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 | Forget to Remember | 2025 | |
Movie | Everbrook (The Home) | 2025 | |
Movie | Outlaw Johnny Black | Reverend Tharrington (voice) (uncredited) | 2023-09-15 |
Movie | The Color Purple | Ol' Mister | 2023-12-25 |
Movie | Sidney | Self | 2022-09-10 |
Movie | Three Months | Benny | 2022-02-23 |
Movie | The Reason | Pastor Jim | 2020-09-12 |
Movie | The Cuban | Luis Garcia | 2020-07-31 |
Movie | Miracle in East Texas | Irving Tanner Jr. | 2020-02-07 |
Movie | Hal | Self | 2019-03-28 |
Movie | Foster Boy | Judge George Taylor | 2019-10-03 |
Movie | Supervized | Pendle | 2019-07-16 |
Series | Watchmen | 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 |
Series | The Good Fight | Carl Reddick | 2017-02-19 |
Movie | Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart | Self | 2017-10-14 |
Movie | Undercover Grandpa | Mother | 2017-07-07 |
Movie | A.C. Green: Iron Virgin | Himself | 2016-05-13 |
Movie | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise | Himself | 2016-10-14 |
Movie | Boiling Pot | Detective Haven | 2015-09-29 |
Series | The Book of Negroes | Daddy Moses | 2015-01-07 |
Series | The Spoils Before Dying | Duke Webster | 2015-07-08 |
Series | Madam Secretary | Father Laurent Vasseur | 2014-09-21 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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 Undershepherd | Bishop Redford | 2012-02-15 |
Movie | Dog Jack | Grown up Jed | 2011-12-02 |
Movie | The Grace Card | George Wright | 2011-02-25 |
Movie | Why Did I Get Married Too? | Porter | 2010-04-02 |
Movie | The Perfect Game | Cool Papa Bell | 2009-11-09 |
Movie | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Self | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | The Least Among You | Samuel Benton | 2009-01-12 |
Movie | Delgo | King Zahn (voice) | 2008-12-12 |
Movie | The Black List: Volume One | Himself | 2008-01-22 |
Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
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 |
Movie | Solar Attack | President Ryan Gordon | 2006-05-25 |
Series | Psych | Lloyd Marr | 2006-07-07 |
Movie | All In | Caps | 2006-03-14 |
Series | Black in the 80s | 2005-02-01 | |
Movie | Lackawanna Blues | Ol'lem Taylor | 2005-02-12 |
Movie | Left Behind: World at War | President Geral Fitzhugh | 2005-11-16 |
Series | The Batman | Unknown | 2004-09-11 |
Movie | Momentum | Raymond Addison | 2003-03-26 |
Movie | Jasper, Texas | R.C. Horn | 2003-06-08 |
Movie | Deceived | Col. David Garrett | 2002-03-26 |
Series | Half & Half | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
Movie | What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away | Dr. Barnes | 2002-05-31 |
Series | The Dead Zone | Unknown | 2002-06-16 |
Movie | For Love of Olivia | Daniel Stewart | 2001-03-18 |
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 | Love Songs | Reuben | 1999-04-25 |
Movie | Y2K | Morgan | 1999-07-01 |
Movie | Strange Justice | Vernon Jordan | 1999-08-29 |
Movie | The Inspectors | Inspector Frank Hughes | 1998-09-20 |
Movie | Legend of the Mummy | Corbeck | 1998-03-30 |
Movie | In His Father's Shoes | Frank Crosby / Richard | 1997-06-05 |
Movie | To Dance With Olivia | Daniel Stewart | 1997-03-09 |
Series | Stargate SG-1 | Gerak | 1997-07-27 |
Movie | Managua | Paul | 1996-04-09 |
Movie | Captive Heart: The James Mink Story | James Mink | 1996-04-14 |
Series | Promised Land | Anderson Walker | 1996-09-17 |
Movie | Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story | Bob Kersee | 1996-06-16 |
Series | Early Edition | Unknown | 1996-09-28 |
Movie | Inside | Questioner | 1996-08-25 |
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 | Iron Eagle on the Attack | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1995-12-01 |
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 | Blue Chips | Father Dawkins (uncredited) | 1994-02-18 |
Movie | Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice | Ray Alexander | 1994-05-13 |
Movie | Flashfire | Ben Durand | 1994-09-15 |
Movie | A Good Man in Africa | Prof. Sam Adekunle | 1994-07-14 |
Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
Movie | Curse of the Starving Class | Ellis | 1994-09-13 |
Series | Touched by an Angel | Anderson Walker | 1994-09-21 |
Movie | Monolith | Capt. MacCandless | 1993-05-27 |
Series | Return to Lonesome Dove | Isom Pickett | 1993-11-14 |
Movie | Father & Son: Dangerous Relations | 1993-04-19 | |
Movie | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Reader | 1992-11-11 |
Movie | Iron Eagle III | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1992-01-09 |
Movie | Diggstown | "Honey" Roy Palmer | 1992-08-14 |
Movie | Cover-Up | Lou Jackson | 1991-02-22 |
Movie | Toy Soldiers | Dean Parker | 1991-04-24 |
Movie | Carolina Skeletons | James Bragg | 1991-09-30 |
Movie | Keeper of the City | Det. James Dela | 1991-12-20 |
Movie | The Josephine Baker Story | Sidney Williams | 1991-03-16 |
Movie | Zora is My Name! | 1990-01-01 | |
Movie | El Diablo | Van Leek | 1990-07-22 |
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 | Roots: The Gift | Fiddler | 1988-12-11 |
Movie | Goodbye, Miss 4th of July | Big John Creed | 1988-12-03 |
Movie | Iron Eagle II | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1988-11-11 |
Movie | The Principal | Jake Phillips | 1987-09-18 |
Movie | A Gathering of Old Men | Mathu | 1987-05-10 |
Movie | Firewalker | Leo Porter | 1986-11-21 |
Movie | Iron Eagle | Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair | 1986-01-17 |
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 |
Movie | The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die | narrator | 1983-07-15 |
Series | Sadat | Anwar al-Sadat | 1983-10-31 |
Series | The Powers of Matthew Star | Walter "Walt" Shepherd (D'Hai) | 1982-09-17 |
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 |
Movie | It Rained All Night the Day I Left | Leo Garcia | 1980-08-05 |
Series | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | Unknown | 1980-03-20 |
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 | 1978-12-04 |
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 |
Series | Roots | Fiddler | 1977-01-23 |
Movie | The Choirboys | Calvin Motts | 1977-12-23 |
Movie | The Deep | Henri Cloche | 1977-06-17 |
Movie | The River Niger | Dr. Dudley Stanton | 1976-04-14 |
Movie | J.D.'s Revenge | Rev. Elija Bliss | 1976-08-25 |
Movie | Black Bart | Black Bart | 1975-01-01 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
Series | The Jeffersons | Unknown | 1975-01-18 |
Movie | It's Good to Be Alive | Sam Brockington | 1974-02-22 |
Series | Good Times | Unknown | 1974-02-08 |
Movie | Sidekicks | Jason O'Rourke | 1974-03-21 |
Movie | The White Dawn | Portagee | 1974-07-21 |
Series | Harry O | Unknown | 1974-09-12 |
Series | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | Petrocelli | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | The Rockford Files | Marcus Aurelius 'Gabby' Hayes | 1974-09-13 |
Movie | The Laughing Policeman | Insp. James Larrimore SFPD | 1973-12-20 |
Series | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Unknown | 1973-04-02 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
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 | The Young Rebels | 1970-09-20 | |
Movie | The Landlord | Copee Johnson | 1970-05-20 |
Series | McCloud | Unknown | 1970-02-17 |
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 |