Credits

• 2004 · Remembering Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
• 1997 · Drunks as Joseph
• 1996 · Harambee! as Chimbuko
• 1994 · New York Undercover as Reverend Hundley
• 1994 · The Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
• 1992 · With Murder in Mind as Samuel Carver
• 1990 · On the Block as Clay Beasley
• 1988 · In the Heat of the Night as Virgil Tibbs
• 1986 · Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI as T.C. Russell
• 1986 · The Children of Times Square as Otis Travis
• 1986 · The Boy King as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
• 1985 · Wildside as
• 1984 · He's Fired, She's Hired as Raoul
• 1984 · A Soldier's Story as Captain Davenport
• 1984 · The House of Dies Drear as Walter Small
• 1984 · A Doctor's Story as Dr. Zack Williams
• 1984 · The House of God as Chuck Johnston
• 1983 · For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as Medgar Evers
• 1982 · The Member of the Wedding as Honey Brown
• 1982 · The Neighborhood as Allen Campbell
• 1981 · Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
• 1981 · Thornwell as Carson
• 1980 · Fridays as
• 1979 · My Old Man as Doctor
• 1979 · Roots: The Next Generations as George Haley
• 1978 · The Trial of the Moke as James Smith
• 1978 · King as Andrew Young
• 1964 · Another World as