Notable Performances
- Sergeant Brown in Carmen Jones (1954 film version)
- Crown in Porgy and Bess (1959 film version)
- Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Johnny in The L-Shaped Room (1962)
- Matthew Robinson in Heavens Above! (1963)
- Runaway slave Pompey in "Daniel Boone" episode "Pompey" (12-10-64)
- Aesop in Major Dundee (1965)
- Rodriguez in The Pawnbroker (film) (1965)
- Stephen Kumalo in Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars (stage revival and 1974 film version) — nominated for a Tony Award
- The Reverend Canon Frederick Chasuble, D.D. in an all-black film version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1992)
- Lieutenant Hatcher in the film Soylent Green
- Darth Vader in the Star Wars radio series
- The Ogre in the Faerie Tale Theatre episode Puss in Boots.
- Detective Frank Lewis in The Young and the Restless
- Fleet Admiral Cartwright in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
- Lucius Fox in Batman: The Animated Series
- Joseph Sisko, Benjamin Sisko's father, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Dark Kat in SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Bloth in The Pirates of Dark Water, Tormack in Galtar and the Golden Lance and Boneyard in Gravedale High.
- An uncredited voice-acting performance as the boxer Jack Johnson on the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson.
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