| Dr. Luther Brooks in No Way Out |
| Reverend Msimangu in Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Inman Jackson in Go Man Go |
| Gates Watson in Good-bye, My Lady |
| Rau-Ru in Band of Angels |
| Tommy Tyler in Edge of the City |
| Obam in The Mark of the Hawk |
| Noah Cullen in The Defiant Ones |
| Marcus in Our Virgin Island |
| Porgy in Porgy and Bess |
| Sgt. Eddie Towler in All the Young Men |
| Eddie Cook in Paris Blues |
| Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun |
| Doctor in Pressure Point |
| Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field |
| Aly Mansuh in The Long Ships |
| Ben Munceford in The Bedford Incident |
| Gordon Ralfe in A Patch of Blue |
| Alan Newell in The Slender Thread |
| Toller in Duel at Diablo |
| John Prentice in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
| Det. Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night |
| Mark Thackeray in To Sir, with Love |
| Jack Parks in For Love of Ivy |
| Jason Higgs in The Lost Man |
| Virgil Tibbs in They Call Me Mister Tibbs! |
| Virgil Tibbs in The Organization |
| John Kane in Brother John |
| Buck in Buck and the Preacher |
| Dr. Matt Younger in A Warm December |
| Steve Jackson in Uptown Saturday Night |
| Clyde Williams in Let's Do It Again |
| Shack Twala in The Wilby Conspiracy |
| Manny Durrell in A Piece of the Action |
| Roy Parmenter in Little Nikita |
| Warren Stantin in Shoot to Kill |
| Crease in Sneakers |
| Preston in The Jackal |
| 16080 in From Whence Cometh My Help |
| Narrator in Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey |