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Carl Lumbly
A quiet yet powerful actor, Lumbly has risen from playing the decidedly supporting--almost background--role of Detective Marcus Petrie on "Cagney & Lacey" (CBS, 1982-88) to essaying numerous secondary and leading parts in TV and films. Raised in Minneapolis by Jamaican immigrant parents, Lumbly's first break came in 1976 when he appeared opposite Danny Glover in two plays by Athol Fugard, "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island." He later toured in this double bill. Among his other stage credits are "The Tempest" (1981) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1988) at the New York Shakespeare Festival and "The Gospel at Colonus" (1983).
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Carl Lumbly
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captain America: Brave New World | Isaiah Bradley (Character) | - | 2025 |
| 85% | No Score Yet | The Life of Chuck | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 43% |
|
I'm Charlie Walker | Willie (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 78% |
|
Doctor Sleep | Dick Hallorann (Character) | $31.6M | 2019 |
| 42% |
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A Cure for Wellness | Wilson (Character) | $7.5M | 2016 |
| 100% |
|
Justice League: Doom |
Martian Manhunter / |
- | 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Immigrants | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
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Sounder | The Father (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet |
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Just a Dream | J.M. Hoagland (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
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Justice League: Starcrossed the Movie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Little Richard | Bud Penniman (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 100% |
|
The Color of Friendship | Ron Dellums (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 42% |
|
Men of Honor | Mac Brashear (Character) | $48.8M | 2000 |
| 92% |
|
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | Additional Voices (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 50% |
|
How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Judge Spencer Boyle (Character) | $37.7M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet |
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Buffalo Soldiers | Horse (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Ditchdigger's Daughters | Donald Thornton (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet |
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America's Dream | Cal (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 100% |
|
Nightjohn | John (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ez Streets | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cagney & Lacey: The Return | Marcus Petrie (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Promised Land | Floyd Ween (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | M.A.N.T.I.S. | Dr. Miles Hawkins (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet |
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Out of Darkness | Addison (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 75% |
|
South Central | Ali (Character) | $321.9K | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Back to the Streets of San Francisco | Charlie Walker (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eyes of a Witness | Mambulu (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet |
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Brother Future | Denmark Vesey (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 89% |
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To Sleep With Anger | Junior (Character) | $1.2M | 1990 |
| 54% |
|
Pacific Heights | Lou Baker (Character) | $27.9M | 1990 |
| 45% |
|
Everybody's All-American | Narvel Blue (Character) | $12.6M | 1988 |
| 20% |
|
Judgment in Berlin | Edwin Palmer (Character) | $218.4K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 | Bobby Seale (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 72% |
|
The Bedroom Window | Detective Quirke (Character) | $8.8M | 1987 |
| 66% |
|
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension | John Parker (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cagney & Lacey | Mark Petrie (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 33% |
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Caveman | Bork (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lifepod | Keshah (Character) | - | 1980 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90% | 81% | The Fall of the House of Usher | C. Auguste Dupin (Character) | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | S.W.A.T. | Saint (Guest Star) | 2021-2022 |
| 94% | 81% | This Is Us | Abe (Guest Star) | 2022 |
| 85% | 81% | The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | Isaiah Bradley (Guest Star) | 2021 |
| 59% | 87% | God Friended Me | Alphonse (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Masters | Narrator | 2020 |
| 88% | 47% | Supergirl | Myr'nn (Guest Star) | 2017-2018 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | NCIS: Los Angeles | Charles Langston (Guest Star) | 2017-2018 |
| 55% | 76% | Doubt | Tyson Cobb (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 80% | 85% | UnREAL | Dr. Henry Carter (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 82% | 64% | Zoo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 90% | 97% | Southland | Joel Rucker (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | Navy Rear Adm. Beau Hindley (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 81% | No Score Yet | Detroit 1-8-7 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 25% | 80% | Trauma | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 90% | 92% | Chuck | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 84% | 72% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 95% | 94% | Battlestar Galactica | Lt. Danny "Bulldog" Novacek (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| 86% | 88% | Alias | Marcus Dixon (Character) | 2001-2006 |
| 95% | 94% | Justice League | J'onn J'onzz (Voice) | 2004-2006 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Static Shock | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Visions | Unknown (Character) | 2001 |
| 23% | No Score Yet | Kate Brasher | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| 81% | 95% | The West Wing | Jeff Breckenridge (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| 33% | No Score Yet | The Magnificent Seven | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Dr. Graham Baker (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Any Day Now | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wedding | Lute McNeil (Character) | 1998 |
| 83% | No Score Yet | EZ Streets | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| 74% | 86% | The X-Files | Marcus Duff (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Hope | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| 45% | No Score Yet | M.A.N.T.I.S. | Unknown (Character) | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cagney & Lacey | Det. Mark Petrie (Character) | 1982-1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jeffersons | Jimmy (Guest Star) | 1981 |