Actor
Courtney B. Vance
Biography

Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in the original productions of August Wilson's Fences in 1985, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (201 ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- Lilo & Stitch | Cobra Bubbles
2023 -- Heist 88 | Jeremy Horne
2020 -- Between the World and Me | Self
2020 -- Project Power | Captain Craine
2020 -- Uncorked | Louis
2020 -- The Photograph | Louis Morton
2020 -- Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story | Self - Narrator
2019 -- On Broadway | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- Ben Is Back | Mr. Beeby
2018 -- The Groveland Four | Self - Narrator
2018 -- Isle of Dogs | Narrator (voice)
2017 -- The Mummy | Colonel Greenway
2017 -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
2016 -- Office Christmas Party | Walter Davis
2015 -- Terminator Genisys | Miles Dyson
2012 -- Let It Shine | Jacob
2012 -- The Divide | Delvin
2012 -- Joyful Noise | Pastor Dale
2011 -- Final Destination 5 | Agent Jim Block
2010 -- Extraordinary Measures | Marcus Temple
2009 -- Hurricane Season | Mr. Randolph
2008 -- Nothing But the Truth | Agent O'Hara
2006 -- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Corey (segment "Fences")
2005 -- The Fight | Narrator (voice)
2004 -- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice)
2003 -- Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives |
2002 -- Partners of the Heart | Vivien Thomas (voice)
2002 -- Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story | Clarence Brandley
2002 -- D-Tox | Reverend Jones
2000 -- Space Cowboys | Roger Hines
2000 -- The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story |
2000 -- The Acting Class | Self
1999 -- Love and Action in Chicago | Eddie Jones
1999 -- Cookie's Fortune | Otis Tucker
1998 -- Naked City: A Killer Christmas | Officer James Halloran
1998 -- Blind Faith | John Williams
1998 -- Naked City: Justice with a Bullet | Officer James Halloran
1998 -- Ambushed | Jerry Robinson
1997 -- 12 Angry Men | Foreman
1996 -- The Preacher's Wife | Reverend Henry Biggs
1996 -- The Boys Next Door | Lucien P. Singer
1995 -- The Affair | Travis Holloway
1995 -- The Last Supper | Luke
1995 -- The Tuskegee Airmen | Lt. Glenn
1995 -- Dangerous Minds | Mr. George Grandey
1995 -- Panther | Bobby Seale
1995 -- The Piano Lesson | Lymon
1994 -- Holy Matrimony | Cooper
1994 -- Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad | Thomas
1993 -- Percy & Thunder | Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
1993 -- Beyond the Law | Conroy Price
1993 -- The Adventures of Huck Finn | Jim
1992 -- In the Line of Duty: Street War | Justice Butler
1992 -- Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems | (voice)
1992 -- Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes | (voice)
1991 -- Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers | Reader
1990 -- The Hunt for Red October | Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
1987 -- Hamburger Hill | Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
1983 -- First Affair | Male Student #2
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