

Acting
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 (2015), and Isle of Dogs (2018). Vance is also known for work on television on shows such as Law &...
Highest rated appearances

On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Host

Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby

The Groveland Four
as Self - Narrator

Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)

The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis

Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson

Let It Shine
as Jacob

Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale

The Divide
as Delvin

Final Destination 5
as Agent Block

Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph

Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple

Nothing but the Truth
as Agent O'Hara

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")

The Fight
as Narrator (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Partners of the Heart
as Vivien Thomas (voice)

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley

D-Tox
as Reverend Jones

Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

The Acting Class
as Self

Love and Action in Chicago
as Eddie Jones

Cookie's Fortune
as Otis Tucker

Naked City: A Killer Christmas
as Officer James Halloran

Blind Faith
as John Williams

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Officer James Halloran

Ambushed
as Jerry Robinson

12 Angry Men
as Foreman

The Preacher's Wife
as Reverend Henry Biggs

The Boys Next Door
as Lucien P. Singer

The Affair
as Travis Holloway

The Last Supper
as Luke

The Tuskegee Airmen
as Lt. Glenn

Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey

Panther
as Bobby Seale

The Piano Lesson
as Lymon

Holy Matrimony
as Cooper

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
as Thomas

Percy & Thunder
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter

Beyond the Law
as Conroy Price

The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Jim

In the Line of Duty: Street War
as Justice Butler

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)

The Emperor's New Clothes
as Scribe (voice)

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
as Reader

The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)