Courtney B. Vance

ActorProducer Mar 12 (age 66) Detroit, Michigan, USA 1974–2026 (52 year career)

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Biography

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 Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (201…

Known For

Film

Isle of Dogs

Narrator (voice)

Film

The Hunt for Red October

Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)

Film

Lilo & Stitch

Cobra Bubbles

Film

Terminator Genisys

Miles Dyson

Film

American Crime Story

Johnnie Cochran

Film

Final Destination 5

Agent Block

Film

Project Power

Captain Craine

Film

Dangerous Minds

Mr. George Grandey

Filmography

Acting (100)

Movies (65)

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

2026

as Self

Girl Dad

Lilo & Stitch

as Cobra Bubbles

Death Wish

Heist 88

as Jeremy Horne

Project Power

as Captain Craine

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

2020

as Self - Narrator

The Photograph

2020

as Louis Morton

6.3

Between the World and Me

as Self

Uncorked

as Louis

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

2019

as Self - Host

On Broadway

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Isle of Dogs

as Narrator (voice)

Ben Is Back

as Mr. Beeby

The Groveland Four

as Self - Narrator

The Mummy

as Colonel Greenway

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017

as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

6.4

Office Christmas Party

2016

as Walter Davis

5.7

The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story

as Johnnie Cochran

Terminator Genisys

as Miles Dyson

The Divide

as Delvin

Let It Shine

as Jacob

Joyful Noise

as Pastor Dale

Final Destination 5

as Agent Block

Extraordinary Measures

as Marcus Temple

Hurricane Season

as Mr. Randolph

Nothing But the Truth

2008

as Agent O'Hara

6.9

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

as Corey (segment "Fences")

The Fight

2005

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

as Other Voices (voice)

7.1

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

D-Tox

as Reverend Jones

Partners of the Heart

2002

as Vivien Thomas (voice)

6.0

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

2002

as Clarence Brandley

Space Cowboys

as Roger Hines

The Acting Class

as Self

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2000

Cookie's Fortune

1999

as Otis Tucker

6.4

Love and Action in Chicago

as Eddie Jones

Ambushed

as Jerry Robinson

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

1998

as Officer James Halloran

3.0

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

1998

as Officer James Halloran

Blind Faith

as John Williams

12 Angry Men

as Foreman

The Preacher's Wife

as Reverend Henry Biggs

The Boys Next Door

as Lucien P. Singer

Dangerous Minds

as Mr. George Grandey

Panther

as Bobby Seale

The Last Supper

as Luke

The Tuskegee Airmen

as Lt. Glenn

The Affair

as Travis Holloway

The Piano Lesson

as Lymon

Holy Matrimony

as Cooper

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

as Thomas

Beyond the Law

as Conroy Price

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993

as Jim

6.2

Percy & Thunder

1993

as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

1992

as (voice)

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

1992

as (voice)

In the Line of Duty: Street War

1992

as Justice Butler

5.0

The Emperor's New Clothes

1992

as Scribe (voice)

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

1991

as Reader

5.7

The Hunt for Red October

1990

as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)

7.4

Hamburger Hill

1987

as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

6.6

First Affair

1983

as Male Student #2

1.0

Television (35)

Grotesquerie

2024

as Marshall Tryon

7.3

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2023

as Zeus

7.3

The Jennifer Hudson Show

as Self

Sherri

as Self - Guest

61st Street

as Franklin Roberts

Amend: The Fight for America

as Self

Lovecraft Country

as George Freeman

Lovecraft Country

as George Freeman

Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

Genius

as C.L. Franklin

American Crime Story

as Johnnie Cochran

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self - Guest

6.1

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

2014

as Self

4.5

Masters of Sex

2013

as Dr. Charles Hendricks

Graceland

as Sam Campbell

Scandal

as Clarence Parker

Finding Your Roots

as Self

Revenge

as Benjamin Brooks

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

FlashForward

as Stanford Wedeck

The Closer

as Chief Tommy Delk

Gary the Rat

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Ron Carver

Boston Public

as Walter Harrelson

The Wild Thornberrys

as Makai (voice)

Any Day Now

The View

as Self

as Russell Banfield

Picket Fences

as Warren Grier

Law & Order

as Mayor's Assistant

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

thirtysomething

NOVA

as Narrator

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Lucien P. Singer

8.8

Golden Globe Awards

1944

as Self - Audience Member

7.2

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

Heist 88

2023

Executive Producer

6.7

Television (1)

Grotesquerie

2024

Executive Producer

7.3