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Courtney B. Vance

Courtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in Fences, Six Degrees of Separation, and Lucky Guy 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), and Isle of Dogs (2018).

English
Filmography

The Mummy

2017
as Colonel Greenway

Final Destination 5

2011
as Agent Block

Terminator Genisys

2015
as Miles Dyson

Project Power

2020
as Captain Craine

12 Angry Men

1997
as Foreman

Dangerous Minds

1995
as George Grandey

Let It Shine

2012
as Jacob

Ben Is Back

2018
as Mr. Beeby

Isle of Dogs

2018
as Narrator

Office Christmas Party

2016
as Walter Davis

The Hunt for Red October

1990
as Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones

Panther

1995
as Bobby Seale

The Divide

2011
as Delvin

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

1998
as Officer James Halloran

Hamburger Hill

1987
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

Ambushed

1998
as Jerry Robinson

The Last Supper

1995
as Luke

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995
as Lt. Glenn

In the Line of Duty: Street War

1992
as Justice Butler

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

1998
as Officer James Halloran

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

1994
as Thomas

Joyful Noise

2012
as Pastor Dale

The Preacher's Wife

1996
as Reverend Henry Biggs

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as Corey (segment "Fences")

Cookie's Fortune

1999
as Otis Tucker

Hurricane Season

2009
as Mr. Randolph

The Photograph

2020

Extraordinary Measures

2010
as Marcus Temple

Between the World and Me

2020
as Courtney B. Vance

The Affair

1995
as Travis Holloway

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993
as Jim

Nothing But the Truth

2008
as Agent O'Hara

D-Tox

2002
as Jones

Holy Matrimony

1994
as Cooper

Beyond The Law

1992
as Conroy Price

Lilo & Stitch

2025
as Cobra Bubbles

Uncorked

2020
as Louis

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Space Cowboys

2000
as Roger Hines