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Delroy Lindo

Actor

Delroy Lindo

Born November 18, 1952 in Eltham, London, England, UK56 films

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of 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 several Spike Lee films, playing 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 role as blues player Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Lindo is also known for playing Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Isaak O'Day in Romeo Must Die (2000) Joe Black in This Christmas (2007), and Bass Reeves in The Harder They Fall (2021). He also voiced the character Beta in the Pixar animated film Up (2009).

On television, he portrayed Matthew Henson in the 1998 television film Glory & Honor, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice (1999). Lindo later starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021).

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Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Devil's Advocate poster7.5The Devil's Advocate1997Sinners poster7.5Sinners2025Bound by Honor poster8.2Bound by Honor1993Malcolm X poster7.6Malcolm X1992Gone in Sixty Seconds poster6.5Gone in Sixty Seconds2000The Last Castle poster7.2The Last Castle2001Ransom poster6.7Ransom1996The Cider House Rules poster7.1The Cider House Rules1999

Filmography

56 films as actor
  1. TBAJabari’s People
  2. 2027Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
  3. 2025SinnersDelta Slim
  4. 2021The Harder They FallBass Reeves
  5. 2020LX 2048Donald Stein
  6. 2020Da 5 BloodsPaul
  7. 2018MaliciousDr. Clark
  8. 2017BattlecreekArthur
  9. 2015Point BreakFBI Instructor
  10. 2015Do You Believe?Malachi
  11. 2014CymbelineBelarius
  12. 2011The Big BangSkeres
  13. 2009Dug's Special MissionBeta (voice)
  14. 2009UpBeta (voice)
  15. 2007This ChristmasJoe Black
  16. 2006The ExoneratedDelbert Tibbs
  17. 2005DominoClaremont Williams
  18. 2005SaharaCarl
  19. 2005Lackawanna BluesMr. Lucious
  20. 2004Wondrous OblivionDennis
  21. 2003The CoreDr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
  22. 2003Profoundly NormalRicardo Thornton
  23. 2001HeistBobby 'Bob' Blane
  24. 2001The OneMVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
  25. 2001The Last CastleGen. Wheeler
  26. 2000Gone in Sixty SecondsDet. Roland Castlebeck
  27. 2000Romeo Must DieIsaak O'Day
  28. 1999The Cider House RulesArthur Rose
  29. 1999Strange JusticeClarence Thomas
  30. 1999The Book of StarsProfessor
  31. 1999Pros & ConsKyle
  32. 1998Glory & HonorMathew Henson
  33. 1997A Life Less OrdinaryJackson
  34. 1997The Devil's AdvocatePhillipe Moyez (uncredited)
  35. 1997First Time FelonCalhoun
  36. 1996RansomAgent Lonnie Hawkins
  37. 1996Feeling MinnesotaRed
  38. 1996The WinnerKingman
  39. 1996Soul of the GameSatchel Paige
  40. 1996Broken ArrowColonel Max Wilkins
  41. 1996L'exil du roi Behanzin
  42. 1995Get ShortyBo Catlett
  43. 1995ClockersRodney Little
  44. 1995CongoCaptain Wanta (Uncredited)
  45. 1994CrooklynWoody Carmichael
  46. 1993Mr. JonesHoward
  47. 1993Bound by HonorBonafide
  48. 1992Malcolm XWest Indian Archie
  49. 1991The Hard WayCaptain Brix
  50. 1990Bright AngelHarley
  51. 1990Mountains of the MoonMabruki
  52. 1989Perfect WitnessBerger
  53. 1989The Blood of HeroesMbulu
  54. 1979More American GraffitiArmy Sergeant
  55. 1976Find the LadySam
  56. 1976PartnersDrug Kingpin