Laurence Fishburne: movies and TV shows
Laurence Fishburne has 231 credits in the archive: 167 films and 64 TV series, from 1951 to 2027. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2027 · busiest year: 2003 (14 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Gatto | Rocco (voice) | Film | — | 65 |
| 2027 | The Exorcist: Martyrs | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2025 | Number One on the Call Sheet | Self | TV | 3.6 | 63 |
| 2025 | The Amateur | Henderson | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 2025 | The Astronaut | General William Harris | Film | 6.1 | 63 |
| 2025 | The Astronaut | Film | 6.1 | 63 | |
| 2025 | Wick Is Pain | Self | Film | 7.4 | 63 |
| 2025 | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | Film | 5.9 | 63 |
| 2025 | Sneaks | Film | 5.9 | 63 | |
| 2025 | Megadoc | Self | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2024 | Transformers One | Alpha Trion (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 62 |
| 2024 | Slingshot | Captain Franks | Film | 6.1 | 62 |
| 2024 | Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | Film | 5.2 | 62 |
| 2024 | Clipped | Doc Rivers | TV | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2024 | Cellar Door | Emmett | Film | 5.8 | 62 |
| 2024 | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Moon Girl's Lab | TV | — | 62 | |
| 2023 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | Film | 7.7 | 61 |
| 2023 | Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Foster (voice) | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2023 | Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | The Beyonder (voice) | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2023 | Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Backstory Man (voice) | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2023 | Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Beyonder (voice) | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2023 | Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | TV | 7.6 | 61 | |
| 2022 | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 2022 | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | Film | 6.0 | 60 |
| 2022 | Bonnie | Self | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 2022 | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | Film | 6.2 | 60 |
| 2022 | The Cave of Adullam | Film | — | 60 | |
| 2022 | The Cave of Adullam | Film | — | 60 | |
| 2022 | black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | Film | 2.5 | 60 |
| 2021 | What If...? | Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 59 |
| 2021 | What If...? | Bill Foster / Goliath (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 59 |
| 2021 | The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 59 |
| 2021 | The Ice Road | Goldenrod | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 2021 | MacGruber | General Barrett Fasoose | TV | 6.0 | 59 |
| 2021 | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | TV | 7.0 | 59 |
| 2021 | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 2021 | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 2020 | History's Greatest Mysteries | Self - Host | TV | 7.8 | 58 |
| 2020 | #FreeRayshawn | Steven Poincy | TV | 6.9 | 58 |
| 2020 | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 2020 | Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Self | Film | 4.8 | 58 |
| 2020 | Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | Film | — | 58 |
| 2019 | The Witcher | Regis | TV | 7.9 | 57 |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | Film | 7.4 | 57 |
| 2019 | mixed-ish | Pops Johnson | TV | 7.1 | 57 |
| 2019 | mixed-ish | TV | 7.1 | 57 | |
| 2019 | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | Film | 6.6 | 57 |
| 2019 | Running with the Devil | The Man | Film | 5.4 | 57 |
| 2019 | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | Film | 4.6 | 57 |
| 2018 | grown-ish | Pops Johnson | TV | 7.8 | 56 |
| 2018 | grown-ish | TV | 7.8 | 56 | |
| 2018 | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | Film | 6.9 | 56 |
| 2018 | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | Film | 6.9 | 56 |
| 2018 | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Self | TV | 6.3 | 56 |
| 2017 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2017 | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | TV | 7.8 | 55 |
| 2017 | Year Million | Narrator | TV | 8.4 | 55 |
| 2017 | Year Million | TV | 8.4 | 55 | |
| 2017 | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | Film | 6.8 | 55 |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 2016 | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 2016 | Roots | Alex Haley | TV | 6.9 | 54 |
| 2016 | Standoff | Sade | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 2016 | The Snowy Day | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 53 |
| 2015 | The Muppets | Self | TV | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2015 | Jay Leno's Garage | Self | TV | 7.3 | 53 |
| 2015 | Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 2015 | Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 2015 | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 2014 | black-ish | Pops Johnson | TV | 7.1 | 52 |
| 2014 | black-ish | TV | 7.1 | 52 | |
| 2014 | Ride Along | Omar | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 2014 | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 2014 | Rudderless | Del | Film | 7.2 | 52 |
| 2013 | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | TV | 8.3 | 51 |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Perry White | Film | 6.7 | 51 |
| 2013 | The Frame | Perry White | TV | 10.0 | 51 |
| 2013 | The Colony | Briggs | Film | 5.5 | 51 |
| 2013 | Khumba | Seko (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 2013 | Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2012 | Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 2011 | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 2011 | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | Film | 6.6 | 49 |
| 2011 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 2011 | A Man's Story | Self | Film | 6.9 | 49 |
| 2011 | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | Film | 2.0 | 49 |
| 2010 | Conan | Self | TV | 7.2 | 48 |
| 2010 | The Talk | Self | TV | 3.0 | 48 |
| 2010 | Predators | Noland | Film | 6.3 | 48 |
| 2010 | Top Gear | TV | 6.1 | 48 | |
| 2010 | Predators: The Chosen | Film | 3.0 | 48 | |
| 2010 | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | Film | 2.0 | 48 |
| 2010 | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (voice) | Film | 4.2 | 48 |
| 2010 | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Film | 4.2 | 48 | |
| 2009 | Armored | Baines | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 2009 | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 2008 | 21 | Cole Williams | Film | 6.7 | 46 |
| 2008 | Tortured | Archie Green | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 2008 | Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence | Self | TV | 7.5 | 46 |
| 2008 | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 2007 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | Film | 5.6 | 45 |
| 2007 | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 45 |
| 2007 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | Film | 6.2 | 45 |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | Film | 8.5 | 45 |
| 2007 | America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | Film | — | 45 |
| 2007 | America's Game: 1986 New York Giants | Narrator | Film | — | 45 |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 2006 | America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions | Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 44 |
| 2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | Film | 7.1 | 44 |
| 2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | Film | 7.1 | 44 | |
| 2006 | Bobby | Edward Robinson | Film | 6.4 | 44 |
| 2006 | Five Fingers | Ahmat | Film | 6.0 | 44 |
| 2006 | Five Fingers | Film | 6.0 | 44 | |
| 2006 | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | Film | 7.4 | 44 |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | TV | 6.8 | 43 |
| 2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 43 |
| 2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 2005 | Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 43 |
| 2005 | On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 43 |
| 2004 | CSI: NY | Ray Langston | TV | 7.3 | 42 |
| 2004 | Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix | Morpheus | Film | 7.3 | 42 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | Film | 6.9 | 42 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | Film | 6.8 | 42 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | Film | 7.1 | 42 |
| 2004 | Mystic River: Beneath the Surface | Self | Film | 9.5 | 42 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Self | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | TV | 5.3 | 41 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | Film | 6.8 | 41 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | Film | 7.1 | 41 |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | Film | 7.7 | 41 |
| 2003 | The Blues | Self - Narrator | TV | 7.4 | 41 |
| 2003 | Biker Boyz | Smoke | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 2003 | A History of Sex | Self | Film | 5.5 | 41 |
| 2003 | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | Film | 6.6 | 41 |
| 2003 | Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | Film | 10.0 | 41 |
| 2003 | MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 41 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | Film | 6.1 | 41 |
| 2003 | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | Film | 8.3 | 41 |
| 2003 | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | Film | — | 41 |
| 2003 | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | Film | 6.0 | 41 |
| 2002 | CSI: Miami | CSI Dr. Ray Langston | TV | 7.7 | 40 |
| 2002 | Undercover Brother | Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 40 |
| 2001 | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 2001 | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 2001 | Spooge | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Raymond Langston | TV | 7.6 | 38 |
| 2000 | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | Film | 4.1 | 38 |
| 2000 | Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 2000 | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | Film | 4.8 | 38 |
| 2000 | Once in the Life | Film | 4.8 | 38 | |
| 2000 | Once in the Life | Film | 4.8 | 38 | |
| 2000 | Once in the Life | Film | 4.8 | 38 | |
| 2000 | Once in the Life | Film | 4.8 | 38 | |
| 2000 | Once in the Life | Film | 4.8 | 38 | |
| 2000 | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 38 |
| 1999 | The Matrix | Morpheus | Film | 8.3 | 37 |
| 1999 | Making "The Matrix" | Self | Film | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1998 | The Magic Hour | Self | TV | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1998 | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | Film | 6.4 | 36 |
| 1998 | Always Outnumbered | Film | 6.4 | 36 | |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 35 |
| 1997 | Event Horizon | Miller | Film | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1997 | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | Film | 6.5 | 35 |
| 1997 | Hoodlum | Film | 6.5 | 35 | |
| 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | Film | 6.5 | 35 |
| 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Film | 6.5 | 35 | |
| 1997 | Black Hollywood | Self | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 34 |
| 1996 | Fled | Piper | Film | 5.7 | 34 |
| 1995 | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | Film | 6.3 | 33 |
| 1995 | MADtv | Self | TV | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1995 | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | Film | 6.3 | 33 |
| 1995 | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | Film | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1995 | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | Film | 4.9 | 33 |
| 1995 | Othello | Othello | Film | 6.4 | 33 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 32 |
| 1993 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | Film | 7.1 | 31 |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | Film | 7.1 | 31 |
| 1993 | TriBeCa | TV | 8.0 | 31 | |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | TV | 5.4 | 30 | |
| 1992 | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | Film | 6.8 | 30 |
| 1991 | Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | Film | 7.6 | 29 |
| 1991 | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | Film | 6.3 | 29 |
| 1991 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | Film | 7.9 | 29 |
| 1991 | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | Film | 4.3 | 29 |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice) | TV | 7.9 | 28 |
| 1990 | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | Film | 6.8 | 28 |
| 1990 | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | Film | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1990 | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | Film | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | TV | 5.6 | 26 | |
| 1988 | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | Film | 6.2 | 26 |
| 1988 | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | Film | 5.7 | 26 |
| 1988 | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | Film | 7.2 | 26 |
| 1987 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | Film | 6.7 | 25 |
| 1987 | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | Film | 6.0 | 25 |
| 1987 | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | Film | 6.2 | 25 |
| 1986 | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | TV | 7.2 | 24 |
| 1986 | Quicksilver | Voodoo | Film | 5.6 | 24 |
| 1986 | Band of the Hand | Cream | Film | 6.2 | 24 |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Casey Taylor | TV | 7.1 | 23 |
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | TV | 6.9 | 23 | |
| 1985 | The Color Purple | Swain | Film | 7.7 | 23 |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Prison Guard Keller | TV | 7.4 | 22 |
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | Film | 6.5 | 22 |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | Midget | Film | 7.0 | 21 |
| 1983 | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | Film | 5.0 | 21 |
| 1983 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | Film | 7.0 | 21 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Jimbo Collins | TV | 6.6 | 20 |
| 1982 | Death Wish II | Cutter | Film | 6.3 | 20 |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues | TV | 7.6 | 19 | |
| 1980 | Willie & Phil | High School Student | Film | 4.6 | 18 |
| 1980 | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | TV | 8.0 | 18 |
| 1980 | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | TV | 7.0 | 18 |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | Film | 8.3 | 17 |
| 1979 | Trapper John, M.D. | TV | 6.6 | 17 | |
| 1979 | Fast Break | Street Kid | Film | 5.3 | 17 |
| 1975 | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | Film | 6.8 | 13 |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H | Corporal Dorsey | TV | 7.9 | 10 |
| 1972 | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | Film | 5.0 | 10 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | — | 5 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 8 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Michael Waring | TV | 8.8 | 10 |
| Inheritance | Film | — | — | ||
| Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn | Self | Film | — | — | |
| The Little Bedroom | Film | — | — | ||
| Interference | Film | — | — | ||
| The Blacksmith | Mather | Film | — | — | |
| Crimson Blues | Mills | Film | — | — | |
| Blacksmith | Mather | Film | — | — | |
| The Rule of Nines | Film | — | — |