Louis Gossett Jr. is an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and as Fiddler in the television miniseries "Roots". He has won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards in an acting career that spans over five decades.
Movie | Everbrook (The Home) | 2025 | |
Movie | IF | Lewis (voice) | 2024-05-08 |
Movie | The Color Purple | Ol' Mister | 2023-12-25 |
Movie | Outlaw Johnny Black | Reverend Tharrington (voice) (uncredited) | 2023-09-15 |
Movie | Three Months | Benny | 2022-02-23 |
Movie | Miracle in East Texas | Irving Tanner Jr. | 2020-02-07 |
Movie | The Cuban | Luis Garcia | 2020-07-31 |
Movie | The Gang Activists | Himself | 2019-07-04 |
Movie | Hal | Self | 2019-03-28 |
Movie | Supervized | Pendle | 2019-07-16 |
Series | Watchmen | Old Man / Will Reeves | 2019-10-20 |
Movie | Breaking Brooklyn | Miles Bryant | 2018-05-25 |
Movie | King of the Dancehall | The Bishop | 2017-01-13 |
Movie | Double Play | Coco | 2017-01-27 |
Movie | Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart | Self | 2017-10-14 |
Series | The Good Fight | Carl Reddick | 2017-02-19 |
Movie | Undercover Grandpa | Mother | 2017-07-07 |
Movie | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise | Himself | 2016-10-14 |
Movie | A.C. Green: Iron Virgin | Himself | 2016-05-13 |
Series | The Book of Negroes | Daddy Moses | 2015-01-07 |
Series | The Spoils Before Dying | Duke Webster | 2015-07-08 |
Movie | Boiling Pot | Detective Haven | 2015-09-29 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Series | Madam Secretary | Father Laurent Vasseur | 2014-09-21 |
Movie | A Fighting Man | Cubby | 2014-04-24 |
Movie | Pride of Lions | Lou Jones | 2014-06-03 |
Series | Extant | Quinn | 2014-07-09 |
Movie | Miracle at Gate 213 | Roy Peddington | 2013-12-10 |
Movie | Smitty | Mr. Smith | 2012-04-10 |
Movie | The Grace Card | George Wright | 2011-02-25 |
Movie | Dog Jack | Grown up Jed | 2011-12-02 |
Movie | Why Did I Get Married Too? | Porter | 2010-04-02 |
Movie | The Least Among You | Samuel Benton | 2009-01-12 |
Movie | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Self | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | The Perfect Game | Cool Papa Bell | 2009-11-09 |
Series | Celebrity Ghost Stories | Unknown | 2009-10-03 |
Movie | The Black List: Volume One | Himself | 2008-01-22 |
Movie | Delgo | King Zahn (voice) | 2008-12-12 |
Movie | Daddy's Little Girls | Willie | 2007-02-14 |
Movie | Cover | Detective Hicks | 2007-05-08 |
Movie | Stories USA | Doc (segment "Club Soda") | 2007-11-10 |
Series | Psych | Lloyd Marr | 2006-07-07 |
Movie | All In | Caps | 2006-03-14 |
Movie | Solar Attack | President Ryan Gordon | 2006-05-25 |
Series | Black in the 80s | 2005-02-01 | |
Movie | Left Behind: World at War | President Geral Fitzhugh | 2005-11-16 |
Movie | Lackawanna Blues | Ol'lem Taylor | 2005-02-12 |
Series | The Batman | Unknown | 2004-09-11 |
Movie | Momentum | Raymond Addison | 2003-03-26 |
Movie | Jasper, Texas | R.C. Horn | 2003-06-08 |
Series | Half & Half | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
Movie | Deceived | Col. David Garrett | 2002-03-26 |
Movie | What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away | Dr. Barnes | 2002-05-31 |
Series | The Dead Zone | Unknown | 2002-06-16 |
Movie | The Highwayman | Phil Bishop | 2000-01-01 |
Movie | The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence | Frank | 2000-03-12 |
Movie | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Lou Hastings | 2000-03-19 |
Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
Movie | Y2K | Morgan | 1999-07-01 |
Movie | Strange Justice | Vernon Jordan | 1999-08-29 |
Movie | Legend of the Mummy | Corbeck | 1998-03-30 |
Movie | The Inspectors | Inspector Frank Hughes | 1998-09-20 |
Movie | To Dance with Olivia | Daniel Stewart | 1997-03-09 |
Movie | In His Father's Shoes | Frank Crosby / Richard | 1997-06-05 |
Series | Stargate SG-1 | Gerak | 1997-07-27 |
Movie | Captive Heart: The James Mink Story | James Mink | 1996-04-14 |
Movie | Managua | Paul | 1996-04-09 |
Movie | Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story | Bob Kersee | 1996-06-16 |
Movie | Inside | Questioner | 1996-08-25 |
Series | Early Edition | Unknown | 1996-09-28 |
Series | Promised Land | Anderson Walker | 1996-09-17 |
Movie | Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing | Narrator | 1995-01-01 |
Movie | A Father for Charlie | Walter Osgood | 1995-01-01 |
Movie | Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder | Ray Alexander | 1995-03-20 |
Movie | The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995-06-05 |
Movie | Iron Eagle on the Attack | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1995-12-01 |
Movie | Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice | Ray Alexander | 1994-05-13 |
Movie | Blue Chips | Father Dawkins (uncredited) | 1994-02-18 |
Movie | A Good Man in Africa | Prof. Sam Adekunle | 1994-07-14 |
Series | Touched by an Angel | Anderson Walker | 1994-09-21 |
Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
Movie | Flashfire | Ben Durand | 1994-09-15 |
Movie | Curse of the Starving Class | Ellis | 1994-09-13 |
Movie | Father & Son: Dangerous Relations | 1993-04-19 | |
Series | Return to Lonesome Dove | Isom Pickett | 1993-11-14 |
Movie | Monolith | Capt. MacCandless | 1993-05-27 |
Movie | Iron Eagle III | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1992-01-09 |
Movie | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Reader | 1992-11-11 |
Movie | Diggstown | "Honey" Roy Palmer | 1992-08-14 |
Movie | Cover-Up | Lou Jackson | 1991-02-22 |
Movie | The Josephine Baker Story | Sidney Williams | 1991-03-16 |
Movie | Carolina Skeletons | James Bragg | 1991-09-30 |
Movie | Toy Soldiers | Dean Parker | 1991-04-24 |
Movie | Keeper of the City | Det. James Dela | 1991-12-20 |
Movie | El Diablo | Van Leek | 1990-07-22 |
Movie | Zora is My Name! | 1990-01-01 | |
Series | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Unknown | 1990-09-15 |
Movie | Sudie and Simpson | Simpson | 1990-09-11 |
Series | Gideon Oliver | 1989-02-20 | |
Movie | The Punisher | Jake Berkowitz | 1989-10-05 |
Movie | Iron Eagle II | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1988-11-11 |
Movie | Roots: The Gift | Fiddler | 1988-12-11 |
Movie | Goodbye, Miss 4th of July | Big John Creed | 1988-12-03 |
Movie | A Gathering of Old Men | Mathu | 1987-05-10 |
Movie | The Principal | Jake Phillips | 1987-09-18 |
Movie | Iron Eagle | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1986-01-17 |
Movie | Firewalker | Leo Porter | 1986-11-21 |
Movie | Enemy Mine | Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan | 1985-12-12 |
Movie | The Guardian | John Mack | 1984-10-20 |
Movie | Finders Keepers | Century | 1984-05-18 |
Movie | Jaws 3-D | Calvin Bouchard | 1983-07-22 |
Series | Sadat | Anwar al-Sadat | 1983-10-31 |
Series | The Powers of Matthew Star | Walter "Walt" Shepherd (D'Hai) | 1982-09-17 |
Movie | I Love Liberty | Self | 1982-03-21 |
Movie | Benny's Place | Benny Moore | 1982-05-31 |
Movie | An Officer and a Gentleman | Sergeant Emil Foley | 1982-07-28 |
Movie | Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige | Leroy 'Satchel' Paige | 1981-05-31 |
Series | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | Unknown | 1980-03-20 |
Movie | It Rained All Night the Day I Left | Leo Garcia | 1980-08-05 |
Series | Backstairs at the White House | Levi Mercer, Houseman | 1979-01-29 |
Series | The Lazarus Syndrome | MacArthur St. Clair | 1979-09-04 |
Movie | Lawman Without a Gun | Tom Hayward | 1979-05-30 |
Movie | To Kill a Cop | Everett Walker | 1978-04-10 |
Movie | The Lazarus Syndrome | Dr. MacArthur St. Clair | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | Little Ladies of the Night | Russ Garfield | 1977-01-16 |
Movie | The Deep | Henri Cloche | 1977-06-17 |
Movie | The Choirboys | Calvin Motts | 1977-12-23 |
Series | Roots | Fiddler | 1977-01-23 |
Movie | The River Niger | Dr. Dudley Stanton | 1976-04-14 |
Movie | J.D.'s Revenge | Rev. Elija Bliss | 1976-08-25 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
Movie | Black Bart | Black Bart | 1975-01-01 |
Series | The Jeffersons | Unknown | 1975-01-18 |
Movie | Sidekicks | Jason O'Rourke | 1974-03-21 |
Movie | The White Dawn | Portagee | 1974-07-21 |
Movie | It's Good to Be Alive | Sam Brockington | 1974-02-22 |
Series | Good Times | Unknown | 1974-02-08 |
Series | The Rockford Files | Marcus Aurelius 'Gabby' Hayes | 1974-09-13 |
Series | Harry O | Unknown | 1974-09-12 |
Series | Petrocelli | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Series | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Unknown | 1973-04-02 |
Movie | The Laughing Policeman | Insp. James Larrimore SFPD | 1973-12-20 |
Movie | Travels with My Aunt | Wordsworth | 1972-12-17 |
Series | The Rookies | Unknown | 1972-09-11 |
Movie | Skin Game | Jason O'Rourke | 1971-09-30 |
Series | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown | 1971-01-05 |
Series | McCloud | Unknown | 1970-02-17 |
Series | The Young Rebels | 1970-09-20 | |
Movie | The Landlord | Copee Johnson | 1970-05-20 |
Movie | The Bushbaby | Tembo | 1969-09-01 |
Series | The Bill Cosby Show | Unknown | 1969-09-14 |
Movie | Companions in Nightmare | Lt. Adam McKay | 1968-11-23 |
Series | The Mod Squad | Unknown | 1968-09-24 |
Movie | A Raisin in the Sun | George Murchison | 1961-05-28 |
Movie | The New Girl | Mary's Brother | 1960-01-01 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |