Chi McBrideFilmography

First Sunday

Actors: Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine, Michael Beach

Synopsis: Gospel-minded playwright David E. Talbert produces, writes, and directs this urban crime comedy concerning a pair of criminals who take a group of church parishioners hostage while attempting to rob the holy house, only to find their captives slowly convincing them to repent and give up their Read More

American Son

Actors: Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz, Matt O'Leary, Jay Hernandez, Tom Sizemore, Chi McBride

Synopsis: A young man tries to tie up some loose ends before he goes to war in this independent drama from director Neil Abramson. Mike Holland (Nick Cannon) is nineteen years old and has just completed his basic training as a private in the United States Marine Corps. Mike has a four-day leave so he can Read More

Still Waiting...

Actors: John Michael Higgins, Rob Benedict, Steve Howey, Andy Milonakis, Alanna Ubach

Synopsis: The shenanigans continue in this outrageous sequel to Waiting. . . that finds the staff of everyone's favorite good time restaurant entering into a stiff competition with the new Ta-Ta's Wing Shack opening up right next door. It's been two years since the events of the first film, and though there Read More

Pushing Daisies: Season 02

Actors: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Swoosie Kurtz

The Brothers Solomon

Actors: Will Arnett, Will Forte, Chi McBride, Kristen Wiig, Malin Akerman

Synopsis: Mr. Show alumnus Bob Odenkirk directed -- and SNL vet Will Forte scripted -- this gleefully raunchy tale of two socially backward but kind-hearted adult brothers, Dean and John Solomon (Forte and Will Arnett), who had the misfortune to be home-schooled by their father at a remote Arctic outpost. Read More

Pushing Daisies: Season 01

Actors: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Swoosie Kurtz

Let's Go to Prison!

Actors: Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, David Koechner, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: Bob Odenkirk's jail comedy Let's Go to Prison, stars Will Arnett as Nelson Biederman IV, the son of a judge who ends up being sentenced to serve time in Rossmore State Penitentiary. During one of his rare stints out of incarceration, career criminal John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) learns of the Read More

Annapolis

Actors: James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg, Vicellous Shannon

Synopsis: A poor but ambitious young man strives to make good in one of the most competitive institutions on Earth in this military drama. Jake Huard (James Franco) is a young man from a small Maryland town who grew up in a blue-collar family with few opportunities. Wanting to make something of himself Read More

The Nine [TV Series]

Synopsis: Arguably the most talked-about serialized drama of the 2006-2007 TV season, The Nine made its ABC debut on October 4, 2006 with a bank robbery perpetrated by a pair of low-life siblings on LA's Fidelity Republic Bank. The robbery and the ensuing hostage standoff would last 52 minutes, and two Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike

Synopsis: San Francisco literally stinks to high heaven thanks to the longest garbage strike in the city's history. No one is more upset by the overpowering pungency than the germophobic Monk (Tony Shalhoub), who doubles his efforts to find out who murdered the union boss who called the strike in the first Read More

Ultimate Avengers 2

Actors: Justin Gross, Grey DeLisle, Michael Massee, Marc Worden, Olivia D'Abo

Synopsis: Ultimate Avengers 2 features famous superheroes Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Iron-Man, and Black Panther teaming up in order to put an end to an alien invasion of Africa. This story is based on the comic book {^The Ultimates}. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Waiting...

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long, David Koechner, John Francis Daley

Synopsis: Learn why you should never send your food back and other valuable lessons in this over-the-top comedy set in the food service industry. Dean (Justin Long) and Monty (Ryan Reynolds) are two longtime friends who work as waiters as Shenanigan's, a self-consciously "fun" chain restaurant. Both have Read More

Roll Bounce

Actors: Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Meagan Good, Wesley Jonathan, Kellita Smith

Synopsis: A handful of inner-city kids move up to the big time in this teen-centric musical. Xavier Smith (Bow Wow), known to his friends as X, is a teenager growing up on the South Side of Chicago in the late '70s. X and his buddies are the hotshot skaters at the Palisades Gardens, a neighborhood roller Read More

House: MOB Rules

Synopsis: A typically truculent House (Hugh Laurie) is slapped with a court order instructing him to determine if mobster Joey Arnello (Joseph Lyle Taylor), who is slated to give testimony in Federal Court before entering the Witness Protection Program, is faking a serious illness. Joey's knuckle-busting Read More

Killer Instinct [TV Series]

Actors: Johnny Messner, Kristin Lehman, Chi McBride

Synopsis: Created by CSI's Josh Berman, the tension-laden Fox detective series Killer Instinct chronicled the activities of San Francisco's Deviant Crime Unit, headed by the tough, flippant Lt. Matt Cavanaugh (Chi McBride). The unit's mission was to track down and eliminate the most vicious and heinous of Read More

House: Control

Synopsis: Chi McBride makes his first series appearance as billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler, the new chairman of the board at Princeton-Plainsboro. Assuming that his position gives him license to call all the shots, Vogler wastes no time throwing his weight around--beginning with his promise to donate Read More

House: Babies and Bathwater

Synopsis: Already irked by the resignation of Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), House (Hugh Laurie) must also endure the persecution of board chairman Vogler (Chi McBride), who demands that House be fired immediately or the clinic will lose his $100 million donation. At long last, Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) takes a Read More

House: Role Model

Synopsis: Faced with the choice of firing one of his team or losing his own job, House (Hugh Laurie) is given a way out by Vogler (Chi McBride). If he will give a speech on behalf of a new drug developed by Vogler's pharamaceutical firm, House will be completely off the hook. The upshot of all this only Read More

House: Heavy

Synopsis: Vogler (Chi McBride) cuts a deal with Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), agreeing to postpone the dismissal of Dr. House (Hugh Laurie). But there's a price to pay for this concession: House must immediately fire one member of his team. As tension mounts among House's coworkers, they still find time to look Read More

I, Robot

Actors: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: Director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) helmed this sci-fi thriller inspired by the stories in Isaac Asimov's nine-story anthology of the same name. In the future presented in the film, humans have become exceedingly dependent on robots in their everyday lives. Robots have become more and more Read More

The Terminal

Actors: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spielberg revolves around an Eastern European man by the name of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), whose plans of immigrating to New York were hastened by a Read More

The N Word

Synopsis: The biggest names in show business come together to offer their opinions on one of the most inflammatory words in the English language in filmmaker Todd Williams' revealing and thought-provoking documentary. In its long and complex history, the word "nigger" has gone from a cutting and derogatory Read More

Cradle 2 the Grave

Actors: Jet Li, DMX, Mark Dacascos, Kelly Hu, Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: A thief and a lawman join forces to hunt down a common enemy in this action thriller. Tony Fait (DMX) is a master thief who, along with his crew (Gabrielle Union, Anthony Anderson, and Drag-On), pulls off a major score when they steal a cache of highly valuable black diamonds. However, the Read More

Narc

Actors: Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride, Busta Rhymes, Anne Openshaw

Synopsis: Suspended from the police force following an undercover drug bust gone horribly awry, Detroit undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) is reluctantly goaded back into active duty in hopes that he can help to crack the case of a slain fellow officer. Promised reinstatement in the Read More

Paid in Full

Actors: Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Carroll, Esai Morales, Chi McBride

Synopsis: Paid in Full marks the feature debut of director Charles Stone III, who rose to fame after creating Budweiser's "Wassup" commercials. The urban gangster drama is loosely based on the true story of 1980s Harlem drug kingpins AZ, Rich Porter, and Alpo. (This story was also the basis for a Read More

Undercover Brother

Actors: Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan, Aunjanue Ellis, Dave Chappelle

Synopsis: Undercover Brother began life as an animated series on the Internet. The satirical cartoon was created by novelist and screenwriter John Ridley (Three Kings) for the website urbanentertainment.com. Ridley wrote the screenplay with Michael McCullers, co-writer of the Austin Powers sequels, and it Read More

Disney's The Kid

Actors: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride

Synopsis: If you could talk to the child that you used to be, what advice would you give him? That question forms the basis of this comic fantasy. Forty-year-old Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is a wealthy and powerful "image consultant" who has made a career out of telling people how to present themselves. But Read More

Gone In 60 Seconds

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton, Christopher Eccleston, Chi McBride, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a master car thief has his skills pushed to the limit. Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage) can steal practically any car that crosses his path. While he has done well in his life of crime, he knows that there's a short future in theft, and he wants to get out of the Read More

Dancing in September

Actors: James Avery, Nicole Ari Parker, Michael Cavanaugh, Marcia Cross, Jenifer Lewis, Vicellous Shannon, Jay Underwood, Isaiah Washington, Malinda Williams

Synopsis: Reggie Rock Bythewood makes his directorial debut with this sharp comedy-drama about love, compromise, and TV. The film opens with the parallel childhoods of Tomasina "Tommy" Crawford (Nicole Ari Parker) and George Washington (Isaiah Washington). Both were utterly shaped by television -- watching Roots Read More

Muhammad Ali: King of the World

Actors: Terrence Howard, Gary Dourdan, Steve Harris, John Ventimiglia, Chi McBride

Synopsis: It is just possible that the made-for-TV biopic Muhammad Ali: King of the World was hastily pieced together to capitalize on the popular theatrical documentary When We Were Kings and the publicity attending the upcoming Will Smith movie vehicle Ali. Actually, the title of the TV film was something Read More

Boston Public [TV Series]

Actors: Jessalyn Gilsig, Chi McBride, Fyvush Finkel, Anthony Heald, Joey Slotnick

Synopsis: Produced by the prolific David E. Kelly, the Fox network comedy-drama series Boston Public is as quirky, volatile and overpopulated with colorful and eccentric characters as any other Kelly effort. Set within the walls of Boston Public High School, the series is told from the viewpoint of the Read More

Mercury Rising

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects Read More

The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer

Actors: Chi McBride, Max Baker, Dann Florek, Christine Estabrook, Kelly Connell

Synopsis: In this TV sitcom, exiled black Englishman Desmond Pfeiffer (Chi McBride) arrives at Abraham Lincoln's White House where he becomes a trusted confidante of the President (Dann Florek). Desmond details all he sees in his journal, and that includes the sexually frustrated First Lady Mary Todd Read More

Hoodlum

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams, Andy Garcia, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is an African-American ex-con who, after a stay in prison, returns to Harlem at the height of its renaissance before World War II. Read More

The Frighteners

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

Married... With Children: Nooner or Nothing

Synopsis: In order to win a radio contest staged by deejay Rick Dees (as himself), Peg (Katey Sagal) must persuade Al (Ed O'Neill) to come home from work early for a hot-and-heavy "nooner." While all this is going on, Kelly (Christina Applegate) and Bud (David Faustino) languish in a long line for B.B.R. Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Boyz in the Woods

Synopsis: Hoping for one last "bonding" session with Will (Will Smith) and Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) before they head off to college, Philip (James Avery) bundles the reluctant teens off on a special camping trip. It isn't long before the intrepid trio gets lost, then trapped by a blinding snowstorm. Read More