| — | Invincible Fight Girl | Narrator (voice) |
| — | Duster | Ezra |
| 2025 | Sneaks | O.G. (voice) |
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) |
| 2024 | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) |
| 2024 | Masters of the Universe: Revolution | Hordak (voice) |
| 2024 | Kite Man: Hell Yeah! | Darkseid (voice) |
| 2024 | The Prank | Principal Henderson |
| 2024 | Betty & Blue | Willie "Blue" Watson |
| 2024 | Shelby Oaks | Morton Jacobson |
| 2024 | Mufasa: The Lion King | Masego (voice) |
| 2024 | Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox | The Simulator |
| 2024 | Leonardo da Vinci | Self - Narrator |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker |
| 2023 | Justified: City Primeval | Judge Alvin Guy |
| 2023 | True Lies | Albert “Al” Gibson |
| 2023 | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray |
| 2023 | My Dad the Bounty Hunter | B'Caala (voice) |
| 2023 | Krapopolis | Asskill (voice) |
| 2023 | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe |
| 2023 | Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story | Jerry |
| 2023 | From the Shadows | Dr. Leonard Bertram |
| 2023 | Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982 | Self - Actor |
| 2022 | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. |
| 2022 | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) |
| 2022 | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) |
| 2022 | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler |
| 2022 | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) |
| 2022 | Unplugging | Gil |
| 2022 | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee |
| 2022 | The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse | Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | |
| 2022 | A Miracle Before Christmas | David |
| 2022 | Firebuds | Manny Kablamee |
| 2022 | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams |
| 2022 | Shut Up and Ride | Narrator |
| 2021 | The Seventh Day | Father Louis |
| 2021 | Marvel's Hit-Monkey | The Devil (voice) |
| 2021 | Black as Night | Babineaux |
| 2021 | Leverage: Redemption | Billy Spencer |
| 2021 | The Gateway | Terry |
| 2021 | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender |
| 2021 | Insight | Captain Duke |
| 2021 | Muhammad Ali | Narrator |
| 2021 | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self |
| 2020 | DC's Stargirl | Mister Bones (voice) |
| 2020 | Horizon Line | Freddy Wyman |
| 2020 | Close Enough | World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice) |
| 2020 | Love Life | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Central Park | Ward Wittlinger (voice) |
| 2020 | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self |
| 2020 | Woke | Bible (voice) |
| 2020 | Good | Gregory Devereaux |
| 2020 | Most Guys Are Losers | Al |
| 2020 | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed |
| 2020 | Dead Talk Live | Self - Guest |
| 2020 | Cuba's Cancer Hope | Narrator |
| 2019 | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer |
| 2019 | Creepshow | Murdoch |
| 2019 | Amphibia | King Andrias (voice) |
| 2019 | You Might Be the Killer | Sheriff James |
| 2019 | The Wedding Year | Preston |
| 2019 | In Search of Darkness | Self |
| 2019 | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self |
| 2019 | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull (voice) |
| 2018 | Night School | Gerald |
| 2018 | Craig of the Creek | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Love Jacked | Ed |
| 2018 | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms |
| 2018 | Summer Camp Island | Lithophone (voice) |
| 2018 | Summer Camp Island | Tummy (voice) |
| 2018 | American Dresser | Charlie |
| 2018 | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself |
| 2018 | Brothers in Arms | Self |
| 2018 | Ray Meets Helen | Harve |
| 2018 | Champaign Ill | Lafonso |
| 2018 | Liverspots and Astronots | Dr. Pesh |
| 2017 | Future Man | Dr. Elias Kronish |
| 2017 | DuckTales | Manny (voice) |
| 2017 | Savage Dog | Valentine |
| 2017 | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane (voice) |
| 2017 | Not a War Story | |
| 2017 | The '91 Falcons | Narrator |
| 2016 | The Nice Guys | Older Guy |
| 2016 | MacGyver | Burke / Man |
| 2016 | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf |
| 2016 | Speechless | Colonel |
| 2016 | Nina | Clifton's Father |
| 2016 | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway |
| 2016 | Dirty Lies | Doc |
| 2016 | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) |
| 2016 | Jackie Robinson | Narrator |
| 2016 | The North Star | Frederick Douglas |
| 2016 | Service to Man | Dean Holmes |
| 2016 | School of Rickey | |
| 2016 | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable |
| 2015 | Mr. Robot | Qwerty (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2015 | We Bare Bears | Mr. Charles (voice) |
| 2015 | Star vs. the Forces of Evil | Glossaryck (voice) |
| 2015 | Fresh Off the Boat | Clyde Roses |
| 2015 | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge |
| 2015 | Big Time in Hollywood, Fl | Agent Everett Malloy |
| 2015 | Kids vs Monsters | Barry |
| 2015 | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe |
| 2015 | Boiling Pot | Agent Long |
| 2015 | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels |
| 2015 | Dutch Book | |
| 2015 | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris |
| 2014 | The Flash | Solovar (voice) |
| 2014 | Scorpion | Warden |
| 2014 | BoJack Horseman | Lion Musician (voice) |
| 2014 | NCIS: New Orleans | Gene Holloway |
| 2014 | Extant | Nicholas Calderon |
| 2014 | black-ish | Loose Craig |
| 2014 | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody |
| 2014 | The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW | Narrator |
| 2014 | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | Reverse Giraffe (voice) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice) |
| 2013 | The Bible | Narrator |
| 2013 | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) |
| 2013 | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy |
| 2013 | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat (voice) |
| 2013 | Uncle Grandpa | Santa Claus (voice) |
| 2013 | Frog Kingdom | Frog King |
| 2013 | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds |
| 2013 | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox |
| 2013 | Black Asylum | Agent Davis |
| 2013 | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient |
| 2012 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Sal Commander (voice) |
| 2012 | Smiley | Diamond |
| 2012 | Touch | Dutch |
| 2012 | The Last Fall | |
| 2012 | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl |
| 2012 | Highway | Mustafa |
| 2012 | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass |
| 2012 | The Undershepherd | Brother Wilks |
| 2012 | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude |
| 2011 | Person of Interest | Terence Beale |
| 2011 | The Cape | Max Malini |
| 2011 | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk |
| 2011 | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin |
| 2011 | Samuel Bleak | |
| 2011 | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers |
| 2011 | No Saints for Sinners | |
| 2010 | Adventure Time | Balthus (voice) |
| 2010 | Adventure Time | Flame King (voice) |
| 2010 | Hawaii Five-0 | Jimmy Cannon |
| 2010 | Young Justice | Mongul (voice) |
| 2010 | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis |
| 2010 | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee |
| 2010 | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw |
| 2010 | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry |
| 2010 | Meet Monica Velour | Claude |
| 2010 | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. |
| 2010 | Something Like A Business | Sebastian |
| 2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator |
| 2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Africa's Lost Eden | Narrator |
| 2010 | New York Street Games | Self |
| 2009 | Coraline | Cat (voice) |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) |
| 2009 | Gamer | Agent Keith |
| 2009 | Community | Elroy Patashnik |
| 2009 | Community | Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | Archer | Lemuel Kane (voice) |
| 2009 | All About Steve | Corbitt |
| 2009 | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano |
| 2009 | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters |
| 2009 | Don McKay | Otis Kent |
| 2009 | The Butcher | Larry Cobb |
| 2009 | Charlie Valentine | Sal |
| 2009 | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown |
| 2009 | Blue | Terry Venable |
| 2009 | Beautiful Loser | Morgan - Adult |
| 2008 | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police |
| 2008 | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) |
| 2008 | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad |
| 2008 | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway |
| 2008 | The War | Narrator |
| 2008 | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton |
| 2008 | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong |
| 2008 | The Sensei | Minister |
| 2008 | Canterbury's Law | |
| 2008 | No Bad Days | Terrence |
| 2008 | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob |
| 2007 | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore |
| 2007 | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton |
| 2007 | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad |
| 2007 | The Color Purple: The Color of Success | Narrator |
| 2006 | Psych | Mr. Guster |
| 2006 | ATL | John Garnett |
| 2006 | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano |
| 2006 | Dirty | Captain Spain |
| 2006 | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch |
| 2006 | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters |
| 2006 | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father |
| 2005 | Grey's Anatomy | Lloyd Mackie |
| 2005 | Transporter 2 | Stappleton |
| 2005 | American Dad! | Fire Captain (voice) |
| 2005 | Numb3rs | |
| 2005 | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) |
| 2005 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | |
| 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam |
| 2004 | Crash | Lt. Dixon |
| 2004 | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director |
| 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Beef II | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | The Big House | |
| 2004 | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator |
| 2004 | Last Stand of the Great Bear | Narrator |
| 2003 | Teen Titans | Atlas (voice) |
| 2003 | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director |
| 2003 | Hollywood Homicide | Leon |
| 2003 | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | Agent Mosely (voice) |
| 2003 | Head of State | Bernard Cooper |
| 2003 | Kaena, la prophétie | Voxem (english voice) |
| 2003 | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Inside Mecca | Narrator |
| 2003 | Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | The Shakespeare Sessions | |
| 2002 | Barbershop | Lester Wallace |
| 2002 | Everwood | Brian |
| 2002 | 29 Palms | The Sheriff |
| 2002 | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones | King Oliver |
| 2002 | Stalking Leopards | Narrator |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) |
| 2001 | Justice League | Despero (voice) |
| 2001 | Novocaine | Detective Lunt |
| 2001 | The Legend of Tarzan | Tublat (voice) |
| 2001 | Disney's House of Mouse | |
| 2001 | The Job | |
| 2001 | Jazz | Narrator |
| 2001 | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett |
| 2001 | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff |
| 2001 | Home Invaders | Matador |
| 2001 | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator |
| 2001 | Egypt's Golden Empire | Himself - Narrator |
| 2001 | Boxing: In and Out of the Ring | Narrator |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim |
| 2000 | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Matt Phelps |
| 2000 | The Replacements | Lindell |
| 2000 | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten |
| 2000 | Dark Summer | Detective Davis |
| 2000 | Silent Service | Self - Host |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Al Simmons/Spawn |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver |
| 1999 | ATF | F.B.I. Director Richard Long |
| 1999 | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Frederick Douglass (voice) |
| 1999 | The Grizzlies of Siberia | Narrator |
| 1998 | Armageddon | General Kimsey |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen |
| 1998 | Hercules | Apollo (voice) |
| 1998 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn |
| 1998 | The Tiger Woods Story | Earl Woods |
| 1997 | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) |
| 1997 | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox |
| 1997 | Spawn | Spawn (voice) |
| 1997 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) |
| 1997 | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles |
| 1997 | Executive Target | Lamar |
| 1997 | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad |
| 1997 | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader |
| 1996 | Eye for an Eye | Martin |
| 1996 | 7th Heaven | Stanley |
| 1996 | Larger Than Life | Hurst |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | |
| 1996 | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) |
| 1996 | Johns | Homeless John |
| 1996 | The Grave | The Priest |
| 1996 | Arliss | |
| 1996 | Never Met Picasso | Larry |
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell |
| 1995 | Clockers | André the Giant |
| 1995 | Dead Presidents | Kirby |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Captain Ira Merit |
| 1995 | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson |
| 1994 | ER | Pastor Watkins |
| 1994 | Reality Bites | Roger |
| 1994 | Gargoyles | |
| 1994 | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) |
| 1994 | Aladdin | |
| 1994 | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland |
| 1994 | Fantastic Four | |
| 1994 | Baseball | Narrator |
| 1994 | New York Undercover | |
| 1994 | Jewels of the Caribbean Sea | (Self) Narrator |
| 1993 | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft |
| 1993 | There Are No Children Here | John Paul Rivers |
| 1993 | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host |
| 1993 | Hallelujah | Big Willie |
| 1992 | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | King Oliver |
| 1992 | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe |
| 1992 | Nails | Noah Owens |
| 1991 | Hallelujah Anyhow | Will |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Bronx D.A. John Robertson |
| 1990 | Marked for Death | Max |
| 1990 | Men at Work | Louis Fedders |
| 1990 | Murder in Black and White | Martin |
| 1989 | Road House | Ernie Bass |
| 1989 | Always | Powerhouse |
| 1988 | They Live | Frank Armitage |
| 1988 | Bird | Buster Franklin |
| 1988 | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain |
| 1988 | Off Limits | Maurice |
| 1988 | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden |
| 1988 | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) |
| 1988 | Ladykillers | Abe |
| 1988 | The Making of 'They Live' | Self |
| 1987 | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso |
| 1987 | The Oldest Rookie | |
| 1986 | Platoon | King |
| 1986 | The Whoopee Boys | Washington Square Peddler |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Cristo |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles | Childs (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1984 | Hot Pursuit | |
| 1983 | Reading Rainbow | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 1982 | The Thing | Childs |
| 1982 | Nature | Narrator |
| 1981 | Hallelujah! | |
| 1980 | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirates and Police |
| 1979 | Coriolanus | Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator |
