Courtney B. Vance

**Courtney Bernard Vance** (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He was known for his roles in the movies _Hamburger Hill_ and _The Hunt for Red October_, the television series _Law & Order: Criminal Intent_, in which he played Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver and _The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story_, in which he played Johnnie Cochran.

He won a Tony Award in 2013 and an Emmy Award in 2016.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1983|_First Affair_|Male student|TV Movie||
|1987|_Hamburger Hill_|Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson|||
|1990|_The Hunt for Red October_|Seaman Jones|||
|1991|_The Emperor's New Clothes_|Scribe (voice)|TV Short||
|1992|_In the Line of Duty: Street War_|Justice Butler|TV Movie||
|1993|_The Adventures of Huck Finn_|Jim|||
|1993|_Beyond the Law_|Conroy Price|||
|1993|_Percy & Thunder_|Thunder|TV Movie||
|1994|_Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad_|Thomas|TV Movie||
|1994|_Holy Matrimony_|Cooper|||
|1995|_The Piano Lesson_|Lymon|TV Movie||
|1995|_Panther_|Bobby Seale|||
|1995|_Dangerous Minds_|George Grandey|||
|1995|_The Tuskegee Airmen_|Lt. Glenn|TV Movie||
|1995|_The Last Supper_|Luke|||
|1995|_The Affair_|Travis Holloway|||
|1996|_The Boys Next Door_|Lucien P. Singer|TV Movie||
|1996|_The Preacher's Wife_|Reverend Henry Biggs|||
|1997|_12 Angry Men_|Foreman|TV Movie||
|1998|_Blind Faith_|John Williams|||
|1998|_Ambushed_|Jerry Robinson|||
|1998|_Naked City: Justice with a Bullet_|Officer James Halloran|TV Movie||
|1998|_Naked City: A Killer Christmas_|Officer James Halloran|TV Movie||
|1999|_Cookie's Fortune_|Otis Tucker|||
|1999|_Love and Action in Chicago_|Eddie Jones|co-producer||
|2000|_Space Cowboys_|Roger Hines|||
|2002|_Eye See You_|Reverend Jones|||
|2002|_Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story_|Clarence Brandley|TV Movie||
|2008|_Nothing But the Truth_|Agent O'Hara|||
|2009|_Hurricane Season_|Mr. Randolph|||
|2010|_Extraordinary Measures_|Marcus Temple|||
|2011|_The Divide_|Delvin|||
|2011|_Final Destination 5_|Agent Jim Block|||
|2012|_Joyful Noise_|Pastor Dale|||
|2012|_Let It Shine_|Pastor Jacob DeBarge|TV Movie||
|2013|_Book of the Year_||producer, pre-production||
|2014|_The Farm_|The Sheriff (rumored)|pre-production||

## Television

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1987|_The 41st Annual Tony Awards_|Himself|Performer & Nominee: Best Featured Actor in a Play||
|1990-1995|_Law & Order_|Benjamin 'Bud' Greer / Mayor's Assistant|Episode: By Hooker, by Crook (1990), Rage (1995)||
|1995|_The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards_|Himself|||
|1995|_Picket Fences_|Warren Grier|Episode:  Final Judgement, Without Mercy||
|1998|_Any Day Now_|Mr. James Jackson|Episode:  Unfinished Symphony||
|1998|_The Wild Thornberrys_|Makai (voice role)|Episode:  Naimina Enkiyio||
|2000|_Boston Public_|Walter Harrelson|||
|2002-2004|_The American Experience_|Dr. Vivien Thomas / Narrator|Episode:  Partners of the Heart, The Fight  TV series/documentary||
|2001-2006|_Law & Order: Criminal Intent_|A.D.A. Ron Carver|||
|2007|_State of Mind_|William Banks|||
|2008-2009|_ER_|Russell Banfield|||
|2009-2010|_FlashForward_|Stanford Wedeck / Narrator|||
|2010-2011|_The Closer_|Chief Tommy Delk|||
|2012|_Revenge_|Benjamin Brooks|||
|2013|_Graceland_|Sam Campbell|post-production||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Courtney B. Vance
- **image**: Courtney Vance 2 by David Shankbone (cropped).jpg
- **birth name**: Courtney Bernard Vance
- **birth place**: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- **education**: Harvard University
Yale University
- **occupation**: Actor
- **years active**: 1983–present
- **children**: 2