| Movies (Videos, Films & Projects): |
Year |
Budget |
 The Jackal - FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston |
1997 |
$60M |
| Sneakers - Donald Crease |
1992 |
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| Ghost Dad - Director |
1990 |
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| Little Nikita - Roy Parmenter |
1988 |
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| Shoot to Kill - Warren Stantin |
1988 |
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| Fast Forward - Director |
1985 |
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| Hanky Panky - Director |
1982 |
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| Stir Crazy - Director |
1980 |
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| A Piece of the Action - Manny Durrell, Director |
1977 |
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| Let's Do It Again - Clyde Williams, Director |
1975 |
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| The Wilby Conspiracy - Shack Twala |
1975 |
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| Uptown Saturday Night - Steve Jackson, Director |
1974 |
$3M |
| A Warm December - Matt Younger, Director |
1973 |
$3M |
| Buck and the Preacher - Buck, Director |
1972 |
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| The Organization - Detective Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs SFPD Homicide |
1971 |
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| Brother John - John Kane |
1971 |
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| They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! - Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs |
1970 |
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| The Lost Man - Jason Higgs |
1969 |
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| For Love of Ivy - Jack Parks, Writer (story) |
1968 |
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| To Sir, with Love - Mark Thackeray |
1967 |
$640K |
| In the Heat of the Night - Det. Virgil Tibbs |
1967 |
$2M |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Dr. John Wade Prentice |
1967 |
$4M |
| Duel at Diablo - Toller (contract horse dealer) |
1966 |
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| The Bedford Incident - Ben Munceford |
1965 |
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| The Greatest Story Ever Told - Simon of Cyrene |
1965 |
$20M |
| A Patch of Blue - Gordon Ralfe |
1965 |
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| The Slender Thread - Alan Newell |
1965 |
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| Lilies of the Field - Homer Smith |
1963 |
$240K |
| The Long Ships - Prince Aly Mansuh |
1963 |
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| Pressure Point - Doctor (Chief Psychiatrist) |
1962 |
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| A Raisin in the Sun - Walter Lee Younger |
1961 |
$1.5M |
| Paris Blues - Eddie Cook |
1961 |
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| All the Young Men - Sgt. Eddie Towler |
1960 |
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| Porgy and Bess - Porgy |
1959 |
$7M |
| Our Virgin Island - Marcus |
1958 |
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| The Defiant Ones - Noah Cullen |
1958 |
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| The Mark of the Hawk - Obam |
1957 |
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| Band of Angels - Rau-Ru |
1957 |
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| Something of Value - Kimani Wa Karanja |
1957 |
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| Edge of the City - Tommy Tyler |
1957 |
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| Good-bye, My Lady - Gates |
1956 |
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| Blackboard Jungle - Gregory W. Miller |
1955 |
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| Go, Man, Go! - Inman Jackson |
1954 |
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| Red Ball Express - Cpl. Andrew Robertson |
1952 |
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| Cry, the Beloved Country - Reverend Msimangu |
1951 |
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| No Way Out - Dr. Luther Brooks |
1950 |
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| TV appearance: |
| The Last Brickmaker in America (TV movie) - Henry Cobb |
2001 |
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| The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (TV movie) - Noah Dearborn |
1999 |
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Free of Eden (TV movie) - Will Cleamons, Executive Producer
| 1999 |
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| David and Lisa (TV movie) - Dr. Jack Miller |
1998 |
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| Mandela and de Klerk (TV movie) - Nelson Mandela |
1997 |
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| To Sir, with Love II (TV movie) - Mark Thackeray |
1996 |
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| Children of the Dust (TV movie) - Gypsy Smith |
1995 |
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| Separate But Equal (TV movie) - Thurgood Marshall |
1991 |
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| A Man Is Ten Feet Tall - Tommy Tyler |
1955 |
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| Ponds Theater (TV series) - Actor (1 episode, 1955) |
1955 |
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| Parole Chief - Actor |
1952 |
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| Repertory Theatre (TV series) - Tommy Tyler (2 episodes, 1952-1955) |
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