Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as television's first black superhero in M.A.N.T.I.S., Dick Hallorann in Doctor Sleep, NYPD detective Marcus Petrie on the CBS police drama Cagney & Lacey, CIA agent Marcus Dixon on the ABC espionage drama series Alias, and as the voice of J'onn J'onnz / Martian Manhunter in the animated series Justice League, Static Shock, and Justice League Unlimited, all part of the DC Animated Universe. As a reference to his voice work as J'onn, Lumbly portrayed J'onn J'onnz's father, M'yrnn, on The CW's Arrowverse on Supergirl from 2017 until 2019. He also plays Isaiah Bradley, the first Black super-soldier, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and the film Captain America: Brave New World (2025). He was married to Vonetta McGee from 1987 until her death in 2010.

Filmography

• 2027The Exorcist: Martyrs
• 2026LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian — Greef Karga (voice)
• 2025Captain America: Brave New World — Isaiah Bradley
• 2025The Life of Chuck — Sam Yarbrough
• Obliterated — James Langdon
• The Fall of the House of Usher — C. Auguste Dupin
• 2022I'm Charlie Walker — Willie
• 2021Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special — Isaiah Bradley (archive footage)
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Isaiah Bradley
• 2019Doctor Sleep — Dick Halloran
• 2019Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool — Miles Davis (voice)
• Altered Carbon — Lukas Imani
• God Friended Me — Alphonse
• The Chi — Walter Dion Burkes
• 2017A Cure for Wellness — Mr. Wilson
• S.W.A.T. — Saint
• Bunnicula — Lead Prison Guard / Vampire Bat (voice)
• 2016Love Twice — Rodrigo
• This Is Us — Abe Clarke
• 2015Justice League: Gods and Monsters — Silas Stone (voice)
• 2015Quitters — Dr. Weiss
• Supergirl — Myr'nn J'onzz
• The Returned — Pastor Leon Wright
• UnREAL — Dr. Henry Carter
• Zoo — Delavenne
• 2012Justice League: Doom — Martian Manhunter (voice)
• 2010Black Panther — Uncle S'Yan
• Black Panther — Uncle S'Yan (voice)
• 2010Nominated — Ray Cowan
• Young Justice — M'aatt M'orzz (voice)
• NCIS: Los Angeles — Charles Langston
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold — Tornado Champion / Tornado Tyrant (voice)
• 2008The Alphabet Killer — Dr. Ellis Parks
• Chuck — Ty Bennett
• 2007Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation — Samuel Nujoma
• Grey's Anatomy — Kurt Walling
• Battlestar Galactica — Lt. Danny 'Bulldog' Novacek
• Justice League Unlimited — J'onn J'onzz (voice)
• 2004Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie — J'onn J'onzz (voice)
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• Cold Case — Cordell Baker (2008)
• 2003Justice League: Paradise Lost — J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice)
• NCIS — Beau Hindley
• 2003Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property — Nat Turner - Gray
• 2003Sounder — The Father
• 2003Warming by the Devil's Fire — Narrator
• 2002Just a Dream — J.M. Hoagland
• Alias — Marcus Dixon
• Justice League — J'onn J'onzz (voice)
• 2001Justice League: Secret Origins — J'onn J'onzz (voice)
• Kate Brasher — Jackson Turner
• Night Visions — Dan (segment "A View Through the Window")
• 2000Little Richard — Bud Penniman
• 2000Men of Honor — Mac Brashear
• Static Shock — Martian Manhunter (voice), Anansi (voice)
• 2000The Color of Friendship — Ron Dellums
• Batman Beyond — Stalker / Officer Williams (voice), Stalker (voice)
• 1999Border Line — Detective Mollo
• Family Guy — Loan Officer (voice)
• Family Law — Tom Calloway
• The West Wing — Jeff Breckenridge
• Any Day Now
• 1998Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero — Additional Voices (voice)
• 1998How Stella Got Her Groove Back — Judge Spencer Boyle
• 1998The Wedding — Lute McNeil
• The Wild Thornberrys — Tumbulu (voice), Red Colobus Monkey (voice)
• 1997Buffalo Soldiers — John Horse
• EP Daily
• 1997The Ditchdigger's Daughters — Donald Thornton
• 1996America's Dream — Cal (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
• EZ Streets
• 1996Nightjohn — Nightjohn
• Superman: The Animated Series — Alterus (voice), Mayor (voice)
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest — Colonel William Marcus (voice)
• 1994Cagney & Lacey: The Return — Marcus Petrie
• Chicago Hope — Michael Johnson
• ER — Graham Baker
• 1994M.A.N.T.I.S. — Dr. Miles Hawkins
• M.A.N.T.I.S. — Dr. Miles Hawkins
• 1994On Promised Land — Floyd Ween
• 1994Out of Darkness — Addison
• Touched by an Angel — Willis Thompson
• The X-Files — Marcus Duff
• TriBeCa
• seaQuest DSV — Lamm
• 1992Back to the Streets of San Francisco — Charlie Walker
• Going to Extremes — Dr. Michael Norris
• 1992South Central — Ali
• 1991Brother Future — Denmark Vessy
• 1991Eyes of a Witness — Mambulu
• 1990Moe's World
• 1990Pacific Heights — Lieutenant Lou Baker
• 1990To Sleep with Anger — Junior
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1988Everybody's All-American — Narvel Blue
• 1988Judgment in Berlin — Edwin Palmer
• 1987Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 — Bobby Seale
• 1987The Bedroom Window — Quirke
• L.A. Law — Earl Williams
• 1985The Gospel at Colonus — Theseus
• 1984The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension — John Parker
• Cagney & Lacey — Mark Petrie
• 1981Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot — Mark Petrie
• 1981Caveman — Bork
• 1981Lifepod — Keshah
• B. J. and the Bear — Telephone Rep.
• 1979Escape from Alcatraz — Inmate
• 1979Undercover with the KKK — Rev. Lowell
• Taxi — Customer #2
• The Jeffersons
• Great Performances — Theseus

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2020Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook — Self
• 1991The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry — Self