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 | 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 | Sidney | Self | 2022-09-10 |
Movie | Not to Forget | Pastor John | 2021-11-26 |
Movie | Miracle in East Texas | Irving Tanner Jr. | 2020-02-07 |
Movie | The Cuban | Luis Garcia | 2020-07-31 |
Movie | Hal | Self | 2019-03-28 |
Movie | Supervized | Pendle | 2019-07-16 |
Movie | Foster Boy | Judge George Taylor | 2019-10-03 |
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 |
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 | Self | 2016-10-14 |
Movie | A.C. Green: Iron Virgin | Himself | 2016-05-13 |
Series | The Book of Negroes | Daddy Moses | 2015-01-07 |
Movie | Boiling Pot | Detective Haven | 2015-09-29 |
Series | The Spoils Before Dying | Duke Webster | 2015-07-08 |
Series | Madam Secretary | Father Laurent Vasseur | 2014-09-21 |
Movie | A Fighting Man | Cubby | 2014-04-24 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Series | Extant | Quinn | 2014-07-09 |
Movie | Pride of Lions | Lou Jones | 2014-06-03 |
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 | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Self | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | The Perfect Game | Cool Papa Bell | 2009-11-09 |
Movie | The Least Among You | Samuel Benton | 2009-01-12 |
Movie | The Black List: Volume One | Himself | 2008-01-22 |
Movie | Delgo | King Zahn (voice) | 2008-12-12 |
Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
Movie | Daddy's Little Girls | Willie | 2007-02-14 |
Movie | Stories USA | Doc (segment "Club Soda") | 2007-11-10 |
Movie | Cover | Detective Hicks | 2007-05-08 |
Movie | All In | Caps | 2006-03-14 |
Movie | Solar Attack | President Ryan Gordon | 2006-05-25 |
Series | Psych | Lloyd Marr | 2006-07-07 |
Series | Black in the 80s | 2005-02-01 | |
Movie | Left Behind: World at War | President Geral Fitzhugh | 2005-10-21 |
Movie | Lackawanna Blues | Ol'lem Taylor | 2005-02-12 |
Movie | The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made | Rev. Elija Bliss (archive footage) | 2004-07-13 |
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 | For Love of Olivia | Daniel Stewart | 2001-03-18 |
Movie | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Lou Hastings | 2000-03-19 |
Movie | The Highwayman | Phil Bishop | 2000-01-01 |
Movie | The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence | Frank | 2000-03-12 |
Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
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 | 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 | Managua | Paul | 1996-04-09 |
Movie | Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story | Bob Kersee | 1996-06-16 |
Movie | Captive Heart: The James Mink Story | James Mink | 1996-04-14 |
Series | Early Edition | Unknown | 1996-09-28 |
Series | Promised Land | Anderson Walker | 1996-09-17 |
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 | Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice | Ray Alexander | 1994-05-13 |
Movie | A Good Man in Africa | Prof. Sam Adekunle | 1994-07-14 |
Movie | Blue Chips | Father Dawkins (uncredited) | 1994-02-18 |
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 | Flashfire | Ben Durand | 1994-09-15 |
Movie | Father & Son: Dangerous Relations | 1993-04-19 | |
Movie | Monolith | Capt. MacCandless | 1993-09-16 |
Series | Return to Lonesome Dove | Isom Pickett | 1993-11-14 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Finders Keepers | Century | 1984-05-18 |
Movie | The Guardian | John Mack | 1984-10-20 |
Movie | The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die | narrator | 1983-07-15 |
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 | An Officer and a Gentleman | Sergeant Emil Foley | 1982-07-28 |
Movie | Benny's Place | Benny Moore | 1982-05-31 |
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 |
Movie | Lawman Without a Gun | Tom Hayward | 1979-05-30 |
Series | The Lazarus Syndrome | MacArthur St. Clair | 1979-09-04 |
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 |
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 | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | Petrocelli | 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 |