Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer.
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Roger Guenveur Smith Biography / Wiki
| Name | Roger Guenveur Smith |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1959-07-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 63 |
| Deathday |
Roger Guenveur Smith Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Huey P. Newton Story | Huey P. Newton | 2001-06-18 | A Huey P. Newton Story is a 2001 film directed by Spike Lee. It is a filmed performance of Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show of the same name. Smith… |
| Joy Road | Charles Blocker | 2011-10-21 | Tony Smalls is a burned out lawyer looking for a new direction in life. He’s forced to put his plans on hold when his sister Nia asks him to defend he… |
| Justice | Carter | 2004-05-12 | Public defender Carter (Roger Smith) has had all he can take dealing with a corrupt judicial system. Over the objections of his wife, Sharice (Monica … |
| Rodney King | Rodney King | 2017-04-28 | 25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, aroun… |
| Dirty | Detective Berg | 2016-07-12 | Two dirty cops find themselves relieved of over two million dollars in stolen drugs and money, forcing them into a bizarre and mysterious investigatio… |
| God’s Waiting List | Solomon Corbin | 2006-05-23 | A gritty, heartfelt drama about a brother and sister who both start out with the American Dream of running their own business and being successful. Te… |
| CornerStore | Earl | 2011-06-01 | Chronicles one eventful hot summer day at a convenience store along Detroit’s Six Mile Road. Owned by the Jenkins family, the store is operated by Ear… |
| Exhortation | 2017-05-13 | The divisional director of a large firm attempts to motivate his staff…. | |
| Behind the Movement | Raymond | 2018-11-15 | Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boy… |
| The Queen of Hollywood Blvd | Duke | 2018-03-23 | On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her… |
| The Other Side | Martin | 2018-08-25 | A man must fight for his fiancée’s affection, after her old college friend visits with plans of rekindling more than just a friendship…. |
| Influence | Bradley Hudson | 2020-02-20 | Carl Weber introduces us to the Hudsons, a family of African-American lawyers lead by famed attorney Bradley Hudson. They are handed the task to defen… |
| It’s Not About Jimmy Keene | Bukka LaRocke | 2019-01-29 | The police shooting of an unarmed black teen causes friction within a mixed-race Los Angeles family. Ivan, the youngest sibling, is stalked by visions… |
| The Available Wife | Walter | 2020-12-17 | When money, affairs, power and lies collide, Nicole Wright, a beautiful and successful music CEOs life is about to crumble in front of her. While leav… |
| I’ll See You Around | Michael Gomez | 2019-08-02 | Lucas, an everyman, navigates complicated personal relationships in the context of a drug crisis that grips the nation and his own family, now and in … |
| Mercenary for Justice | Anthony Chapel | 2006-04-25 | Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they’re tryi… |
| Fist of the Warrior | Det. Craig Barnes | 2007-06-04 | First-class assassin Lee Choe has spent years working for the mob. When his handler turns on him by killing his girlfriend and framing him for the mur… |
| Incognito | Quinn Mathis | 1999-09-17 | A rape victim continues to be stalked by the man who attacked her. Her fiancé is no help, so her father hires a bodyguard to protect her…. |
| Fatwa | Samir Al-Faied | 2006-03-24 | In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she’s the subject of a terrorist plot…. |
| The Five Rules Of Success | Santos | 2020-08-24 | An enterprising ex-convict overcomes tragedy by designing his own path to success within a society that failed him…. |
| Fighting | Jack Dancing | 2009-04-24 | Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck chan… |
| Salvation Road | The Man | 2010-01-01 | Business becomes unusual for an unsuspecting hitman who senses that he’s been witnessed murdering his traitorous mentor by a 9 year old boy…. |
| The Color of Courage | 1999-02-10 | Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose… | |
| I Believe in America | Cesar | 2007-07-02 | Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground movement for independence, struggle with their nee… |
| Burning Shadow | Mr. Jones | 2018-08-07 | Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie … |
| Supermodel | Max | 2015-06-15 | A young girl from the Brooklyn housing projects goes from the subway to the runway becoming one of the most sought after models in the fashion industr… |
| Poetic Justice | Heywood | 1993-07-23 | Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to att… |
| Hollow Point | Detective Chuck Bryant | 2019-06-13 | When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the… |
| Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later | 2009-06-30 | In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a twenti… | |
| In Sickness and in Health | Calvin | 2012-06-23 | Young and gorgeous with a fiancé who adores her, Faith seems to have it all. But with just days before their wedding, she’s hiding a serious secret a… |
| Shade | Marlo | 2003-05-18 | Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean … |
| Cover | Kevin Parker | 2007-05-08 | When someone is murdered on New Year’s Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that h… |
| Confessions | Father Jeffrey | 2006-07-23 | Confessions of a Call Girl is a revealing story of a women’s struggle for balance as she battles a secret addiction while fighting to save her family … |
| Real Talk | Oliver James / King Of Diamonds | 2021-06-23 | While humorous, sarcastic and sometimes harsh, Dominique the Dame brings to the forefront America’s contemporary views on race, sex, drugs, religion a… |
| All About the Benjamins | Julian Ramose | 2002-03-08 | Bucum Jackson (Cube) is a bounty hunter with a lot of attitude and no interest in taking on a partner. Working at Martinez Bail Bonds, Jackson has uno… |
| Panther | Pruitt | 1995-05-04 | Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Pa… |
| Facade | Henson | 1999-06-15 | It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth… |
| Cosmic Slop | 1994-01-01 | In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world’s minorities: Part I: A conservative… | |
| Page 36 | Avoe Vullaley | 2010-01-01 | To save his ailing son from certain death, a father voluntarily sells himself into slavery through an underground corporation. After entering into a c… |
| Eve’s Bayou | Lenny Mereaux | 1997-11-07 | Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals the… |
| Final Destination | Agent Schreck | 2000-03-17 | After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, on… |
| Tales from the Hood | Rhodie | 1995-05-24 | A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business…. |
| Better Mus’ Come | Prime Minister | 2013-03-15 | The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies, and advance their politica… |
| The Birth of a Nation | Isaiah | 2016-09-09 | Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation… |
| Get on the Bus | Gary | 1996-10-16 | Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of character… |
| The Clapper | Dr. Rogers B Hay | 2018-01-26 | 15 minutes of fame destroys the life of a man who works as a clapper in television…. |
| The Warden | Napoliano | 2001-01-12 | … |
| Till | Dr. T.R.M. Howard | 2022-10-14 | The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting h… |
| Do the Right Thing | Smiley | 1989-06-14 | Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer… |
| Bitch | Steven Sheriff | 2017-01-20 | The provocative tale of a woman who snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog. Her philandering, absentee husband is… |
| King of New York | Tanner | 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 … |
| Dope | Austin Jacoby | 2015-06-19 | Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A ch… |
| Where is Rocky II? | Museum Director (segment: “Monument One”) | 2016-05-01 | Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork…. |
| The Son of No One | Hanky | 2011-11-04 | A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved m… |
| Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks | Paul Sydney | 2017-05-04 | Estranged siblings Marcus and Michelle Brinks are reunited after the sudden death of their parents, two globe-trotting aid workers who they barely kne… |
| Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003-02-10 | When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors wer… | |
| Summer of Sam | Det. Curt Atwater | 1999-07-02 | Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx … |
| Hamlet | Laertes | 2000-12-10 | To be or not to be, etc…. |
| They Die by Dawn | Jourdon Anderson | 2013-09-20 | Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhe… |
| Empire State | Agent Marichal | 2013-09-03 | After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis settles for a security guard job with an armoured truck company. After he makes the mist… |
| Deep Cover | Eddie | 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… |
| Abduction | Mr. Miles | 2011-09-22 | A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website…. |
| School Daze | Gammite Yoda | 1988-02-12 | Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend…. |
| American Gangster | Nate | 2007-11-02 | Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem dist… |
| The O.J. Simpson Story | Professor Ford | 1995-01-31 | Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for Brow… |
| Marshall | Walter White | 2017-10-13 | Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases…. |
| Malcolm X | Rudy | 1992-11-18 | A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ’50s, he b… |
| He Got Game | Big Time Willie | 1998-05-01 | A basketball player’s father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence…. |
| Chi-Raq | Red, White, and Blue Insurance Salesman | 2015-12-04 | A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago…. |
Roger Guenveur Smith Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| It’s Not About Jimmy Keene | Producer | 2019-01-29 | The police shooting of an unarmed black teen causes friction within a mixed-race Los Angeles family. Ivan, the youngest sibling, is stalked by visions… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Rodney King | Writer | 2017-04-28 | 25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, aroun… |
| A Huey P. Newton Story | Writer | 2001-06-18 | A Huey P. Newton Story is a 2001 film directed by Spike Lee. It is a filmed performance of Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show of the same name. Smith… |
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