Delroy Lindo

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-11-18 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Eltham, London, England, UK

Delroy Lindo

Biography

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production 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 the Spike Lee films: 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 ro...

Acting

2000

Romeo Must Die

as Isaak O'Day

2001

The Last Castle

as Gen. Wheeler

1999

The Cider House Rules

as Arthur Rose

1992

Malcolm X

as West Indian Archie

1993

Mr. Jones

as Howard

1996

Ransom

as Agent Lonnie Hawkins

2001

The One

as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant

1995

Clockers

as Rodney Little

2001

Heist

as Bobby 'Bob' Blane

2005

Sahara

as Carl

1995

Get Shorty

as Bo Catlett

1997

2009

Dug's Special Mission

as Beta (voice)

2004

2003

The Core

as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton

1994

Crooklyn

as Woody Carmichael

2000

Gone in Sixty Seconds

as Det. Roland Castlebeck

1993

Bound by Honor

as Bonafide

2005

Domino

as Claremont Williams

2009

Up

as Beta (voice)

1979

More American Graffiti

as Army Sergeant

2007

This Christmas

as Joe Black

1997

2011

The Big Bang

as Skeres

1996

Soul of the Game

as Satchel Paige

1990

Bright Angel

as Harley

1996

The Winner

as Kingman

2003

Profoundly Normal

as Ricardo Thornton

1999

The Book of Stars

as Professor

2008

One Bad Cat

as Narrator

1976

Partners

as Drug Kingpin

1989

2006

The Exonerated

as Delbert Tibbs

1999

2015

Point Break

as FBI Instructor

1991

The Hard Way

as Captain Brix

1995

Congo

as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)

2017

Battlecreek

as Arthur

1998

Glory & Honor

as Mathew Henson

2025

Sinners

as Delta Slim

2014

Cymbeline

as Belarius

2018

Malicious

as Dr. Clark

2005

Lackawanna Blues

as Mr. Lucious

2015

Do You Believe?

as Malachi

1999

Strange Justice

as Clarence Thomas

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")

2020

1990

2021

The Harder They Fall

as Bass Reeves

2020

LX 2048

as Donald Stein

1997

The Devil's Advocate

as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)

1976

1996

Broken Arrow

as Colonel Max Wilkins

2016

Marvel's Most Wanted

as Dominic Fortune

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