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Ben Vereen

ActorBorn October 10, 1946 (78 years)
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Ben Vereen (born October 10, 1946) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Khumba
  • Time Out of Mind
  • Silk Stalkings
  • Booker
  • Pippin: His Life and Times
  • Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
  • The Jesse Owens Story

Known For

  • Roots
  • All That Jazz
  • Once Upon a Forest
  • Time Out of Mind
  • Funny Lady
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
  • Idlewild
  • Zoobilee Zoo
  • Pippin: His Life and Times
  • Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
  • Webster
  • Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
  • Intruders (1992)
  • A.D. - Anno Domini
  • Making History (2017)
  • Accidental Friendship
  • Buy & Cell
  • Mama I Want to Sing

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2025
    2020
    B Positive (TV Series) · as Peter
    2019
    2018
    Magnum P.I. (TV Series) · as Henry Barr
    2017
    Tales (TV Series) · as Harry
    2017
    Making History (2017) (TV Series) · as Dr. Cobell
    2017
    The Good Fight (TV Series) · as Frederick Douglass
    2016
    Star (TV Series) · as Calvin
    2016
    2016
    Bull (2016) (TV Series) · as Willie Lambert
    2015
    Sneaky Pete (TV Series) · as Porter
    2014
    Top Five · as Carl Allen
    2014
    2013
    Khumba · as Mkhulu (voice)
    2011
    Mama I Want to Sing · as Horace Payne
    2010
    Hot in Cleveland (TV Series) · as Mayor Deacon
    2010
    Love That Girl! (TV Series) · as Judge
    2009
    21 and a Wake-Up · as General Garner
    2009
    Tapioca · as Nuts
    2008
    2008
    2007
    And Then Came Love · as Chuck Cooper
    2007
    2006
    Idlewild · as Percy Senior
    2006
    Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TV Series) · as Clarence Sanderson
    2006
    The Wonder Pets! (TV Series) · as Blue Eyes
    2005
    How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) · as Sam Gibbs
    2005
    Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) · as Archie Roche
    2003
    NCIS (TV Series) · as Lamar Addison
    2002
    Fosse · as Performer
    2001
    The Feast of All Saints · as Rudolphe Lermontant
    2001
    Soldiers of Change · as Whistlin' Willie Weston
    2001
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) · as Jeremiah Morris
    1999
    I'll Take You There · as Mr. Gwin
    1999
    1998
    Why Do Fools Fall in Love · as Richard Barrett
    1997
    Special Ops Force (TV Series) · as Senator Stanford Parks
    1997
    Oz (TV Series) · as A.r. Whitworth
    1996
    Promised Land (TV Series)
    1996
    1996
    1996
    Second Noah (TV Series)
    1995
    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV Series) · as Snake (voice)
    1994
    Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · as Ulysses Dodd
    1994
    New York Undercover (TV Series) · as Louie
    1993
    1993
    Once Upon a Forest · as Phineas (voice)
    1992
    Intruders (1992) (TV Series) · as Gene Randall
    1991
    Silk Stalkings (TV Series) · as Ben Hutchinson
    1990
    1990
    The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series) · as Lou Smith
    1990
    Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme · as Itsy-Bitsy Spider
    1989
    Booker (TV Series)
    1989
    Bordertown (TV Series) · as Issac West
    1988
    Buy & Cell · as Shaka
    1987
    Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) · as Dr. Edward La Forge
    1987
    J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) · as E.l. "tenspeed" Turner
    1987
    CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) · as Pianist In Bar
    1987
    Tenspeed and Brown Shoe · as E. L. 'tenspeed' Turner
    1986
    Zoobilee Zoo (TV Series) · as Mayor Ben
    1985
    Lost in London · as Paul Williams
    1985
    American Masters (TV Series) · as Dancer
    1985
    The Zoo Gang · as The Winch
    1985
    A.D. - Anno Domini (TV Series) · as Ethiopian
    1984
    Ellis Island (TV Series) · as Roscoe Haines
    1984
    1984
    1983
    Webster (TV Series)
    1982
    Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series) · as Puss In Boots
    1982
    1980
    1979
    All That Jazz · as O'connor Flood
    1977
    The Love Boat (TV Series) · as John Hanson
    1977
    Roots (TV Series) · as Chicken George Moore
    1976
    1975
    Funny Lady · as Bert Robbins
    1970
    1969
    Sweet Charity · as Dancer
    The Midas Touch · as Midas D'angelo (2022)

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