highest rated
acting
- Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story → Narrator (voice)
- Lethal Weapon 5 → Roger Murtaugh
- Killing Winston Jones → Washington Carver
- Grizzly Peak → Will
- Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi
- Newbies
- The Naughty Nine → Santa Claus
- Double Soul → Michael Tedeschi
- American Dreamer → Jerry
- Press Play → Cooper
- De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem? → Self
- A Night at the Academy Museum → Self
- The Drummer → Mark Walker
- After Fact → Self
- Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War → Narrator (voice)
- Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man → Narrator (voice)
- Jumanji: The Next Level → Milo
- The Dead Don't Die → Hank Thompson
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco → Grandpa Allen
- Strive
- Always in Season → Narrator (voice)
- The Robeson Effect → Self
- The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs → Narrator (voice)
- Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story → Narrator
- Death Race: Beyond Anarchy → Baltimore Bob
- Sorry to Bother You → Langston
- Proud Mary → Benny
- The Old Man & the Gun → Teddy
- Howard → Self (archive footage)
- Survivor's Guide to Prison → Self
- Come Sunday → Gilbert Pearson
- Christmas Break-In → Ray
- Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey → Mr. Ocean
- Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones → Self
- The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution → Narrator (voice)
- Cold Case Files (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Tour de Pharmacy → Slim Robinson Present Day
- Extortion → Detective Constable Haagen
- The Curse of Buckout Road → Dr. Powell
- The Christmas Train → Max Powers
- The Good Catholic → Victor
- Birth of a Movement → Narrator (voice)
- Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories → Self
- Vagabonds → Uncle Issa
- Agents of Change → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Dirty Grandpa → Stinky
- Monster Trucks → Mr. Weathers
- Almost Christmas → Walter
- Diablo → Benjamin Carver
- Gridlocked → Sully
- Mr. Pig → Ambrose
- Complete Unknown → Roger
- Back in the Day → Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
- 93 Days → Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
- Pushing Dead → Bob
- Darkweb → The Boss
- Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights → Narrator (voice)
- Consumed → Hal Westbrook
- Bad Asses on the Bayou → Bernie Pope
- Andron → Chancellor Gordon
- Toxin → Dr. Locke
- Waffle Street → Edward Collins
- Checkmate → Elohim
- About Scout → Red
- Caffeinated → Coffee Lover
- Mississippi Inferno → Narrator (voice)
- black-ish (TV) → Uncle Norman
- Mozart in the Jungle (TV) → Mayor
- Rage → Detective St. John
- Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses → Bernie Pope
- Beyond the Lights → Captain Nicol
- Yellowbird → Darius (voice)
- We Are Many → Self
- Supremacy → Mr. Walker
- 2047: Sights of Death → Sponge
- Day of the Mummy → Carl
- Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee → Self
- We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
- Chasing Shakespeare → William Ward
- The Ninja Immovable Heart → Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
- Ironside (TV) → Frank Ironside
- Extraction → Harding
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight → Justice Thurgood Marshall
- LUV → Arthur
- Space Warriors → Commander Phillips
- Highland Park → Ed
- Tula: The Revolt → Shinishi
- The Bouquet → Reverend John
- Shuffleton's Barbershop → Charlie Shuffleton
- The Shift → Floyd
- Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth → Self
- Touch (TV) → Professor Arthur Teller
- Casting By → Self
- Hannah's Law → Isom Dart
- Shadows of Liberty → Self
- Sins → Father Leonard
- Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' → Self
- The Children's Republic → Dubem
- The Lighthouse → Duncan
- Age of the Dragons → Ahab
- Son of Morning → Gabriel Peters
- Mysteria → Investigator
- Donovan's Echo → Donovan Matheson
- Mooz-lum → Dean Francis
- Rise Like Lions → Self (Occupy Oakland)
- Human Target (TV) → Client
- Death at a Funeral → Uncle Russell
- Alpha and Omega → Winston (voice)
- I'm Still Here → Danny Glover
- Legendary → Harry 'Red' Newman
- Five Minarets in New York → Marcus
- Down for Life → Mr. Shannon
- The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective → Self
- 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic → Self
- I Want to Be a Soldier → School Director
- Dear Alice → Franzis
- Sam Cooke: Crossing Over → Narrator (voice)
- 2012 → President Thomas Wilson
- Night Train → Miles
- PoliWood → Self
- Nite Tales: The Series (TV) → Jeremiah
- The People Speak → Self
- The Harimaya Bridge → Joseph Holder
- Leverage (TV) → Charlie Lawson
- Blindness → Man with Black Eye Patch
- Be Kind Rewind → Mr. Fletcher
- Gospel Hill → John Malcolm
- Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare → Walter Tortoise (voice)
- Agent Crush → Major Rusty Gubbins
- Fats Waller Was Born Here → "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
- Shooter → Colonel Isaac Johnson
- Battle for Terra → President Chen (voice)
- Honeydripper → Tyrone Purvis
- Poor Boy's Game → George
- Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' → Self
- Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation → Father Elias
- Psych (TV) → Mel Hornsby
- Brothers and Sisters (TV) → Isaac Marshall
- Barnyard → Miles (voice)
- Dreamgirls → Marty Madison
- The Shaggy Dog → Ken Hollister
- The Exonerated → David Keaton
- The Adventures of Brer Rabbit → Brer Turtle (voice)
- Read You Like a Book
- Bamako → Cow-boy
- Criminal Minds (TV) → Hank Morgan
- American Dad! (TV) → Minstrel Krampus (voice)
- My Name Is Earl (TV) → Thomas
- The Reichen Show (TV) → Self
- Manderlay → Wilhelm
- Missing in America → Jake Neely
- The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' → Self (archive footage)
- Full Disclosure Report → David Tapp
- P.N.O.K. → Col. Weldon
- The Peace! → Self
- Saw → David Tapp
- Legend of Earthsea (TV) → Ogion
- The Cookout → Judge Crowley
- Real Time with Bill Maher (TV) → Self
- Good Fences → Tom Spader
- The John Garfield Story → Self
- The Real Eve → Narrator (voice)
- The Royal Tenenbaums → Henry Sherman
- 3 A.M. → Hershey
- Freedom Song → Will Walker
- Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration → Self
- Bàttu
- Boesman and Lena → Boesman
- Our Friend, Martin → Train Conductor (voice)
- The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen → Self (archive footage)
- The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong → Narrator (voice)
- Scared Straight! 20 Years Later → Host
- Hollywood Squares (TV) → Self - Panelist
- The Prince of Egypt → Jethro (voice)
- Antz → Barbatus (voice)
- Beloved → Paul D
- Lethal Weapon 4 → Roger Murtaugh
- Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Soldier Child → Self - Narrator
- The View (TV) → Self
- The Rainmaker → Richter Tyrone Kipler
- Switchback → Bob Goodall
- Gone Fishin' → Gus Green
- Wild America → Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
- Buffalo Soldiers → Sgt. Washington Wyatt
- America's Dream → Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV) → The King (voice)
- Operation Dumbo Drop → Capt. Sam Cahill
- Red Wind → Philip Marlowe
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies → Self
- Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain (TV) → Isaac Jefferson (voice)
- Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities → Self
- ER (TV) → Charlie Pratt Sr.
- Maverick → Bank Robber (uncredited)
- Angels in the Outfield → George Knox
- Inside the Actors Studio (TV) → Self
- Fallen Angels (TV) → Marlowe
- Alex Haley's Queen (TV) → Alec Haley
- Civil War Journal (TV) → Self - Host
- Civil War Journal (TV) → Host
- Bopha! → Micah Mangena
- The Saint of Fort Washington → Jerry
- The Talking Eggs → Narrator (voice)
- Lethal Weapon 3 → Roger Murtaugh
- Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion → Narrator (voice)
- Flight of the Intruder → Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
- Grand Canyon → Simon
- Pure Luck → Raymond Campanella
- A Rage in Harlem → Easy Money
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV) → Dr. Apollo (voice)
- Predator 2 → Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
- To Sleep with Anger → Harry
- Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt → Narrator (voice)
- Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby → Narrator (voice)
- Lonesome Dove (TV) → Joshua Deets
- Lethal Weapon 2 → Roger Murtaugh
- Dead Man Out → Dr. Alex Marsh
- A Raisin in the Sun → Walter Lee Younger
- Hollywood on Horses → Self
- Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary → Self
- Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots → Narrator (voice)
- Bat*21 → Capt. Bartholomew Clark
- A Place at the Table → Mr. Scott
- Lethal Weapon → Roger Murtaugh
- Mandela → Nelson Mandela
- John Henry → John Henry
- Tall Tales & Legends (TV) → John Henry
- The Color Purple → Albert
- Silverado → Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
- Witness → McFee
- And the Children Shall Lead → William
- The Stand-In → Apples Finnerty
- Places in the Heart → Moze
- Iceman → Loomis
- Memorial Day → Willie Monroe
- The Face of Rage → Gary
- Keeping On → Lester Traylor
- Out → Jojo / Roland
- Hill Street Blues (TV)
- Gimme a Break! (TV)
- Chu Chu and the Philly Flash → Morgan
- Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer → Oscar Micheaux
- Palmerstown, U.S.A. (TV)
- Great Railway Journeys (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Escape from Alcatraz → Inmate
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... (TV) → Self
- San Francisco State: On Strike → self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self
- Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Today (TV) → Self