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Acting

Carl Lumbly

Career: Active from 1981 to 2025, busiest in 2003 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 23
top three billing

Average score: 68/100

Highest rated: Justice League
91/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 87 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Carl Lumbly Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
4.4, average 5.4
Cringe Humor
1.4, average 2.2
Absurdist Humor
1.2, average 2.0
Eroticism
1.2, average 1.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Coming-of-Age 3
Moral Dilemmas 3
Crime Drama 2
Moral Dilemma 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Superhero Action 2
Political Intrigue 2
Social Commentary 2
Racial Injustice 2
Epic Superhero Ensemble 2
Visual Spectacle 2
Comic Book Adaptation 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

108

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

as Henry

2020s

8 titles · average score 64

LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian

71

as Greef Karga (voice)

Captain America: Brave New World

49

as Isaiah Bradley

The Life of Chuck

74

as Sam Yarbrough

The Fall of the House of Usher

78

TV show · as C. Auguste Dupin

Obliterated

57

TV show · as James Langdon

I'm Charlie Walker

41

as Willie

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

75

TV show · as Isaiah Bradley

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

64

as Isaiah Bradley (archive footage)

2010s

21 titles · average score 69

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

80

as Miles Davis (voice)

Doctor Sleep

71

as Dick Halloran

Altered Carbon

71

TV show · as Lukas Imani

The Chi

71

TV show · as Walter Dion Burkes

S.W.A.T.

56

TV show · as Saint

Love Twice

as Rodrigo

This Is Us

83

TV show · as Abe Clarke

Supergirl

69

TV show · as Myr'nn J'onzz

Zoo

66

TV show · as Delavenne

Justice League: Doom

88

as Martian Manhunter (voice)

Black Panther

66

as Uncle S'Yan

Young Justice

78

TV show · as M'aatt M'orzz (voice)

2000s

26 titles · average score 73

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

as Samuel Nujoma

Grey's Anatomy

75

TV show · as Kurt Walling

Justice League Unlimited

85

TV show · as J'onn J'onzz (voice)

Sounder

68

as The Father

Justice League: Paradise Lost

75

as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice)

NCIS

64

TV show · as Beau Hindley

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

62

as Nat Turner - Gray

Just a Dream

51

as J.M. Hoagland

Justice League

91

TV show · as J'onn J'onzz (voice)

Alias

78

TV show · as Marcus Dixon

The Color of Friendship

85

as Ron Dellums

Little Richard

67

as Bud Penniman

1990s

36 titles · average score 70

Family Guy

64

TV show · as Loan Officer (voice)

Border Line

as Detective Mollo

The West Wing

83

TV show · as Jeff Breckenridge

The Ditchdigger's Daughters

89

as Donald Thornton

Nightjohn

85

as Nightjohn

M.A.N.T.I.S.

41

TV show · as Dr. Miles Hawkins

M.A.N.T.I.S.

55

as Dr. Miles Hawkins

The X-Files

76

TV show · as Marcus Duff

Going to Extremes

TV show · as Dr. Michael Norris

South Central

64

as Ali

Brother Future

59

as Denmark Vessy

Pacific Heights

57

as Lieutenant Lou Baker

1980s

11 titles · average score 60

Everybody's All-American

50

as Narvel Blue

American Experience

75

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Judgment in Berlin

35

as Edwin Palmer

The Bedroom Window

60

as Quirke

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

71

as Bobby Seale

L.A. Law

77

TV show · as Earl Williams

The Gospel at Colonus

as Theseus

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

66

as John Parker

Cagney & Lacey

69

TV show · as Mark Petrie

Caveman

50

as Bork

Lifepod

50

as Keshah

1970s

5 titles · average score 77

Escape from Alcatraz

82

as Inmate

Undercover with the KKK

as Rev. Lowell

Taxi

77

TV show · as Customer #2

The Jeffersons

80

TV show

Great Performances

70

TV show · as Theseus