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Obba Babatunde (born December 4, 1950) is an American film actor.
Babatunde has appeared in over seventeen productions, thirty theatrical films, sixty made-for-television films, and two premiere time series.
Some of his feature film performances include: Celestine Prophecies, The Girl's Material, After Sunset, The Manchu Candidate, The Notebook, John Q, Philadelphia, The Last Fall, If I Tell You I'll Kill You, The Fallen Faithful, Trapped , Tension and kinky.
He also played Harvard College Dean Kane in How High, as well as Willie Long in Life, Role Lamar, Hotel Concierge in What You Do, Co-star as a lawyer in Philadelphia, as SWAT captain in John Q as Senator in the 2004 reprise of the Manchu nominee, and at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Santa Paws 2: Santa Pups he played Mayor Denny.
Babatunde has finished filming three primetime episodes: CBS 'Madam Secretary of State, Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here, Netflix Dear White People.
Babatunde has appeared in a recurring role in the Kingdom and the Amazon Hand of God, as Bishop Bruce Congdon. He has also appeared in Half & Half, as well as appearances on The Young and the Reckless, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Cold Case, Potent Medicine, The Prince of Beverly Hills, Chicago Hope, Any Day, Karen Sisko, Dawson's Creek and Friends ... In the 1998 miniseries, The Temptations, he played Motown Records founder Berry Gordy.
Voice of Babatunde Acting roles in cartoons and games includes Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike and Disney Infinity 3.0, and Conroy in Rocket Power. [1] Including the animated Thornberry Wild Family film, Babatunde voiced the character Boko, and in the 2016 Air Bud Entertainment film Star Pup, he played a soulful basset song, Big Ears.
He was a co-producer and director of the Oscars Black Odyssey, co-produced by Dorothy Dandridge An American Beauty, and co-produced by TV in Black in the 50s. He is an associate producer of the horror film Voodoo Dolls and executive producer of Journey. Most recently, Babatunde directed and co-stars with Katt Williams at the Lionsgate Home Entertainment feature film American Bad Boy and produced and directed the short film Clarissa Gifts,
Babatunde also directed a version of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls and was co-written, directed and produced by Blink of an Eye.
Some of his recorded works include the singing of the title track on Allan Gumbs' Onaje album A Bag Full of Dreams and Galskom that went down on the Harold Arlen Over The Rainbow soundtrack.
In 2016, Babatunde received an Emmy Daytime award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Peach International Festival Village.
In 2010 Babatunde won the "Best Male" Lead NAACP Theater Awards for his role as Sammy Davis, Jr.in the Globe musical Sammy production.
Babatunde was nominated for an Emmy in the HBO film Miss Evers Kids, An NAACP Image Award for the HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, an Ovation Award and a Tony Award for his role as CC White, in the original Broadway cast of Dreamgirls. He won the NAACP Image Award for Best Actor for his role in Sarge's Soldier's Play.
