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Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, stage
Stage (theatre)

In theatre, the stage is a designated space for the performance of theatrical productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience....
, and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

to Jamaican immigrants in Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's Capital ....
, Minnesota
Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
, Lumbly graduated from South High School
Minneapolis South High School

for schools of the same name.Minneapolis South High School is the largest public school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota located in Corcoran, Minneapolis....
 there and Macalester College
Macalester College

Macalester College is a private, coeducational Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterianism-affiliated but nonsectarian college....
 in nearby St. Paul.

ne time he was a journalist in Minnesota, when he got an acting job while on assignment for a story about a workshop theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
 and stayed with the improvisation
Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings....
al company for two years (along with then-unknown Danny Glover
Danny Glover

Danny Lebern Glover is an United States actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is possibly best known for his role as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film Media franchise....
).

His first major role was Detective Marcus Petrie on the television series Cagney and Lacey (1982 – 1988).






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Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, stage
Stage (theatre)

In theatre, the stage is a designated space for the performance of theatrical productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience....
, and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Biography


Early life

Born to Jamaican immigrants in Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's Capital ....
, Minnesota
Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
, Lumbly graduated from South High School
Minneapolis South High School

for schools of the same name.Minneapolis South High School is the largest public school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota located in Corcoran, Minneapolis....
 there and Macalester College
Macalester College

Macalester College is a private, coeducational Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterianism-affiliated but nonsectarian college....
 in nearby St. Paul.

Acting career

At one time he was a journalist in Minnesota, when he got an acting job while on assignment for a story about a workshop theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
 and stayed with the improvisation
Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings....
al company for two years (along with then-unknown Danny Glover
Danny Glover

Danny Lebern Glover is an United States actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is possibly best known for his role as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film Media franchise....
).

His first major role was Detective Marcus Petrie on the television series Cagney and Lacey (1982 – 1988). In 1987, he garned positive reviews for his portrayal of Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party was an African-American organization established to promote Black Power and Right of self-defense through acts of social agitation....
 co-founder Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale

Robert George "Bobby" Seale , is an United States civil rights activist, and revolutionary, who along with Huey P. Newton, co-founded the Black Panther Party on October 15, 1966....
 in the HBO television movie Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8.

From 1994-1995, Lumbly starred as the main character in the short-lived sci-fi series M.A.N.T.I.S.
M.A.N.T.I.S.

M.A.N.T.I.S. is a TV series that aired for one season on the Fox Broadcasting Company between August 1994 and March 1995. The original two-hour TV television pilot was produced by Sam Raimi and developed by Sam Hamm....
. Perhaps his most visible role was as Marcus Dixon
Marcus Dixon (Alias)

Marcus R. Dixon is a fictional character on the television series, Alias . He has been one of Sydney Bristow's coworkers and the CIA's Director of Joint Task Force....
 in the American television series Alias (2001 – 2006). Other prominent roles include providing the voice the for Martian Manhunter
Martian Manhunter

Martian Manhunter , also known as John Jones or the Manhunter from Mars, a fictional character, is an extraterrestrials in fiction superhero in the ....
 on Justice League and Justice League Unlimited
Justice League Unlimited

Justice League Unlimited is an United States List of animated television series that was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network . Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series....
, and a recurring role on L.A. Law
L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an United States television legal drama that ran from 1986 in television to 1994 in television. It was one of the most popular American television shows of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
 as a college professor unjustly accused of first-degree murder. He also appeared as the voice of the Mayor of Metropolis on Superman the Animated Series episode "Speed Demons" in 1997.

In 2000, Lumbly portrayed activist and Congressman Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums is the mayor of Oakland, California. From 1971-1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Northern California's Progressivism 9th Congressional District, which currently has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D +38....
 in the Disney's Channel's original movie, The Color of Friendship. Although the movie was focused on Dellums's daughter's friendship with a white South African girl, the film also discussed Dellums's role in ending apartheid in South Africa.

Lumbly most recently appeared as Lt. Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek in the television series Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)

Battlestar Galactica is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning Serial television program created by Ronald D. Moore that first aired in a Battlestar Galactica in December 2003, on Sci Fi Channel ....
. Lumbly also plays a role in the cinematic of video game Command and Conquer 3 's expansion pack Kane's Wrath.

Works


Film

  • Caveman
    Caveman (film)

    Caveman is a 1981 in film slapstick comedy film financed by George Harrison, written and directed by Carl Gottlieb and starring Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Shelley Long and Dennis Quaid....
     (1981)
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984)
  • The Bedroom Window (1987)
  • Everybody's All-American
    Everybody's All-American (film)

    Everybody's All-American is a film directed by Taylor Hackford and based on the novel Everybody's All-American by longtime Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford....
     (1988)
  • To Sleep With Anger
    To Sleep With Anger

    To Sleep with Anger is a 1990 in film drama film directed and written by Charles Burnett ....
     (1990)
  • Pacific Heights
    Pacific Heights (1990 film)

    Pacific Heights is a 1990 in film Thriller directed by John Schlesinger, starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton. Griffith's real-life mother Tippi Hedren has a cameo as a rich older woman who is conned by Keaton's character....
     (1990)
  • Brother Future
    Brother Future

    Brother Future is a 1991 in film science fiction movie. It starred Phill Lewis, Moses Gunn, Frank Converse, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, and Michael Burgess....
     (1991)
  • South Central
    South Central

    South Central may refer to:* South Los Angeles, an area in Los Angeles, California* South Central Alaska, a region containing Anchorage metropolitan area...
     (1992)
  • How Stella Got Her Groove Back
    How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a 1998 in film romance film, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. The film stars Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg and Regina King....
     (1998)
  • Men of Honor
    Men of Honor

    Men of Honor is a 2000 drama film, film director by George Tillman, Jr. and starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. It is inspired by the true story of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear, the first African-American Master Diver in the United States Navy....
     (2000)
  • Just A Dream
    Just a Dream

    "Just a Dream" is the fourth single released from Carrie Underwood's second studio album, Carnival Ride. The song was composed by Gordie Sampson, Steven McEwan and Hillary Lindsey....
     (2002)


Television

  • Cagney and Lacey (1982–1988)
  • Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)
  • M.A.N.T.I.S.
    M.A.N.T.I.S.

    M.A.N.T.I.S. is a TV series that aired for one season on the Fox Broadcasting Company between August 1994 and March 1995. The original two-hour TV television pilot was produced by Sam Raimi and developed by Sam Hamm....
     (1994)
  • On Promised Land (1994)
  • Nightjohn
    Nightjohn

    Nightjohn is a book for young adults, written by Gary Paulsen. It was first published in 1993, it was made into a movie that aired on the Disney Channel in 1996....
     (1996)
  • The X-Files
    The X-Files

    The X-Files is a Peabody Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning American cult following science fiction television series, created by Chris Carter , which first aired in 1993 and ended in 2002....
    : "Teliko" (Season 4, Episode 3; 1996)
  • The Ditchdigger's Daughters (1997)
  • Superman: The Animated Series
    Superman: The Animated Series

    Superman: The Animated Series is the unofficial title of a Warner Bros.' United States List of animated television series that ran from 1996 to 2000....
     (1997)
  • Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
  • The Wedding
    The Wedding (TV miniseries)

    The Wedding is a 1998 television miniseries directed by Charles Burnett . Based on a novel by Dorothy West, it stars Halle Berry, Eric Thal, and Lynn Whitfield, and was produced by Harpo Productions....
     (1998)
  • The West Wing (2000)
  • The Color of Friendship (2000)
  • Little Richard
    Little Richard

    Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
     (2000)
  • Justice League (2001–2004)
  • Alias (2001–2006)
  • Static Shock
    Static Shock

    Static Shock is an United States List of animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It premiered in September 2000 on The WB Television Network, and ran for four seasons, with a total of 52 half-hour episodes....
     (2003)
  • Sounder
    Sounder

    Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana....
     (2003)
  • Martin Scorsese presents The Blues
    The Blues (film)

    The Blues is a 2003 documentary film film series produced by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. In each of the seven episodes, a different director explores a stage in the development of the blues....
    : Episode 4 (2003)
  • Justice League Unlimited
    Justice League Unlimited

    Justice League Unlimited is an United States List of animated television series that was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network . Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series....
     (2004–2006)
  • Battlestar Galactica
    Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)

    Battlestar Galactica is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning Serial television program created by Ronald D. Moore that first aired in a Battlestar Galactica in December 2003, on Sci Fi Channel ....
     (2006)
  • Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
     (one episode) (2008)
  • Chuck
    Chuck (TV series)

    Chuck is an action-comedy television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working in the Central Intelligence Agency; the message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest...
     (2008)


Video Games

  • Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (2008)


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