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Complete Filmography
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003
as Uncle Buddy
Director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, To Sleep with Anger) presents a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in...
Two Days
2003
as The Principal
Paul Miller has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going ...
The Confidence Man
2001
as Lee
Policeman Stevie Grimes never lost his trust in the police force but has been suspended a few months for accidentally shooting and killing a young boy...
The Annihilation of Fish
1999
as New York City Minister
A Jamaican widower recently released from a mental institution and a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giac...
The Glass Shield
1994
as Reverend Banks
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s...
Quick
1993
as Jerome
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her ho...
The Meteor Man
1993
as Officer Patterson
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the informatio...
To Kill For
1992
as Captain Merithew
A homicide detective (Michael Madsen) falls for a resort owner (Laura Johnson) suspected of slaying a playboy developer.
Delusion
1991
as Cop
In this fast-paced, noirish road movie, a computer expert embezzles half a million dollars and races off to Reno to start anew. Unfortunately, en rout...
The Five Heartbeats
1991
as Pastor Blake
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 ...
Daughters of the Dust
1991
as Mr. Snead
In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.
She's Gotta Have It
1986
as Jamie Overstreet
The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three...
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
1983
as Nicholas Lovejoy
Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a tra...
Death of a Prophet
1981
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in....