Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in the first three films of 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 in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker’s 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
Other film credits of Fishburne include The Color Purple (1985), School Daze (1988), King of New York (1990), Deep Cover (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Event Horizon (1997), Mystic River (2003), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Contagion (2011), 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), as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and as Earl “Pops” Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–present).
Laurence Fishburne Biography / Wiki
| Name | Laurence Fishburne |
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| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| Date of Birth | July 30, 1961 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 61 |
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Laurence Fishburne Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Boyz n the Hood | Jason ‘Furious’ Styles | 1991-07-12 | Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where te… |
| Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 | In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Har… |
| Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 | Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, howeve… |
| The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 | During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. … |
| Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 | In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship ‘Event Horizon’ which disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its m… |
| Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 | A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son”, this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as “the King of Cali”, the president of a motorcycle clu… |
| Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 | An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb… |
| Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 | Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Gri… |
| School Daze | Vaughn ‘Dap’ Dunlap | 1988-02-12 | Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend…. |
| Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 | The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adapta… |
| Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 | Two estranged half-brothers, Billy and Torch, reconnect during a brief jail stay. 20/20 Mike concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal dop… |
| Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 | The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic…. |
| Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 | During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to s… |
| Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 | This one-man play stars Laurence Fishburne in his Tony-nominated performance as Thurgood Marshall, the remarkable Civil Rights lawyer and Supreme Cour… |
| Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 | At age 82, Mitch Albom’s former rabbi Albert Lewis wants the famous Detroit sportswriter to give his eulogy when the time comes. Albom makes a visit t… |
| The Soul of a Man | Self – Narrator | 2003-05-16 | In “The Soul of A Man,” director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and … |
| Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 | In this action thriller set in post-Katrina New Orleans, business owner Jack Vermillion (Laurence Fishburne) is struggling to run a legitimate shippin… |
| The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 | Based on the award-winning book by Ezra Jack Keats. Peter goes on a magical, snowy walk to his Nana’s house to bring home their Christmas Eve dinner…. |
| Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 | Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian fo… |
| Rappin’ With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influential NY TV show, Rappin’ With The Rickster…. | |
| Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 | Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. The 60-… |
| Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 | Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him… |
| The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 | This thirty-minute documentary follows the Wachowski sisters and the film’s crew through production on the film’s famed highway chase sequence. We get… |
| Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | 2012-02-11 | A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition…. |
| Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | Follow the adventure of Ty, a misguided, one-of-a-kind, designer sneaker who doesn’t know life outside the comforts of his velvet-lined shoe box. Af… | |
| The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 | The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing t… |
| The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 | Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from… |
| The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 | Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful co… |
| The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 | A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hosta… |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 | On New Year’s Eve, inside a police station that’s about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and crim… |
| Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 | A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific… |
| Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 | A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank…. |
| Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 | A mobster orders an undercover FBI agent to torture an accountant…. |
| Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 | Akeelah is a precocious 11-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite her mother’s objections, Akeelah enters various spellin… |
| What’s Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 | Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike…. |
| Miss Evers’ Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 | The true story of the US Government’s 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure… |
| A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 | Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950 in New York City) is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses a… |
| The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 | Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than natur… |
| Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 | A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single she… |
| The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 | THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today’s most fascinating African-Americans. From the childhood inspirations that shaped their ambitions, to th… |
| The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 1991-01-01 | American Experience… |
| The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 | The making of The Matrix Reloaded: Go to the middle movie’s furthest reaches via five documentary paths revealing 21 featurettes…. |
| The Blacksmith | Wes Loomis, a ‘Blacksmith’ – the intelligence community’s go-to weapons expert. When his clandestine lab is destroyed and his colleagues murde… | ||
| Fencer | A hard-charging female athlete faces personal demons and childhood rivals as she vies for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team…. | ||
| Crimson Blues | Mills | Haunted by a chilling twist-of-fate from his past, hard nosed Homicide Detective Eddie Braun (Thomas Jane) finds elusive redemption in the back alleys… | |
| Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 | After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges b… |
| Slingshot | Captain Franks | An astronaut struggling to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan…. | |
| The Astronaut | General William Harris | An astronaut is found miraculously alive in a punctured capsule floating deep off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. General William Harris arranges for… | |
| Black Hollywood | Self | 1997-12-29 | Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt…. |
| King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 | A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York’s poor and … |
| Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 | As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of fa… |
| Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 | As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus – that kills within days – rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control t… |
| Behind the Action in ‘Biker Boyz’ | Self | 2003-01-30 | … |
| The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 | The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us h… |
| Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 | Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1 1/2 miles long, … |
| Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 | Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry “Doc” Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of … |
| The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 | Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive…. |
| The Ice Road | Jim Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 | After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save th… |
| Making ‘The Matrix’ | Self | 1999-09-21 | A promotional making-of documentary for the film Matrix, The (1999) that devotes its time to explaining the digital and practical effects contained in… |
| The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 | This making-of piece offers the standard mix of movie snippets, behind the scenes materials, and interviews from cast and crew on the making of the fi… |
| Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) | 2010-10-19 | Moments of Extraction is an animated short film shows what each character of Predators movie was doing when they were captured by the Predators. Creat… |
| Megalopolis | An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster…. | ||
| Tau Ceti Foxtrot | A group of rebels set out to kill the oligarchs and military thugs who terrorize a war-torn planet in the remote Tau Ceti solar system…. | ||
| Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-01-01 | The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy…. |
| Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 | A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist against their own company. Armed with… |
| The Matrix Revisited | Self – Morpheus | 2001-11-19 | The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix…. |
| King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2007-01-16 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War documents the work Martin Luther King did in attempting to bring peace to people during the turmoil of the Vietnam… |
| The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 | On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness … |
| August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chron… | |
| Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 | A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passe… |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 | John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood o… |
| John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 | Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member o… |
| The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 | The making of The Matrix Revolutions: The cataclysmic final confrontation chronicled through six documentary pods revealing 28 featurettes… |
| Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Himself | 2003-06-24 | Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame racism an… |
| If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 | Life in a black ghetto isn’t easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Gr… |
| Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 | A brief profile of the main characters of Predators movie who parashooted onto the planet. The short film was released on the Predators (2010) Blu-ray… |
| All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 | When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to … |
| Apocalypse Now | Tyrone ‘Clean’ Miller | 1979-08-15 | At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, “does not exist, nor will it ever exist.” … |
| Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 | In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy’s assas… |
| Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 | Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerv… |
| Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 | A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w… |
| Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 | A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators…. |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 | A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer…. |
| Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 | A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in tro… |
| Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 | A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wi… |
| For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 | This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the… |
| Michael Jordan to the max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 | This documentary showcases basketball player Michael Jordan’s awe-inspiring moves, providing behind-the-scenes and on-the-court action, including foot… |
| Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 | A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag… |
| Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 | A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched…. |
| John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-22 | With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face … |
| The Enduring Significance of ‘Boyz n the Hood’ | Self | 2011-07-19 | A wonderful retrospective supplement that features much of the primary cast cast as well as Writer/Director John Singleton looking back at the picture… |
| The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 | Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle betw… |
| The Making of ‘Event Horizon’ | 2006-04-18 | The Making of Event Horizon, a five-part documentary: Into the Jaws of Darkness, The Body of the Beast, Liberate Tutume Ex Infernis, The Scale to Hell… | |
| Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | 2020-05-23 | In this hysterical and deeply moving play, a group of old friends find themselves at Harlem’s Ortiz Funeral Home to mourn the death of a beloved nun f… |
| Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 2015-08-18 | Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Sco… |
| Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 | A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs…. |
| 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 | Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine… |
| Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 | An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami…. |
| Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 | When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson t… |
| Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 | A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w… |
| Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 | A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son’s demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this un… |
| Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 | For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he’s more than just a video-game jun… |
| Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | 2003-09-02 | Cast and crew offer up a nice overview piece, discussing the picture’s authenticity, real life in the time of Boyz n the Hood, the parallels between S… | |
| black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | 2022-04-19 | An exclusive look at final table read and original audition tapes; interviews with cast, crew and guest stars of the show’s eight seasons…. |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 | A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors’ health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filmi… |
| Where’d You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 | When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bern… |
| MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 | In this MTV short film parody of The Matrix Reloaded, Justin Timberlake and Seann William Scott must navigate their way through the world of The Matri… |
| Bonnie | Self | 2022-08-31 | A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann…. |
| Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 | Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother’s reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare … |
| Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 | Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try t… |
| Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 | The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable ‘Silver Surfer’, but all is… |
| Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 | Malik is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic ab… |
| Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 | Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, … |
| A Man’s Story | Self | 2011-10-08 | Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng…. |
| TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 | After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei… |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 | It’s been many years since Freddy Krueger’s first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy’s all grown up;… |
| I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 | Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying … |
| Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 | This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to o… |
| Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 | A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers … |
| Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 | 2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn’t make it up… but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a … |
| Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 | Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into… |
| The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 | Harlem’s legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide…. |
| Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 | Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles…. |
| The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 | An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After… |
| Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 | A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood…… |
| Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 | David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along s… |
| Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 | Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening… |
| Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-05 | A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along wi… |
| Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | 2021-09-09 | As he enters his eighth decade in the movies, Warner Bros. celebrates this cinematic icon – actor, producer, director, master filmmaker – with 9 new d… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 | For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office a… |
Laurence Fishburne Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Once in the Life | Director | 2000-10-27 | Two estranged half-brothers, Billy and Torch, reconnect during a brief jail stay. 20/20 Mike concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal dop… |
Laurence Fishburne Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Five Fingers | Producer | 2006-05-01 | Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, howeve… |
| Always Outnumbered | Executive Producer | 1998-03-21 | An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb… |
| Once in the Life | Producer | 2000-10-27 | Two estranged half-brothers, Billy and Torch, reconnect during a brief jail stay. 20/20 Mike concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal dop… |
| Miss Evers’ Boys | Executive Producer | 1997-02-22 | The true story of the US Government’s 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure… |
| Akeelah and the Bee | Producer | 2006-04-28 | Akeelah is a precocious 11-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite her mother’s objections, Akeelah enters various spellin… |
| Hoodlum | Executive Producer | 1997-08-27 | In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Har… |
| The Cave of Adullam | Producer | 2022-06-13 | Living by the mantra ‘it’s easier to raise boys than to repair broken men’, martial arts sensei Jason Wilson tenderly guides his often-troubled young … |
| The Cave of Adullam | Executive Producer | 2022-06-13 | Living by the mantra ‘it’s easier to raise boys than to repair broken men’, martial arts sensei Jason Wilson tenderly guides his often-troubled young … |
| Sneaks | Producer | Follow the adventure of Ty, a misguided, one-of-a-kind, designer sneaker who doesn’t know life outside the comforts of his velvet-lined shoe box. Af… | |
| Executive Producer | A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood…. | ||
| Executive Producer | Explore what it will be like to be human one million years into the future. Today’s brightest futurists, scientists, scholars and notable science fi… | ||
| Executive Producer | Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ‘80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to ass… | ||
| Executive Producer | Zoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the… | ||
| Executive Producer | After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo wor… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Once in the Life | Writer | 2000-10-27 | Two estranged half-brothers, Billy and Torch, reconnect during a brief jail stay. 20/20 Mike concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal dop… |
| Once in the Life | Screenplay | 2000-10-27 | Two estranged half-brothers, Billy and Torch, reconnect during a brief jail stay. 20/20 Mike concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal dop… |
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