A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
劳伦斯·菲什伯恩
Larry Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne
Λώρενς Τζον Φίσμπερν
Λώρενς Φίσμπερν
Лоренс Фишберн
Лоуренс Фішборн
لورنس فيشبورن
ローレンス・ジョン・フィッシュバーン
ローレンス・フィッシュバーン
勞倫斯·費許朋
로런스 피시번
Birthplace:
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Born:
July 30, 1961
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in the first three films of The Matrix series (1999–2003), Jason "Furious" Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood (1991), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now (1979), and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series (2017–present). For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It (1993), Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992), and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Other film credits of Fishburne include The Color Purple (1985), School Daze (1988), King of New York (1990), Deep Cover (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Event Horizon (1997), Mystic River (2003), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Contagion (2011), Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). On television, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011), as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–present).
Director:
2000 Once in the Life
Executive Producer:
1997 Hoodlum
1997 Miss Evers' Boys
1998 Always Outnumbered
2000 Once in the Life
2022 The Cave of Adullam
Producer:
1997 Hoodlum
1997 Miss Evers' Boys
1998 Always Outnumbered
2000 Once in the Life
2006 Akeelah and the Bee
2006 Five Fingers
2022 The Cave of Adullam
2025 Sneaks
Screenplay:
1997 Hoodlum
1997 Miss Evers' Boys
1998 Always Outnumbered
2000 Once in the Life
2006 Akeelah and the Bee
2006 Five Fingers
2022 The Cave of Adullam
2025 Sneaks
Writer:
1997 Hoodlum
1997 Miss Evers' Boys
1998 Always Outnumbered
2000 Once in the Life
2006 Akeelah and the Bee
2006 Five Fingers
2022 The Cave of Adullam
2025 Sneaks
Executive Producer:
2014 black-ish
2017 Year Million
2018 grown-ish
2019 mixed-ish
2023 Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.