Actor
Carl Lumbly
Biography

Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as television's first black superhero in M.A.N.T.I.S., Dick Hallorann in Doctor Sleep, NYPD detective Marcus Petrie on the CBS police drama Cagney & Lacey, CIA agent Marcus Dixon on the ABC espionage drama series Alias, and as the voice of J'onn J'onnz / Martian Manhunter in the animated series Justice League, Static Shock, and Justice League Unlimited, all part of the DC Animated Universe. As a reference ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- The Life of Chuck | Sam Yarbrough
2025 -- Captain America: Brave New World | Isaiah Bradley
2022 -- I'm Charlie Walker | Willie
2021 -- Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Isaiah Bradley (archive footage)
2019 -- Doctor Sleep | Dick Halloran
2019 -- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Miles Davis (voice)
2017 -- A Cure for Wellness | Mr. Wilson
2016 -- Love Twice | Rodrigo
2015 -- Justice League: Gods and Monsters | Silas Stone (voice)
2015 -- Quitters | Dr. Weiss
2012 -- Justice League: Doom | J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter / Ma'alefa'ak (voice)
2010 -- Black Panther | Uncle S'Yan
2010 -- Nominated | Ray Cowan
2008 -- The Alphabet Killer | Dr. Ellis Parks
2007 -- Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Samuel Nujoma
2004 -- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice)
2004 -- Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie | J'onn J'onzz (voice)
2003 -- Warming by the Devil's Fire | Narrator
2003 -- Justice League: Paradise Lost | J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice)
2003 -- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Nat Turner - Gray
2003 -- Sounder | The Father
2002 -- Just a Dream | J.M. Hoagland
2001 -- Justice League: Secret Origins | J'onn J'onzz (voice)
2000 -- Men of Honor | Mac Brashear
2000 -- Little Richard | Bud Penniman
2000 -- The Color of Friendship | Ron Dellums
1999 -- Border Line | Detective Mollo
1998 -- How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Judge Spencer Boyle
1998 -- The Wedding | Lute McNeil
1998 -- Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | Additional Voices (voice)
1997 -- Buffalo Soldiers | John Horse
1997 -- The Ditchdigger's Daughters | Donald Thornton
1996 -- Nightjohn | Nightjohn
1996 -- America's Dream | Cal (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
1994 -- Cagney & Lacey: The Return | Marcus Petrie
1994 -- On Promised Land | Floyd Ween
1994 -- M.A.N.T.I.S. | Dr. Miles Hawkins
1994 -- Out of Darkness | Addison
1992 -- South Central | Ali
1992 -- Back to the Streets of San Francisco | Charlie Walker
1991 -- Eyes of a Witness | Mambulu
1991 -- Brother Future | Denmark Vessy
1991 -- The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self
1990 -- To Sleep with Anger | Junior
1990 -- Pacific Heights | Lieutenant Lou Baker
1990 -- Moe's World |
1988 -- Everybody's All-American | Narvel Blue
1987 -- Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 | Bobby Seale
1987 -- The Bedroom Window | Quirke
1985 -- The Gospel at Colonus | Theseus
1984 -- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | John Parker
1981 -- Caveman | Bork
1981 -- Lifepod | Keshah
1979 -- Undercover with the KKK | Rev. Lowell
1979 -- Escape from Alcatraz | Inmate
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