# Laurence Fishburne filmography

Here is a comprehensive list of Laurence Fishburne's stage, film, television, video game, and music video credits.

## Stage

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1976 | Eden | Solomon Barton |
| 1980 | Contributions | Ronald |
| 1985 | Short Eyes | John "Ice" Wicker |
| 1988 | Urban Blight | Performer |
| 1988 | Loose Ends | Doug |
| 1992 | Two Trains Running | Sterling Johnson |
| 1995 | Riff Raff | Mike |
| 1999 | The Lion in Winter | Henry II |
| 2006 | Fences | Troy Maxson |
| 2006 | Without Walls | Morocco |
| 2008 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall |
| 2022 | American Buffalo | Donny |
| 2024 | Like They Do In the Movie | Himself |

## Film

Key :
| † | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1975 | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | Credited as Laurence Fishburne III |
| 1979 | Fast Break | Street Kid | Credited as Laurence Fishburne III |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Mr. Clean' Miller | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1980 | Willie & Phil | Wilson | Credited as Laurence Fishburne III |
| 1982 | Death Wish II | 'Cutter' | Credited as Laurence Fishburne III |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | 'Midget' | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | 'Bumpy' Rhodes | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1985 | The Color Purple | Swain | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1986 | Quicksilver | 'Voodoo' | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1986 | Band of the Hand | 'Cream' | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1987 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1987 | Gardens of Stone | Sergeant Flanagan | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1987 | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1988 | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1988 | Red Heat | Lieutenant Charlie Stobbs | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1990 | King of New York | Jimmy 'Jump' | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1990 | Cadence | Stokes | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1991 | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1991 | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1992 | Deep Cover | Officer Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1993 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner, Sr. | |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | |
| 1995 | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | |
| 1995 | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | |
| 1995 | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | |
| 1995 | Othello | Othello | |
| 1996 | Fled | John Piper | |
| 1997 | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | |
| 1997 | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | Also executive producer |
| 1998 | Welcome to Hollywood | Himself | |
| 1999 | The Matrix | Morpheus | |
| 2000 | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator | Voice Documentary |
| 2000 | Once in the Life | 20/20 Mike | Also director, writer and producer |
| 2001 | Osmosis Jones | Thrax | Voice |
| 2003 | Biker Boyz | Eric 'Smoke' | |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Sergeant 'Whitey' Powers | |
| 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | |
| 2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | |
| 2005 | Ashes and Snow | Narrator | Voice |
| 2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial | Voice cameo |
| 2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | Also producer |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | IMF Director Theodore Brassel | |
| 2006 | Five Fingers | Ahmat | Also producer |
| 2006 | Bobby | Edward | |
| 2007 | TMNT | Narrator | Voice |
| 2007 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | |
| 2007 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer | Voice |
| 2008 | 21 | Cole Williams | |
| 2008 | Tortured | Archie Green | |
| 2008 | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | |
| 2009 | Armored | Baines | |
| 2009 | Black Water Transit | Jack | |
| 2010 | Predators | Ronald Noland | |
| 2010 | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Ronald Noland | Voice Short film |
| 2011 | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | |
| 2013 | The Colony | Briggs | |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Perry White | |
| 2013 | Khumba | Seko The Zebra | Voice |
| 2014 | Ride Along | Omar | |
| 2014 | The Signal | Damon | |
| 2014 | Rudderless | Del | |
| 2016 | Standoff | Sade | Also executive producer |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | |
| 2016 | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | |
| 2017 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | 'The Bowery King' | |
| 2017 | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | |
| 2018 | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | |
| 2018 | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | |
| 2018 | The Mule | Warren Lewis | |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | 'The Bowery King' | |
| 2019 | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | |
| 2019 | Running with the Devil | The Man | |
| 2021 | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | |
| 2021 | The Ice Road | Jim Goldenrod | |
| 2022 | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | |
| 2022 | The School for Good and Evil | The School Master | |
| 2023 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | 'The Bowery King' | |
| 2024 | Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | |
| 2024 | Slingshot | Captain Franks | |
| 2024 | Transformers One | Alpha Trion | Voice |
| 2024 | Cellar Door | Emmett | |
| 2025 | The Amateur † | TBA | Post-production |
| 2025 | Sneaks † | The Collector | Voice; in production Also producer |
| 2025 | Thunderbolts* † | Dr. Bill Foster | Post-production |
| TBA | The Astronaut † | General William Harris | Post-production |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1972 | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | Television film |
| 1973–1976 | One Life to Live | Josh Hall | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1980 | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | Credited as Larry Fishburne |
| 1980 | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | Credited as Larry Fishburne Television film |
| 1981 | Trapper John, M.D. | Hobie | Credited as Larry Fishburne Episode: "Finders Keepers" |
| 1982 | M*A*S*H | Corporal Dorsey | Credited as Larry Fishburne Episode: "The Tooth Shall Set You Free" |
| 1982 | Strike Force | F.T. | Credited as Larry Fishburne Episode: "Humiliation" |
| 1982 | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | Credited as Larry Fishburne Television film |
| 1983 | For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story | Jimbo Collins | Credited as Larry Fishburne Television film |
| 1986 | Hill Street Blues | Maurice Haynes | Episode: "Look Homeward, Ninja" |
| 1986 | Miami Vice | Prison Guard Keller | Credited as Larry Fishburne Episode: "Walk-Alone" |
| 1986–1990 | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | 17 episodes |
| 1987 | Spenser: For Hire | David Mukende | Credited as Larry Fishburne Episode: "Personal Demons" |
| 1989 | The Equalizer | Casey Taylor | Episode: "Race Traitors" |
| 1990 | Decoration Day | Michael Waring | Credited as Larry Fishburne Television film |
| 1991 | American Experience | Martin Delany | Voice Episode: "The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry" |
| 1993 | TriBeCa | Martin | Episode: "The Box" |
| 1995 | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | Television film |
| 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | Television film; also producer |
| 1998 | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | Television film; also producer |
| 2008–2011 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Raymond Langston | 60 episodes |
| 2009 | CSI: Miami | Dr. Raymond Langston | Episode: "Bone Voyage" |
| 2009 | CSI: NY | Dr. Raymond Langston | Episode: "Hammer Down" |
| 2011 | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie |
| 2013–2015 | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 36 episodes |
| 2014–2022 | Black-ish | Earl "Pops" Johnson | 89 episodes; also executive producer |
| 2015 | The Muppets | Himself | Episode: "Hostile Makeover" |
| 2016 | Roots | Alex Haley | 3 episodes |
| 2017 | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 3 episodes |
| 2018–2022 | Grown-ish | Earl "Pops" Johnson | 3 episodes; also executive producer |
| 2019–2021 | Mixed-ish | — | Executive producer |
| 2020 | #FreeRayshawn | Lt. Steven Poincy | 15 episodes |
| 2020 | Death to 2020 | Narrator | Voice Television special |
| 2020 | History's Greatest Mysteries | Himself (host) | 4 episodes |
| 2021 | MacGruber | General Barrett Fasoose | 7 episodes |
| 2021 | Death to 2021 | Narrator | Voice Television special |
| 2023–present | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Beyonder / Bill Foster | Voice, main role Also co-creator and executive producer |
| 2023–2024 | What If...? | Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath | Voice; 2 episodes |
| 2024 | Clipped | Doc Rivers | 6 episodes |
| TBA | Cookies & Milk | TBA | Animated television series Co-creator and executive producer |
| TBA | The Witcher | Regis | |

## Audio dramas

| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 2017–2021 | Bronzeville | Curtis Randolph | 15 episodes | |

## Video games

| Year | Title | Voice role |
| 2003 | Enter the Matrix | Morpheus |
| 2005 | The Matrix Online | Morpheus |
| 2005 | The Matrix: Path of Neo | Morpheus |
| 2005 | True Crime: New York City | Isaiah Reed |
| 2009 | CSI: Deadly Intent | Dr. Raymond Langston |
| 2010 | CSI: Fatal Conspiracy | Dr. Raymond Langston |

## Music videos

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1983 | "White Lines (Don't Do It)" | Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel |
| 1985 | "Attack Me with Your Love" | Cameo |
| 1986 | "Growing Up" | Whodini |
| 1986 | "Come to Me" | Robert Brookins |