2004

as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

1997

as Joseph

1996		Harambee! as Chimbuko
1996		Remember WENN 1 episode as George Smith

1995

1 episode as Reverend Hundley

1994

as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

1992

as Samuel Carver

1990

as Clay Beasley

1988

119 episodes as Virgil Tibbs

1986		Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI as T.C. Russell
1986		The Children of Times Square as Otis Travis
1986		The Boy King as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

1985

6 episodes

1984		He's Fired, She's Hired as Raoul
1984		A Soldier's Story as Captain Davenport
1984		The House of Dies Drear as Walter Small
1984		A Doctor's Story as Dr. Zack Williams
1984		The House of God as Chuck Johnston

1983

as Medgar Evers

1982		The Member of the Wedding as Honey Brown
1982		The Neighborhood as Allen Campbell
1982		Fridays 1 episode

1981		Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
1981		Thornwell as Carson

1979		My Old Man as Doctor
1979		Roots: The Next Generations 7 episodes as George Haley

1978		The Trial of the Moke as James Smith
1978		King 3 episodes as Andrew Young

1965

1547 episodes