Cast
Delroy Lindo
Acting
Cast
Delroy Lindo
Known for
Acting
Born
1952-11-18
From
Eltham, London, England, UK
Also known as Delroy George Lindo
Biography
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.
★7.5
MOVIE2025
Sinners
as Delta Slim
★8.0
MOVIE2009
Up
as Beta (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1997
The Devil's Advocate
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
★8.2
MOVIE1993
Bound by Honor
as Bonafide
★6.5
MOVIE2000
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Det. Roland Castlebeck
★6.0
MOVIE2015
Point Break
as FBI Instructor
★5.8
MOVIE2003
The Core
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
★6.1
MOVIE2001
The One
as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
MOVIE2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
★7.1
MOVIE1999
The Cider House Rules
as Arthur Rose
★6.3
MOVIE2000
Romeo Must Die
as Isaak O'Day
★7.6
MOVIE1992
Malcolm X
as West Indian Archie
★6.7
MOVIE1996
Ransom
as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
★7.2
MOVIE2001
The Last Castle
as Gen. Wheeler
★6.1
MOVIE1996
Broken Arrow
as Colonel Max Wilkins
★5.9
MOVIE2005
Sahara
as Carl
★6.2
MOVIE1991
The Hard Way
as Captain Brix
★6.3
MOVIE2001
Heist
as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
★5.6
MOVIE1995
Congo
as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE2021
The Harder They Fall
as Bass Reeves
★6.4
MOVIE2020
Da 5 Bloods
as Paul
★5.6
MOVIE2018
Malicious
as Dr. Clark
★5.9
MOVIE2005
Domino
as Claremont Williams
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Get Shorty
as Bo Catlett
★5.8
MOVIE1993
Mr. Jones
as Howard
★5.3
MOVIE2011
The Big Bang
as Skeres
★5.9
MOVIE1989
The Blood of Heroes
as Mbulu
★7.0
MOVIE2009
Dug's Special Mission
as Beta (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1995
Clockers
as Rodney Little
★6.6
MOVIE2015
Do You Believe?
as Malachi
★6.2
MOVIE1997
A Life Less Ordinary
as Jackson
★6.6
MOVIE2007
This Christmas
as Joe Black
★3.9
MOVIE2014
Cymbeline
as Belarius
★6.8
MOVIE1994
Crooklyn
as Woody Carmichael
★5.1
MOVIE2020
LX 2048
as Donald Stein
★6.5
MOVIE1990
Mountains of the Moon
as Mabruki
★5.4
MOVIE1996
Feeling Minnesota
as Red
★5.2
MOVIE1979
More American Graffiti
as Army Sergeant
MOVIE2002
Jet Li Is 'The One'
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE2005
Lackawanna Blues
as Mr. Lucious
★7.6
MOVIE2006
The Exonerated
as Delbert Tibbs
★4.9
MOVIE1990
Bright Angel
as Harley
★4.6
MOVIE1996
The Winner
as Kingman
★4.9
MOVIE1996
Soul of the Game
as Satchel Paige
★3.9
MOVIE1976
Find the Lady
as Sam
★7.2
MOVIE1989
Perfect Witness
as Berger
★6.8
MOVIE1997
First Time Felon
as Calhoun
★5.3
MOVIE2003
Profoundly Normal
as Ricardo Thornton
★4.4
MOVIE1999
The Book of Stars
as Professor
★7.0
MOVIE1996
L'exil du roi Behanzin
MOVIE1998
Glory & Honor
as Mathew Henson
MOVIE2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Battlecreek
as Arthur
MOVIE2008
Black Power Salute
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1999
Strange Justice
as Clarence Thomas
★3.6
MOVIE1999
Pros & Cons
as Kyle
MOVIE2012
Question Bridge: Black Males
as Himself
★8.0
MOVIE2015
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as John Williams (voice)
★4.2
MOVIE2008
One Bad Cat
as Narrator
★6.6
MOVIE2004
Wondrous Oblivion
as Dennis
★10.0
MOVIE1976
Partners
as Drug Kingpin