Delroy Lindo
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), Rodney Little in Clockers (1995), and Paul, a Vietnam War veteran, in Da 5 Bloods (2020), the latter of which earned him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. For his role as blues player Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lindo is also known for playing Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Isaak O'Day in Romeo Must Die (2000) Joe Black in This Christmas (2007), and Bass Reeves in The Harder They Fall (2021). He also voiced the character Beta in the Pixar animated film Up (2009). On television, he portrayed Matthew Henson in the 1998 television film Glory & Honor, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice (1999). Lindo later starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: 18 November 1952
Played In
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Sinners
Delta Slim
UnPrisoned
Edwin Alexander
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
Sherri
Self - Guest
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
The Harder They Fall
Bass Reeves
LX 2048
Donald Stein
Da 5 Bloods
Paul
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Desus & Mero
Self
Malicious
Dr. Clark
Battlecreek
Arthur
The Good Fight
Adrian Boseman
This Is Us
Judge Ernest Bradley
Point Break
FBI Instructor
Blood & Oil
Sheriff Tip Harrison
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
John Williams (voice)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Do You Believe?
Malachi
Cymbeline
Belarius
Believe
Dr. Milton Winter
Question Bridge: Black Males
Himself
The Chicago Code
Alderman Ronin Gibbons
The Big Bang
Skeres
Dug's Special Mission
Beta (voice)
Mercy
Up
Beta (voice)
One Bad Cat
Narrator
Black Power Salute
Self
This Christmas
Joe Black
Kidnapped
Latimer King
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
The Exonerated
Delbert Tibbs
Domino
Claremont Williams
Sahara
Carl
Lackawanna Blues
Mr. Lucious
Wondrous Oblivion
Dennis
The Core
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
Profoundly Normal
Ricardo Thornton
Jet Li Is 'The One'
Self
Heist
Bobby 'Bob' Blane
The One
MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
The Last Castle
Gen. Wheeler
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Det. Roland Castlebeck
Romeo Must Die
Isaak O'Day
The Cider House Rules
Arthur Rose
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Victor Moran
Strange Justice
Clarence Thomas
The Book of Stars
Professor
Pros & Cons
Kyle
Glory & Honor
Mathew Henson
A Life Less Ordinary
Jackson
The Devil's Advocate
Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
First Time Felon
Calhoun
The View
Self
Ransom
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Feeling Minnesota
Red
The Winner
Kingman
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Soul of the Game
Satchel Paige
Broken Arrow
Colonel Max Wilkins
L'exil du roi Behanzin
Get Shorty
Bo Catlett
Clockers
Rodney Little
Congo
Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self
Baseball
(voice)
Crooklyn
Woody Carmichael
Mr. Jones
Howard
Bound by Honor
Bonafide
Malcolm X
West Indian Archie
The Hard Way
Captain Brix
Bright Angel
Harley
Mountains of the Moon
Mabruki
The Simpsons
Gabriel (voice)
Perfect Witness
Berger
The Blood of Heroes
Mbulu
A Man Called Hawk
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Beauty and the Beast
Isaac Stubbs
More American Graffiti
Army Sergeant
Find the Lady
Sam
Partners
Drug Kingpin
The Oscars
Self
Today
Self
Anansi Boys
Mr. Nancy