Obba Babatundé
Birthday
1951/12/01 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Obba Babatundè, Obba Babatunde
Biography
Obba Babatundé (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor of stage and screen, known for his Emmy-nominated performance in the television movie Miss Evers' Boys, a NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in the TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and a Tony Award-nominated role for his performance as C.C. White in the original cast of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Babatundé was a protege of Sammy Davis, Jr., who said of him, "This is the only cat who can do everything I can do." B...Read more
Acting
(1991) The Silence of the Lambs
as TV Anchor Man
(2004) After the Sunset
as Zacharias
(2006) Material Girls
as Craig
(1999) Life
as Willie Long
(2001) How High
as Dean Carl Cain
(2008) The Eye
as Dr. Haskins
(1996) Multiplicity
as Paul
(1993) Undercover Blues
as Sawyer
(2018) City of Lies
as Chief of Police
(2004) The Manchurian Candidate
as Senator Wells
(1990) Miami Blues
as Blink Willie
(2009) I Do... I Did!
as Mr. Johnson
Start Without Me
as Leo
(2022) The Millennial
as Mr. Burke
(1996) Soul of the Game
as Cum Posey
(1999) Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
as Harold Nicholas
(2011) Trapped: Haitian Nights
as Ikliff
(2001) One Special Moment
as ---
(1988) God Bless the Child
as Raymond Watkins
(2011) Joy Road
as Dr. Howard Perkins
(1997) Miss Evers' Boys
as Willie Johnson
(2007) King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Narrator
(2013) Dolls of Voodoo
as Iklif
(1987) Leonard Part 6
as Bongo Drummer
(1993) Philadelphia
as Jerome Green
(1995) Fatal Pursuit
as Trinidad
(2009) Black Dynamite
as Osiris
The Temptations Le film de leur ascension vers la gloire
as Berry Gordy
(1996) That Thing You Do!
as Lamarr
(2017) Pup Star: Better 2Gether
as Big Ears (voice)
(2016) Pup Star
as Big Ears (voice)
(2023) Noble Intentions
as Pastor Stevens
(2004) The Notebook
as Band Leader
(2015) American Bad Boy
as Pastor Lovely
(1995) Born to Be Wild
as Interpreter
(1996) The Cherokee Kid
as Isom Dart
(2012) The Last Fall
as Larry Armstrong
(2011) The Trap Door
as Mesmer
(2015) Death's Door
as Mesmer
(2012) Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
as Vampire Actor #4 (voice)
People Not Places
as ---
(1993) Necronomicon
as Paul
(2012) Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
as Mayor Denny
(1992) The Importance of Being Earnest
as Lane
(2002) Redeemer
as Charles Henderson
(2016) The Watcher
as Stark
(1996) The Tomorrow Man
as Brian Parish
(2001) The Visit
as Tony
(2004) TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as Self
(2007) Cover
as Attorney Miller
(2004) Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!
as Chief Ankamuti (voice)
Children of the Dead (Concept Trailer)
as ---
(2015) If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
as Jonathan Black
(1980) Baryshnikov on Broadway
as Dancer
(2018) Kinky
as Mr. Bernard
(1988) Married to the Mob
as The Face of Justice
(2018) Jingle Belle
as Charles Williams
(2008) Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
as Self
(2019) Revival!
as Nicodemus
(2014) Lap Dance
as Roscoe
(2003) Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
as Host
(1999) The Apartment Complex
as Chett
(2011) All Star Superman
as Judge / Bibliobot (voice)
(2017) 'Til Death Do Us Part
as John Harris
(1982) Treemonisha
as Zodzetrick
(2006) The Celestine Prophecy
as Miguel
(1994) M.A.N.T.I.S.
as Cornell
(2020) Trigger
as Chief Keaton
(2007) April Fools
as Detective Combs
(2002) John Q
as Sgt. Moody
(1996) Carpool
as Jeffery
(1980) An Evening with Liza Minnelli
as Himself
(1995) The Net
as FBI Agent
Run
as ---
(2018) Forever
as Gregory
Mississippi Scholar
as Reginald
(1994) Friends
as Director
(2015) Chicago Med
as Dr. James Coleman
(1994) Chicago Hope
as ---
(1999) Family Law
as Philip Hamilton
(2000) Static Shock
as Watch Store Salesman (voice)
(2000) Static Shock
as Singer (voice)
(2018) Forever
as Gregory
(2016) Goliath
as Ivan Tillinger
(1989) Tales from the Crypt
as Lieutenant Jamison
(2005) Grey's Anatomy
as Dan Gates
(2006) Psych
as David Gaffney
(1998) Dawson's Creek
as Principal Howard Green
(2014) Kingdom
as Detective Gaines
(1995) The Outer Limits
as Dr. Joseph Lennox
(1990) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
as Gordy Berry
(2000) Max Steel
as (voice)
(1998) The Temptations
as Berry Gordy
(2017) S.W.A.T.
as Daniel Harrelson, Sr.
(2017) The Good Fight
as Danny Quinn
(1987) A Different World
as Frank Benning
(2015) Ballers
as J.D. Pritchard
(1995) Sliders
as Cezanne Brown
(2018) For The People
as Philip Kaws
(1993) The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
as Mongoose
(2017) Dear White People
as Dean Fairbanks
(1992) The Human Factor
as ---
(2002) Everwood
as Jason
(2014) Enlisted
as General Murray
(2020) Little Fires Everywhere
as George Wright
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Carter Evans
(1994) M.A.N.T.I.S.
as ---
(2007) Private Practice
as Dr. Larry Cannon
(1992) Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
as Jameson Walker
(1997) Spy Game
as Lieutenant Wardell