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Bios:
Carl Lumbly
Biography:
The son of Jamaican immigrants, Carl Lumbly started his career in
Minnesota as a journalist, working for the 3M company in public
relations, writing freelance and penning for the Associated Press.
While on an assignment for a story on Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop
Theatre, fate was on Lumbly's side and he ended up being cast in
one of the productions. He stayed there for two years doing improvisational
comedy.
Lumbly then moved to San Francisco, where he met and worked with
actor Danny Glover in a production of "Sizwe Bansi is Dead," by
Athol Fugard. The production brought the two actors to Los Angeles
on a Cal Arts Council Tour, where they ended up doing "The Island,"
another Fugard play, at the Matrix Theatre.
An acclaimed veteran of the stage, Lumbly has been working steadily
ever since, appearing in such films as "Escape from Alcatraz," "Caveman,"
"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension," "Judgement
in Berlin," "The Bedroom Window," "Everybody's All American," "To
Sleep with Anger," "Pacific Heights," "South Central," "How Stella
Got Her Groove Back" and "Men of Honor." He also starred in the
film "Just a Dream" which was directed by his friend, Danny Glover,
for Showtime.
On television Lumbly starred in the series Cagney
& Lacey, Going
to Extremes and M.A.N.T.I.S.
He also had recurring roles on ER
and EZ Streets,
and guest starred on The
X-Files, The
West Wing, Family
Law and Kate
Brasher.
His numerous made-for-television movies and miniseries include "The
Chicago Conspiracy Trial," "Tribeca: The Box," "Out of Darkness,"
"Cagney & Lacey: The Return," "America's Dream Reunion," "The Ditchdigger's
Daughter," "Buffalo Soldiers" -- for which he earned a NAACP Image
Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor -- "Oprah Winfrey Presents
The Wedding," "The Color of Friendship" and "Built for Speed: The
Little Richard Story." He received Ace Award nominations for his
work in "Nightjohn" and "On Promised Land," both for the Disney
Channel.
Lumbly is married and has one son. In his spare time he enjoys gardening,
writing and playing with his two dogs.
Television
Credits:
Alias as Dixon
Night Visions
as Danny Holma in episode: "View Through the Window, A" (original
airdate: 07/19/2001)
Kate Brasher
as Jackson Turner in episode: "Jackson" (original aridate: 3/24/2001)
Family Law as
Calloway in episode: "Affairs of the State" (original airdate: 10/16/2000)
The Magnificent
Seven as Obediah Jackson in episode: "Trial, The" (original
airdatwe: 05/10/2000)
The West Wing
as Jeff Breckenridge" in episode: "Six Meetings Before Lunch" (original
airdate: 04/5/2000)
ER as Dr. Graham Baker
(1999)
Any Day Now
as Nathan (1998)
EZ Streets
as Mayor Christian Davidson (1996)
The X Files
as Marcus Duff" in episode: "Teliko" (original airdate: 10/18/1996)
Touched by
an Angel as Willis Thompson in episode: "Sins of the Father"
(original airdate: 09/29/1996)
Chicago Hope
as Michael Johnson in episode: "Life Lines" (original airdate: 02/26/1996)
The
American Experience as Frederick Douglass in episode: "Massachusetts
54th Colored Infantry" (original airdate:10/1991)
M.A.N.T.I.S. as
Dr. Miles Hawkins (1994)
Going To Extremes
as Dr. Norris (1992)
L.A. Law as Earl
Williams (1989/1990)
Cagney And
Lacey as Detective Mark Petrie
The Jeffersons
as Jim in episode: "And the Doorknobs Shied like Diamonds" (original
airdate: 02/01/1981)
Taxi as Customer
in episode: "Fantasy Borough: Part 1" (original airdate: 05/06/1980)
Emergency! as
Third paramedic in episode: "What's A Nice Girl Like You Doing...?"
(original airdate: 06/26/1978)
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