comes home and tries to redee...

Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004
as Quentin Leroux
The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business...

The Matrix Revolutions
2003
as Commander Lock
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing t...

The Human Stain
2003
as Mr. Silk
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about ...

The Matrix Reloaded
2003
as Commander Lock
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from...

Black Listed
2003
as Karl Bennett
Alan Chambers (Townsend) is a lawyer and sick of his job. He corrals his friends into forming a vigilante group. Everyone goes along with it at first,...

Don't Explain
2003
as Lee
A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle. A cacophony of textures, layers and surfaces moving in unison and discord yearning for an ...

Pumpkin
2002
as Robert Meary (Poetry teacher)
Carolyn's sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenged athletes is their ticket to the trophy. But when...

Keep the Faith, Baby
2002
as Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Harry J. Lennix stars as trailblazing and controversial African-American congressman and Civil Rights activist Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who started ou...

Collateral Damage
2002
as FBI Agent Dray
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing cr...

Home Invaders
2001
A seemingly foolproof plan to scam gas station customers backfires when a small-time crook crosses two criminals, who promptly force him into service....

Love & Basketball
2000
as Nathan Wright
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in ...

Titus
1999
as Aaron
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

The Unspoken
1999
as Reverend Bob
Jean, a small-town child preacher grows up in an institution without speaking. When involuntarily released, he ends up in an abandoned motel where he ...

Chicago Cab
1998
as Pissed-Off Boyfriend
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of...

Since You've Been Gone
1998
as Jordan Cardozo
The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being badly beaten up b...

Too Close to Home
1997
as Prosecuting Attorney
A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wif...

Friends 'Til The End
1997
as Prof. Gunderson
Heather and Suzanne were childhood friends, both singers, who have always been competing against each other. The insecure Suzanne, who usually lost al...

Get on the Bus
1996
as Randall
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of character...

Clockers
1995
as Bill Walker
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bu...

Nothing But the Truth
1995
as Det. Vernon Jones
A polygraph examiner has an affair with a murder suspect after her test clears him, but new evidence then suggests that he's guilty after all.

Comfortably Numb
1995
as Hamlin Day
A clean-cut young lawyer meets a beautiful prostitute who drags him into a decadent dead-end world of sex and corruption.

Vanishing Son IV
1994
as Andre Laine
After the death of his brother Wago, Jian-Wa Chang now roams America's countryside while looking for his place in the world. He is hit by a van of two...

Vanishing Son II
1994
as Andre Laine
The continuing saga of the Chang brothers: Jian-Wa and Wago. Picking up where it left off, Jian-Wa has left L.A. after a gang fight that involved Wago...

Guarding Tess
1994
as Kenny Young
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close p...

Bob Roberts
1992
as Franklin Dockett
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...

Mo' Money
1992
as Tom Dilton
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards...

In the Best Interest of the Children
1992
as Tim Coffey
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.

Victimless Crimes
1991
as Baker
A pair of art thieves steal a painting, believing that no one will get hurt. The gallery owner gets his insurance money and the thieves have been paid...

The Five Heartbeats
1991
as Dresser
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky ...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990
as Prosecutor Keith Warner
A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989
as Nero
The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despi...

The Package
1989
as Johnny's Field Soldier
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gal...
Eyes in the Trees
N/A
as Dr. Murphy
A video journalist and his film crew embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for no...
Godless
N/A
as Bishop
After signing a progressive bill into law, a Catholic governor with hopes of the presidency is excommunicated by the church