| title: | year: | as: |
| Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins | 2008 | Papa Jenkins |
| Click | 2006 | Narrator of Michaels Past |
| Scary Movie 4 | 2006 | Narrator |
| The Benchwarmers | 2006 | Darth Vader |
| The Reading Room | 2005 | William |
| Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | Darth Vader |
| The Sandlot 2 | 2005 | Mr. Mertle |
| Robots | 2005 | Voice Box at Hardware Store |
| Everwood | 2004 | Will Cleveland |
| According to Jim | 2004 | Royal Flush XP Toilet |
| Feast of All Saints | 2001 | Older Marcel |
| Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street | 2001 | Santa Claus |
| Finders Fee | 2001 | Avery Phillips |
| Nine Dog Christmas | 2001 | Narrator |
| Disneys American Legends | 2001 | Host |
| Santa and Pete | 1999 | Grandpa Nicholas |
| The Annihilation of Fish | 1999 | Fish |
| Undercover Angel | 1999 | The Judge |
| Summers End | 1999 | Dr. William Bill Blakely |
| On the Q.T. | 1999 | Leo |
| Our Friend, Martin | 1999 | Daddy King |
| Recess | 1998 | Santa Claus |
| The Lion King II: Simbas Pride | 1998 | Mufasa |
| Merlin | 1998 | Mountain King |
| Primary Colors | 1998 | CNN Voiceover |
| The Simpsons | 1998 | Narrator |
| An American Moment | 1997 | |
| Alone | 1997 | Grey |
| What the Deaf Man Heard | 1997 | Archibald Thacker |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | 1997 | Felix Wilson |
| Gang Related | 1997 | Arthur Baylor |
| Stargate SG-1 | 1997 | Unas |
| Casper: A Spirited Beginning | 1997 | Kibosh |
| The Second Civil War | 1997 | Jim Kalla |
| Frasier | 1997 | Norman Royster |
| Touched by an Angel | 1997 | Angel of Angels |
| Timepiece | 1996 | Lawrence |
| Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault | 1996 | Dr. McDuffie |
| Good Luck | 1996 | James Bing |
| 3rd Rock from the Sun | 1996 | Narrator |
| A Family Thing | 1996 | Ray Murdock |
| People: A Musical Celebration | 1995 | The Storyteller |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | 1995 | Rev. Stephen Kumalo |
| Judge Dredd | 1995 | Narrator |
| Under One Roof | 1995 | Neb Langston |
| Jefferson in Paris | 1995 | Madison Hemings |
| Signs and Wonders | 1995 | Diamond |
| Whos in Rabbits House? | 1995 | Narrator |
| Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | 1995 | Additional Voices |
| Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol | 1994 | Narrator Ebenezer Scrooge |
| Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Adm. James Greer |
| The Lion King | 1994 | Mufasa |
| Twilight Zone: Rod Serlings Lost Classics | 1994 | Host |
| Lois Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | 1994 | Franklin W. Stern |
| Clean Slate | 1994 | John Dolby |
| Picket Fences | 1994 | Bryant Thomas |
| Confessions: Two Faces of Evil | 1994 | Charles Lloyd |
| The Vernon Johns Story | 1994 | Vernon Johns |
| American Playhouse | 1993 | Old Man Taylor |
| Law Order | 1993 | Horace McCoy |
| Percy Thunder | 1993 | Percy |
| The Meteor Man | 1993 | Earnest Moses |
| Excessive Force | 1993 | Jake |
| The Sandlot | 1993 | Mr. Mertle |
| ABC Weekend Specials | 1993 | |
| Sommersby | 1993 | Judge Barry Conrad Issacs |
| Dreamrider | 1993 | William Perry |
| Lincoln | 1992 | Narrator |
| Garfield and Friends | 1992 | Diablo |
| Square One TV | 1992 | Announcer |
| Sneakers | 1992 | NSA Agent Bernard Abbott |
| Freddie as F.R.O.7. | 1992 | Narrator |
| Patriot Games | 1992 | Adm. James Greer |
| Shelley Duvalls Bedtime Stories | 1992 | Narrator |
| Pros and Cons | 1992 | Gabriel Bird |
| The Second Coming | 1992 | Narrator |
| Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama | 1992 | Narrator |
| Convicts | 1991 | Ben Johnson |
| Gabriels Fire | 1991 | Gabriel Bird |
| Scorchers | 1991 | Bear |
| Mathnet | 1991 | Chief Thad Green |
| Ivory Hunters | 1990 | Inspector Nkuru |
| Heat Wave | 1990 | Junius Johnson |
| Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror | 1990 | Morrison |
| Last Flight Out | 1990 | Al Topping |
| By Dawns Early Light | 1990 | Alice |
| The Ambulance | 1990 | Lt. Spencer |
| The Hunt for Red October | 1990 | Admiral Greer |
| Teach 109 | 1990 | Dr. Winston |
| Best of the Best | 1989 | Coach Couzo |
| Saturday Night with Connie Chung | 1989 | Vernon Johns |
| Field of Dreams | 1989 | Terence Terry Mann |
| Three Fugitives | 1989 | Dugan |
| L.A. Law | 1989 | Lee Atkins |
| Long Ago and Far Away | 1989 | Host |
| The Hunting of the Snark | 1989 | Narrator |
| Noahs Ark | 1989 | Narrator |
| Coming to America | 1988 | King Jaffe Joffer |
| Terrorgram | 1988 | Voice of Retribution |
| CBS Schoolbreak Special | 1987 | Detective Robb |
| Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | 1987 | Emperor of the Night |
| Matewan | 1987 | Few Clothes Johnson |
| Gardens of Stone | 1987 | Sgt. Maj.Goody Nelson |
| Highway to Heaven | 1987 | Gabe Wilson |
| Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | 1986 | Umslopogaas |
| Soul Man | 1986 | Professor Banks |
| My Little Girl | 1986 | Ike Bailey |
| Faerie Tale Theatre | 1986 | Genie |
| Lone Star Kid | 1986 | |
| Moses | 1986 | Pharoah |
| City Limits | 1985 | Albert |
| Me and Mom | 1985 | Lou Garfield |
| The Atlanta Child Murders | 1985 | Major Walker |
| The Vegas Strip War | 1984 | Jack Madrid |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears | 1984 | Narrator |
| Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Voice of Darth Vader |
| Blood Tide | 1982 | Frye |
| ABC Afterschool Specials | 1982 | Gabriel |
| Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | Thulsa Doom |
| The Flight of Dragons | 1982 | Ommadon |
| Freedom to Speak | 1982 | Frederick Douglass Martin Luther King Jr. |
| The Bushido Blade | 1981 | The Prisoner |
| CBS Library | 1981 | Narrator - Beauty and the Beast |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1981 | Narrator |
| The Creation | 1981 | Narrator |
| The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story | 1980 | Dane Oliver |
| Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Darth Vader |
| Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones | 1980 | Father Divine |
| Paris | 1980 | Detective Capt. Woodrow Woody Paris |
| Paul Robeson | 1979 | Paul Robeson |
| Roots: The Next Generations | 1979 | Alex Haley |
| The Star Wars Holiday Special | 1978 | Darth Vader |
| The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened | 1977 | Morris Bird, Jr. |
| A Piece of the Action | 1977 | Joshua Burke |
| The Last Remake of Beau Geste | 1977 | Sheikh |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | 1977 | Older Kokumo |
| Star Wars | 1977 | Darth Vader |
| The Greatest | 1977 | Malcolm X |
| Jesus of Nazareth | 1977 | Balthazar |
| Deadly Hero | 1976 | Rabbit |
| Swashbuckler | 1976 | Nick Debrett |
| The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars Motor Kings | 1976 | Leon Carter, All-Star |
| The River Niger | 1976 | Johnny Williams |
| Vegetable Soup | 1976 | Long John Spoilsport |
| The UFO Incident | 1975 | Barney Hill |
| The Cay | 1974 | Timothy |
| Claudine | 1974 | Roop |
| King Lear | 1974 | King Lear |
| Black Omnibus | 1973 | Host |
| The Man | 1972 | Douglass Dilman |
| The Great White Hope | 1970 | Jack Jefferson |
| End of the Road | 1970 | Doctor D |
| NBC Childrens Theatre | 1970 | |
| N.Y.P.D. | 1969 | Candy Lateen |
| Tarzan | 1968 | Chief Bella |
| The Comedians | 1967 | Dr. Magiot |
| Dr. Kildare | 1966 | Dr. Lou Rush |
| The Defenders | 1964 | Andrews |
| Channing | 1964 | Dr. Peter Cooke |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Lieutenant Lothar Zogg |
| East Side/West Side | 1963 | Joe |
| Look Up and Live | 1963 | Book |
| As the World Turns | 1956 | Dr. Jerry Turner |
| The Guiding Light | 1952 | Dr. Jim Frazier #2 |
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