Lucas Black Filmography

Born:: November 29, 1982 in Danville, AL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Though he has proven to be a natural, allegedly Lucas Black's ambition is not to be an actor when he grows up. Born and raised in Alabama, Black became a professional actor when an open casting call landed him a bit part in Jon Avnet's The War (1994). After starring on TV's American Gothic (1995)...Read More

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Legion

Actors: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Scott Stewart's supernatural thriller Legion, scripted by Peter Schink, concerns a group of strangers in an out-of-the-way eatery who become the first line of defense when God, believing the human race is no longer worthy of Him, decides to end their existence. This motley crew's only spiritual Read More

1/1/08
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Actors: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley, Brian Tee, Kang Sung

Synopsis: Better Luck Tomorrow director Justin Lin picks up where John Singleton left off to offer a high-octane look at the world of underground Japanese drift-racing in the latest installment of the super-charged Fast and the Furious film series. A frustrated teen from a broken home, Sean Boswell (Lucas Black Read More

6/16/06
Killer Diller

Actors: William Lee Scott, Lucas Black, Fred Willard, John Michael Higgins, W. Earl Brown

Synopsis: A musician who is supposed to mend his ways ends up changing the habits of a group of fellow inmates in this comedy. Wesley Benfield (William Lee Scott) is a guitar player with a habit of walking on the wrong side of the law. One night, Benfield gets into a fistfight in a Missouri honky-tonk, and Read More

4/28/06
Jarhead

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Brian Gberaghty, 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

11/4/05
Deepwater

Actors: Lucas Black, Peter Coyote, Mía Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: An orphaned drifter recently released from the hospital and seeking gainful employment finds that sometimes fate can play cruel tricks on the desperate in a tightly wound tale of adultery, deception, and murder starring Peter Coyote and Lucas Black. Nat Banyon (Black) is an orphan just looking to Read More

2005
Friday Night Lights

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund

Synopsis: H.G. Bissinger's best-selling true-life account of a few months in the life of a high-school football team comes to the screen in this adaptation written and directed by Peter Berg. Odessa, TX, is an oil town in the western part of the state that's home to the Permian High School Panthers, the Read More

10/8/04
Cold Mountain

Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil War. Jude Law stars as Inman, a young soldier who, despite an injury, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman Read More

12/25/03
All the Pretty Horses

Actors: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Penélope Cruz, Rubén Blades, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: Director Billy Bob Thornton explores coming of age in this Western based on Cormac McCarthy's prize-winning novel of the same name. John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) and Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) are young Texan men who seek a more fulfilling life as cowboys in the slowly fading Old West, circa Read More

12/25/00
The Miracle Worker

Actors: Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Alison Elliott, David Strathairn, Lucas Black

Synopsis: Originally telecast November 12, 2000, on ABC, The Miracle Worker was the third film version of the classic biographical play by William Gibson. Following in the footsteps of Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert as the young Helen Keller is Hallie Kate Eisenberg, who skyrocketed to TV fame in 2000 as Read More

2000
Crazy in Alabama

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Sandra Seacat

Synopsis: Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter Joseph, lives in a small Alabama town in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He becomes involved with a group of black students protesting the town's racially Read More

10/22/99
Our Friend, Martin

Synopsis: Produced by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and DIC Entertainment in collaboration with the family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Our Friend Martin is an animated, feature-length film that features two sixth-grade boys who are transported back to the time of civil rights leader Dr. King and Read More

1999
The X-Files

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million Read More

6/19/98
Flash

Actors: Lucas Black, Ellen Burstyn, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: Lucas Black and Ellen Burstyn star in this made-for-TV movie from Disney, in which a poor boy dreams of owning a horse named Flash. The boy's father can't afford to buy the animal and it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous trainer, much to the boy's sorrow. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Sling Blade

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday

Synopsis: Sling Blade marked the directorial debut of country singer turned actor Billy Bob Thornton, who also authored the script (expanding George Hickenlooper's acclaimed short Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade) and stars in the picture. Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man who spent most Read More

1996
Ghosts of Mississippi

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: This is a long-awaited film telling the story of the trials of Medgar Evers' killer. Medger Evers (James Pickens, Jr.) was a black civil-rights activist in Mississippi who was shot to death in 1963. Despite very persuasive evidence that Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) was indeed his killer, the Read More

1996
American Gothic [TV Series]

Actors: Gary Cole, Paige Turco, Jake Weber, Brenda Bakke, Sarah Paulson, Lucas Black, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: One of the earliest forays into TV production by former teen idol Shaun Cassidy, the weekly, hour-long supernatural drama series American Gothic debuted September 22, 1995 on CBS. Things weren't quite right in the outwardly peaceful and respectable town of Trinity in Fulton County, South Carolina. Read More

1995
The War

Actors: Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, Mare Winningham, Lexi Randall, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: Jon Avnet's The War is set in the rural south and brimming with lessons on social consciousness, much like his previous effort, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). During the summer of 1970 in backwoods Mississippi, Stephen Simmons (Kevin Costner) is struggling to be a breadwinner for his family while Read More

1994