Selected career chronology
Credits Index
Major screen, stage, music, sport or broadcast work. This is a selected public-career index, not a complete employment history.
| Year | Title | Medium | Role | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Who Says I Can’t Ride a Rainbow! | Film | Afro | — |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Television | Easy Reader | — |
| 1973 | Blade | Film | Chris | — |
| 1978 | The Mighty Gents | Stage | Zeke | — |
| 1980 | Brubaker | Film | Walter | — |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Film | Lt. Black | — |
| 1984 | Teachers | Film | Alan Lewis | — |
| 1985 | Marie | Film | Charles Traughber | — |
| 1987 | Street Smart | Film | Fast Black | — |
| 1988 | Clean and Sober | Film | Craig | — |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Film | Hoke Colburn | IMDb |
| 1989 | Glory | Film | John Rawlins | — |
| 1989 | Lean on Me | Film | Joe Clark | — |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Film | Azeem | — |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Film | Ned Logan | — |
| 1992 | The Power of One | Film | Geel Piet | IMDb |
| 1993 | Bopha! | Film | — | — |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Film | Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding | IMDb |
| 1995 | Outbreak | Film | Gen. Billy Ford | — |
| 1995 | Seven | Film | Somerset | — |
| 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Film | Alex Cross | — |
| 1997 | Amistad | Film | — | — |
| 1998 | Hard Rain | Film | Jim | — |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Film | President Beck | — |
| 2000 | Nurse Betty | Film | Charlie | — |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Film | Victor Benezet | — |
| 2001 | Along Came a Spider | Film | Alex Cross | — |
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | Film | William Cabot | — |
| 2002 | High Crimes | Film | Charlie Grimes | — |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | Film | God | — |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Film | Eddie “Scrap Iron” Dupris | IMDb |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Film | Lucius Fox | IMDb |
| 2005 | An Unfinished Life | Film | — | — |
| 2005 | March of the Penguins | Documentary | Narrator | — |
| 2005 | War of the Worlds | Film | Narration | IMDb |
| 2007 | The Bucket List | Film | Carter Chambers | — |
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone | Film | — | — |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Film | Lucius Fox | IMDb |
| 2009 | Invictus | Film | Nelson Mandela | — |
| 2010 | RED | Film | Joe Matheson | — |
| 2011 | Born to Be Wild | Documentary | Narrator | — |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Film | Lucius Fox | IMDb |
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | Film | Allan Trumbull | — |
| 2013 | Now You See Me | Film | Thaddeus Bradley | — |
| 2013 | Last Vegas | Film | — | — |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Film | Vitruvius | — |
| 2014 | Lucy | Film | Professor Norman | IMDb |
| 2017 | Going in Style | Film | — | — |
| 2017 | The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman | Television | Host | — |
| 2021 | Solos | Television | — | IMDb |
| 2021 | The Kominsky Method | Television | — | — |
| 2023 | A Good Person | Film | Daniel | IMDb |
| 2024 | Gunner | Film | Kendrick Ryker | — |
| 2025 | Now You See Me: Now You Don’t | Film | — | IMDb |
| 2026 | The Dinosaurs | Television | Narrator | — |
| 2026 | The Gray House | Television | Executive producer | — |