Delroy Lindo Filmography

Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures: Return to the Amazon

Actors: Jean-Michel Cousteau, Celine Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: As emceed by Jean-Michel Cousteau - eldest son of the late French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and his wife Simone - this PBS documentary springboards from the assumption that one of the Earth's most immense bodies of water, South America's Amazon River, will dramatically reshape (and is now Read More

This Christmas

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba, Loretta Devine, Chris Brown, Keith Robinson

Synopsis: Upon gathering together under one roof for the first time in seven years, an estranged family celebrating Christmas rediscovers long forgotten bonds in this holiday family reuniondrama starring Delroy Lindo, Regina King, and Mekhi Phifer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wondrous Oblivion

Actors: Sam Smith, Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof, Stanley Townsend, Angela Wynter

Synopsis: Writer/director Paul Morrison, who directed the cross-cultural period drama Solomon and Gaenor, returns to similar ground, though in a lighter vein, with Wondrous Oblivion. Sam Smith stars as David Wiseman, a Jewish boy living in London in 1960 who dreams of being a world-class athlete. David is Read More

Kidnapped [TV Series]

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Carmen Ejogo, Delroy Lindo, Linus Roache, Will Denton

Synopsis: Another of the many serialized TV dramas of the mid-2000s in which important clues and motivations were slowly and methodically revealed on a "need to know" basis, Kidnapped got under way when Leopold Cain (Will Denton), the son of self-made millionaire Conrad Cain (Timothy Hutton) and his wife Read More

Domino

Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: The (mostly) true story of a Hollywood princess turned bounty hunter is told in this witty action-drama from director Tony Scott. Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) was the daughter of famed actor Laurence Harvey (played by Jesse Pate) who passed on when Domino was only eight years old. Domino's Read More

Sahara

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz, Lambert Wilson, Glynn E. Turman

Synopsis: Matthew McConaughey stars as explorer and adventurer Dirk Pitt in this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Clive Cussler. Pitt thinks he may have found both a fortune and the answer to a long-standing mystery when he discovers a rare coin in the waters of a river in West Africa. During the Read More

The Exonerated

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: Adapted by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from their own off-Broadway play, The Exonerated dramatizes the real-life stories of six innocent citizens who spent anywhere from three to 20 years on death row until DNA testing proved that they had all been falsely convicted. Each of the six stories is Read More

Lackawanna Blues

Actors: S. Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A. Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathleen Chalfant

Synopsis: A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one-man show. Ruben Junior (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young boy who was born in the late '40s into a family that started crumbling not long after he was born. Ruben Read More

Maiden Voyage: Ocean Hijack

Actors: Rosemary Dunsmore, Delroy Lindo, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: A former firefighter and Special Forces officer takes on a team of murderous terrorists when the oceanliner he's working on is hijacked shortly after leaving port. Hired to evaluate security on a luxury cruise ship, blaze battler and former military man Kyle Considine (Casper Van Dien) brings his Read More

The Core

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D.J. Qualls

Synopsis: An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this action-drama. As the world is struck with a variety of inexplicable phenomena -- attacks by enormous swarms of birds in London, the explosion of the Colosseum in Rome, a potentially deadly Read More

Profoundly Normal

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Delroy Lindo, Rosemary Dunsmore, Kevin Dulhaney, Catherine Fitch

Synopsis: Based on a true story (as reported on a 1986 episode of 60 Minutes), this made-for-TV film stars Kirstie Alley and Delroy Lindo as Donna Selby and Ricardo Thornton, two developmentally challenged adults. Institutionalized throughout most of their lives, Donna and Ricardo suddenly find themselves Read More

Hollywood High

Synopsis: This exhaustively researched cable-TV documentary traces the history of drug movies, from camp classics like Reefer Madness to more serious and sober examinations like Requiem for a Dream. Top-heavy with clips from such once-shocking groundbreakers as The Man With the Golden Arm, the "head" flicks Read More

Heist

Actors: Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay

Synopsis: Esteemed writer/director David Mamet fashioned this homage to the elegant, character-driven "tough guy" genre pictures of Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s, even using vintage scores in the soundtrack. Gene Hackman stars as Joe Moore, an accomplished thief whose career is jeopardized after he's Read More

The One

Actors: Jet Li, Carla Gugino, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham, James Morrison

Synopsis: Former X-Files writer James Wong makes his sophomore feature as a director at the helm of this science fiction thriller that's reminiscent of Timecop (1994). In the near future, a technology called "quantum tunneling" allows human beings to travel between parallel universes. The abuse of this Read More

The Last Castle

Actors: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo, Clifton Collins, Jr.

Synopsis: Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini 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

Romeo Must Die

Actors: Aaliyah, Anthony Anderson, Edoardo Ballerini, DMX, Jon Kit Lee

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's streak as the hottest storyteller in Hollywood continues with this modern-dress variation on Romeo and Juliet. In this loose adaptation, Hang Sing (Jet Li) is a former police officer from Hong Kong who comes to the United States following the death of his brother, the leader Read More

The Cider House Rules

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine

Synopsis: John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan who spent most of his childhood at the St. Cloud Orphanage in rural Maine, where he grew up under the strong but affectionate care of Dr. Read More

Strange Justice

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Regina Taylor, Mandy Patinkin

Synopsis: This made-for-cable TV drama is based on the book of the same name by Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson. Delroy Lindo stars as Justice Clarence Thomas, whose proposed appointment to the Supreme Court by President Bush in October 1991 turns into a media frenzy that Read More

Pros & Cons

Actors: Larry Miller, Tommy Davidson, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a mild-mannered accountant (Larry Miller) finds himself behind bars after he becomes unwittingly implicated in an embezzlement scandal engineered by his boss. Left to fend for himself in prison, the accountant makes friends with another inmate who was railroaded (Tommy Davidson) Read More

The Book of Stars

Actors: Mary Stuart Masterson, Jena Malone, Delroy Lindo, Karl Geary, D.B. Sweeney

Synopsis: This independent drama examines the relationship between Mary (Jena Malone), a 15-year-old girl whose been forced into a wisdom beyond her years by dealing with a serious illness, and her older sister Penny (Mary Stuart Masterson). The responsibility of caring for Mary has fallen to Penny, who Read More

Glory And Honor

Synopsis: Delroy Lindo and Henry Czerny star in this TNT Original about Matthew Henson, the unsung hero of Robert Peary's historic expedition to the North Pole. Shown from the vantage point of Henson, an African American who began the journey as Peary's valet, the film explores his role in the expedition Read More

The Devil's Advocate

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Supernatural forces hover over the courtroom in this devilish drama adapted from the novel by Andrew Neiderman. Attorney Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) doesn't heed the Bible-based warnings of his mother (Judith Ivey), who views New York City as "the dwelling place of demons." Instead, he leaves Read More

A Life Less Ordinary

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm

Synopsis: The acclaimed Trainspotting trio (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, scripter John Hodge) reunited for this update of '30s screwball comedies and '40s fantasies, such as Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), Angel on My Shoulder(1946), Down to Earth(1947), and the 1946 Stairway to Heaven Read More

First Time Felon

Actors: Omar Epps, Delroy Lindo, Rachel Ticotin, William Forsythe, Treach

Synopsis: In this drama, a young drug dealer is sent to a strict and difficult boot camp in hopes that discipline and self-confidence will help him create a better life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Winner

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Rebecca De Mornay, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: After director Alex Cox alienated the powers that be in Hollywood with Straight to Hell and Walker, his anarchic follow-ups to Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, it would be nearly a decade before he made a film in the United States again. After making the critically acclaimed, underseen Highway Patrolman Read More

Ransom

Actors: Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise, Brawley Nolte, Delroy Lindo, Lili Taylor

Synopsis: Ron Howard directed this thriller which stars Mel Gibson as Tom Mullen, a former fighter pilot who built a ramshackle one-plane airline into a major multinational service fleet. Mullen has a multi-million dollar fortune, a beautiful wife, Kate (Rene Russo) and a nine-year-old son, Sean (Brawley Nolte Read More

Broken Arrow

Actors: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: Hong Kong director John Woo's second U.S. film (his first was Hard Target) delivers a number of exciting action sequences but is let down by a credibility-straining plot. John Travolta plays Vic Deakins, an Air Force pilot on what is supposed to be a routine night flight mission with his co-pilot Read More

Feeling Minnesota

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Courtney Love

Synopsis: It's not unusual in the movies for a woman to be torn between two brothers, but she usually doesn't change her mind on her wedding day. Then again, hardly anything goes the way one might expect in this black comedy. Freddie (Cameron Diaz), a pretty but hard-as-nails stripper, dreams of some day Read More

Soul of the Game

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood, Edward Herrmann, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This original HBO production documents, in dramatic form, the rivalry between Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson to see who would be the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. Paige (played by Delroy Lindo) and Gibson (Mykelti Williamson) are more aggressive about Read More

Clockers

Actors: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David

Synopsis: Based on Richard Price's grim best-seller, and directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay co-written with Price, Clockers takes the structure of a police procedural to build a chilling portrait of despair, hope, and the unanswered problem of black-on-black crime in an urban housing project. The Read More

Get Shorty

Actors: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to Read More

L'Exil Du Roi Behanzin

Actors: Delroy Lindo, France Zobda, Robert Liensol

Crooklyn

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Carlton Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee and his siblings Cinque Lee and Joie Lee co-wrote this nostalgic but unglamorized look at a family growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, inspired by their own childhood. Woody Carmichael (Delroy Lindo) is a jazz musician whose career is in a slump; he once made a good living as a session Read More

Blood In Blood Out

Actors: Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique J. Castillo, Victor Rivers

Synopsis: Taylor Hackford directed this urgent melodrama about the realities of street crime, gangs, and prison life among the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Miklo (Damian Chapa), Paco (Benjamin Bratt) and Cruz (Jesse Borrego) are three friends who are living in the East Los Angeles of 1972 as it is torn Read More

Mr. Jones

Actors: Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Altman

Synopsis: The title character, a manic depressive prone to very irrational behavior (Richard Gere), is hospitalized for treatment. While there, the psychiatrist responsible for his rehabilitation (Lena Olin) becomes involved with him and cannot stand to allow his check-out. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Malcolm X

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape of the letter X. When the film's narrative Read More

Bright Angel

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Bill Pullman, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic squabbles. Linking up with Lili Taylor, a Wyoming-bound transient with a checkered history, Mulroney embarks upon an odyssey of self-discovery. Unfortunately, he persists in Read More

The Hard Way

Actors: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Annabella Sciorra, Penny Marshall, LL Cool J, John Capodice

Synopsis: Action film director John Badham bites the hand that feeds him in this action movie spoof that features ribbing of pretty-boy Hollywood action stars by Michael J. Fox and a parody of colorful, hair-trigger James Woods types by the man himself. Woods plays New York homicide detective John Moss, who Read More

The Blood of Heroes

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Anna Katarina, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: Blood of Heroes features a sport that you're not likely to see on ESPN. It's called "juggers", and Rutger Hauer is the champion jugger in the post-apocalyptic world; he goes from village to village with his entourage, brutishly taking on all comers. The action culminates in the bloody "league Read More

Mountains of the Moon

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Peter Vaughan, John Savident

Synopsis: Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen). The heart of the film is the effort Read More

Perfect Witness

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, Stockard Channing, Laura Harrington, Joe Grifasi

Synopsis: The Perfect Witness is New York restaurant owner Aidan Quinn. After witnessing a mob murder, Quinn does his civic duty by reporting the incident to the authorities. This plunks Quinn into the middle of a power play between the DA and ambitious US attorney Brian Dennehy, who won't let up on the Read More

More American Graffiti

Actors: Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Scott Glenn, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips

Synopsis: Returning from the original American Graffiti are Debbie Dunham, Steve Bolander, John Milner, Carol/Rainbow, Terry the Toad and Laurie Bolander (Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Paul LeMat, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith and Cindy Williams), but Richard Dreyfuss is missing and Harrison Ford Read More