Obba Babatundé

ActorWriterDirectorProducerCrew Dec 1 (age 74) Queens, New York City, New York, USA 1980–2025 (45 year career)

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Biography

Obba Babatundé (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor of stage and screen, known for his Emmy-nominated performance in the television movie Miss Evers' Boys, a NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in the TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and a Tony Award-nominated role for his performance as C.C. White in the original cast of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Babatundé was a protege of Sammy Davis, Jr., who said of him, "This is the only cat who can do everything I can do." B…

Known For

Film

The Silence of the Lambs

TV Anchor Man

Film

The Notebook

Band Leader

Film

Philadelphia

Jerome Green

Film

John Q

Sgt. Moody

Film

The Manchurian Candidate

Senator Wells

Film

That Thing You Do!

Lamarr

Film

Black Dynamite

Osiris

Film

Life

Willie Long

Filmography

Acting (120)

Movies (80)

Run

2025

as President

8.5

Love the Skin You're In

2025

as Arnold

The Christmas Showdown

2025

as Jesse

5.0

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

as Captain Green

Noble Intentions

as Pastor Stevens

The Millennial

as Mr. Burke

Trigger

as Chief Keaton

Kiss Me for Christmas

2020

as Mr. Porter

Jingle Belle

as Charles Williams

City of Lies

as Chief of Police

Revival!

as Nicodemus

Kinky

2018

as Mr. Bernard

6.5

Pup Star: Better 2Gether

2017

as Big Ears (voice)

6.2

'Til Death Do Us Part

as John Harris

Pup Star

as Big Ears (voice)

The Watcher

as Stark

American Bad Boy

as Pastor Lovely

Death's Door

as Mesmer

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

2015

as Jonathan Black

Lap Dance

as Roscoe

Dolls of Voodoo

as Iklif

The Last Fall

as Larry Armstrong

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

2012

as Vampire Actor #4 (voice)

7.7

Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups

2012

as Mayor Denny

6.1

All Star Superman

2011

as Judge / Bibliobot (voice)

6.8

Joy Road

2011

as Dr. Howard Perkins

6.0

The Trap Door

2011

as Mesmer

2.0

Trapped: Haitian Nights

as Ikliff

Black Dynamite

as Osiris

Why Am I Doing This?

as Cliff

I Do... I Did!

as Mr. Johnson

The Eye

as Dr. Haskins

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

as Self

Cover

as Attorney Miller

April Fools

as Detective Combs

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

2007

as Narrator

8.5

The Celestine Prophecy

as Miguel

Material Girls

as Craig

The Notebook

as Band Leader

The Manchurian Candidate

as Senator Wells

After the Sunset

as Zacharias

Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!

2004

as Chief Ankamuti (voice)

4.1

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004

as Self

4.0

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

as Host

John Q

as Sgt. Moody

Redeemer

as Charles Henderson

How High

as Dean Carl Cain

One Special Moment

The Visit

as Tony

Life

as Willie Long

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999

as Harold Nicholas

6.4

The Apartment Complex

as Chett

Miss Evers' Boys

as Willie Johnson

The Tomorrow Man

as Brian Parish

That Thing You Do!

as Lamarr

Multiplicity

as Paul

Carpool

as Jeffery

Soul of the Game

as Cum Posey

The Cherokee Kid

as Isom Dart

The Net

as FBI Agent

Born to Be Wild

as Interpreter

Fatal Pursuit

as Trinidad

M.A.N.T.I.S.

as Cornell

Philadelphia

as Jerome Green

Necronomicon

as Paul

Undercover Blues

as Sawyer

The Importance of Being Earnest

1992

as Lane

The Silence of the Lambs

as TV Anchor Man

Miami Blues

as Blink Willie

Married to the Mob

as The Face of Justice

God Bless the Child

as Raymond Watkins

Leonard Part 6

as Bongo Drummer

Treemonisha

as Zodzetrick

Baryshnikov on Broadway

1980

as Dancer

7.0

An Evening with Liza Minnelli

1980

as Self - Dancer

People Not Places

Start Without Me

as Leo

Mississippi Scholar

as Reginald

Children of the Dead (Concept Trailer)

All The Men In My Life

Television (40)

Little Fires Everywhere

as George Wright

For the People

as Philip Kaws

Forever

as Gregory

S.W.A.T.

as Daniel Harrelson, Sr.

The Good Fight

as Danny Quinn

Dear White People

as Dean Fairbanks

Detroiters

as Mr. Duvet

Goliath

as Ivan Tillinger

Chicago Med

as Dr. James Coleman

Ballers

as J.D. Pritchard

Madam Secretary

as President Silvanus Fabre

Kingdom

as Detective Gaines

Enlisted

as General Murray

Private Practice

as Dr. Larry Cannon

Saving Grace

as Doc

Psych

as David Gaffney

Grey's Anatomy

as Dan Gates

Boston Legal

as Dr. Victor Rivers

NCIS

as Joe Banks

Everwood

as Jason

Girlfriends

as Attendant

Static Shock

as Watch Store Salesman (voice)

Max Steel

as (voice)

Family Law

as Philip Hamilton

Dawson's Creek

as Principal Howard Green

The Temptations

as Berry Gordy

Spy Game

as Lieutenant Wardell

The Outer Limits

as Dr. Joseph Lennox

Sliders

as Cezanne Brown

Friends

as Director

Chicago Hope

as Charles Ellis

Touched by an Angel

as Carter Evans

M.A.N.T.I.S.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

1993

as Mongoose

7.0

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

as Jameson Walker

The Human Factor

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

1990

as Gordy Berry

7.9

Tales from the Crypt

1989

as Lieutenant Jamison

A Different World

as Frank Benning

Matlock

as Backstage Man

Crew (6)

Movies (6)

Noble Intentions

Writers' Assistant

American Bad Boy

Director

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

2015

Executive Producer

Angels Around Me

2013

Additional Writing

1.0

Oscar's Black Odyssey: From Hattie to Halle

2003

Director

Mississippi Scholar

Writer