Charles S. Dutton

Highest Rated: 89% Bessie (2015)

Lowest Rated: 0% A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)

Birthday: Jan 30, 1951

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Born January 30, 195, Charles Dutton attended the Yale School of Drama, and in 1983 he first appeared off-Broadway in Richard III. Before long he was delivering Tony-calibre performances in such Broadway productions as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson. In films since 1986's No Mercy, the forceful, thunder-voiced Dutton has been seen in movies ranging from the mirth-provoking Crocodile Dundee 2 to the spine-chilling Alien 3. In 1991, Charles Dutton began a long TV run as the star of the Fox Network sitcom Roc.Dutton became an actor while serving a seven and a half-year prison sentence for stabbing a man during a street fight. While in prison, Dutton was stabbed in the neck with an ice pick during a fight with another inmate. The incident proved to be the turning point in Dutton's life when he refused to retaliate. Shortly thereafter, he became interested in drama and while serving his sentence completed a two-year college degree course. Upon his release from prison, Dutton was admitted into the Yale School of Drama. There he studied under playwright August Wilson and director Lloyd Richards.In 2000, Dutton directed The Corner, an acclaimed miniseries from HBO adapted from David Simon and Ed Burns' novel "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood". The Corner won several awards, including an Emmy for Best Miniseries, and Dutton himself was honored for his direction. This would not be the last Emmy he received; the actor won Emmy Awards in 2002 and 2003 for supporting roles in televisiond dramas The Practice and Without a Trace. In 2003, Dutton starred in the made-for-TV drama D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear, and continued to make appearances on popular television shows including The L Word, The Sopranos, and House, M.D. Dutton joined the cast of Threshold in 2005. While the CBS science fiction series gained a loyal following, the show was short-lived. The actor went on to appear in filmmaker John Sayles' 2007 drama Honeydripper, which follows the owner of a blues club that was revitalized by a young electric guitarist.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Carter High	Coach James	$0.2M	2015
18%	The Perfect Guy	Roger	$45.1M	2015
No Score Yet	August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand	Actor	—	2015
89%	Bessie	William "Pa" Rainey	—	2015
No Score Yet	What Lola Wants	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Android Cop	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Very Larry Christmas	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Comeback Dad	Othell	—	2014
No Score Yet	Scooby-doo! Wrestlemania Mystery	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Monkey's Paw	Detective Margolis	—	2013
37%	Peeples	Executive Producer	$9.2M	2013
34%	LUV	Cofield	$0.2M	2013
36%	Least Among Saints	George	$28.5K	2012
No Score Yet	The Obama Effect	Director John Thomas Screenwriter	$0.2M	2012
20%	Bad Ass	Panther	—	2012
No Score Yet	40 Minutes Of Hell	Actor	—	2012
19%	Legion	Percy Walker	$40.2M	2010
24%	Fame	Alvin Dowd	$22.5M	2009
75%	American Violet	Reverend Sanders	$0.5M	2009
61%	The Express	Willie 'Pops' Davis	$9.6M	2008
No Score Yet	The Third Nail	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Racing for Time	Actor Director	—	2008
No Score Yet	Racing for Time	Director Cleveland 'Stack' Stackhouse	—	2008
68%	Honeydripper	Maceo	—	2007
No Score Yet	Cuttin' Da Mustard	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Alien3 (Special Edition)	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Mayday	Adm. Randolph Hennings	—	2005
38%	The L.A. Riot Spectacular	Mayor Bradley	—	2005
No Score Yet	Something the Lord Made	William Thomas	—	2004
46%	Secret Window	Ken Karsch	$47.8M	2004
12%	Against the Ropes	Director Felix Reynolds	$5.7M	2004
15%	Gothika	Dr. Douglas Grey	$59.6M	2003
No Score Yet	D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear	Police Chief Charles Moose	—	2003
29%	The Country Bears	Actor	$16.9M	2002
No Score Yet	10,000 Black Men Named George	Milton Webster	—	2002
19%	D-Tox (Eye See You)	Hendricks	—	2002
No Score Yet	Conviction	McGill	—	2002
No Score Yet	For Love or Country	Dizzy Gillespie	—	2000
No Score Yet	Deadlocked	Jacob Doyle	—	2000
No Score Yet	Aftershock: Earthquake in New York	Actor	—	1999
15%	Random Hearts	Alcee	—	1999
86%	Cookie's Fortune	Willis Richland	—	1999
No Score Yet	The '60s	Actor	—	1999
10%	Black Dog	Agent Ford	—	1998
No Score Yet	Blind Faith	Charles Williams Sr.	—	1998
No Score Yet	First Time Felon	Director	—	1997
61%	Mimic	Leonard	—	1997
No Score Yet	True Women	Josiah	—	1997
No Score Yet	Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance	Lt. Charles Silvera	—	1996
88%	Get on the Bus	George	—	1996
66%	A Time to Kill	Sheriff Ozzie Walls	—	1996
No Score Yet	Jack Reed: One of Our Own	Actor	—	1996
85%	Cry, the Beloved Country	John Kumalo	—	1995
32%	Nick of Time	Huey	—	1995
No Score Yet	Zooman	Emmett	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Piano Lesson	Boy Willie	—	1995
No Score Yet	Jack Reed: A Search for Justice	Charles Silvera	—	1994
0%	A Low Down Dirty Shame	Rothmiller	—	1994
No Score Yet	Foreign Student	Howlin' Wolf	—	1994
25%	Surviving the Game	Cole	—	1994
No Score Yet	Frederick Douglass	Actor	—	1994
78%	Rudy	Fortune	—	1993
84%	Menace II Society	Mr. Butler	—	1993
13%	The Distinguished Gentleman	Elijah Hawkins	—	1992
43%	Alien3	Dillon	—	1992
81%	Mississippi Masala	Tyrone	—	1991
87%	Q & A	Detective Sam Chapman	—	1990
No Score Yet	An Unremarkable Life	Actor	—	1989
64%	Jacknife	Jake	—	1989
No Score Yet	Runaway	Actor	—	1989
11%	Crocodile Dundee II	LeRoy Brown	—	1988
No Score Yet	The Murder of Mary Phagan	Jim Conley	—	1988
21%	No Mercy	Sgt. Sandy	—	1986
No Score Yet	Apology (Apology for Murder)	Asst. District Attorney	—	1986

TV

		Credit
36%	Secrets and Lies 2015-2016	Kevin Haynes	2015
76%	American Horror Story 2012	Det. Granger	2014 2011
88%	Longmire 2012-2017		2013
42%	Zero Hour 2013	Father Mickle	2013
94%	The Good Wife 2009-2016	Damon Yarrow	2012
No Score Yet	Criminal Minds 2005	Tony	2011
59%	Law & Order: LA 2010-2011		2011
No Score Yet	CSI: NY 2004-2013	Talmadge Neville	2009
91%	House 2004-2012	Rodney Foreman	2007 2006
77%	Sleeper Cell 2005-2006	Director	2006
54%	The L Word 2004-2009	Benjamin Bradshaw	2005
44%	Threshold 2005	J.T. Baylock	2005
No Score Yet	Without a Trace 2002-2009	Chet	2002
No Score Yet	Ed 2000-2004	Rev. Carver	2001
No Score Yet	The Practice 1997-2004	Leonard Marshall	2001
100%	The Corner 2000	Director	2000
89%	Oz 1997-2003	Alvah Case	1998 1997
91%	Homicide: Life on the Street 1993-1999	Elijah Sanborn	1996
No Score Yet	Roc 1991-1994	Roc Emerson	1994 1993 1992 1991

QUOTES FROM Charles S. Dutton CHARACTERS

Agent Ford says: Oh spare us the physco babble will you!

Agent McClaren says: If you screw this up shithead I am not going down with you!

Leonard says: Why are you asking me if I've seen some shit like this before? Do I look like I've seen some shit like this before? Hell no I ain't never seen no shit like this before! Who the fuck would wanna climb up these wall and hang one of these? Must have been a big elephant ass motherfucker. I don't know what the fuck.

Cole says: You know, Mason. You know why we're gonna find you? Because I can smell your stink'n ass from here.

Cole says: You know, Mason. You know why we're gonna find you? Because I can smell your stinking ass from here.

Mason says: Yo fuck you, Cole. You punk sellout motherfucker!

Mason says: Yo, fuck you, Cole. You punk, sellout, motherfucker!

Peter Mann says: Leonard, have you ever seen anything like this before?

Leonard says: Why you asking me if I've seen some shit like this before? Do I look like I've seen some shit like this before? Hell, no I a'int never seen no shit like this before. Who the fuck would wanna climb up one of these walls and hang one of these? Musta been a big elephant-ass motherfucker.

Leonard says: You better tell me, what the hell is going on around here?

Willis Richland says: Well, if anybody's hungry, I got some stuff at home for catfish enchiladas.

Willis Richland says: Every family got someone whose got a screw loose.

Wanda Carter says: Want a drink?

Willis Richland says: No, never before Tom Brockaw.

Dillon says: Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, some get saved. She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind. We commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart. For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there's always a new life. A new beginning.

Dillon says: You're all gonna die. Only question is how you check out. Do you want it on your feet...or on your fucking knees...begging? I ain't much for begging and nobody ever gave me nothin'. So I say, "Fuck that thing! Let's fight it!"

Panther says: Bad Ass. It's what there callin' him.

Fortune says: You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players in the land for 2 years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.