Roscoe Orman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-06-11 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Bronx - New York - USA

Roscoe Orman

Biography

While a student at New York's High School of Art and Design, Orman made his theatrical debut in the 1962 topical revue "If We Grow Up." He was an early member of the Free Southern Theater for two years in the mid-1960s and a founding member of Harlem, New York's New Lafayette Theatre, where he acted in and directed numerous plays. His many other stage appearances have included roles in "Julius Caesar" and "Coriolanus" at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, the Broadway production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences", and Matt Robison's one-man play "The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit" at the American Place Theatre. Orman is the re...

Acting

2000

American Pimp

as Willie Dynamite

1995

2010

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days

as Gordon (uncredited) (archive footage)

1986

F/X

as Captain Wallenger

1974

2006

30 Days

as Jo Jo

1979

Coriolanus

as Adrian

2024

Jim Henson Idea Man

as Gordon (archive footage)

2019

2019

Holiday Rush

as Reginald Miller

1985

2009

1979

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

as Gordon (uncredited)

2006

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

as Gordon (archive footage)

1977

Sesame Street at Night?

as Gordon (archive footage)

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