Bill Duke
Highest Rated: 92% The Killing Floor (1984)
Lowest Rated: 0% Cover (2007)
Birthday: Feb 26, 1943
Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Actor-director-writer whose work ranges from primetime TV and film to theater and literature. Duke began his film acting career in Michael Schultz's boisterous comedy "Car Wash" (1976), shortly after he started writing for the TV series "Good Times." A prolific TV director with scores of primetime episodes to his credit, including "Knots Landing," "Falcon Crest," "Hill Street Blues," "Spenser: For Hire," "A Man Called Hawk," "City of Angels," "New York Undercover" and the miniseries "Miracle's Boys," he won acclaim for his award-winning PBS film "The Killing Floor" (1984), about WWI stockyard workers, and "The Meeting" (1989), about a hypothetical encounter between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
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Bill Duke
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Premonition | Donald Carter (Character) | - | 2023 |
92% |
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No Sudden Move | Aldrick Watkins (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Vandal | Harold (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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In Search of the Last Action Heroes | Self | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet |
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Hollow Point | Senior Guard James (Character) | - | 2019 |
91% |
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High Flying Bird | Spencer (Character) | - | 2019 |
90% |
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Mandy | Caruthers (Character) | $1.2M | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Created Equal | Director | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Restored Me | Officer Brantley (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Preying for Mercy | Director | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet |
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Bad Country | Nokes (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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Battledogs | President Donald Sheridan (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Freaky Deaky | Wendell (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Dark Girls |
Director, Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kiss and Tell: The History of Black Romance in Movie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
19% |
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The Big Bang | Drummer (Character) | - | 2010 |
43% |
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Henry's Crime | Frank (Character) | $101.9K | 2010 |
31% |
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Not Easily Broken |
Director, Producer |
$10.6M | 2009 |
0% |
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Cover |
Director, Producer |
$62.2K | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Prince Among Slaves | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Yellow | Miles Emory (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pact | Executive Producer | - | 2006 |
17% |
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Levar (Character) | $31.0M | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Deacons for Defense | Director | - | 2003 |
11% |
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National Security | Lieutenant Washington (Character) | $35.8M | 2003 |
69% |
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Red Dragon | Police Chief (Character) | $92.9M | 2002 |
31% |
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Never Again | Earl (Character) | $295.5K | 2001 |
33% |
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Exit Wounds | Chief Hinges (Character) | $51.8M | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Who Killed Atlanta's Children? | Chirumenga Jenga (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Director | - | 2000 |
57% |
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Fever | Det. Glass (Character) | $4.1K | 1999 |
0% |
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Foolish | Studio Producer (Character) | $6.0M | 1999 |
56% |
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Payback | Det. Hicks (Character) | $81.5M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Susan's Plan | Detective Scott (Character) | - | 1998 |
43% |
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Hoodlum |
Director, Executive Producer |
$23.5M | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Frank Capra's American Dream | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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America's Dream | Director | - | 1996 |
18% |
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | Director | $57.0M | 1993 |
84% |
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Menace II Society | Detective (Character) | $27.7M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | World Beat | Self | - | 1993 |
57% |
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The Cemetery Club | Director | $5.6M | 1992 |
87% |
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Deep Cover | Director | $16.6M | 1992 |
68% |
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A Rage in Harlem | Director | $8.8M | 1991 |
25% |
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Bird on a Wire | Eugene Sorenson (Character) | $68.8M | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Street of No Return | Lieutenant Borel (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Meeting | Director | - | 1989 |
19% |
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Action Jackson | Capt. Earl Armbruster (Character) | $19.6M | 1988 |
50% |
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No Man's Land | Malcolm (Character) | $1.1M | 1987 |
80% |
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Predator | Mac (Character) | $54.4M | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Dallas: The Early Years | Seth Foster (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Johnnie Gibson Story | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flag | Director | - | 1986 |
67% |
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Commando | Cooke (Character) | $34.9M | 1985 |
92% |
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The Killing Floor | Director | - | 1984 |
73% |
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American Gigolo | Leon (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | Luther Freeman (Character) | - | 1980 |
86% |
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Car Wash | Duane (Abdullah) (Character) | - | 1976 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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92% | 50% | Black Lightning | Agent Odell (Guest Star) | 2018-2019 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
47% | No Score Yet | CHAOS | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Phil | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
86% | 90% | Lost | Warden Harris (Guest Star) | 2006 |
95% | 94% | Battlestar Galactica | Phelan (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miracle's Boys | Director | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 1-800-Missing | Director | 2004 |
95% | No Score Yet | Karen Sisco | Unknown (Character) | 2003-2004 |
47% | No Score Yet | Fastlane |
Unknown (Guest Star), Director |
2002-2003 |
57% | 80% | Legacy | Director | 1998 |
100% | No Score Yet | Brewster Place | Director | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tour of Duty | Director | 1988 |
71% | 88% | Miami Vice | Director | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Director | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fame | Director | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cagney & Lacey | Director | 1983-1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Palmerstown | Luther Freeman (Character) | 1980-1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Sylk (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Times | Writer |