Credits

• 2003 · Sounder as The Teacher
• 2002 · Second to Die as Detective Grady
• 2001 · Crossing Jordan as Phillip Sanders
• 2001 · Vegas, City of Dreams as Edgar Jones
• 2000 · Knockout as Ron Regent
• 1999 · The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice)
• 1999 · March to Freedom as Narrator
• 1999 · Strange Justice as Thurgood Marshall
• 1999 · Catfish in Black Bean Sauce as Harold Williams
• 1999 · Batman Beyond as Sam Young (voice)
• 1998 · Assignment Berlin as Al Spector
• 1998 · Relax... It's Just Sex as Auntie Mahalia
• 1997 · Built to Last as
• 1997 · Strategic Command as Rowan
• 1996 · Mars Attacks! as General Casey
• 1996 · The Legend of Gator Face as Bob
• 1996 · The Assassination File as Senator Alan Laskey
• 1996 · Original Gangstas as Reverend Dorsey
• 1996 · Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden as Horace
• 1996 · Dead of Night as Vernon
• 1995 · White Dwarf as Dr. Akada
• 1995 · Tyson as Don King
• 1995 · Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Father (voice)
• 1995 · In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King as Papa Joe
• 1995 · Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale as The Old Man
• 1995 · In the Flesh as William Stone
• 1994 · Spider-Man as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
• 1994 · Scarlett as
• 1994 · Gargoyles as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
• 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Sam
• 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
• 1994 · The Magic School Bus as (voice)
• 1994 · The Killing Jar as Judge
• 1994 · Breathing Lessons as Daniel Otis
• 1994 · Babylon 5 as Gen. Richard Franklin
• 1993 · Dennis the Menace as Chief of Police
• 1993 · Cliffhanger as Walter Wright
• 1993 · Irresistible Force as Commander Toole
• 1993 · Alex Haley's Queen as Cap'n Jack
• 1992 · Batman: The Animated Series as Earl Cooper (voice)
• 1991 · The Wish That Changed Christmas as Mr. Smith (voice)
• 1990 · 83 Hours 'Til Dawn as Doctor Dantley
• 1990 · Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Jim Watson
• 1990 · Presumed Innocent as Judge Larren Lyttle
• 1989 · The Simpsons as Lucius Sweet (voice)
• 1989 · The Women of Brewster Place as Sam Michael
• 1988 · The Serpent and the Rainbow as Lucien Celine
• 1987 · Big Shots as Johnnie Red
• 1987 · Star Trek: The Next Generation as Captain Dathon
• 1987 · The Charmings as The Mirror
• 1987 · Death Before Dishonor as Ambassador
• 1987 · The Mighty Pawns as Mr. Wright
• 1987 · Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story as George Hairston
• 1986 · Blue City as Chief Luther Reynolds
• 1986 · Under Siege as Andrew Simon
• 1985 · 227 as Julian C. Barlow
• 1985 · Go Tell It on the Mountain as Gabriel Grimes
• 1984 · The Terminator as Traxler
• 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Starkey
• 1984 · Mike's Murder as Phillip
• 1983 · On the Run as Harry
• 1983 · For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as
• 1982 · The Blue and the Gray as Jonathan Henry
• 1982 · White Dog as Keys
• 1982 · Sister, Sister as Eddie Craven
• 1982 · Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as Captain Clark Terrell
• 1982 · Dreams Don't Die as Charlie Banks
• 1981 · The Fall Guy as Bert Perkins
• 1981 · The Sophisticated Gents as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
• 1981 · Carbon Copy as Bob Garvey
• 1980 · Angel City as Cy
• 1980 · Only the Ball Was White as Narrator
• 1979 · Roots: The Next Generations as Dr. Horace Huguley
• 1979 · Backstairs at the White House as Emmett Rogers Sr.
• 1978 · King as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1977 · A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich as Butler
• 1977 · Damnation Alley as Keegan
• 1977 · The Greatest as Draft Lawyer
• 1977 · Twilight's Last Gleaming as Willis Powell
• 1977 · Green Eyes as Lloyd Dubeck
• 1976 · High Velocity as
• 1975 · Hustle as Louis Belgrave
• 1974 · Huckleberry Finn as Jim
• 1974 · Conrack as Mad Billy
• 1974 · It's Good to Be Alive as Roy Campanella
• 1973 · Gordon's War as Gordon Hudson
• 1973 · The Horror at 37,000 Feet as Dr. Enkalla
• 1972 · Trouble Man as Chalky Price
• 1972 · Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan
• 1971 · Nichols as Eddie Joe
• 1971 · Brother John as Henry Birkardt
• 1970 · R.P.M. as Steve Dempsey
• 1970 · King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
• 1969 · The Lost Man as Orville Turner
• 1968 · The Name of the Game as Barada
• 1968 · Julia as Paul Cameron
• 1968 · The New Cinema as Self - Interviewer / Narrator
• 1967 · Who's Minding the Mint? as Garbage Man
• 1967 · The Perils of Pauline as African Servant
• 1966 · Mission: Impossible as Klaus
• 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
• 1957 · Perry Mason as Mitch