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Movie Release Date Character Age at Release
The Dish 05/15/26 56
Michael 10/01/25 Joe Jackson 55
"Extraordinary" Pursuits 08/15/24 54
Sing Sing 07/12/24 John 'Divine G' Whitfield 54
Chapter 51 04/19/24 54
Drive-Away Dolls 02/22/24 The Chief 54
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey 12/28/23 Self 54
The Color Purple 12/25/23 Mister 54
Rustin 11/03/23 Bayard Rustin 53
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 06/28/23 Arthur Gillman (voice) 53
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 06/06/23 Unicron (voice) 53
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke 10/12/22 52
New Moon 07/16/22 Storyteller 52
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 02/23/22 Self 52
North Star 01/15/22 52
Candyman 08/25/21 William Burke 51
The God Committee 07/02/21 Father Dunbar 51
Zola 06/30/21 X 51
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse 04/29/21 Pastor West 51
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen 12/18/20 Self 51
Barbecue 12/10/20 James T 51
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 11/25/20 Cutler 50
Lucy in the Sky 09/20/19 Frank Paxton 49
If Beale Street Could Talk 12/14/18 Joseph Rivers 49
Assassination Nation 09/21/18 Principal Turrell 48
First Match 03/12/18 Coach Castile 48
The Birth of a Nation 09/09/16 Hark 46
Beautiful Something 04/26/15 Drew 45
Selma 12/25/14 Ralph Abernathy 45
Time Out of Mind 09/07/14 Mr. Oyello 44
A Long Walk 03/25/14 Older Paul 44
Hairbrained 11/25/13 Finals Moderator 43
Newlyweeds 09/18/13 Chico 43
All is Bright 09/10/13 Nzomo 43
The Butler 08/16/13 Freddie Fallows 43
42 04/12/13 Lawson Bowman (uncredited) 43
Lincoln 11/09/12 Private Harold Green 42
Red Hook Summer 08/10/12 Blessing Rowe 42
Passing Strange 08/21/09 Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus 39
Miracle at St. Anna 09/15/08 West Indian Postal Customer 38
Freedomland 02/17/06 Male Patient 36
Kung Phooey! 03/11/03 Roy Lee 33
Desi's Looking for a New Girl 06/16/00 Mother 30
True Crime 03/19/99 Wally Cartwright 29
King of the Bingo Game 01/26/99 Sonny 29
Around the Fire 09/26/98 Trace 28
Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic None Nathaniel Adams Coles/Nat King Cole 55
Barbecue None 55
Nothingman None Otis Tremmel 55
A Boy and His Soul None 55