Acting • AGE 66
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 Degree...


Girl Dad
2026

W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Self
2026

Lilo & Stitch
Cobra Bubbles
2025

Death Wish
Pilot (voice)
2024

Grotesquerie
Marshall Tryon
2024

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Zeus
2023

Heist 88
Jeremy Horne
2023

Sherri
Self - Guest
2022

The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
2022

61st Street
Franklin Roberts
2022

Amend: The Fight for America
Self
2021

Between the World and Me
Self
2020

Lovecraft Country
George Freeman
2020

Project Power
Captain Craine
2020

Uncorked
Louis
2020

The Photograph
Louis Morton
2020

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
Self - Narrator
2020

On Broadway
Self (archive footage)
2019

Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
2019

Ben Is Back
Mr. Beeby
2018

The Groveland Four
Self - Narrator
2018

Isle of Dogs
Narrator (voice)
2018

The Mummy
Colonel Greenway
2017

Genius
C.L. Franklin
2017

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
2017

Office Christmas Party
Walter Davis
2016

American Crime Story
Johnnie Cochran
2016

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015

Terminator Genisys
Miles Dyson
2015

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014

Masters of Sex
Dr. Charles Hendricks
2013

Graceland
Sam Campbell
2013

Let It Shine
Jacob
2012

Scandal
Clarence Parker
2012

Finding Your Roots
Self
2012

Joyful Noise
Pastor Dale
2012

The Divide
Delvin
2012

Revenge
Benjamin Brooks
2011

Final Destination 5
Agent Block
2011

Hurricane Season
Mr. Randolph
2010

Extraordinary Measures
Marcus Temple
2010

FlashForward
Stanford Wedeck
2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009

Nothing but the Truth
Agent O'Hara
2008

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Corey (segment "Fences")
2006

The Closer
Chief Tommy Delk
2005

The Fight
Narrator (voice)
2005

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
2004

Gary the Rat
2003

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003

Partners of the Heart
Vivien Thomas (voice)
2002

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Clarence Brandley
2002

D-Tox
Reverend Jones
2002

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Ron Carver
2001

Boston Public
Walter Harrelson
2000

Space Cowboys
Roger Hines
2000

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000

The Acting Class
Self
2000

Love and Action in Chicago
Eddie Jones
1999

Cookie's Fortune
Otis Tucker
1999

Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Officer James Halloran
1998

Blind Faith
John Williams
1998

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Officer James Halloran
1998

The Wild Thornberrys
Makai (voice)
1998

Any Day Now
1998

Ambushed
Jerry Robinson
1998

12 Angry Men
Foreman
1997

The View
Self
1997

The Preacher's Wife
Reverend Henry Biggs
1996

The Boys Next Door
Lucien P. Singer
1996

The Affair
Travis Holloway
1995

The Last Supper
Luke
1995

The Tuskegee Airmen
Lt. Glenn
1995

Dangerous Minds
Mr. George Grandey
1995

Panther
Bobby Seale
1995

The Piano Lesson
Lymon
1995

ER
Russell Banfield
1994

Holy Matrimony
Cooper
1994

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Thomas
1994

Percy & Thunder
Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
1993

Beyond the Law
Conroy Price
1993

The Adventures of Huck Finn
Jim
1993

In the Line of Duty: Street War
Justice Butler
1992

Picket Fences
Warren Grier
1992

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
(voice)
1992

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
(voice)
1992

The Emperor's New Clothes
Scribe (voice)
1992

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Reader
1991

Law & Order
Mayor's Assistant
1990

The Hunt for Red October
Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
1990

American Experience
Narrator (voice)
1988

thirtysomething
1987

Hamburger Hill
Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
1987

First Affair
Male Student #2
1983

NOVA
Narrator
1974

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lucien P. Singer
1951

Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
1944