Laurence Fishburne Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Laurence Fishburne filmography covers 94 movie titles and 24 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Laurence Fishburne movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• 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
• Band of the Hand (1986) as Cream
• Quicksilver (1986) as Voodoo
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) as Max
• Cherry 2000 (1987) as Glu Glu Lawyer
• Gardens of Stone (1987) as Sgt. Flanagan
• Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988) as Cowboy Curtis
• Red Heat (1988) as Lt. Stobbs
• School Daze (1988) as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
• Cadence (1990) as Roosevelt Stokes
• King of New York (1990) as Jimmy Jump
• Boyz n the Hood (1991) as Furious Styles
• Class Action (1991) as Nick Holbrook
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) as Self
• Deep Cover (1992) as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) as Vinnie
• What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) as Ike Turner
• Bad Company (1995) as Nelson Crowe
• Higher Learning (1995) as Professor Maurice Phipps
• Just Cause (1995) as Sheriff Tanny Brown
• Othello (1995) as Othello
• The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) as Hannibal Lee
• Fled (1996) as Piper
• Event Horizon (1997) as Miller
• Hoodlum (1997) as Bumpy Johnson
• Miss Evers' Boys (1997) as Caleb Humphries
• Always Outnumbered (1998) as Socrates Fortlow
• Making "The Matrix" (1999) as Self
• The Matrix (1999) as Morpheus
• 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
• Mystic River (2003) as Whitey Powers
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) as Morpheus
• The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load (2003) as Self
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) as Morpheus
• The Soul of a Man (2003) as Self - Narrator
• The Matrix Recalibrated (2004) as Self
• The Matrix Reloaded Revisited (2004) as Self
• The Matrix Revolutions Revisited (2004) as Self
• Ashes and Snow (2005) as Narrator (voice)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) as Marion Bishop
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
• Akeelah and the Bee (2006) as Dr. Larabee
• Bobby (2006) as Edward Robinson
• Five Fingers (2006) as Ahmat
• Mission: Impossible III (2006) as Theodore Brassel
• 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
• TMNT (2007) as Narrator (voice)
• 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
• Khumba (2013) as Seko (voice)
• Man of Steel (2013) as Perry White
• The Colony (2013) as Briggs
• Ride Along (2014) as Omar
• Rudderless (2014) as Del
• The Signal (2014) as Dr. Wallace Damon
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) as Perry White
• Passengers (2016) as Gus Mancuso
• Standoff (2016) as Sade
• 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
• Running with the Devil (2019) as The Man
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) as Paul Jellinek
• Death to 2020 (2020) as Narrator (voice)
• Death to 2021 (2021) as Narrator (voice)
• The Ice Road (2021) as Goldenrod
• The Matrix Resurrections (2021) as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 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
• Cellar Door (2024) as Emmett
• Megalopolis (2024) as Fundi Romaine
• Slingshot (2024) as Captain Franks
• Transformers One (2024) as Alpha Trion (voice)
• Sneaks (2025) as The Collector (voice)
• The Amateur (2025) as Henderson
• The Astronaut (2025) as General William Harris
• Wick Is Pain (2025) as Self

Laurence Fishburne television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Laurence Fishburne; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

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

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Laurence Fishburne's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.