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Acting

Courtney B. Vance

Titles: 61movies35TV shows

Career: Active from 1987 to 2025, busiest in 1995 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 24
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: 12 Angry Men
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 63 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Courtney B. Vance Catalog average

Crime
5.1average 3.6
Politics
3.9average 2.6
Contemporary Realism
6.4average 5.4
Family Dynamics
5.8average 4.8
Social Commentary
5.9average 4.9
Mystery
4.9average 4.0
Class & Capitalism
4.1average 3.3
Psychological
6.3average 5.5

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
1.7, average 2.4
Satire & Parody
1.7, average 2.3
Absurdist Humor
1.5, average 2.0
Showbiz
0.6, average 1.2

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Drama 30
TV Movie 13
Thriller 11
Crime 10
Comedy 9
Action 7
History 5
Family 5

Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Moral Dilemma 4
Social Commentary 4
Courtroom Drama 3
Fast-Paced 2
Ensemble Cast 2
Inspirational 2
Coming-of-Age 2
Gritty Crime Drama 2
Moral Ambiguity 2
Intense Suspense 2
Gritty Realism 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

79

Group by

Newest first Oldest first

2020s

11 titles · average score 64

Lilo & Stitch

64

as Cobra Bubbles

Grotesquerie

61

TV show · as Marshall Tryon

Death Wish

as Pilot (voice)

TV show · as Esposo de Lois

Heist 88

36

as Jeremy Horne

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

78

TV show · as Zeus

61st Street

68

TV show · as Franklin Roberts

Uncorked

69

as Louis

Project Power

55

as Captain Craine

Lovecraft Country

74

TV show · as George Freeman

The Photograph

66

as Louis Morton

2010s

18 titles · average score 63

Ben Is Back

70

as Mr. Beeby

The Mummy

36

as Colonel Greenway

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

64

as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Office Christmas Party

46

as Walter Davis

American Crime Story

83

TV show · as Johnnie Cochran

Terminator Genisys

45

as Miles Dyson

Masters of Sex

80

TV show · as Dr. Charles Hendricks

The Divide

40

as Delvin

Joyful Noise

50

as Pastor Dale

Scandal

76

TV show · as Clarence Parker

Revenge

73

TV show · as Benjamin Brooks

Extraordinary Measures

48

as Marcus Temple

All 18 titles from the 2010s

2000s

13 titles · average score 67

FlashForward

75

TV show · as Stanford Wedeck

Nothing But the Truth

71

as Agent O'Hara

The Fight

as Narrator (voice)

The Closer

77

TV show · as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited) / Chief Tommy Delk

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

91

as Other Voices (voice)

Gary the Rat

68

TV show

D-Tox

32

as Reverend Jones

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

as Clarence Brandley

Partners of the Heart

as Vivien Thomas (voice)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

68

TV show · as Ron Carver

Space Cowboys

68

as Roger Hines

Boston Public

49

TV show · as Walter Harrelson

All 13 titles from the 2000s

1990s

31 titles · average score 63

Love and Action in Chicago

50

as Eddie Jones

Ambushed

61

as Jerry Robinson

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

48

as Officer James Halloran

Blind Faith

72

as John Williams

12 Angry Men

86

as Foreman

The Preacher's Wife

58

as Reverend Henry Biggs

Dangerous Minds

53

as Mr. George Grandey

Panther

47

as Bobby Seale

The Affair

52

as Travis Holloway

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

66

as Thomas

The Adventures of Huck Finn

66

as Jim

In the Line of Duty: Street War

56

as Justice Butler

All 31 titles from the 1990s

1980s

4 titles · average score 72

American Experience

75

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Hamburger Hill

76

as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

thirtysomething

64

TV show

First Affair

as Male Student #2

1970s

1 title · average score 79

NOVA

79

TV show · as Narrator

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Lucien P. Singer