Courtney B. Vance
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in the original productions of August Wilson's Fences in 1985, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (201...
Known For
Filmography
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
as Self
Girl Dad
2026
Lilo & Stitch
2025
as Cobra Bubbles
Death Wish
2024
as Pilot (voice)
Grotesquerie
2024
as Marshall Tryon
Heist 88
2023
as Jeremy Horne
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
as Zeus
The Sherri Shepherd Show
2022
as Self - Guest
61st Street
2022
as Franklin Roberts
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
as Self
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
as Self
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
2020
as Self - Narrator
Project Power
2020
as Captain Craine
The Photograph
2020
as Louis Morton
Uncorked
2020
as Louis
Between the World and Me
2020
as Self
Lovecraft Country
2020
as George Freeman
On Broadway
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
as Self - Host
Tamron Hall
2019
as Self - Guest
The Groveland Four
2018
as Self - Narrator
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Ben Is Back
2018
as Mr. Beeby
The Mummy
2017
as Colonel Greenway
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Genius
2017
as C.L. Franklin
Office Christmas Party
2016
as Walter Davis
American Crime Story
2016
as Johnnie Cochran
Terminator Genisys
2015
as Miles Dyson
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Graceland
2013
as Sam Campbell
Masters of Sex
2013
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
Joyful Noise
2012
as Pastor Dale
The Divide
2012
as Delvin
Let It Shine
2012
as Jacob
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
Scandal
2012
as Clarence Parker
Final Destination 5
2011
as Agent Block
Revenge
2011
as Benjamin Brooks
Extraordinary Measures
2010
as Marcus Temple
Hurricane Season
2010
as Mr. Randolph
FlashForward
2009
as Stanford Wedeck
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Nothing But the Truth
2008
as Agent O'Hara
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Corey (segment "Fences")
The Fight
2005
as Narrator (voice)
The Closer
2005
as Chief Tommy Delk
The Closer
2005
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Gary the Rat
2003
D-Tox
2002
as Reverend Jones
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002
as Clarence Brandley
Partners of the Heart
2002
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Ron Carver
Space Cowboys
2000
as Roger Hines
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
The Acting Class
2000
as Self
Boston Public
2000
as Walter Harrelson
Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Otis Tucker
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
as Eddie Jones
Ambushed
1998
as Jerry Robinson
Blind Faith
1998
as John Williams
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
as Officer James Halloran
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998
as Officer James Halloran
Any Day Now
1998
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
as Makai (voice)
12 Angry Men
1997
as Foreman
The View
1997
as Self
The View
1997
as Self - Guest
The Preacher's Wife
1996
as Reverend Henry Biggs
The Boys Next Door
1996
as Lucien P. Singer
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Lt. Glenn
The Last Supper
1995
as Luke
Dangerous Minds
1995
as Mr. George Grandey
Panther
1995
as Bobby Seale
The Affair
1995
as Travis Holloway
The Piano Lesson
1995
as Lymon
Holy Matrimony
1994
as Cooper
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994
as Thomas
ER
1994
as Russell Banfield
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as Jim
Beyond the Law
1993
as Conroy Price
Percy & Thunder
1993
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
as (voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
as (voice)
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992
as Justice Butler
The Emperor's New Clothes
1992
as Scribe (voice)
Picket Fences
1992
as Warren Grier
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
as Reader
The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Law & Order
1990
as Mayor's Assistant
Law & Order
1990
as Benjamin Greer
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Hamburger Hill
1987
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
thirtysomething
1987
First Affair
1983
as Male Student #2
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Lucien P. Singer
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Audience Member