Carl Lumbly
Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as television's first black superhero in M.A.N.T.I.S., Dick Hallorann in Doctor Sleep, NYPD detective Marcus Petrie on the CBS police drama Cagney & Lacey, CIA agent Marcus Dixon on the ABC espionage drama series Alias, and as the voice of J'onn J'onnz / Martian Manhunter in the animated series Justice League, Static Shock, and Justice League Unlimited, all part of the DC Animated Universe. As a reference to his voice work as J'onn, Lumbly portrayed J'onn J'onnz's father, M'yrnn, on The CW's Arrowverse on Supergirl from 2017 until 2019. He also plays Isaiah Bradley, the first Black super-soldier, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and the film Captain America: Brave New World (2025).
He was married to Vonetta McGee from 1987 until her death in 2010.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.7444 |
| Birthday | 1951-08-14 |
| Place of Birth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| Also Known As |
1990
Pacific Heights
6.3/423
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Pacific Heights
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
5.965/504
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1988
Everybody's All-American
5.375/48
Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, a...
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Everybody's All-American
2021
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
6.906/32
Explore the Disney+ series of the MCU—past, present and future!
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1987
The Bedroom Window
6.34/144
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that sa...
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The Bedroom Window
2015
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
7.086/620
In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC's Trinity fight against the government after they are framed for an embassy bombing.
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Justice League: Gods and Monsters
1981
Caveman
6.7/199
Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of the tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and...
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Caveman
2007
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
5.955/11
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the li...
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2012
Justice League: Doom
7.417/942
An adaptation of Mark Waid's "Tower of Babel" story from the JLA comic. Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of...
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Justice League: Doom
1990
Moe's World
9/1
The spirit of a deceased 11-year-old boy acts as the guardian of his family and friends in the working-class neighborhood he left behind.
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Moe's World
2002
Just a Dream
5.333/6
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
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Just a Dream
2003
Sounder
7.333/3
This is a coming-of-age story of a boy living in the Depression era of the South. "Boy" (Daniel Lee Robertson III) learns the hard way about the reali...
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Sounder
2022
I'm Charlie Walker
5/10
1971 post civil rights San Francisco seemed like the perfect place for a black Korean War veteran and his family to realize their dream of economic in...
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I'm Charlie Walker
1997
Buffalo Soldiers
5.55/20
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, the...
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1991
Brother Future
7.2/6
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
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Brother Future
1987
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
7/3
A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
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Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1990
To Sleep with Anger
6.769/65
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
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To Sleep with Anger
1997
The Ditchdigger's Daughters
10/2
Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six daughters...
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The Ditchdigger's Daughters
2025
The Life of Chuck
7.286/1208
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes cont...
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The Life of Chuck
2004
Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie
8.1/123
When the Thanagarians visit Earth, Hawkgirl is forced to choose between loyalty to her people and love for her friends on her adopted planet Earth.
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Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie
1998
The Wedding
8.3/3
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who o...
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The Wedding
2000
The Color of Friendship
6.69/71
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African...
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The Color of Friendship
2025
Captain America: Brave New World
5.962/3229
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reas...
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Captain America: Brave New World
1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
5.813/134
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really li...
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
2010
Nominated
0/0
A fickle Hollywood star just nominated for an Oscar is banished to a small town by his agent to avoid bad press during the Oscar voting and finds that...
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Nominated
2001
Justice League: Secret Origins
7.728/125
When global catastrophe strikes, the World's Greatest Super Heroes answer the call to join Justice League. Justice League works together as a team to...
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Justice League: Secret Origins
1979
Undercover with the KKK
5.167/3
The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testif...
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Undercover with the KKK
2003
Justice League: Paradise Lost
7.609/32
Wonder Woman returns to Paradise Island after her abrupt departure, only to find the Amazons turned to stone. Sorcerer Felix Faust demands three mysti...
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Justice League: Paradise Lost
2016
Love Twice
5/2
"What do you do when the spark touches down-brief and hot?" So begins award-winning director Rob Nilsson's (Permission to Touch, MVFF 2015; A Bridge t...
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Love Twice
2017
A Cure for Wellness
6.349/4246
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss...
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A Cure for Wellness
1979
Escape from Alcatraz
7.5/3224
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one...
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Escape from Alcatraz
1996
America's Dream
6.7/6
Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each o...
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1985
The Gospel at Colonus
0/0
An African-American musical version of Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus. In 1985 PBS televised the original Brooklyn Academy of Music productio...
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The Gospel at Colonus
1994
Out of Darkness
9/5
A paranoid schizophrenic woman finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering.
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Out of Darkness
1991
Eyes of a Witness
7/1
Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are slaughtering prote...
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Eyes of a Witness
1981
Lifepod
5.364/11
The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are...
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Lifepod
1992
Back to the Streets of San Francisco
6/5
Mike Stone's back and his old partner, Steve Keller, is missing. So Mike heads up an investigation. At the same time, he is investigating another brut...
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Back to the Streets of San Francisco
2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
6.292/12
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual exec...
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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
1991
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
4.3/3
American Experience
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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1996
Nightjohn
5.778/9
John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learn...
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Nightjohn
2000
Little Richard
6.6/15
The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a Black singer in the 195...
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Little Richard
2010
Black Panther
6.2/38
Black Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology, wits, and extraordinary fighting ability he must protect...
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Black Panther
1999
Border Line
7/2
Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder with the help of private detective Mario Sparks and I...
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Border Line
1994
On Promised Land
7.5/2
In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowners, the Appletree family, use the promise of the la...
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On Promised Land
2003
Warming by the Devil's Fire
6.9/6
Director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, To Sleep with Anger) presents a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in...
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Warming by the Devil's Fire
2019
Doctor Sleep
7.1/4974
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous te...
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Doctor Sleep
2000
Men of Honor
7.491/2542
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his...
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Men of Honor
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
7.161/28
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
7.1/95
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
1992
South Central
6.741/106
During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the...
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South Central
2015
Quitters
4.3/10
The story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipu...
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Quitters
1994
M.A.N.T.I.S.
5.2/5
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N....
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M.A.N.T.I.S.
2008
The Alphabet Killer
5.093/205
Based on the true story of double killings occurring in Rochester, NY during the 80’s and the troubled police officer determined to solve them, with o...
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The Alphabet Killer
1994
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
6.833/6
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1998
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
6.924/511
When Mr. Freeze kidnaps Barbara Gordon, as an involuntary organ donor to save his dying wife, Batman and Robin must find her before the operation can...
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
2020
Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
4/1
"Return to the Overlook" is a behind-the-scenes featurette exploring the meticulous recreation of the iconic Overlook Hotel for Doctor Sleep. Cast and...
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Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
1981
Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot
6/4
Cagney and Lacey are two female New York policewomen doing their job as best they can in a male-dominated police department in this feature-length pil...
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Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot
1988
Judgment in Berlin
5.5/14
An American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
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Judgment in Berlin
2027
The Exorcist: Martyrs
0/0
A small-town rookie detective takes on a case involving inconceivable darkness.
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