Carl Gilliard

Carl Gilliard

Birth : 1958-04-18, Chicago, Illinois, USA

History

Carl is a native of Chicago, attended high school in Detroit (Osborn High) and received his degree from Michigan State University. Carl initially worked as a radio newscaster at WGPR (107.5) in Detroit before accepting a sales position with the Eastman Kodak Company in Detroit. Shortly thereafter, he accepted a position with the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group as a District Manager which took him first to Grand Rapids, and then to Kalamazoo Michigan, where Carl was re-introduced to theatre at the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre. In 1985, Carl re-located to Los Angeles, where he became a notable fixture on the LA Theatre circuit. As an actor, Carl has appeared in over 2 dozen plays mesmerizing audiences with his trademark baritone voice and fearless character portrayals. He has appeared in "The River Niger", "Livin' Fat", "Bubblin' Brown Sugar", "Zooman & The Sign", "South Of Where We Live", "Jeffrey's Plan" & "The Ninth Wave". His theatre work paved the way for his numerous television & film roles in sitcoms such as "Freddie", "Barbershop", "Family Matters", "Martin", "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air & "Roc as well as other appearances in "24", Michael Mann's, "Robbery Homicide Division", "Alias", "Cold Case", "Sleeper Cell", "Strong Medicine", "Hunter", "Mike Hammer", "Sherman Oaks" and features such as "Nothin' 2 Lose", "Chatroom", "Contact", "The Luau" , "Coach Carter", the Wes Craven's thriller, "Red Eye" , the upcoming prison drama, "The Mannsfield 12", directed by Craig Ross, Jr. & the romantic comedy, "Divine Intervention", directed by Van Elder. Carl has also appeared in numerous television commercials for IBM, GM, Burger King, Pepto Bismol, Bank One, Habitat For Humanity, Nicoderm, Saturn, Miller Beer & the hilarious "dropped call" campaign for Cingular. Through Carl's various experiences in film, television & theatre, he quickly forged his niche as a Producer with keen discernment for developing and discovering new screenplays by new and exciting writers. In collaboration with partner, Tony Winters, he produced the Pan African Audience Award winning feature "Retiring Tatiana". Carl's first outing as director is the poignant drama, "Section 8". Carl is the Ministry Director of the Faithful Central Bible Church Repertory Company, the drama team at Faithful Central Bible Church and also is Co-Creator and Program Director for the Bill Duke Media Foundation's Youth Media Camp. IMDb Mini Biography By: I-94 Entertainment

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Carl Gilliard

Movies

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Consulting Producer
Follows the successful career of Jackson as well as her unique friendship and devotion to Martin Luther King Jr. and her unsung contribution to the Civil Rights Movement.
Adolescents of Chymera
Adolescents of Chymera
Daryl
Based on actual events about the harsh realities of teenagers living life in a group home (where over 100,000 American juveniles live each year). The story: Roy, a new kid and artist from the suburbs is tested by Daryl, the group home leader and his military style rules, a forbidden romance with Laura, his streetwise and reactionary roommate, and his own troubled past as he tries to survive until 'graduation day'. In the end, only his art can save his dreams of love, hope and freedom.
Nineteen Summers
Nineteen Summers
Jefferson
Born in the generational Los Angeles street culture a 19-year-old father seeks a better life in the midst of a turf war.
Deadcon
Deadcon
Warren
The horrors and isolation of being a social media influencer run rampant when a collection of YouTube and Instagram stars soon discover there are things scarier than thousands of teenagers armed with phones asking for selfies.
#Truth
#Truth
Pastor Johnson
After his cousin commits suicide, Stewart Cooper begins to unravel a web of shaming, lies, and secrets. Driven by his own emotional turmoil, he turns the tables on his cousin's ex and the man she had an affair with -- her church pastor.
Reverse Heaven
Reverse Heaven
Priest
In 1990s Los Angeles, danger lurks around the corner after a freak accident leaves an undercover cop with supernatural abilities while also unleashing a horror that he must destroy before it destroys everything.
All Between Us
All Between Us
Mr. Tillman
Clara and Ray are newly engaged. As they gather family and friends together for a dinner party to make an announcement, what begins as a celebratory evening turns into disaster as secrets and skeletons surface. One night, one mistake, one dinner changes the lives of four people.
The Preacher's Son
The Preacher's Son
Deacon Whitmore
When the romantic secrets of his family members become public, the career and community standing of a respected bishop are threatened.
Layover
Layover
Ralph
When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her dingy motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers, her downtrodden assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
Super Cyclone
Super Cyclone
Mr. Stubbs
When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
Inception
Inception
Lobby Sub Con
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Peaches
Peaches
Co-Producer
Wendy Raquel Robinson and Dorien Wilson star in this sexy comedy about a married family man whose obsession with a seductive beauty threatens to undue everything he's worked towards for the last twenty years. Ronald Sams (Wilson) has lusted after the flirtatious sexpot they call Peaches (Robinson) for a good two decades. After a chance meeting with the object of his lusty affections, the once-devoted family man becomes singularly fixated on making his deepest fantasies a reality. But what Ronald doesn't realize that despite her saccharine name and seductive smile, this stunner isn't so sweet on the inside - in fact, she's downright dangerous. Increasingly isolated from his friends and family as a result of his longtime hang-up, Ronald must now scramble to make things right with those he loves before jealousy and hurt feelings lead to long-term resentment.
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
Deacon Grier
Reverend Robert Gibbs is a young, hip pastor who temporarily takes over the helm of a Fundamentalist Baptist church while his predecessor Reverend Matthews recovers from a stroke. While trying to impress Reverend Matthews, Gibbs has to win the approval of his congregation, the Deacon board, and most importantly Reverend Matthews? daughter Divine, who has recently lost her faith in God.
Red Eye
Red Eye
Taxi Driver
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.
Fair Game
Fair Game
Caller #2 (Voice)
When two co-workers who can't see eye to eye in the office are unexpectedly forced to share a living space, their initial distain soon transforms into attraction in this lighthearted look at the romantic games people play from filmmaker Michael Whaley. Michael (Whaley) and Stacey (Torres) can barely get along at the office, much less tolerate each other as roommates - but when Michael and Stacey are forced to move in together, the snooping landlords and gossiping co-workers soon take a backseat to the undeniable affection that they begin feeling for one and other.
The Chatroom
The Chatroom
Detective Jeeves
In Los Angeles, a young man starts online dating with his two friends and finds out that what's on the screen isn't exactly what meets the eye.
The Luau
The Luau
Robin
Having just lost his job at a soul food take-out joint, Cedric (Brian Hooks) gets the bad news that a local female crime kingpin has picked the wrong time to call in a large IOU he racked up some time back. Needing a fast buck, Cedric and some friends decide to stage a Hawaiian luau, and charge people for the privilege of enjoying the feast. However, what was to be a small, exclusive party becomes a massive neighborhood blowout, and everyone who is owed money by Cedric (a sizable list in itself) shows up expecting free food and entertainment.
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Paramedic #1
In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series, a psychotic killer dressed as Santa escapes Christmas Eve and terrorizes a middle-class home where murder has already made a holiday appearance: a homicidal wife plunges a fireplace poker into her husband's skull. (It was also adapted in the 1972 British anthology movie Tales from the Crypt). Kirk Douglas stars as a blood-and-thunder World War I general who discovers his son is a coward in the grim "Yellow," the most dramatically acute of the trio. Digital magic morphs Humphrey Bogart into "You, Murderer," a high-concept, rather gimmicky tale of murder, double crosses, and poetic justice as seen through a dead man's eyes. Isabella Rossellini (daughter of Bogie's Casablanca costar Ingrid Bergman) and John Lithgow costar as plotting lovers.
And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story
And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story
Bumps Blackwell
Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny (Jay Underwood) and Cher (Renee Faia) during the early 60's to their divorce in the late 70's.
The Darwin Conspiracy
The Darwin Conspiracy
Second Baseman
The frozen body of a prehistoric, but super-advanced, human leads scientists to start covert DNA experiments for the development of a new race of super beings.
Q: The Movie
Q: The Movie
Robin
A young man throwing the cookout to end all cookouts finds his party is skidding off the rails.
Contact
Contact
Controller
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Sins of the Mind
Sins of the Mind
Dylan Seidner
A young woman returning from a renaissance fair survives a car accident, but much to her family's horror, the accident damages her brain and she develops blatantly promiscuous and childlike behavior.