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LeVar Burton

Highest Rated:
92% Star Trek - First Contact (1996)
Lowest Rated:
38% Star Trek - Nemesis (2002)
Birthday:
Feb 16, 1957
Birthplace:
Landstuhl, West Germany
Bio:
African American actor LeVar Burton was a 19-year-old UCLA drama student when he was catapulted into international fame. On January 23, 1977, Burton made his professional debut as young Kunta Kinte, the protagonist of the classic TV miniseries Roots. He went on to give first-rate performances in…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 38% - 92%
Number of Movies: 44
Box Office Since 2001: $101.2M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 And They're Off...
  • Himself
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2010 Reach for Me
  • Director
  • Actor
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2010 For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
  • Actor
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2009 Taken in Broad Daylight
  • Actor
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2009 Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
  • Black Lightning
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2006 The ACLU Freedom Files
  • Actor
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2006 Reading Rainbow - How's That Made?
  • Actor
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2006 Reading Rainbow - Farm Life
  • Actor
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2004 The N Word
  • Actor
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2004 The N-Word
  • Actor
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2003 Poetry Corner
  • Actor
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2003 60% Blizzard
  • Director
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2002 38% Star Trek - Nemesis
  • Geordi LaForge
$43.1M
2001 67% Ali
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
$58.2M
2000 Dancing in September
  • Actor
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1999 Our Friend, Martin
  • Actor
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1999 Smart House
  • Director
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1998 Tiger Woods Story
  • Director
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1998 56% Star Trek - Insurrection
  • Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge
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1997 86% Trekkies
  • Actor
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1996 92% Star Trek - First Contact
  • Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge
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1996 Yesterday's Target
  • Actor
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1994 Parallel Lives
  • Dr. Franklin Carter
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1994 48% Star Trek Generations
  • Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge
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1993 Firestorm - 72 Hours in Oakland
  • Actor
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1988 Roots: The Gift
  • Kunta Kinte
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1986 The Midnight Hour
  • Vinnie Davis
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1986 The Supernaturals
  • Pvt. Michael Osgood
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1984 The Jesse Owens Story
  • Actor
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1983 Wonderworks - Booker
  • Actor
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1983 Reading Rainbow - Digging Up Dinosaurs
  • Actor
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1981 Grambling's White Tiger
  • Actor
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1981 Grambling's White Tiger
  • Actor
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1980 Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (The Mad Messiah)
  • Richard
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1980 55% The Hunter
  • Tommy Price
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1979 Dummy
  • Donald Lang
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1978 One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (Man of Passion)
  • Ron LeFlore
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1978 Battered
  • Andrew Sinclair
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1978 Roots: One Year Later
  • Actor
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1977 40% Da uomo a uomo (Death Rides A Horse) (As Man to Man)
  • Actor
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1977 75% Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  • Cap Jackson
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1976 Almos' a Man
  • Actor
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Battered
  • Actor
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Ghetto Child
  • Actor
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