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Courtney B. Vance

Courtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in Fences, Six Degrees of Separation, and Lucky Guy 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), and Isle of Dogs (2018).

English

The Mummy

2017
as Colonel Greenway

Final Destination 5

2011
as Agent Block

Terminator Genisys

2015
as Miles Dyson

Lovecraft Country

2020
as George Freeman

12 Angry Men

1997
as Foreman

Project Power

2020
as Captain Craine

FlashForward

2009
as Stan Wedeck

Genius (2017)

2017
as C. L. Franklin

Dangerous Minds

1995
as George Grandey

Let It Shine

2012
as Jacob

Ben Is Back

2018
as Mr. Beeby

Isle of Dogs

2018
as Narrator

Office Christmas Party

2016
as Walter Davis

The Hunt for Red October

1990
as Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones

Panther

1995
as Bobby Seale

The Divide

2011
as Delvin

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

1998
as Officer James Halloran

Hamburger Hill

1987
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

Ambushed

1998
as Jerry Robinson

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995
as Lt. Glenn

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

1998
as Officer James Halloran

Joyful Noise

2012
as Pastor Dale

The Preacher's Wife

1996
as Reverend Henry Biggs

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as Corey (segment "Fences")

Cookie's Fortune

1999
as Otis Tucker

Hurricane Season

2009
as Mr. Randolph

Extraordinary Measures

2010
as Marcus Temple

Between the World and Me

2020
as Courtney B. Vance

The Affair

1995
as Travis Holloway

Nothing But the Truth

2008
as Agent O'Hara

61st Street

2022
as Franklin Roberts

D-Tox

2002
as Jones

Holy Matrimony

1994
as Cooper

Beyond The Law

1992
as Conroy Price

Lilo & Stitch

2024
as Cobra Bubbles

Uncorked

2020
as Louis

Space Cowboys

2000
as Roger Hines

Guest Star

Episode Any Day Now
Unfinished Symphony
1998
Episode The Closer
High Crimes
2010
Episode Law & Order
By Hooker, by Crook
1990
Episode Lovecraft Country
I Am.
2020
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
The Piano Lesson
1995
Episode ER
The Beginning of the End
2009
Episode Boston Public
Chapter One
2000
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Amy Poehler, Courtney B. Vance, Willie Jones
2021
Episode NOVA
Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius
2007
Episode Picket Fences
Without Mercy
1995
Episode Thirtysomething
Trust Me
1989
Episode Picket Fences
Final Judgement
1995
Episode Boston Public
Chapter Five
2000
Episode The Closer
Unknown Trouble
2011
Episode The Spectacular Spider-Man
Accomplices
2009
Episode The Talk
Courtney B. Vance; Piers Morgan
2016
Episode American Experience
The Fight
2004
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Will Arnett, Courtney B. Vance, Laurie Metcalf, Buckingham McVie
2017
Episode Law & Order
Rage
1995
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
John Travolta, Courtney B. Vance, Amy Cuddy, John Moreland
2016
Episode The Closer
High Crimes
2010
Episode ER
Separation Anxiety
2009
Episode Graceland
Pilot
2013
Episode ER
Love Is a Battlefield
2009
Episode The Closer
Executive Order
2010