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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 2, 1954
Place of Birth
San Mateo, California, USA
Dennis Haysbert
2.2 Popularity
Biography
Dennis Dexter Haysbert (born June 2, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the Major League film trilogy, Secret Service agent Tim Collin in the political thriller film Absolute Power, Sergeant Major Jonas Blane on the CBS military action drama series The Unit, God on the Netflix show Lucifer, and President David Palmer on the first five seasons of 24. He has also appeared in the films Love Field, Navy SEALS, Heat, Waiting to Exhale, Far from Heaven, and the science fiction series Incorporated. He is the narrator for the A&E Network's American Justice television series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Haysbert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Send Help
2026
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Featuring
Hope of the Season: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir
2025
5.0
Marty Anderson
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025
0.0
Narrator
Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed
2025
7.4
Robert Lewin
Holidazed
2024
6.5
Hoyt Johnston
In Fidelity
2024
5.3
Tommy
Summer Camp
2024
6.5
Gabriel Stone
Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team
2023
6.1
Vernon (voice)
Digman!
2023
8.0
Clarence C. Baker
Flamin' Hot
2023
Credits
Send Help
2026
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Hope of the Season: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir
as Featuring
2025
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Lost & Found in Cleveland
as Marty Anderson
2025
5.0
Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed
as Narrator
2025
0.0
Holidazed
as Robert Lewin
2024
7.4
In Fidelity
as Hoyt Johnston
2024
6.5
Summer Camp
as Tommy
2024
5.3
Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team
as Gabriel Stone
2023
6.5
Digman!
as Vernon (voice)
2023
6.1
Flamin' Hot
as Clarence C. Baker
2023
8.0
Paul T. Goldman
as Agent Portman
2023
6.4
Sniper: Rogue Mission
as Gabriel Stone
2022
6.2
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
as Zipper (voice)
2022
7.0
No Exit
as Ed
2022
6.9
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
as Grayskull (voice)
2021
6.5
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as Prince Humperdinck
2020
7.5
Playing with Fire
as Commander Richards
2019
6.6
Secret Obsession
as Detective Frank Page
2019
5.5
Breakthrough
as Dr. Garrett
2019
7.6
Christmas Everlasting
as Uncle Barney
2018
5.8
Reverie
as Charlie Ventana
2018
6.7
Kodachrome
as Larry
2017
6.8
Naked
as Reginald Swope
2017
5.8
The Dark Tower
as Steven Deschain
2017
5.8
Fist Fight
as Superintendent Johnson
2017
6.1
Incorporated
as Julian Morse
2016
6.3
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
as Colonel
2016
6.3
Dead Rising: Endgame
as General Lyons
2016
5.1
Undercover
as Rudy Jones
2016
6.5
Undercover
as Rudy Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
6.5
Lucifer
as God
2016
8.4
Jarhead 3: The Siege
as Major Lincoln
2016
6.2
Baby, Baby, Baby
as Doctor Hankin
2015
5.7
Experimenter
as Ossie Davis
2015
6.5
The Grinder
as Special Agent
2015
6.7
Ted 2
as Fertility Doctor
2015
6.3
Dead Rising: Watchtower
as General Lyons
2015
5.1
Backstrom
as Det. Sgt. Almond
2015
6.7
How Murray Saved Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
2014
5.9
Men, Women & Children
as Secretluvur
2014
6.4
Dear White People
as Dean Fairbanks
2014
6.1
Sniper: Legacy
as The Colonel
2014
6.0
The Real
2014
6.4
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Manute
2014
6.4
Think Like a Man Too
as Uncle Eddie
2014
6.4
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
as Judge (voice)
2014
6.7
Civil War 360
as Self - Host
2013
6.3
Out of the Blue
as Control
2013
6.5
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
as Bob Annderson
2013
8.2
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
as Ox (Voice)
2013
8.0
Life of a King
as Searcy
2013
7.2
Welcome to the Jungle
as Mr. Palmer
2013
5.0
Battledogs
as Lt. General Christopher Monning
2013
4.4
The World According to Dick Cheney
as Narrator (voice)
2013
6.7
LUV
as Mr. Fish
2013
5.8
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Heartburn
as Matthew Boa
2013
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The Details
as Lincoln
2012
6.0
Wreck-It Ralph
as General Hologram (voice)
2012
7.4
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
as Ox (voice)
2011
6.5
Field of Dreams 2: Lockout
as Mann
2011
5.7
Kung Fu Panda 2
as Master Storming Ox (voice)
2011
7.1
🎬
When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun
as Self
2010
0.0
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
6.6
Breach
as Dean Plesac
2007
6.6
Goodbye Bafana
as Nelson Mandela
2007
6.9
The Unit
as Jonas Blane
2006
7.3
The Boondocks
as Sturdy Harris (voice)
2005
8.2
Jarhead
as Major Lincoln
2005
6.7
Empire
2005
6.4
The Making of 'Heat'
as Self
2005
5.0
Secrets of Pearl Harbor
as Self - Host
2004
0.0
Sinbad and the Cyclops Island
as Kale
2003
6.4
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
as Kale (voice)
2003
7.0
Ticker
as FBI Agent
2002
6.6
Far from Heaven
as Raymond Deagan
2002
7.0
Justice League
as Kilowog (voice)
2001
8.2
24
as David Palmer
2001
7.8
The Hire
as FBI Agent
2001
7.6
Static Shock
as Chief Barnsdale (voice)
2000
8.1
Soul Food
as Rick Grant
2000
7.0
Love & Basketball
as Zeke McCall
2000
7.3
What's Cooking?
as Ronald Williams
2000
5.5
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Random Hearts
as Detective George Beaufort
1999
5.6
Now and Again
as Dr. Theodore Morris
1999
6.8
The Minus Man
as Graves
1999
5.4
The Thirteenth Floor
as Det. Larry McBain
1999
7.0
Godzilla: The Series
as General Ekwensi (voice)
1998
7.9
Major League: Back to the Minors
as Pedro Cerrano
1998
5.0
How to Make the Cruelest Month
as Manhattan Parks
1998
1.0
Standoff
as Agent Ty 'Bama' Jones
1998
5.6
The New Batman Adventures
as Barkley James (voice)
1997
8.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Absolute Power
as Tim Collin
1997
6.7
Superman: The Animated Series
as Agent #1 (voice)
1996
7.6
Superman: The Animated Series
as Doctor #1 (voice)
1996
7.6
The Writing on the Wall
as Sullivan
1996
2.3
Widow's Kiss
as Eddie Costello
1996
4.1
Amanda
as Seven / Sir Jordan
1996
3.5
Waiting to Exhale
as Kenneth
1995
6.3
Heat
as Donald Breedan
1995
7.9
The Outer Limits
as Joshua Finch
1995
7.7
Major League II
as Pedro Cerrano
1994
5.7
Duckman
as Tribal Leader / Cornfed's Singing Voice (voice)
1994
7.1
🎬
Hallelujah
as Rev. Oliver Crawford
1993
6.0
Return to Lonesome Dove
as Cherokee Jack Jackson
1993
6.9
Suture
as Clay Arlington
1993
6.4
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Alex Haley's Queen
as Davis
1993
7.0
Love Field
as Paul Cater
1992
6.0
Mr. Baseball
as Max 'Hammer' Dubois
1992
5.8
Navy Seals
as Billy Graham
1990
5.4
K-9000
as Nick Sanrio
1990
4.5
Major League
as Pedro Cerrano
1989
6.9
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Just the Ten of Us
1988
7.1
Growing Pains
as Police Officer
1985
6.5
Growing Pains
as Officer Wright
1985
6.5
Growing Pains
as Frank
1985
6.5
227
1985
6.7
What's Happening Now!!
1985
6.3
A Summer to Remember
as Sheriff Pierce
1985
6.2
Off the Rack
as Cletus Maxwell
1985
5.0
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Dr. Beaumont
1984
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Night Court
as James Morgan
1984
7.3
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
6.4
The A-Team
as Psych Ward Staff
1983
7.5
The Fall Guy
as Jeremy Wolf
1981
7.5
🎬
Grambling's White Tiger
as James 'Shack' Harris
1981
0.0
Code Red
as Stuff Wade
1981
5.5
Magnum, P.I.
1980
7.3
Galactica 1980
as Imperious Leader (voice)
1980
6.1
Knots Landing
as Police Officer
1979
6.7
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Security Guard
1979
7.0
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Lieutenant Parsons
1979
7.0
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Helmsman
1979
7.0
The Facts of Life
1979
7.1
Scoring
as Lt. Harrigan
1979
4.3
The White Shadow
as Basketball Player
1978
7.1
The Incredible Hulk
1977
7.2
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Driver
1976
7.5
Laverne & Shirley
1976
7.2
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1944
7.2
Silent Retreat
as Josh Alpert
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Higher Love
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🎬
Closure
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🎬
American Smuggler
N/A
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🎬
Don't Ever Wonder
N/A
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🎬
Suburban Psycho
N/A
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