Wendell Pierce Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Wendell Pierce filmography covers 40 movie titles and 33 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.

Wendell Pierce movies by release year

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

• The Money Pit (1986) as Paramedic
• Casualties of War (1989) as MacIntire
• Family Business (1989) as Prosecutor
• A Rage in Harlem (1991) as Louis
• Malcolm X (1992) as Ben Thomas
• Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) as Policeman
• It Could Happen to You (1994) as Bo Williams
• Bye Bye Love (1995) as Hector
• Hackers (1995) as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
• Waiting to Exhale (1995) as Michael
• Get on the Bus (1996) as Wendell Perry
• Sleepers (1996) as Little Caesar
• Bulworth (1998) as Fred
• Brown Sugar (2002) as Simon
• The Fighting Temptations (2003) as Reverend Lewis
• Land of Plenty (2004) as Henry
• Ray (2004) as Wilbur Brassfield
• Stay Alive (2006) as Detective Thibodeaux
• I Think I Love My Wife (2007) as Sean
• Love Ranch (2010) as Naasih Mohammed
• Night Catches Us (2010) as David Gordon
• Horrible Bosses (2011) as Detective Hagan
• The Mortician (2011) as Clinger
• Lay the Favorite (2012) as Dave the Rave
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) as J. Jenks
• Möbius (2013) as Bob
• Parker (2013) as Carlson
• Elsa & Fred (2014) as Armande
• Selma (2014) as Rev. Hosea Williams
• The Gift (2015) as Detective Mills
• The Runner (2015) as Frank Legrand
• Bad Moms (2016) as Principal Daryl Burr
• Confirmation (2016) as Clarence Thomas
• Grease Live (2016) as Coach Calhoun
• Clemency (2019) as Jonathan Williams
• Piercing (2019) as The Doctor
• Highest 2 Lowest (2025) as Gabe
• Superman (2025) as Perry White
• Thunderbolts* (2025) as Congressman Gary
• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026) as James Greer

Wendell Pierce television roles and appearances

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

• Archer as Verl (voice)
• Chicago P.D. as Ray Price
• Close to Home as Sam Carter
• Drop Dead Diva as Neal David
• Elsbeth as C.W. Wagner
• Fear Itself as Wiilbur Orwell
• Girlfriends as Anthony Jackson
• God, the Devil and Bob as Mike (voice)
• Harley Quinn as Lex Luthor (voice)
• Hawthorne as Dr. Michael Schilling
• In Plain Sight as Dr. Warren McBride / Warren Morris
• Judging Amy as Harry Benton
• Law & Order as Roger Porter; Civil Rights Attorney Jerome Bryant; Ola-Gimju Nwaka; Mr. Wade
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Richard Link
• My Wife and Kids as Dr. Boucher
• New York Undercover
• Numb3rs as William Bradford
• Ray Donovan as Ronald Keith
• Suits as Robert Zane
• The American Revolution as (voice)
• The Equalizer as Dr. Wolff
• The Michael J. Fox Show as Harris Green
• The Night Shift as Walt
• The Odd Couple as Teddy
• The Watch as Death (voice)
• The Wire as Bunk Moreland
• Third Watch as Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Detective
• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as James Greer
• Treme as Antoine Batiste
• Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. as Detective Lee Tucker
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts as Self
• Women's Murder Club

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