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.

Filmography

• 2026Higher Love
• 2026Radio Sky — Joseph Finley, Producer
• 2026Relationship Goals — Papa Jim
• 2026Send Help — Franklin
• Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord — Master Eeko-Dio Daki (voice)
• 2026Time of Death — Officer Aarons
• 2025Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed — Narrator
• 2025Hope of the Season: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir — Featuring
• 2025Lost & Found in Cleveland — Marty Anderson
• Holidazed — Robert Lewin
• 2024In Fidelity — Hoyt Johnston
• 2024Summer Camp — Tommy
• Digman! — Vernon (voice)
• 2023Flamin' Hot — Clarence C. Baker
• Paul T. Goldman — Agent Portman
• 2023Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team — Gabriel Stone
• 2022Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers — Zipper (voice)
• 2022No Exit — Ed
• 2022Sniper: Rogue Mission — Gabriel Stone
• Masters of the Universe: Revelation — Grayskull (voice)
• Home Movie: The Princess Bride — Prince Humperdinck
• 2019Breakthrough — Dr. Garrett
• 2019Playing with Fire — Commander Richards
• 2019Secret Obsession — Detective Frank Page
• 2018Christmas Everlasting — Uncle Barney
• Reverie — Charlie Ventana
• 2017Fist Fight — Superintendent Johnson
• 2017Kodachrome — Larry
• 2017Naked — Reginald Swope
• 2017The Dark Tower — Steven Deschain
• 2016Dead Rising: Endgame — General Alan Lyons
• Incorporated — Julian Morse
• 2016Jarhead 3: The Siege — Major Lincoln
• Lucifer — God
• 2016Sniper: Ghost Shooter — Colonel
• Undercover — Rudy Jones, Rudy Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2015Baby, Baby, Baby — Doctor Hankin
• Backstrom — Det. Sgt. Almond
• 2015Dead Rising: Watchtower — General Alan Lyons
• 2015Experimenter — Ossie Davis
• 2015Ted 2 — Fertility Doctor
• The Grinder — Special Agent
• 2014Dear White People — Dean Fairbanks
• 2014How Murray Saved Christmas — Narrator (voice)
• 2014Men, Women & Children — Secretluvur
• 2014Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Judge (voice)
• 2014Sin City: A Dame to Kill For — Manute
• 2014Sniper: Legacy — The Colonel
• The Real
• 2014Think Like a Man Too — Uncle Eddie
• 2013Battledogs — Lt. General Christopher Monning
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Bob Annderson
• 2013Heartburn — Matthew Boa
• 2013Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection — Ox (voice)
• 2013LUV — Mr. Fish
• 2013Life of a King — Searcy
• 2013Out of the Blue — Control
• 2013The World According to Dick Cheney — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Welcome to the Jungle — Mr. Palmer
• 2012The Details — Lincoln
• 2012Wreck-It Ralph — General Hologram (voice)
• 2011Field of Dreams 2: Lockout — Mann
• 2011Kung Fu Panda 2 — Master Ox (voice)
• 2011Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters — Ox (voice)
• 2007Breach — Dean Plesac
• 2007Goodbye Bafana — Nelson Mandela
• The Unit — Jonas Blane, Director, Producer
• Empire
• 2005Jarhead — Major Lincoln
• The Boondocks — Sturdy Harris (voice)
• 2003Far from Heaven: "Making of"
• 2003Sinbad and the Cyclops Island — Kale
• 2003Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas — Kale (voice)
• 2002Far from Heaven — Raymond Deagan
• 2002Ticker — FBI Agent
• 24 — David Palmer
• Justice League — Kilowog (voice)
• The Hire — FBI Agent
• 2000Love & Basketball — Zeke McCall
• Soul Food — Rick Grant
• Static Shock — Chief Barnsdale (voice)
• 2000What's Cooking? — Ronald Williams
• Now and Again — Dr. Theodore Morris
• 1999Random Hearts — Detective George Beaufort
• 1999The Minus Man — Graves
• 1999The Thirteenth Floor — Det. Larry McBain
• Godzilla: The Series — General Ekwensi (voice)
• 1998How to Make the Cruelest Month — Manhattan Parks
• 1998Major League: Back to the Minors — Pedro Cerrano
• 1998Standoff — Agent Ty 'Bama' Jones
• 1997Absolute Power — Tim Collin
• The New Batman Adventures — Barkley James (voice)
• 1996Amanda — Seven / Sir Jordan
• Superman: The Animated Series — Agent #1 (voice), Doctor #1 (voice)
• 1996The Writing on the Wall — Sullivan
• 1996Widow's Kiss — Eddie Costello
• 1995Heat — Donald Breedan
• The Outer Limits — Joshua Finch
• 1995Waiting to Exhale — Kenneth
• Duckman — Tribal Leader / Cornfed's Singing Voice (voice)
• 1994Major League II — Pedro Cerrano
• Alex Haley's Queen — Davis
• 1993Hallelujah — Rev. Oliver Crawford
• Return to Lonesome Dove — Cherokee Jack Jackson
• 1993Suture — Clay Arlington
• 1992Love Field — Paul Cater
• 1992Mr. Baseball — Max 'Hammer' Dubois
• 1990K-9000 — Nick Sanrio
• 1990Navy Seals — Billy Graham
• 1989Major League — Pedro Cerrano
• Just the Ten of Us
• 227
• 1985A Summer to Remember — Sheriff Pierce
• Growing Pains — Police Officer, Officer Wright, Frank
• Off the Rack — Cletus Maxwell
• Night Court — James Morgan
• 1984The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. — Dr. Beaumont
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King
• The A-Team — Psych Ward Staff
• American Playhouse — Reverend Oliver Crawford
• Code Red — Stuff Wade
• 1981Grambling's White Tiger — James 'Shack' Harris
• The Fall Guy — Jeremy Wolf
• Galactica 1980 — Imperious Leader (voice)
• Magnum, P.I.
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — Security Guard, Lieutenant Parsons, Helmsman
• Knots Landing — Police Officer
• 1979Scoring — Lt. Harrigan
• The Facts of Life
• The White Shadow — Basketball Player
• The Incredible Hulk
• Laverne & Shirley
• Quincy, M.E. — Driver
• American Smuggler — Executive Producer
• Deify
• Don't Ever Wonder
• Home
• Silent Retreat — Josh Alpert
• Suburban Psycho

Appearances as themselves (12)

• Civil War 360 — Self - Host
• 2010When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun — Self
• 2008James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2005The Making of 'Heat' — Self
• 2004Secrets of Pearl Harbor — Self - Host
• The Early Show — Self
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self (uncredited)
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Audience Member