Will Smith Filmography

Long Run

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A journalist experiences a crisis of conscience after realizing that an unjustly accused ex-con-turned-politician might have actually been guilty of the criminal charge he helped him beat in this Overbrook production for Columbia Pictures. Will Smith produces from a script by Stephen Belber. Read More

Seven Pounds

Crew: Producer

Actors: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy

Synopsis: A man (Will Smith) falls in love just as he's about to commit suicide in this drama directed by Smith's Pursuit of Happyness director Gabriele Muccino. Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, and Sleeper Cell's Michael Ealy co-star in the Grant Nieporte-scripted picture. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Lakeview Terrace

Crew: Producer

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington

Synopsis: An interracial couple moves into their California dream home, only to find themselves the target of their volatile next-door neighbor -- a racist LAPD officer -- in this tightly wound thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hancock

Crew: Producer

Actors: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Galecki

Synopsis: A hard-drinking lush finds himself thrust into superhero mode in director Peter Berg's unconventional look at the private life of a crime-fighter. Will Smith stars as the embittered do-gooder whose lifestyle is more akin to a rock star than a role model, and who has grown as disillusioned with his Read More

The Secret Life of Bees

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys, Paul Bettany

Synopsis: Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson star as two friends that run from home in order to solve the mystery surrounding one of their mothers in this adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling coming-of-age novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys and Tristan Wilds Read More

The Human Contract

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason Clarke, Paz Vega, Ted Danson, Idris Elba

Synopsis: Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith makes her feature directorial debut with this drama about a tormented businessman (Jason Clarke) whose life crumbles to ruins when he meets a free spirited temptress (Paz Vega) who lures him towards a dangerous existence of reckless abandon. Ted Danson and Idris Elba Read More

I Am Legend

Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith

Synopsis: Adapted from acclaimed author Richard Matheson's influential novelette of the same name, Constantine director Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend follows the last man on Earth as he struggles to survive while fending off the infected survivors of a devastating vampiric plague. A brilliant scientist who Read More

The Pursuit of Happyness

Crew: Producer

Actors: Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen

Synopsis: The rousing, true-life story of a single dad who went from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm is brought to the big screen by superstar Will Smith, appearing for the first time opposite his real-life son Jaden Smith. Set in early-'80s San Francisco, the film charts the hard Read More

ATL

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tip "T.I." Harris, Lauren London, Lonette McKee, Antwan Andre Patton

Synopsis: A tightly knit group of working-class Atlanta teens spend their time bonding over hip-hop and roller skating while pondering life after high school in director Chris Robinson's coming-of-age comedy drama that draws inspirations from the real-life childhoods of Dallas Austin and Tionne Watkins. For Read More

The Seat Filler

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kelly Rowland, Duane Martin

Synopsis: The romantic comedy The Seat Filler stars Duane Martin as a law student working very hard to keep his head above water financially. He takes a job as a seat filler at a big awards function where he meets a famous singer (Kelly Rowland). She believes he works in show business and he does nothing to Read More

Saving Face

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Li Zhiyu, Shen Guanglan

Synopsis: An Asian-American woman and her mother both find their private lives are becoming a family matter in this romantic comedy-drama. Wilhelmina Pang (Michelle Krusiec) is a surgeon living in Manhattan whose mother (Joan Chen) is eager for her to settle down with a nice man and get married. What Ma Read More

Hitch

Crew: Producer

Actors: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta, Julie Ann Emery

Synopsis: A man who teaches dateless wonders how to become irresistible to women learns just how hard it can be to do it yourself in this romantic comedy. When a guy in New York City wants to make the right impression with a certain lady, Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is the man he calls. Hitch has Read More

A Closer Walk

Actors: Glenn Close, Will Smith

Shark Tale

Actors: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patriarch of a family of sharks who lord over a bustling aquatic community based along a massive underwater reef. Don Lino has two sons, Frankie (voice of Michael Imperioli Read More

I, Robot

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: Director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) helmed this sci-fi thriller inspired by the stories in Isaac Asimov's nine-story anthology of the same name. In the future presented in the film, humans have become exceedingly dependent on robots in their everyday lives. Robots have become more and more Read More

Bad Boys II

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith return along with director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer for this sequel to the 1995 sleeper hit Bad Boys, the film that sparked the careers of both actors, as well as Bay. Once again, Lawrence and Smith play hotshot, wisecracking Miami narcotics Read More

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

Synopsis: Experience television history from an African American perspective as revealing interviews and entertaining clips combine to paint an unflinching portrait of life on the small screen from Amos and Andy to Bernie Mac. These are the programs that forever changed the way race was perceived in Read More

All of Us [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Duane Martin, LisaRaye, Elise Neal, Khamani Griffin, Tony Rock

Synopsis: This UPN sitcom starred Duane Martin as Robert James, a TV entertainment reporter devoted to his five-year-old son, Robert Jr. (Khamani Griffin). On the verge of divorcing his wife Neesee (LisaRaye), Robert hoped that he could forge a friendship -- or at least a truce -- between Neesee and his Read More

Behind the Music that Sucks, Vol. 6: Hip Hop

Men in Black II

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub, Johnny Knoxville

Synopsis: Otherworldly villains are on the loose again, and it's up to Earth's interstellar police force to bring them to justice in this sequel to the sci-fi comedy blockbuster Men in Black. Agent Jay (Will Smith) has become a high-ranking member of the Men in Black, the secret government task force Read More

Showtime

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Pedro Damien, Mos Def

Synopsis: Robert DeNiro continues to lampoon his tough-guy persona with this spoof of buddy cop movies that teams him with comic co-star Eddie Murphy. DeNiro is L.A.P.D. detective Mitch Preston, a gruff, no-nonsense 28-year veteran whose bust of a drug gang is botched one night by Trey Sellars (Murphy), a Read More

Ali

Actors: Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver

Synopsis: Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time Read More

America: A Tribute to Heroes

Actors: U2

Synopsis: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Tom Petty, Al Pacino, and many more entertainment industry luminaries teamed up on September 21, 2001, for this live telethon raising funds for the families of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The focus Read More

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his Read More

Wild Wild West

Actors: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh, Ted Levine

Synopsis: Yet another TV series is revived for the big screen, as Will Smith and Kevin Kline join forces as James T. West and Artemus Gordon, the most sophisticated government agents of the 1860's, in the film adaptation of The Wild Wild West. West and Gordon represent two opposite ends of the personality Read More

Enemy of the State

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King

Synopsis: The action producing-directing team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott is back with another thrill-a-minute ride called Enemy of the State. Taking its "innocent man accidentally caught up in political corruption" story from such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Alfred Hitchcock's Read More

Welcome to Hollywood

Actors: Tony Markes, Adam Rifkin, Angie Everhart, David Andriole, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis: Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional "mockumentary" about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star. Anton Markwell (Tony Markes, who co-directed the film) is the object of Rifkin's inquiring Read More

Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: Pinocchio

Men in Black

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn

Synopsis: For his fifth effort as a feature-film director, one-time cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld brought his cartoonish visual style and darkly humorous sensibilities to this adaptation of, appropriately enough, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comic book. Will Smith stars as James Darrel Edwards, a New York Read More

Independence Day

Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch

Synopsis: A group of intrepid humans attempts to save the Earth from vicious extraterrestrials in this extremely popular science-fiction adventure. Borrowing liberally from War of the Worlds, Aliens, and every sci-fi invasion film inbetween, director Roland Emmerich and producer and co-writer Dean Devlin Read More

Bad Boys

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Theresa Randle, Tchéky Karyo, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Former video director Michael Bay had his first big hit with this action comedy, which also returned producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson to the big-budget, high-violence movies that they successfully churned out in the '80s. Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 06

Actors: Will Smith, James Avery, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell, Ross Elliot Bagley

Synopsis: Still a bachelor after breaking up with his fiancée a scant few moments before his wedding, Philadelphia émigré Will Smith (played, of course, by Will Smith) returns to the bosom of his wealthy California relations as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air enters its sixth and final season. Even though the Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 05

Actors: Will Smith, James Avery, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell, Ross Elliot Bagley

Synopsis: Although the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was planned as the series' last year on the air, the producers managed to forge a new contract with ABC assuring that Will Smith (as teenager Will Smith) and his co-stars would be reporting to duty for season five. The basic "culture clash" Read More

Six Degrees of Separation

Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Ain't No Business Like Show Business

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: D.L. Hughley makes one of his first TV appearances as Keith, a comedian friend of Will Smith (played by--who else?). Accompanying his pal to an audition, Will ends up with a comedy-showcase standup gig himself--leading to a tense showdown with Keith, who really, REALLY needs the job! Meanwhile, in Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 04

Actors: Will Smith, James Avery, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell

Synopsis: The big news during The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's fourth season is the arrival of new cast member Daphne Maxwell Reid, replacing Janet Hubert-Whitten in the role of Vivian Banks, the wealthy but down-to-earth aunt of wise-guy West Philly transplant Will Smith (Will Smith). Otherwise, the rest of Read More

Made in America

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Richard Benjamin directed this farce that plays like "Guess Who's Coming for Insemination?" Whoopi Goldberg stars as Sarah Matthews, who runs an African-American oriented bookstore in Oakland. She is raising her daughter, a beautiful high school student named Zora (Nia Long), on her own after her Read More

Where the Day Takes You

Actors: Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Balthazar Getty, Ricki Lake, James LeGros, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collection of young runaways. Among the people in his sphere are the young self-destructive drug addict Greg (Sean Astin), self-hating gay prostitute Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 03

Actors: Will Smith, James Avery, Janet Hubert-Whitten, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell

Synopsis: The producers of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air weren't about to tinker with a successful format as the series entered its third season. Although West Philadelphia teenager Will Smith (played, of course, by Will Smith) has been living with his wealthy relatives in Bel-Air for three years now, he still Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 02

Actors: Will Smith, James Avery, Janet Hubert-Whitten, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell

Synopsis: West Philly teenager Will Smith (played by rap star Will Smith) enters his second year as permanent house guest in the magnificent California mansion of his wealthy Uncle Phillip (James Avery) and Aunt Vivian (Janet Hubert-Whitten) as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air enters its second season on NBC. Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 01

Actors: Will Smith, James Avery, Janet Hubert-Whitten, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell

Synopsis: Rap star Will Smith plays West Philadelphia teenager Will Smith (!) as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air launches its first season. Worried that the family's ghetto neighborhood is getting too dangerous for her son, Will's mom packs him up and ships him out to his rich relatives, the Banks family, in Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: African American entertainer Will Smith graduated from rap-music stardom to TV sitcom superstardom in the long-running NBC series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Co-produced by Quincy Jones, the series starred the twentysomething Smith as streetwise West Philadelphia teenager Will Smith (they must Read More

The Imagemaker

Actors: Michael Nouri, Anne Twomey, Jerry Orbach, Jessica Harper, Farley Granger

Synopsis: In a convoluted story of one man's obsession, widower Roger Blackwell (Michael Nouri) has been a media advisor to countless politicians, probably one too many as it turns out. Blackwell is set on using his experience to make a film about the manipulation of the media by unscrupulous politicos. His Read More