Laurence Fishburne Filmography: Every Movie and TV Show in Order

How many movies and TV shows has Laurence Fishburne been in? This complete Laurence Fishburne filmography lists 122 credited roles (94 films, 28 TV series), in chronological order from 1953 to 2025, with links to our full guides where available.

Laurence Fishburne movies in order

• Apocalypse Now (1979) as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
• Death Wish II (1982) as Cutter
• Rumble Fish (1983) as Midget
• The Cotton Club (1984) as Bumpy Rhodes
• The Color Purple (1985) as Swain
• Quicksilver (1986) as Voodoo
• Band of the Hand (1986) as Cream
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) as Max
• Gardens of Stone (1987) as Sgt. Flanagan
• Cherry 2000 (1987) as Glu Glu Lawyer
• School Daze (1988) as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
• Red Heat (1988) as Lt. Stobbs
• Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988) as Cowboy Curtis
• King of New York (1990) as Jimmy Jump
• Cadence (1990) as Roosevelt Stokes
• Class Action (1991) as Nick Holbrook
• Boyz n the Hood (1991) as Furious Styles
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) as Self
• Deep Cover (1992) as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
• What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) as Ike Turner
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) as Vinnie
• Higher Learning (1995) as Professor Maurice Phipps
• Bad Company (1995) as Nelson Crowe
• Just Cause (1995) as Sheriff Tanny Brown
• The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) as Hannibal Lee
• Othello (1995) as Othello
• Fled (1996) as Piper
• Miss Evers' Boys (1997) as Caleb Humphries
• Event Horizon (1997) as Miller
• Hoodlum (1997) as Bumpy Johnson
• Always Outnumbered (1998) as Socrates Fortlow
• The Matrix (1999) as Morpheus
• Making "The Matrix" (1999) as Self
• Michael Jordan to the Max (2000) as Narrator (voice)
• Osmosis Jones (2001) as Thrax (voice)
• The Matrix Revisited (2001) as Self - Morpheus
• Undercover Brother (2002) as Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited)
• Biker Boyz (2003) as Smoke
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) as Morpheus
• The Soul of a Man (2003) as Self - Narrator
• Mystic River (2003) as Whitey Powers
• The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load (2003) as Self
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) as Morpheus
• The Matrix Recalibrated (2004) as Self
• The Matrix Revolutions Revisited (2004) as Self
• The Matrix Reloaded Revisited (2004) as Self
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) as Marion Bishop
• Ashes and Snow (2005) as Narrator (voice)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
• Mission: Impossible III (2006) as Theodore Brassel
• Akeelah and the Bee (2006) as Dr. Larabee
• Five Fingers (2006) as Ahmat
• Bobby (2006) as Edward Robinson
• TMNT (2007) as Narrator (voice)
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)
• The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007) as Tad Gruzsa
• 21 (2008) as Cole Williams
• Tortured (2008) as Archie Green
• Armored (2009) as Baines
• Predators (2010) as Noland
• Contagion (2011) as Ellis Cheever
• Have a Little Faith (2011) as Henry Covington
• The Colony (2013) as Briggs
• Man of Steel (2013) as Perry White
• Khumba (2013) as Seko (voice)
• Ride Along (2014) as Omar
• The Signal (2014) as Dr. Wallace Damon
• Rudderless (2014) as Del
• Standoff (2016) as Sade
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) as Perry White
• Passengers (2016) as Gus Mancuso
• John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) as Bowery King
• Last Flag Flying (2017) as Reverend Richard Mueller
• Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) as Dr. Bill Foster
• The Mule (2018) as Special Agent in Charge
• John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) as Bowery King
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) as Paul Jellinek
• Running with the Devil (2019) as The Man
• Death to 2020 (2020) as Narrator (voice)
• The Ice Road (2021) as Goldenrod
• The Matrix Resurrections (2021) as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Death to 2021 (2021) as Narrator (voice)
• All the Old Knives (2022) as Vick Wallinger
• Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) as Self
• The School for Good and Evil (2022) as School Master
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) as Bowery King
• Slingshot (2024) as Captain Franks
• Transformers One (2024) as Alpha Trion (voice)
• Megalopolis (2024) as Fundi Romaine
• Cellar Door (2024) as Emmett
• The Amateur (2025) as Henderson
• Sneaks (2025) as The Collector (voice)
• Wick Is Pain (2025) as Self
• The Astronaut (2025) as General William Harris

Laurence Fishburne TV shows

• The Oscars (1953) as Self
• MAS*H (1972) as Corporal Dorsey
• Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
• Hill Street Blues (1981)
• Miami Vice (1984) as Prison Guard Keller
• The Equalizer (1985) as Casey Taylor
• Spenser: For Hire (1985)
• Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986) as Cowboy Curtis
• The Civil War (1990) as Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice)
• MADtv (1995) as Self
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Raymond Langston
• CSI: Miami (2002) as CSI Dr. Ray Langston
• Top Gear (2010)
• Hannibal (2013) as Jack Crawford
• black-ish (2014) as Pops Johnson
• The Muppets (2015) as Self
• Roots (2016) as Alex Haley
• grown-ish (2018) as Pops Johnson
• mixed-ish (2019) as Pops Johnson
• The Witcher (2019) as Regis
• History's Greatest Mysteries (2020) as Self - Host
• What If...? (2021) as Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
• What If...? (2021) as Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
• MacGruber (2021) as General Barrett Fasoose
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) as Foster (voice)
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) as The Beyonder (voice)
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) as Backstory Man (voice)
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) as Beyonder (voice)

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