Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award and Tony Award winner known for his roles on stage and screen. He has been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix series (1999–2003), Jason "Furious" Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood (1991), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now (1979), and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series (2017–present). For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello on film when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. He has also received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination for his performance in Deep Cover (1992). Other film credits of Fishburne include Steven Spielberg's The Colour Purple (1985), Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990), Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017). He has also gained a wider audience with the blockbuster films Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). On television, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011) and as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Fishburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cast

Apocalypse Now

(Tyrone 'Clean' Miller)

Rumble Fish

(Midget)

Mystic River

(Whitey Powers)

The Color Purple

(Swain)

Mission: Impossible III

(Theodore Brassel)

TMNT

(Narrator (voice))

The Matrix Reloaded

(Morpheus)

The Matrix

(Morpheus)

The Matrix Revolutions

(Morpheus)

Boyz n the Hood

(Jason 'Furious' Styles)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

(Max)

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

(Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice))

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

(Tad Gruzsa)

Bobby

(Edward Robinson)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

(Self)

Armored

(Baines)

Deep Cover

(Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull)

Quicksilver

(Voodoo)

Bonnie

(Self)

Sneaks

(The Collector (voice))

Hoodlum

(Bumpy Johnson)

The Astronaut

(General William Harris)

Five Fingers

(Ahmat)

21

(Cole Williams)

The Tuskegee Airmen

(Hannibal Lee)

Event Horizon

(Miller)

Black Hollywood

(Self)

Assault on Precinct 13

(Marion Bishop)

Biker Boyz

(Smoke)

Just Cause

(Sheriff Tanny Brown)

Osmosis Jones

(Thrax (voice))

King of New York

(Jimmy Jump)

Always Outnumbered

(Socrates Fortlow)

Red Heat

(Lt. Stobbs)

Band of the Hand

(Cream)

Tortured

(Archie Green)

Predators

(Noland)

Cadence

(Roosevelt Stokes)

Gardens of Stone

(Sgt. Flanagan)

Bad Company

(Nelson Crowe)

Akeelah and the Bee

(Dr. Larabee)

The Matrix Revisited

(Self - Morpheus)

Searching for Bobby Fischer

(Vinnie)

School Daze

(Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap)

Death Wish II

(Cutter)

Cornbread, Earl and Me

(Wilford Robinson)

What's Love Got to Do with It

(Ike Turner)

Cherry 2000

(Glu Glu Lawyer)

Slingshot

(Captain Franks)

Once in the Life

(20 / 20 Mike)

Higher Learning

(Professor Maurice Phipps)

Othello

(Othello)

Contagion

(Ellis Cheever)

Transformers One

(Alpha Trion (voice))

Death to 2021

(Narrator (voice))

Fled

(Piper)

Man of Steel

(Perry White)

The Amateur

(Henderson)

Thurgood

(Thurgood Marshall)

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

(Bowery King)

John Wick: Chapter 4

(Bowery King)

Have a Little Faith

(Henry Covington)

Decoration Day

(Michael Waring, DOD Man)

The Soul of a Man

(Self - Narrator)

Miss Evers' Boys

(Caleb Humphries)

The Little Bedroom

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

(Self)

A History of Sex

(Self)

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

(Self)

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

(Self)

Ride Along

(Omar)

Khumba

(Seko (voice))

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

(Perry White)

The Matrix Recalibrated

(Self)

The Colony

(Briggs)

Megalopolis

(Fundi Romaine)

Rudderless

(Del)

The Signal

(Dr. Wallace Damon)

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

(Self)

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

(Jimbo Collins)

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

(Cowboy Curtis)

The Cotton Club

(Bumpy Rhodes)

Black Water Transit

(Jack)

Standoff

(Sade)

Class Action

(Nick Holbrook)

Days of Wrath

(Mr. Stafford)

Spooge

(Self)

John Wick: Chapter 2

(Bowery King)

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

(Self)

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

Michael Jordan to the Max

(Narrator (voice))

Passengers

(Gus Mancuso)

Sex and the Matrix

(Morpheus (archive footage))

Blacksmith

Last Flag Flying

(Reverend Richard Mueller)

The Snowy Day

(Narrator)

The Black List: Volume Two

(Self)

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

(Self)

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

(Paul Jellinek)

Welcome to Hollywood

(Laurence Fishburne)

Ant-Man and the Wasp

(Dr. Bill Foster)

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

(Self)

A Man's Story

(Self)

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

(Self)

Willie and Phil

(High School Student)

Rappin' With The Rickster

(Self)

Ashes and Snow

(Narrator (voice))

Running with the Devil

(The Man)

The Mule

(Special Agent in Charge)

Imprisoned

(Daniel Calvin)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

(Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited))

MTV Reloaded

(Morpheus (archive footage))

Fast Break

(Street Kid)

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

(Self)

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

(Self)

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

(Self)

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

(Self)

And the Oscar Goes To...

(Self (archive footage))

The Ice Road

(Goldenrod)

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

(Fish)

Making 'The Matrix'

(Self)

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

(Himself)

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

(Self)

The Blacksmith

Predators: The Chosen

(Noland)

Predators: Moments of Extraction

(Noland (Voice))

Our Lady of 121st Street

(Rooftop)

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

(Self)

Slavery by Another Name

(Narrator)

All the Old Knives

(Vick Wallinger)

Death to 2020

(Narrator (voice))

The School for Good and Evil

(School Master)

Crimson Blues

(Mills)

Under the Stadium Lights

(Harold Christian)

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

(Self (archive footage))

Cellar Door

(Emmett)

I Take These Men

(Hank Johnson)

Inside the Actors Studio

(Self)

M*A*S*H

(Corporal Dorsey)

Spenser: For Hire

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

(Raymond Langston)

Trapper John, M.D.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

CSI: Miami

The Daily Show

(Self)

Miami Vice

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The View

(Self)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Hill Street Blues

The Equalizer

(Casey Taylor)

MADtv

(Self)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(Michael Waring)

TriBeCa

MacGruber

(General Barrett Fasoose)

The Six O'Clock Follies

(Robby Robinson)

The Oscars

(Self)

Hannibal

(Jack Crawford)

The Blues

(Self - Narrator)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

(Self)

Tony Awards

(Self - Presenter)

The Muppets

(Self)

Top Gear

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

(Self)

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

(Narrator (voice))

Year Million

(Narrator)

Madiba

(Nelson Mandela)

Clipped

(Doc Rivers)

Roots

(Alex Haley)

black-ish

(Pops Johnson)

The Civil War

(Various)

What If...?

(Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice))

The Frame

(Perry White)

Pee-wee's Playhouse

(Cowboy Curtis)

A Rumor of War

(Lightbulb)

grown-ish

(Pops Johnson)

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

(Foster (voice))

The Magic Hour

(Self)

mixed-ish

(Pops Johnson)

Jay Leno's Garage

(Self)

#FreeRayshawn

(Steven Poincy)

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

(Self)

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

(The Beyonder (voice))

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

(Self)

History's Greatest Mysteries

(Self - Host)

Conan

(Self)

What If...?

(Bill Foster / Goliath (voice))