Roger Guenveur Smith
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1955-07-27
Place of Birth:Berkeley, California, USA
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Real Talk (2021)
While humorous, sarcastic and sometimes harsh, Dominique the Dame brings to the forefront America's contemporary views on race, sex, drugs, religion...

American Gangster (2007)
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem...

Till (2022)
The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while...

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

Poetic Justice (1993)
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to...

King of New York (1990)
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and...

Mercenary for Justice (2006)
Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're...

Panther (1995)
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black...

Shade (2003)
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean...

Eve's Bayou (1997)
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the...

Fist of the Warrior (2007)
First-class assassin Lee Choe has spent years working for the mob. When his handler turns on him by killing his girlfriend and framing him for the...

Fighting (2009)
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck...

Page 36 (2010)
To save his ailing son from certain death, a father voluntarily sells himself into slavery through an underground corporation. After entering into a...

They Die by Dawn (2013)
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and...

Joy Road (2011)
Tony Smalls is a burned out lawyer looking for a new direction in life. He's forced to put his plans on hold when his sister Nia asks him to defend...

Salvation Road (2010)
Business becomes unusual for an unsuspecting hitman who senses that he's been witnessed murdering his traitorous mentor by a 9 year old boy.

Justice (2004)
Public defender Carter (Roger Smith) has had all he can take dealing with a corrupt judicial system. Over the objections of his wife, Sharice (Monica...

The Color of Courage (1999)
Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman...

Empire State (2013)
After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis settles for a security guard job with an armoured truck company. After he makes the...

Facade (1999)
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin...

Exhortation (2017)
The divisional director of a large firm attempts to motivate his staff.

Final Destination (2000)
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down,...

Dope (2015)
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A...

Tales from the Hood (1995)
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.

The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent...

Cosmic Slop (1994)
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A...

All About the Benjamins (2002)
Bounty hunter Bucum Jackson teams with the small-time con artist, Reggie Wright, that he is pursuing, in an attempt to locate a missing stash of...

Get on the Bus (1996)
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of...

Incognito (1999)
A young socialite hires a bodyguard to protect her when an ex-convict begins stalking her.

Where is Rocky II? (2016)
Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.

Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between (2023)
Garland Jeffreys, the mixed-race Brooklyn native whose music defied industry norms, receives long-overdue recognition in this enlightening...

The O.J. Simpson Story (1995)
Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for...

I Believe in America (2007)
Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground movement for independence, struggle with their...

Abduction (2011)
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the...

Malcolm X (1992)
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

The Clapper (2018)
Eddie Krumble works as a paid audience member for infomercials and experiences a whirlwind of overnight fame after a late-night talk show host...

Fatwa (2006)
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...

The Son of No One (2011)
A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved...

Rodney King (2017)
25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now,...

Deep Cover (1992)
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the...

Dirty (2016)
Two dirty cops find themselves relieved of over two million dollars in stolen drugs and money, forcing them into a bizarre and mysterious...

Supermodel (2015)
A young girl from the Brooklyn housing projects goes from the subway to the runway becoming one of the most sought after models in the fashion...

Burning Shadow (2018)
Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie...

Bitch (2017)
A woman snaps and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog as her checked-out, philandering husband attempts to keep the family together.

Cover (2007)
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that...

Marshall (2017)
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Behind the Movement (2018)
Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus...

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

The Queen of Hollywood Blvd (2018)
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading...

Summer of Sam (1999)
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks (2017)
Estranged siblings Marcus and Michelle Brinks are reunited after the sudden death of their parents, two globe-trotting aid workers who they barely...

The Other Side (2018)
A man must fight for his fiancée's affection, after her old college friend visits with plans of rekindling more than just a friendship.

Better Mus' Come (2013)
The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies, and advance their...

Hollow Point (2019)
When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and...

Confessions (2006)
Confessions of a Call Girl is a revealing story of a women's struggle for balance as she battles a secret addiction while fighting to save her family...

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later (2009)
In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a...

Hamlet (2000)
A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.

God's Waiting List (2006)
A gritty, heartfelt drama about a brother and sister who both start out with the American Dream of running their own business and being successful....

He Got Game (1998)
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

Influence (2020)
Carl Weber introduces us to the Hudsons, a family of African-American lawyers lead by famed attorney Bradley Hudson. They are handed the task to...

School Daze (1988)
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Chi-Raq (2015)
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

CornerStore (2011)
Chronicles one eventful hot summer day at a convenience store along Detroit's Six Mile Road. Owned by the Jenkins family, the store is operated by...

In Sickness and in Health (2012)
Young and gorgeous with a fiancé who adores her, Faith seems to have it all. But with just days before their wedding, she's hiding a serious...

The Five Rules Of Success (2020)
An enterprising ex-convict overcomes tragedy by designing his own path to success within a society that failed him.

It's Not About Jimmy Keene (2019)
The police shooting of an unarmed black teen causes friction within a mixed-race Los Angeles family. Ivan, the youngest sibling, is stalked by...

The Available Wife (2020)
When money, affairs, power and lies collide, Nicole Wright, a beautiful and successful music CEOs life is about to crumble in front of her. While...

I’ll See You Around (2019)
Lucas, an everyman, navigates complicated personal relationships in the context of a drug crisis that grips the nation and his own family, now and in...

The Business of Christmas (2020)
The Franklin kids come home for Christmas to find that their childhood home and the family business is in jeopardy. While trying to save their home...

Mind Games (2024)
A date gone awry. Two lonely people meet at a hotel in a desperate attempt to find love. Neither get what they expect.

Riff Raff (2025)
A retired hitman's life is turned upside down when his ex-wife and son arrive unannounced during the holidays because they are on the run from his...

Third Watch (1999)
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional...

Murphy Brown (1988)
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the...

New York Undercover (1994)
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New...

Kings (2009)
A riveting drama about a modern day monarchy, a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of David and Goliath. This series is an epic story of...

K Street (2003)
An experimental fusion of reality and fiction--a fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. The...

Oz (1997)
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians,...

Eagleheart (2011)
Eagleheart is an action-comedy television series that premiered on February 3, 2011, on Adult Swim.

A Different World (1987)
A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a...

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)
This limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the...

Fallen Angels (1993)
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F....

All Rise (2019)
A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.