Michael Jai White Filmography

Black Dynamite

Actors: Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson, Charlotte Stokely, Roger Yuan

Synopsis: The streets explode into violence when The Man kills Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White)'s brother in this seamless recreation of the blaxploitation classics of the 1970s. He was the best agent that the CIA ever had, but now Black Dynamite is on a mission of vengeance, and he won't stop until the Read More

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?

Actors: Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Malik Yoba, Richard T. Jones

Synopsis: A couple (Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson) who goes on a therapeutic annual winter vacation designed to help couples work through their marital problems in a group setting finds the usual routine thrown into chaos when one of the wives arrives with a sexy young temptress in tow. Now, as the Colorado Read More

Undisputed 2

Actors: Michael Jai White

Synopsis: Spawn star Michael Jai White takes over the role originated by Pulp Fiction heavyweight Ving Rhames in this sequel to the 2002 boxing drama that finds protagonist George Chambers forced to fight for his life in the brutal world of Russian prison boxing. Imprisoned in Russia and forced to rely on Read More

Justice League Unlimited: The Doomsday Sanction

Actors: CCH Pounder, Michael Jai White, J.K. Simmons, Armin Shimerman

Synopsis: This episode elaborates upon the secret government conspiracy against the Justice League, introduced in such third-season episodes as "Fearful Symmetry" and "Ultimatum." As Batman tries to halt the conspiracy that has been fomented by the sinister Amanda Waller, Superman heads into the bowels of a Read More

Justice

Actors: Erik Palladino, Michael Jai White

Silver Hawk

Actors: Michael Jai White, Brandon Chang, Li Bingbing, Richie Jen, Hsien Chi, Kouichi Iwaki, Michelle Yeoh, Luke Goss

Synopsis: Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh serves as both producer and leading lady for this bit of slam-bang adventure. By day, Lulu Wong (Yeoh) is a mild-mannered environmental activist, but when the going gets tough, she transforms herself into Silver Hawk, a battle-ready heroine who finds herself Read More

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Actors: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Julie Dreyfus, David Carradine, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Perhaps the most highly anticipated film of 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 1 marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after a six-year hiatus. Re-teaming the director with Uma Thurman for the first time since 1994's Pulp Fiction, the film was originally the first half of what was to be a Read More

Justice League: A Better World, Part 1

Actors: Clancy Brown, Dana Delany, Michael Jai White

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the members of the Justice League are confronted by their evil doppelgangers from another dimension. In their world, the "Justice Lords" rule with a curious and sinister version of law and order, in which the innocent suffer while the guilty flourish. When Read More

Trois 2: Pandora's Box

Actors: Monica Calhoun, Michael Jai White, Kristoff St. John, Tyson Beckford, Joey Lawrence, Chrystale Wilson

Synopsis: A woman's infidelity leads her into a web of larceny and danger in this noir-flavored independent thriller. Mia DuBois (Monica Calhoun) is a psychologist who until recently worked with the police department, counseling the survivors of victims of violent crime. While Mia has entered into a Read More

Exit Wounds

Actors: Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington, Anthony Anderson, Michael Jai White, Jill Hennessy

Synopsis: Returning to his action feature terrain after a short hiatus, Steven Seagal plays Orin Boyd, a maverick Detroit detective with an unconventional way of taking down foes. After a failed intervention in a terrorist kidnapping case that humiliates his superiors, Boyd -- who is hailed as a top-drawer Read More

Wonderland [TV Series]

Actors: Billy Burke, Joelle Carter, Patricia Clarkson, Martin Donovan, Michelle Forbes, Ted Levine

Synopsis: This series is a gritty hard-driving look at an insane asylum. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Freedom Song

Actors: Danny Glover, Vicellous Shannon, Loretta Devine, Glynn E. Turman

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie focuses on the grassroots efforts of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to combat the entrenched racism of the segregated South. The film focuses on Owen Walker (Vicellus Reon Shannon), a youth who longs to address the injustices of his hometown in rural Read More

Universal Soldier: The Return

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Heidi Schanz, Xander R. Berkeley, Justin Lazard, Daniel Von Bargen, Karis Bryant

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme returns as cybernetic warrior Luc Deveraux in this sequel to the 1992 action hit. After barely surviving his experiences as a part-human/part-robot Universal Soldier, Luc has opted to stay out of the front lines and work with a military project to refine and perfect the Read More

Thick As Thieves

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Andre Braugher, Ricky Harris, Michael Jai White, David Byrd

Synopsis: Two self-styled criminal masterminds find themselves in a turf battle neither much cares about in this underworld story that balances comedy against drama. Alec Baldwin plays Mackin, a career thief who picks his jobs shrewdly and carefully, and prefers to spend his downtime with his collection of Read More

Mutiny

Actors: Michael Jai White, David Ramsey, Duane Martin, Adrian Pasdar, Matthew Glave

Synopsis: This made-for-television docudrama that aired on March 28, 1999 on NBC, relates the story of an actual event that occurred during World War II, but is centered around the lives of fictional characters. On July 17, 1944 at a U.S. naval base near San Francisco, a ship exploded causing the deaths of Read More

Ringmaster

Actors: Jerry Springer, Jaime Pressly, Molly Hagan, Michael Dudikoff, Ashley Holbrook

Synopsis: After the success of shock-jock Howard Stern's Private Parts, shock-TV host Jerry Springer made his own foray into celluloid. Fictionalizing only the name of his television show (what is normally called the The Jerry Springer Show, is now called "The Jerry Show"), Springer plays himself as a man Read More

Shaughnesy

Actors: Matthew Settle, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Jai White

Synopsis: Matthew Settle stars in this made-for-TV movie as an Irish immigrant who in 1870 leaves behind a career as a boxer -- and a reputation as a ne'er-do-well -- in New York City to become the marshal of a town on the Kansas frontier. Shaughnessy stars Matthew Settle, Linda Kozlowski, and Michael Jai Read More

Spawn

Actors: John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Melinda Clarke

Synopsis: One of the most popular independent comic books of its decade was transformed into this dark, bloody adventure intended to launch a profitable superhero franchise. Michael Jai White stars as Al Simmons, a corrupt assassin betrayed and murdered by his evil government supervisor, Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen Read More

City of Industry

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Famke Janssen, Timothy Hutton, Wade Dominguez

Synopsis: Betrayal and revenge are the key ingredients of this violent, streetwise crime drama. Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel) was once a highly successful thief but has gotten out of the business and now leads a quiet life in the Midwest. He's lured out of retirement by his brother, Lee (Timothy Hutton); Lee Read More

2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, James Spader, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

Captive Heart: the James Mink Story

Actors: Kate Nelligan

Synopsis: Devoted parents search for their daughter in this strange, fact-based made-for-television movie. Set in the 1850s, Louis Gossett Jr. stars as James Mink, a wealthy Canadian businessman who is married to a white woman (Kate Nelligan). When their daughter is duped into marrying a slave trader, the Read More

Tyson

Actors: Paul Winfield, Michael Jai White

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie tells the story of the tumultuous life of heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson. The movie follows the boxer (played by Michael Jai White) from his early New York youth as criminal offender all the way to his years as a national boxing celebrity. With the help of Read More

NYPD Blue: Innuendo

Synopsis: Simone (Jimmy Smits) investigates a gunman's shooting spree, while the media focuses on the bystander who was killed by a rookie cop's stray bullet. Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel) learns that his brother Reginald (Michael Jai White), a uniform cop in the eighth precinct, is at the center of a tense Read More

NYPD Blue: A.D.A. Sipowicz

Synopsis: An extremely nervous Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) prepares for his marriage to Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence). Andy's best man, Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits), becomes increasingly aware that Diane Russell's (Kim Delaney) drinking is wreaking havoc on her job performance. Bobby and his fellow Read More

Universal Soldier

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren play archenemies from beyond the grave in this action film. During the Vietnam War, Luc (Van Damme), hoping to be sent home, comes upon blood-crazy Scott (Lundgren), who is starting a one-man genocide program. When Luc tries to stop Scott's carnage, Scott Read More

True Identity

Actors: Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, Charles Lane, J.T. Walsh, Anne-Marie Johnson

Synopsis: Charles Lane directed Andy Breckman's script, based on an old "Saturday Night Live" sketch of Breckman's that featured Eddie Murphy. Comic Lenny Henry takes Murphy's place in True Identity as a black man forced to don white face in order to save his life. Henry plays Miles Pope, an agreeable Read More