Hill HarperFilmography

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Actors: Golden Brooks, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Melissa DeSousa, Deborah Cox

Synopsis: Amidst claims that the African-American family unit is slowly deteriorating, filmmaker Leslie Small sets out to explore how the role of black women in the family has evolved as the population of black males continues to diminish. Inspired by the musical stage play of the same name, Small's film Read More

President Barack Obama: The Man and His Journey

Synopsis: "Yes we can!" was more than a slogan for the Obama campaign; it became a rallying cry from all reaches of America for economic and social change throughout the country, and led to the historic election of the first African-American President of the United States. Narrated by Blair Underwood, this Read More

This is Not a Test

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hill Harper, Tom Arnold, Robinne Lee, Eddie Cahill, Gordon Currie

Synopsis: Writer/producer/director Chris Angel examines the paranoia of life in the age of terrorism with this drama about a Los Angeles man who attempts to prepare for the worst after becoming convinced that his city has been targeted for a nuclear attack. Carl (Hill Harper) and Vivian Ashby (Robinne Lee) Read More

Constellation

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Zoe Saldana, Lesley Ann Warren, Hill Harper, Melissa DeSousa

Synopsis: An estranged African-American family from the deep South is forced to confront their painful past when as they come together to celebrate the life and legacy of the woman whose death served as the catalyst for renewed family bonds in this redemptive family drama starring Hill Harper, Billy Dee Read More

The Breed

Actors: Michelle Rodriguez, Oliver Hudson, Taryn Manning, Eric Lively, Hill Harper

Synopsis: Five friends find their relaxing summer getaway turning into a bloody battle for survival when they discover that the remote island that they thought was uninhabited has been overrun with vicious, genetically mutated canines. Michelle Rodriguez, Oliver Hudson, and Taryn Manning, star in a Wes Craven Read More

CSI: NY: Season 04

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Hill Harper, A.J. Buckley

Premium

Actors: Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, Hill Harper

Synopsis: Frankie L. Faison, Hill Harper, and Zoe Saldana star in director Pete Chatmon's tale of an emerging African American actor who embarks on a frantic race to prevent the love of his life from marrying another man. After being ejected from a casting call for a tempestuous outburst, told by his mother Read More

CSI: NY: Season 03

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Hill Harper, A.J. Buckley

30 Days

Actors: Hill Harper, Charlie Neal, Ellen Burstyn, Taye Diggs

America Brown

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Hill Harper, Karen Black, Natasha Lyonne, Élodie Bouchez

Synopsis: A young man leaves his home and family in search of himself in this independent drama. America Brown (Ryan Kwanten) -- called "Ricky" by most of his friends -- was born and raised in a West Texas town where football is treated more like a religion than a game. Raised by a single mother (Karen Black Read More

Max and Josh

Crew: Screenwriter

CSI: NY: Season 02

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Hill Harper, A.J. Buckley

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

CSI: NY [TV Series]

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito, Hill Harper

Synopsis: The third entry in executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer's "CSI" (Crime Scene Investigation) franchise, CSI: NY was introduced as "MIA/NYC," the May 17, 2004, episode of CSI: Miami. Making its formal weekly CBS debut on September 22 of that same year, the new series starred Gary Sinise as Read More

Higher Ed

Actors: Pras

Synopsis: The debut feature from writer/director/actor Jean-Claude LaMarre, Higher Ed stars rapper/actor Pras as Ed Green, a young track star from New York who jumps at the opportunity to accept a scholarship to a quaint Southern college. Unfortunately for Ed, his big-city problems follow him to his new Read More

CSI: NY: Season 01

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper

Synopsis: Introduced in May 2004 as an episode of CSI: Miami, the CBS "procedural" cop drama CSI: NY launches its first full season with 22 hour-long episodes. The opener, "Blink," finds NYC Crime Lab head Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his team of brilliant, iconoclastic forensic specialists hunting for a Read More

The Handler [TV Series]

Actors: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Ken Weiler, Lola Glaudini, Hill Harper, Tanya Wright

Synopsis: No sooner had actor Joe Pantoliano's character literally lost his head as mobster Ralph Cifaretto on the HBO crime series The Sopranos than he switched to the "right" side of the law on the CBS weekly The Handler. Pantoliano was cast as veteran FBI agent Joe Renato, who was placed in charge of a Read More

Love, Sex and Eating the Bones

Actors: Hill Harper, Marlyne N. Afflack, Mark Taylor, Kai Soremekun, Marieka Weathered

Synopsis: Canadian writer/director Sudz Sutherland makes his feature debut with the romantic comedy Love, Sex & Eating the Bones. Hill Harper plays Michael, a Toronto security guard who wants to be a photographer. He spends most of his time at an adult movie store called Pornocopia, renting videos starring Read More

The Badge

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Ray McKinnon, Tom Bower

Synopsis: A good-old-boy small-town sheriff in a New Orleans parish happens upon a murder case that threatens to end his career in Behind the Badge, the embattled second feature of writer/director Robby Henson (Pharaoh's Army). Billy Bob Thornton stars as Darl, a divorced lawman first spotted sleeping in Read More

The Visit

Actors: Hill Harper, Obba Babatunde, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams, Marla Gibbs

Synopsis: A cast of distinguished veterans and promising newcomers headline this stark prison drama from first-time writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Hill Harper stars as embittered inmate Alex, sentenced to serve time for a rape he claims that he didn't commit. His link to the outside world is his Read More

Loving Jezebel

Actors: Hill Harper, Nicole Ari Parker, Laurel Holloman, Sandrine Holt, David Moscow

Synopsis: Writer-director Kwyn Bader debuts with this romantic comedy about finding the right woman at the wrong time. Theodorus (Hill Harper) has a knack for falling for "Jezebels," women who are already involved with someone else. His romantic misadventures begin in Kindergarten and continue with a Read More

The Skulls

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a college student finds himself immersed in forces beyond his control. Born and raised in a working-class Connecticut community, Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) made it into an Ivy League college, where he's done quite well; his dream is to be accepted into Harvard Law Read More

In Too Deep

Actors: Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Nia Long, Stanley Tucci, Hill Harper

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, L.L. Cool J is a underworld boss so powerful that his nickname is "God." He has his fingers in 80% of the drug traffic in Cincinnati, has won over nearly every adversary through bribery or intimidation, and seems practically untouchable. New police detective Jeffrey Cole (Omar Epps Read More

Slaves of Hollywood

Actors: Heather Morgan

Synopsis: A determined band of show-business bottom feeders struggle to rise through the food chain in this satiric comedy. Paulette Gittleman (Katherine Morgan) is an aspiring documentary filmmaker whose father (Nicholas Worth) is a top executive at a major film studio. Paulette, who doesn't get along Read More

Hav Plenty

Actors: Chenoa Maxwell, Christopher Scott Cherot, Hill Harper, Tammi Katherine Jones, Betty Vaughn

Synopsis: This bittersweet romantic comedy tosses a few screwball comedics into the path to true love. Impoverished, would-be novelist Lee Plenty (Christopher Scott Cherot) lives off his pals while hoping to score big some day soon. Then wealthy, beautiful Havilland Savage (Chenoa Maxwell) invites him to Read More

He Got Game

Actors: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Hill Harper

Synopsis: Denzel Washington and writer-director Spike Lee team for the third time with this contemporary basketball drama focusing on a promising athlete, the son of a convict-father. Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) has been in prison for six years when tough prison-warden Wyatt (Ned Beatty) tells Read More

The Men of Alayé: The Hottest Black Men in America, Vol. 1 - Fit to be King

Synopsis: The men of Alaye provide a glorious alternative for the savvy African American woman who appreciates men with heart and mind. Not only are Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Shermar Moore, and Genuwine very attractive men, but they also talk about their concerns and careers, what's shaped them and put them on Read More

Park Day

Actors: Hill Harper, Monica Calhoun, Lande Scott, Brock Peters, Sydney Tamiia Poitier

Synopsis: In the small, largely African-American Southern town of New Haven, a young man finds himself caught between two rival factions: one, a bunch of narcissistic frat boys, the other, a group of homeys in the hood. It doesn't take long for tensions to come to a boil. Hill Harper, Lande Scott, and Monica Calhoun Read More

The Nephew

Actors: Hill Harper, Aislin McGuckin, Pierce Brosnan, Donal McCann, Sinéad Cusack

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan produced and co-stars in this Irish family drama, directed by Eugene Brady and set on the island of Inis Dara. Since farmer Tony Egan (Donal McCann) has had no contact with his sister over two decades, he's startled to find she married a black New Yorker and managed a Hell's Kitchen Read More

ER: Obstruction of Justice

Synopsis: Carter (Noah Wyle) is arrested after refusing to hand over confidential information in a domestic-abuse case. After seeking legal aid, Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) is allowed to return to work, precipitating another run-in with Weaver (Laura Innes) and an unexpected parting of the ways with Al (Michael Beach Read More

Steel

Actors: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal stars as John Henry Irons, a weapons designer Read More

Get on the Bus

Actors: Richard Belzer, Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, De'Aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall, Harry J. Lennix, Hill Harper, Bernie Mac, Wendell Pierce, Roger Guenveur Smith, Isaiah Washington, Steve White

Synopsis: Released one year to the day after the 1995 Million Man March, in which a million African-American men marched peacefully in Washington, D.C. in a bid for greater unity and understanding, Spike Lee's Get On the Bus follows a group of black men who take a charter bus from Los Angeles to the rally Read More

NYPD Blue: The Backboard Jungle

Synopsis: An inner-city basketball game, held in memory of a slain teenager, ends in a gang-related bloodbath. As members of the media look on, the organizer of the event, activist Brother Kwasi (Tom Wright), exchanges heated words with Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). A bad situation is made worse Read More

Zooman

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., Cynthia Martells, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: In this tough but literate urban drama (based on a play by Charles Fuller), Zooman (Khalil Kain) is a petty criminal and gangbanger who in the midst of a shootout with other gangsters accidentally kills a nine-year-old girl. The girl's father, Rueben Tate (Louis Gossett Jr.), is distraught over Read More

Married... With Children: Field of Screams

Synopsis: A new auto plant is slated to be built on the site of the Polk High School Football Field. Rather than stand by and watch as the site of his gridiron triumphs is bulldozed into oblivion, Al (Ed O'Neill) stages a protest. Meanwhile, Al's daughter Kelly (Christina Applegate), in her professional Read More

Married... With Children: Honey, I Blew Up Myself

Synopsis: Peg (Katey Sagal) presents Al (Ed O'Neill) with what she regards as the perfect birthday present--a photograph of herself, barely clad and reclining sexily on a sofa. Somehow or other, the photo is enlarged to gargantuan proportions and ends up hanging across the street from Al's shoe store. Read More

Married... With Children: Legend of Ironhead Haynes

Synopsis: When he insults one fat female customer too many, Al (Ed O'Neill) is ordered to go for three weeks without "blowing up" on the job--or else! Angry over being persecuted by the minions of Political Correctness, Al and his fellow NO MA'AM members embark upon a long and (needlessly) difficult journey Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Will Steps Out

Synopsis: Will (Will Smith) finally realizes that he is truly, madly, deeply in love with Lisa (Nia Long). Unfortunately, the truth does not dawn on him until he is out on a date with another girl! A secondary storyline involves fitness guru Susan Powter ("Stop the Insanity"), who endeavors to show Will how Read More

Married... With Children: Just a Little Off the Top

Synopsis: Suffering from a back injury, Al (Ed O'Neill) enters the hospital for a "circular incision." Unfortunately, the doctors don't read so well, and Al ends up with a circumcision. Ordered to remain--er--sedate for a week, Al had trouble keeping himself under control...especially with all those nudie Read More

Married... With Children: Scared Single

Synopsis: Hill Harper makes his first series appearance as Aaron, a recent Polk High graduate who goes to work for his idol, Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill). Rising to the occasion, Al imparts some words of wisdom to his admiring disciple--among them "Don't get married." Meanwhile, Kelly (Christina Applegate), still Read More