Dennis HaysbertFilmography

The Unit: Season 04

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Robert Patrick, Audrey Marie Anderson, Max Martini, Scott Foley

Goodbye Bafana

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Faith Ndukwana, Terry Pheto

Synopsis: Bille August's inspirational docudrama Goodbye Bafana begins in 1968, with South Africa buried neck-deep in the horrors of apartheid and Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) -- then an underground leader of the African National Congress -- imprisoned on Robben Island for sedition. As the story opens Read More

Breach

Actors: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Gary Cole, Caroline Dhavernas

Synopsis: Shattered Glass director Billy Ray directs Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe in this fact-based drama concerning the FBI traitor who carried out what many historians refer to as the most notable national security breach in U.S. history. A key member of the FBI's elite Soviet Analytical Unit, Robert Read More

The Unit: Season 03

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Robert Patrick, Audrey Marie Anderson, Max Martini, Scott Foley

The Unit: Season 02

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Robert Patrick, Audrey Marie Anderson, Max Martini, Scott Foley

Synopsis: Season 2 begins with Mack (Max Martini) and Tiffy (Abby Brammell) making plans to leave the Unit, but Tiffy considers divorcing Mack after she discovers a letter indicating he has reenlisted. Meanwhile, Jonas (Dennis Haysbert) learns that Molly (Regina Taylor) lost their life savings in a Read More

The Unit: Season 01

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Robert Patrick, Audrey Marie Anderson, Max Martini, Scott Foley

Synopsis: The Unit is a covert team of U.S. Special Forces operatives who carry out extremely dangerous missions, from political assassinations to rescuing hostages, for the Army and the government. Counterterrorism is their specialty. The explosive drama is as unflinching in its depiction of war and its Read More

Jarhead

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Brian Geraghty, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father before him, and signs on just in time to be sent to Iraq to fight in the Gulf War in Read More

24: Season 04

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, William Devane, Alberta Watson, Nestor Serrano, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: Season four of the wildly successful "real-time" adventure series 24 begins some 18 months at the end of season three. John Keeler (Geoff Pierson) has succeeded David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) as president of the United States, and the new secretary of defense is James Heller (William Devane) Read More

24: Day 4, 5:00AM - 6:00AM

Synopsis: Tony (Carlos Bernard) is being held hostage by Mandy (Mia Kirshner from seasons one and two). When Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) realizes that Tony has gone missing, he uses all available personnel to seal a perimeter around the apartment complex and begin searching. Mandy, who knows that Tony once Read More

Empire

Synopsis: The assassination of Julius Caesar has plunged Rome into chaos, and the only hope for the once-thriving empire lies in the ability of his 18-year-old nephew Octavius to defeat the manipulative Marc Anthony in this epic miniseries starring Santiago Cabrera and directed by John Gray, Kim Manners Read More

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Actors: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: The legendary rogue of the seven seas confronts a new assortment of dangers and thrills in this animated action-adventure tale. Sinbad (voice of Brad Pitt) and his crews of pirate adventurers are hoping to retire to Fiji, and they discover a treasure that could make that possible -- the Book of Read More

24: Season 03

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Haysbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth, Elisha Cuthbert, James Badge Dale, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: After thwarting last season's attempted nuclear attack on Los Angeles, Day 3 finds Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) again fighting to protect the city, this time from a weaponized virus. But Jack is also battling a personal demon -- a heroin addiction he picked up while Read More

National Geographic: The FBI

Actors: Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: For this National Geographic TV special, FBI director Robert Mueller gave the filmmakers unprecedented access to the inner working of the law-enforcement bureau. Though the focus is of course on the anti-terrorism war of the early 21st century, this laudatory campaign is placed in context with the Read More

Justice League: Hearts and Minds, Part 2

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Keith David, Kim Mai Guest

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, League member John Stewart, aka The Green Lantern, continues in his efforts to save his fellow "Lanterns" -- and by extension, all mankind -- from the mass-brainwashing scheme fomented by the evil Despero. Happily, it turns out that Stewart's former Read More

Justice League: Hearts and Minds, Part 1

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Keith David, Kim Mai Guest

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, John Stewart, aka The Green Lantern, must come to the rescue of his fellow "Lanterns," several of whom have pitted their lives against the alien minions of the evil Despero. John is alerted to this peril by another "Lantern" named Kilowog, who has escaped Read More

Far from Heaven

Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957 Read More

24: Season 02

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Haysbert, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth

Synopsis: Eighteen months after Day 1's foiled assassination plot, Day 2 finds Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) officially stepping into the role of America's protector as he attempts to stop terrorists from setting off a bomb in Los Angeles. During his hunt for the nuclear Read More

24: Season 01

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Elisha Cuthbert, Sarah Clarke, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: Federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is having a very bad day in this unique, action-packed drama series in which events unfold in real time and the entire season takes place within one 24-hour day. Bauer is the director of the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles. He's also a married man Read More

What's Cooking?

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Ann Weldon, Mercedes Ruehl, Victor Rivers, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies, Joan Chen, Kristy Wu, Will Yun Lee

Synopsis: Kenyan-born, London-educated Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha follows up on her debut hit Bhaji on the Beach (1994) with this gentle look at multiculturalism in Los Angeles. The film details the lives of four ethnically diverse families -- black, Latino, Jewish, and Asian -- during one frantic Read More

Love & Basketball

Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Debbi Morgan

Synopsis: A young African-American couple navigates the tricky paths of romance and athletics in this drama. Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) and Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also Read More

Random Hearts

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack, Richard Jenkins, Paul Guilfoyle, Peter Coyote, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Two people who've known the pain of loss and the sting of betrayal are brought together under trying circumstances in this romantic drama. Dutch van den Broeck (Harrison Ford) is a police detective based in Washington D.C. whose wife works for an upscale department store; flying to Miami on Read More

The Minus Man

Actors: Owen Wilson, Brian Cox, Mercedes Ruehl, Janeane Garofalo, Dwight Yoakam

Synopsis: Notable as the directorial debut of Blade Runner co-scripter Hampton Fancher, this darkly comic thriller stars affable Owen Wilson as Vann Siegert, a different brand of serial killer: one who actually believes he's doing his deeply depressed victims a service of mercy. Wandering up the West Coast Read More

The Thirteenth Floor

Actors: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: The increasingly blurry lines between what is real and what is an artificial construct - both physically and philosophically - are the point of focus in the science fiction drama The Thirteenth Floor. In 1937, a man named Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) gives a note to Ashton (Vincent D'Onofrio), the Read More

Now And Again [TV Series]

Actors: Eric Close, John Goodman, Margaret Colin, Dennis Haysbert, Heather Matarazzo

How to Make The Cruelest Month

Actors: Clea DeVall, Gabriel Mann, John David Souther, Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Synopsis: Kip Koenig wrote and directed this comedy, set in a small college town, about neurotic Bell Bryant (Clea DuVall) who explains her problems directly to the camera: her older sister Sarah (Jorja Fox) has a happy marriage plus a baby on the way. Her other sister, beautiful Dot (Amy Smart), is Read More

Major League: Back To The Minors

Actors: Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Takaaki Ishibashi, Jensen Daggett

Synopsis: This sports comedy is the third inning for the "Major League" series after Major League (1989) grossed $50 million and Major League II delivered a batting average of $30 million in 1994. After Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen), who owns the Minnesota Twins and the minor-league South Carolina Buzz, talks Read More

Standoff

Actors: Robert Sean Leonard, Dennis Haysbert, Paul Ben-Victor

Absolute Power

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis

Synopsis: In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving murder and a government cover-up. Adapted by distinguished scenarist William Goldman from a novel by David Baldacci and featuring a powerful all-star cast, the story works at different Read More

The Writing on the Wall

Actors: Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie, Dennis Haysbert, Lena Stolze, Daniel Von Bargen

Synopsis: Previously adapted for German television as Operation Schmetterling, the four-part British miniseries The Writing on the Wall starred Bill Paterson in the central role of Bull. A government agent working on behalf of NATO, Bull found himself up to his neck in conspiracies and double-crosses as he Read More

Heat

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora

Synopsis: A successful career criminal considers getting out of the business after one last score, while an obsessive cop desperately tries to put him behind bars in this intelligent thriller written and directed by Michael Mann. Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a thief who specializes in big, risky jobs Read More

Waiting to Exhale

Actors: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: A surprise Hollywood hit, this film is based on the novel of the same name by Terry McMillan and centers on four well-to-do African-American women and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed Read More

Major League II

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, James Gammon

Synopsis: This follow-up to 1989's unexpected comedy hit Major League continues the broadly humorous adventures of the misfit Cleveland Indians. No longer the scrappy survivors who pulled off an upset championship victory, the Indians have let success go to their heads, accepting movie roles and hefty Read More

Suture

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill, Michael Harris

Synopsis: Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's self-conscious exploration of identity and individuality, evokes a flashy remake of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Jail Bait. Dennis Haysbert and Michael Harris play half-brothers Clay and Vincent Towers. Clay travels to Phoenix to meet with Vincent, whom he hasn't Read More

Widow's Kiss

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, MacKenzie Astin, Dennis Haysbert, Bruce Davison, Anna Maria Horsford

Synopsis: A few months after his mother's death, a bereaved Sean Sager is unhappy when his wealthy father, Justin, marries Vivian, a seductive blonde with a 20-year-old son from her previous marriage. And he is even more disturbed that his stepmother may be trying to seduce him as well. Or is that his Read More

Return to Lonesome Dove

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Jon Voight

Synopsis: The first of a number of sequels to the highly successful western mini-series Lonesome Dove featured few of the same actors as the original, nor was it based on a novel by Larry McMurtry. In this outing, onetime Texas Ranger Call (Jon Voight, replacing Tommy Lee Jones) heads a group of cowboys Read More

Love Field

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin, Louise Latham

Synopsis: Jonathan Kaplan directs this drama which grafts a nostalgic mood piece with a race-to-the-finish road movie. Lurene Hallett (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an insulated middle-class wife living in Texas in the early 1960s who adores the Kennedys, particularly Jackie, whom she feels is a kindred soul. When Read More

Mr. Baseball

Actors: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Ava Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert, Toshi Shioya

Synopsis: When has-been baseball player Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) is signed by a Japanese team, he is initially reluctant to take the game seriously. Elliot is very successful, though, as he teaches the team about American chutzpah, and they remind him of the value of respect. He must fight his way out from Read More

Queen

Actors: Halle Berry, Tim Daly, Danny Glover, Ann-Margret, Jasmine Guy, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: In 1977, Alex Haley's groundbreaking mini-series Roots became one of the most watched programs in television history, telling the story of seven generations of the author's mother's family, from their capture in Africa and enslavement in the United States to their eventual emancipation more than a Read More

Navy Seals

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Rick Rossovich, Cyril O'Reilly

Synopsis: This exercise in patriotic, high-tech action centers on a select group of Navy commandos and their battles against a Middle East terrorist group. This particular squadron is led by a pair of rivals: cocky, fiery Hawkins (Charlie Sheen) and stoic, unflappable Curran (Michael Biehn). When an Read More

Major League

Actors: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton, James Gammon

Synopsis: Inheriting the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her late husband, covetous ex-showgirl Margaret Whitton wants to move the franchise to Miami, primarily to take advantage of the many personal perks she's been promised by that city. But Cleveland won't yield its lease on the Indians unless the Read More

K-9000

Synopsis: A policeman and a lady scientist team up to recover her latest creation--a cybernetic, crime-fighting dog--from the crooks who made off with it. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Court: Pen Pal

Synopsis: Dennis Haysbert, future star of such TV series as 24 and The Unit, appears in this episode as prison convict James Morgan. While Christine (Markie Post) carries on a pen-pal correspondence with Morgan, Roz (Marsha Warfield) manages to worm her way into the proceedings, whereupon the convict falls Read More

Growing Pains: State of the Union

Synopsis: Maggie (Joanna Kerns) has been inordinately touchy and argumentative of late, which she attributes to her frustration over the predominance of males in American society. The limit comes when Jason (Alan Thicke) cluelessly humiliates Maggie in front of her boss Sid (Kenneth Tigar). At this point Read More

Growing Pains: Gone But Not Forgotten

Synopsis: It's hardly a happy birthday for Maggie (Joanne Kerns) when the Seavers come home to discover that their house has been burglarized. Literally everything is gone--including several precious heirlooms and other beloved objects. This unusually serious episode focuses on the profound feelings of Read More

Growing Pains: Weekend Fantasy

Synopsis: Despite their trepidations, Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie (Joanna Kerns) agree to let Mike (Kirk Cameron) take charge of the house while they spend the weekend at a Vermont mountain lodge. When they call home and no one answers, Jason and Maggie begin to imagine all sorts of horrible scenarios Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Blood and Honor

Synopsis: Called back to active Naval service by Admiral Hawkes (Paul Burke), Magnum (Tom Selleck) is handed the delicate task of pinpointing and plugging a security leak at a Navy base where a top-secret nuclear submarine is docked. The mission proves to be a painful one when it appears that the source of Read More

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

Synopsis: The sagacious old physician faces disaccreditation in this medical drama. The trouble begins when a financially troubled hospital he works at proposes to cut the privileges of its oldest staggers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The A-Team: One More Time

Synopsis: Hannibal's perennial nemesis Colonel Lynch (William Lucking) is in a festive mood when he finally succeeds in capturing the A-Team. But Lynch's exultation is short-lived: He is ordered to release the team by his superiors, who want Hannibal (George Peppard) and company to head to Borneo, there to Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Headhunter

Synopsis: Narcotics officer Joe Marsala (Eddie Fontaine) becomes the subject of an Internal Affairs investigation when the police find the mutilated body of a stewardess. Evidently the girl had died of a cocaine overdose--and further evidence indicates that Marsala was her lover. Can it be that Marsala was Read More

Code Red

Synopsis: In this action film, firefighters fight a series of arson fires and try to figure out who set them and why. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Grambling's White Tiger

Synopsis: Produced by Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, Grambling's White Tiger stars Jenner as real-life quarterback Jim Gregory. The film recounts Gregory's efforts to become the first white player on Grambling College's all-black football team. Harry Belafonte made his TV-movie debut as legendary Grambling Read More

Quincy, M.E.: New Blood

Synopsis: Forced to take a brief leave of absence, Quincy (Jack Klugman) is none too pleased to find out that his temporary replacement, pathologist Gerry McCracken (Beverly Sassoon), performs a major autopsy on congressman Lawrence Bridges, who died in an apparent accident. When it appears that Dr. Read More

Laverne & Shirley: What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?

Synopsis: Ed Begley Jr. returns in the role of Shirley's brother Bobby Feeney. Evidently Bobby's years in the Navy have not been altogether beneficial; during her sibling's shore leave, Shirley becomes painfully aware that Bobby has developed into a full-fledged alcoholic. Featured in the supporting cast of Read More