| Movie | 1982 | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Captain Clark Terrell | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Terminator | Traxler | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Women of Brewster Place | Sam Michael | |
| Movie | 1975 | Hustle | Louis Belgrave | |
| Movie | 1990 | Presumed Innocent | Judge Larren Lyttle | |
| Movie | 1972 | Trouble Man | Chalky Price | |
| Movie | 1984 | Mike's Murder | Phillip | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | Lucien Celine | |
| Movie | 1977 | Damnation Alley | Keegan | |
| Movie | 1993 | Cliffhanger | Walter Wright | |
| Movie | 1973 | The Horror at 37,000 Feet | Dr. Enkalla | |
| Movie | 1972 | Sounder | Nathan Lee Morgan | |
| Movie | 1973 | Gordon's War | Gordon Hudson | |
| Movie | 1987 | Death Before Dishonor | Ambassador | |
| Movie | 1982 | White Dog | Keys | |
| Movie | 1995 | Tyson | Don King | |
| Movie | 1981 | Carbon Copy | Bob Garvey | |
| Movie | 1986 | Blue City | Chief Luther Reynolds | |
| Movie | 1974 | Huckleberry Finn | Jim | |
| Movie | 1998 | Relax... It's Just Sex | Auntie Mahalia | |
| Movie | 1990 | 83 Hours 'Til Dawn | Doctor Dantley | |
| Movie | 1977 | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Willis Powell | |
| Movie | 1987 | Big Shots | Johnnie Red | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Legend of Gator Face | Bob | |
| Movie | 1977 | A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich | Butler | |
| Movie | 1971 | Brother John | Henry Birkardt | |
| Movie | 2000 | Knockout | Ron Regent | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Unfinished Journey | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1974 | It's Good to Be Alive | Roy Campanella | |
| Movie | 1970 | R.P.M. | Steve Dempsey | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Lost Man | Orville Turner | |
| Movie | 1994 | Breathing Lessons | Daniel Otis | |
| Movie | 1991 | The Wish That Changed Christmas | Mr. Smith (voice) | |
| Movie | 1984 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Gabriel Grimes | |
| Movie | 2002 | Second to Die | Detective Grady | |
| Movie | 1990 | Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | Jim Watson | |
| Movie | 1982 | Dreams Don't Die | Charlie Banks | |
| Movie | 1983 | On the Run | Harry | |
| Movie | 1998 | Assignment Berlin | Al Spector | |
| Movie | 1993 | Irresistible Force | Commander Toole | |
| Movie | 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1983 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | | |
| Movie | 1967 | Who's Minding the Mint? | Garbage Man | |
| Movie | 1974 | Conrack | Mad Billy | |
| Movie | 1996 | Original Gangstas | Reverend Dorsey | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Greatest | Draft Lawyer | |
| Movie | 1986 | Under Siege | Andrew Simon | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Assassination File | Senator Alan Laskey | |
| Movie | 1977 | Green Eyes | Lloyd Dubeck | |
| Movie | 1980 | Angel City | Cy | |
| Movie | 1968 | The New Cinema | Self - Interviewer / Narrator | |
| Movie | 1995 | In the Flesh | William Stone | |
| Movie | 1976 | High Velocity | | |
| Movie | 1999 | Catfish in Black Bean Sauce | Harold Williams | |
| Movie | 1996 | Dead of Night | Vernon | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Killing Jar | Judge | |
| Movie | 1987 | The Mighty Pawns | Mr. Wright | |
| Movie | 1982 | Sister, Sister | Eddie Craven | |
| Movie | 1995 | In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King | Papa Joe | |
| Movie | 1980 | Only the Ball Was White | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1999 | Strange Justice | Thurgood Marshall | |
| Movie | 1997 | Strategic Command | Rowan | |
| Movie | 1987 | Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story | George Hairston | |
| Movie | 2003 | Sounder | The Teacher | |
| Movie | 1995 | White Dwarf | Dr. Akada | |
| Movie | 1993 | Dennis the Menace | Chief of Police | |
| Movie | 1999 | March to Freedom | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2001 | Vegas, City of Dreams | Edgar Jones | |
| Movie | 1996 | Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden | Horace | |
| Movie | 1996 | Mars Attacks! | General Casey | |
| Movie | 1995 | Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale | The Old Man | |
| Movie | 1967 | The Perils of Pauline | African Servant | |
| Movie | 2003 | A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6 | Shadi(voice) | |
| Movie | 2003 | Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8 | Shadi(voice) | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4 | Shadi(voice) | |
| Movie | 2003 | Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10 | Shadi(voice) | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2 | Shadi(voice) | |
| Movie | 1981 | Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera | Himself | |
| TV Show | 1989 | The Simpsons | Lucius Sweet (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Spider-Man | Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice) | 3 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Captain Dathon | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | 227 | Julian C. Barlow | 116 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Babylon 5 | Gen. Richard Franklin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Charmings | The Mirror | 21 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Julia | Paul Cameron | 86 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations | Dr. Horace Huguley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Built to Last | | 8 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Alex Haley's Queen | Cap'n Jack | 3 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Gargoyles | Jeffrey Robbins (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Batman: The Animated Series | Earl Cooper (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1981 | The Sophisticated Gents | Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins | 3 |
| TV Show | 1971 | Nichols | Eddie Joe | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Magic School Bus | Mr. Ruhle (voice) | 4 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Perry Mason | Mitch | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | The Name of the Game | Barada | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | King | Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | 3 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Father (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Baseball | Various (voice) | 0 |
| TV Show | 1981 | The Fall Guy | Bert Perkins | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Batman Beyond | Sam Young (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Jonathan Henry | 3 |
| TV Show | 1966 | Mission: Impossible | Klaus | 1 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Backstairs at the White House | Emmett Rogers Sr. | 4 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Crossing Jordan | Phillip Sanders | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Sam | 12 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Starkey | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Baseball | (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 1st M.P. | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | The Women of Brewster Place | Sam Michael | 2 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Picket Fences | Judge Harold Nance | 2 |
| TV Show | 1998 | City Confidential | Self - Narrator (voice) | 24 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Scarlett | Big Sam | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | Family Matters | Jimmy Baines | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | L.A. Law | Derron Holloway | 1 |
