| Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023) Self (archive footage) |
| Paul Newman, l'intranquille (2023) Self (archive footage) |
| Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte (2023) (archive footage) |
| Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain (2022) Self (archive footage) |
| Sidney (2022) Self |
| Poitier's Walter Lee (2018) Self (archive footage) |
| Mr. SOUL! (2018) Self (archive footage) |
| Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017) Self |
| I Am Not Your Negro (2017) Various Roles (archive footage) |
| The Madding Crowd (2017) Self (archive footage) |
| And the Oscar Goes To... (2014) Self (archive footage) |
| Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (2013) Self |
| Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013) Self |
| Sing Your Song (2012) Self |
| Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) Self |
| Hollywood Legenden (2004) Self |
| The Making of ‘Sneakers’ (2003) Self |
| Quincy Jones: In the Pocket (2001) Self |
| The Last Brickmaker in America (2001) Henry Cobb |
| Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters (2000) Self |
| Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000) |
| The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999) Noah Dearborn |
| Free of Eden (1999) Will Cleamons |
| David and Lisa (1998) Dr. Jack Miller |
| Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998) Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) |
| The Jackal (1997) Carter Preston |
| Mandela and de Klerk (1997) Nelson Mandela |
| Afro Promo (1997) Self (archive footage) |
| To Sir, with Love II (1996) Mark Thackeray |
| Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995) Self |
| Sneakers (1992) Crease |
| Separate But Equal (1991) Thurgood Marshall |
| Little Nikita (1988) Roy Parmenter |
| Shoot to Kill (1988) Warren Stantin |
| Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988) Self - Audience Member |
| The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986) Self |
| Night of 100 Stars II (1985) Self |
| I Love Quincy (1984) Self |
| Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) Narrator (voice) |
| A Piece of the Action (1977) Manny Durrell |
| Let's Do It Again (1975) Clyde Williams |
| The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) Shack Twala |
| Uptown Saturday Night (1974) Steve Jackson |
| A Warm December (1973) Dr. Matt Younger |
| Nationtime (1972) Self - Narrator |
| Buck and the Preacher (1972) Buck |
| The Organization (1971) Virgil Tibbs |
| Brother John (1971) John Kane |
| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) Virgil Tibbs |
| King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) Self (archive footage) |
| The Lost Man (1969) Jason Higgs |
| Three Young Americans in Search of Survival (1969) Himself |
| For Love of Ivy (1968) Jack Parks |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) John Prentice |
| In the Heat of the Night (1967) Virgil Tibbs |
| To Sir, with Love (1967) Mark Thackeray |
| Duel at Diablo (1966) Toller |
| The Strolling '20s (1966) Self |
| The Slender Thread (1965) Alan Newell |
| A Patch of Blue (1965) Gordon Ralfe |
| The Bedford Incident (1965) Ben Munceford |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Simon of Cyrene |
| A Cinderella Named Elizabeth (1965) Self |
| The Long Ships (1964) Aly Mansuh |
| Lilies of the Field (1963) Homer Smith |
| Pressure Point (1962) Doctor |
| Paris Blues (1961) Eddie Cook |
| A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Walter Lee Younger |
| All the Young Men (1960) Sgt. Eddie Towler |
| Virgin Island (1959) Marcus |
| Porgy and Bess (1959) Porgy |
| The Defiant Ones (1958) Noah Cullen |
| The Mark of the Hawk (1957) Obam |
| Band of Angels (1957) Rau-Ru |
| Something of Value (1957) Kimani Wa Karanja |
| Edge of the City (1957) Tommy Tyler |
| Good-bye, My Lady (1956) Gates Watson |
| A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955) Tommy Tyler |
| Blackboard Jungle (1955) Gregory W. Miller |
| Go Man Go (1954) Inman Jackson |
| The Red Ball Express (1952) Robertson |
| Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) Reverend Msimangu |
| No Way Out (1950) Luther Brooks |
| Sepia Cinderella (1947) Nightclub Extra (uncredited) |