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2024

Butterfly in the Sky

as Guest Narrator (archive footage)

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2024

BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy

as Self (archive footage)

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2021

Coming 2 America

as King Jaffe Joffer

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2021

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

as Self (archive footage)

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2019

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

as Self

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2019

The Lion King

as Mufasa (voice)

N/A

2019

Words from a Bear

as Self

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2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

as Darth Vader (voice)

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2019

The Space: Theatre of Survival

as Narrator

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2019

On Broadway

as Self (archive footage)

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2018

Warning Shot

as Pendleton

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2017

The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands

as Mufasa (voice)

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2017

Broadway: The Next Generation

as Self

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2016

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

as Kilgore Trout

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2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

as Darth Vader (voice)

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2016

The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar

as Mufasa (voice)

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2015

Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal

as Darth Vader (voice)

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2015

Driving Miss Daisy

as Hoke Colburn

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2015

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

as Self

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2014

Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion

as Darth Vader (voice)

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2014

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

as Ruben

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2013

Muse of Fire

as Self

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2013

Blackfish

as Self (archive footage)

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2013

Gimme Shelter

as Frank McCarthy

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2013

Milius

as Self

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2012

Joe Papp in Five Acts

as Self

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2012

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

as Self

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2010

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

as Admiral (voice)

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2009

Jack and the Beanstalk

as The Giant (voice)

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2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

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2008

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

as Papa Jenkins

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2007

John, Paul, George and Ben

as Narrator

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2007

Earth

as Narrator (voice)

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2007

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

as Self

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2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")

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2006

The Benchwarmers

as Darth Vader (voice)

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2006

Searching for Orson

as Self

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2005

Robots

as Voice Box at Hardware Store (voice)

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2005

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

as Self

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2005

The Reading Room

as William

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2005

The Sandlot 2

as Mr. Mertle

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2005

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

as Narrator

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2004

No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

as Self

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2004

Black Indians: An American Story

as Narrator

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2004

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

as Self

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2004

Nine Dog Christmas

as Storyteller (voice)

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2004

The Story of Star Wars

as Darth Vader (archive footage)

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2003

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'

as Self

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2003

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror

as Maggie Simpson (voice)

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2003

The Great Year

as Narrator

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2002

Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film

as Narrator

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2001

Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street

as Mister (voice)

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2001

Finder's Fee

as Avery Phillips

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2001

Disney's American Legends

as Narrator

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2001

Feast of All Saints

as Older Marcel

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2001

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

as Self

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2000

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

as —

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2000

The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove

as Self

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2000

Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

as Self - 'Lieutenant Lothar Zogg'

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2000

Fantasia 2000

as Self - Host

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2000

Summer's End

as Dr. William 'Bill' Blakely

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2000

Antietam: A Documentary Film

as Narrator

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2000

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

as Self

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1999

The Annihilation of Fish

as Fish

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1999

Undercover Angel

as The Judge

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1999

Our Friend, Martin

as Daddy King (voice)

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1999

Santa and Pete

as James Earl Jones

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1999

On the Q.T.

as Leo

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1998

Primary Colors

as CNN Voiceover (voice)

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1998

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

as Mufasa (voice)

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1997

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

as Self

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1997

Good Luck

as James Bing

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1997

Casper: A Spirited Beginning

as Kibosh (voice)

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1997

Gang Related

as Arthur Baylor

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1997

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

as Narrator (voice) (DVD version)

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1997

Alone

as Grey

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1997

Sports on the Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

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1997

What the Deaf Man Heard

as Archibald Thacker

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1997

The Second Civil War

as Jim Kalla

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1997

Afro Promo

as Self (archive footage)

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1996

Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

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1996

Timepiece

as Lawrence

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1996

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

as Dr. McDuffie

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1996

Corwin

as Self

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1996

A Family Thing

as Ray Murdock

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1995

Who's in Rabbit's House?

as Narrator (voice)

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1995

The Making of 'Jurassic Park'

as Host

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1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

as Self

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1995

Cry, the Beloved Country

as Rev. Stephen Kumalo

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1995

Jefferson in Paris

as Madison Hemings

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1995

People: A Musical Celebration

as The Storyteller (voice)

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1995

Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable

as Mufasa

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1994

Clean Slate

as John Dolby

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1994

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

as Charles Lloyd

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1994

Clear and Present Danger

as Admiral James Greer

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1994

The Making of the Lion King

as Self

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1994

The Lion King

as Mufasa (voice)

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1994

Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

as Narrator

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1994

Gangs: Turning the Corner

as Self

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1994

The Vernon Johns Story

as Vernon Johns

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1994

Africa: The Serengeti

as Narrator

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1994

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

as Host

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1993

Hallelujah

as Old Man Taylor

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1993

Excessive Force

as Jake

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1993

Percy & Thunder

as Percy Banks

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1993

Dreamrider

as Bill Perry

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1993

The Sandlot

as Mr. Mertle

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1993

Sommersby

as Judge Barry Conrad Issacs

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1993

The Meteor Man

as Earnest Moses

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1992

Sneakers

as Mr. Bernard Abbott

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1992

Lincoln

as Narrator (voice)

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1992

Patriot Games

as Adm. James Greer

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1992

The JFK Conspiracy

as Self - Host

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1991

Visitors from the Unknown

as Narrator (voice)

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1991

Portrait of Castro's Cuba

as Host/Narrator

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1991

When It Was a Game

as (voice)

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1991

True Identity

as James Earl Jones

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1991

Convicts

as Ben Johnson

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1991

Scorchers

as Bear

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1990

The Hunt for Red October

as Vice ADM James Greer

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1990

Heat Wave

as Junius Johnson

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1990

Teach 109

as Dr. Winston

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1990

Ivory Hunters

as Inspector Nkuru

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1990

The Ambulance

as Lt. Spencer

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1990

By Dawn's Early Light

as Alice

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1990

Last Flight Out

as Al Topping

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1990

Terrorgram

as Retribution (voice)

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1990

Grim Prairie Tales

as Morrison

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1989

11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried

as Narrator

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1989

Best of the Best

as Frank Couzo

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1989

Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark

as Narrator

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1989

Three Fugitives

as Dugan

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1989

Field of Dreams

as Terrence Mann

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1988

Coming to America

as King Jaffe Joffer

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1988

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

as Narrator (voice)

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1987

A House Divided

as —

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1987

Gardens of Stone

as Sgt. Maj.'Goody' Nelson

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1987

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

as Emperor of the Night (voice)

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1987

Matewan

as 'Few Clothes' Johnson

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1986

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

as Umslopogaas

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1986

The Lone Star Kid

as Holmes

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1986

Soul Man

as Professor Banks

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1986

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

as Genie / Narrator

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1986

My Little Girl

as Ike Bailey

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1985

Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates

as —

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1985

Moses

as Pharaoh

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1985

City Limits

as Albert

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1985

Night of 100 Stars II

as Self

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1984

The Vegas Strip War

as Jack Madrid

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1984

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

as Narrator

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1983

Return of the Jedi

as Darth Vader (voice)

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1982

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

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1982

Conan the Barbarian

as Thulsa Doom

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1982

Amy and the Angel

as Gabriel

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1982

Blood Tide

as Frye

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1982

The Flight of Dragons

as Ommadon (voice)

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1981

The Creation

as Narrator (voice)

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1981

The Bushido Blade

as The Prisoner

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1981

God's Trombones

as Narrator (voice)

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1981

Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

as Narrator (voice)

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1980

The Me Nobody Knows

as Self

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1980

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

as Dane Oliver

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1979

Paul Robeson

as Paul Robeson

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1979

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

as Self - Host

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1978

The Star Wars Holiday Special

as Darth Vader (voice)

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1978

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

as Self

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1978

The Story of the Faithful Wookiee

as Darth Vader (voice)

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1977

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

as Sheikh

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1977

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

as Morris Bird, Jr.

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1977

The Greatest

as Malcolm X

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1977

A Piece of the Action

as Joshua Burke

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1977

Exorcist II: The Heretic

as Older Kokumo

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1976

Swashbuckler

as Nick Debrett

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1976

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

as Leon

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1976

The River Niger

as Johnny Williams

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1975

The UFO Incident

as Barney Hill

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1975

Deadly Hero

as Rabbit Shazam

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1974

The Cay

as Timothy

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1974

King Lear

as King Lear

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1974

Claudine

as Rupert D. "Roop" Marshall

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1972

The Man

as Douglass Dilman

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1972

Malcolm X

as Biographical Narration (voice)

N/A

1971

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream

as Narrator

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1970

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

as Self (archive footage)

N/A

1970

The Great White Hope

as Jack Jefferson

N/A

1970

End of the Road

as Doctor D

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1967

The Comedians

as Dr. Magiot

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1964

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

as Lt. Lothar Zogg

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