Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 8, 1954
Place of Birth:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
Year | Movie | Role |
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2021 | tick, tick... BOOM! | "Sunday" Legend #1 |
2021 | Vacation Friends | Larry |
2019 | A Vigilante | Lawyer |
2019 | The Public's Much Ado About Nothing | Leonato |
2015 | Act One: Live from Lincoln Center | Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes |
2014 | Romeo and Juliet | Lord Capulet |
2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Chauncey Eskridge |
2007 | Noise | Judge Gibson |
2007 | American Gangster | Private Doctor |
2007 | Evening | Ray |
2007 | Chapter 27 | Cabbie |
2006 | A Crime | Will |
2006 | Find Me Guilty | James Washington |
2004 | Downtown: A Street Tale | Sergeant Williams |
2000 | The Opportunists | Arnon Morris |
2000 | Our Song | Benjamin |
1999 | The Hurricane | Earl Martin |
1999 | Gloria | Male Guard |
1997 | The Peacemaker | NYPD Cop |
1996 | The Juror | Stockbroker |
1994 | North | Umpire |
1992 | Malcolm X | Customer |
1990 | Criminal Justice | Judge Whitney |
1987 | Action Family | Cop |
Road Show | Papa Mizner | |
After All |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2023 | Poker Face | Deuteronomy |
2022 | The First Lady | Martin Luther King Sr. |
2020 | Power Book II: Ghost | Reverend Macedon |
2020 | Little Voice | Percy |
2018 | New Amsterdam | Leon Hargrow |
2018 | God Friended Me | Larry |
2017 | The Blacklist: Redemption | General Phillips |
2016 | Bull | Judge Elmendorf |
2014 | Madam Secretary | General Mitch Sarno, Commandant of National War College |
2013 | House of Cards | Barney Hull |
2009 | White Collar | Parole Officer |
2009 | The Good Wife | Gerard Gallo |
2007 | Gossip Girl | Horace Rogers |
2002 | Hack | Hayden |
2002 | Without a Trace | Barry's Ex-Boss |
2001 | 100 Centre Street | Charlie the Bridgeman |
1999 | Strangers with Candy | Sack Race Referee |
1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Mr. Tassler |
1999 | Third Watch | Lieutenant Kyle |
1994 | New York Undercover | Sawyer |
1993 | NYPD Blue | Bus Driver |
1990 | Law & Order | Walters' Attorney |
1990 | Law & Order | Art Samuels |
1990 | Law & Order | Lester Poole |
1990 | Law & Order | Rolando August |
1990 | Law & Order | Drew MacDaniel |