Ving Rhames

Total Box Office:
 $857.3M
Highest Rated:
100% Homicide: The Movie (2000)
Lowest Rated:
0% Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
Birthday:
May 12
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Bio:
A burly, bald black actor of stage, screen, and television, Ving Rhames specializes in playing villains and, indeed, having grown up on Harlem's meanest streets, is no stranger to violence. His onscreen persona, however, is no match for his real-life reputation as a deeply compassionate man,…

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Filmography


MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Death Race: Inferno
  • Weyland
-- 2013
50% Death Race 3: Inferno (Unrated)
  • Actor
-- 2013
Force of Execution
  • Actor
-- 2013
Seven Below
  • Actor
-- 2012
14% Soldiers of Fortune
  • Grimaud
$38.8k 2012
Art Of Submission
  • Actor
-- 2012
33% Won't Back Down
  • Principal Thompson
$5.3M 2012
13% Piranha 3DD
  • Deputy Fallon
$0.4M 2012
The River Murders
  • Actor
-- 2011
Zombie Apocalypse
  • Actor
-- 2011
Julia X 3D
  • Actor
-- 2011
93% Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
  • Luther Stickell
$209.4M 2011
The Wrath of Cain
  • Miles "Cain" Skinner
-- 2010
20% Death Race 2
  • Weyland
-- 2010
Love Chronicles 2
  • Mike
-- 2010
Master Harold...and the Boys
  • Actor
-- 2010
73% Piranha 3-D
  • Deputy Fallon
$25.0M 2010
40% Operation: Endgame
  • Judgement
-- 2010
King of the Avenue
  • Norman
-- 2010
The Bridge to Nowhere
  • Actor
-- 2009
0% Echelon Conspiracy
  • Agent Dave Grant
$0.5M 2009
26% The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
  • Jibby Newsome
$15.0M 2009
Rogue's Gallery
  • Actor
-- 2009
Give 'em Hell, Malone
  • Boulder
-- 2009
The Tournament
  • Actor
-- 2009
39% Surrogates
  • The Prophet
$38.5M 2009
Phantom Punch
  • Sonny Liston
-- 2008
Saving God
  • Pastor Armstrong Cane
-- 2008
Animal 2
  • James "Animal" Allen
-- 2007
A Broken Life
  • The Vet
-- 2007
Evil Angel
  • Carruthers
-- 2007
14% I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
  • Duncan
$119.7M 2007
14% Day of the Dead
  • Actor
-- 2007
40% Leroy & Stitch
  • Actor
-- 2006
48% Idlewild
  • Spats
$12.5M 2006
Aquaman
  • Actor
-- 2006
70% Mission: Impossible III
  • Luther Strickell
$133.4M 2006
Shooting Gallery
  • Actor
-- 2005
75% Dawn of the Dead
  • Kenneth
$58.9M 2004
Back in the Day
  • J-Bone
-- 2004
Dawn of the Dead Unrated
  • Actor
-- 2004
7% Envy
  • Actor
$12.2M 2004
Animal
  • James "Animal" Allen
-- 2004
86% Lilo & Stitch
  • Cobra Bubbles
  • Director
$145.8M 2003
58% Dark Blue
  • Assistant Chief of Police Arthur Holland
$9.1M 2003
Sin
  • Actor
  • Director
-- 2003
Beef
  • Narrator
-- 2003
Stitch! The Movie
  • Actor
-- 2003
Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War
  • Narrator
-- 2002
RFK
  • Judge Thomas Jones
-- 2002
Sins of the Father
  • Actor
-- 2002
48% Undisputed
  • James "Iceman" Chambers
$12.3M 2002
Little John
  • John Morgan
-- 2002
Lilo and Stitch: DVD Read-Along
  • Actor
-- 2002
71% Baby Boy
  • Melvin
$27.8M 2001
44% Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within
  • Ryan Whittaker
$31.5M 2001
57% Mission: Impossible 2
  • Luther Stickwell
-- 2000
Holiday Heart
  • Actor
-- 2000
American Tragedy
  • Actor
-- 2000
100% Homicide: The Movie
  • Randolph
-- 2000
Behind the Mission: The Making of 'M:I-2'
  • Actor
-- 2000
38% Entrapment
  • Thibadeaux
-- 1999
71% Bringing Out the Dead
  • Marcus
-- 1999
93% Out of Sight
  • Buddy Bragg
-- 1998
Body Count
  • Pike
-- 1998
85% Rosewood
  • Mann
-- 1997
8% Dangerous Ground
  • Muki
-- 1997
55% Con Air
  • Diamond Dog
-- 1997
Don King: Only in America
  • Don King
-- 1997
11% Striptease
  • Shad
-- 1996
Don King: Only in America
  • Actor
-- 1996
61% Mission: Impossible
  • Luther
-- 1996
68% Kiss of Death
  • Omar
-- 1995
Deadly Whispers
  • Detective Jackson
-- 1995
94% Pulp Fiction
  • Marsellus Wallace
-- 1994
14% Drop Squad
  • Garvey
  • Director
-- 1994
94% Dave
  • Duane Stevenson
-- 1993
55% Blood In, Blood Out (Bound by Honor)
  • Ivan
-- 1993
4% Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot
  • Mr. Stereo
-- 1992
78% The Saint of Fort Washington
  • Little Leroy
-- 1992
56% The People Under The Stairs
  • Leroy
-- 1991
When You Remember Me
  • Actor
-- 1990
25% The Flight of the Intruder
  • C.P.O. Frank McRae
-- 1990
Rising Son
  • Ed
-- 1990
70% Jacob's Ladder
  • George
-- 1990
83% Casualties of War
  • Lt. Reilly
-- 1989
85% The Long Walk Home
  • Herbert Cotter
-- 1989
38% Patty Hearst
  • Cinque
-- 1988
56% Native Son
  • Jack
-- 1986
Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Young Gabriel
-- 1984


TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
52% Monday Mornings
  • Jorge "El Gato" Villanueva
2013-2013
45% Gravity
  • Dogg McFee
2010-2010

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Quotes from Ving Rhames's Characters

    1. Principal Thompson: This is a new day and we will take back our public schools.
    From Won't Back Down. Submitted by Frances H (3 months ago)
    1. Marsellus Wallace: You see, this profession is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don't.
    From Pulp Fiction. Submitted by Dutch E (6 months ago)
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