Isiah Whitlock Jr.
出生 : 1954-09-13, South Bend, Indiana, USA
略歴
Isiah Whitlock Jr. (born September 13, 1954) is an American actor. He is most famous for his role on the HBO television series, The Wire as corrupt state senator Clay Davis. In 2011, Whitlock played an insurance agent named Ronald Wilkes in the film Cedar Rapids. Wilkes is a self-described fan of The Wire and does an impersonation of character Omar Little. Whitlock has said that the references to the series were written in before he became involved in Cedar Rapids.
He is also notable for appearing in Spike Lee films She Hate Me and 25th Hour as Agent Amos Flood. In all three projects, Whitlock established a catchphrase from his characters' distinct pronunciation of the word "shit" ("sheee-it").
He appeared as Eugine, a supporting role, in the 2003 film Pieces of April. He had a bit part in Goodfellas as a doctor who gives Henry Hill a Valium while attending to his brother. In 2007, he played Ethan Banks in Enchanted.
Whitlock has made appearances on Chappelle's Show and has played various characters on Law & Order and its' spinoff, Law & Order: SVU. He also appears in promotional spots for the Wii video game Punch-Out!! portraying the character Doc Louis.
Bob
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Commander Burnside (voice)
仲間思いのおもちゃ“バズ・ライトイヤー”が、親友アリーシャの孫イジーと仲間たち、友だちロボット・ソックスとの出会いで変わった躍動の人生を描く。ディズニー＆ピクサーが贈る『トイ・ストーリー』シリーズの世界が広がるスペース・アドベンチャー。
Ohio
A US Senator faces her greatest challenge when a home invasion takes a shocking turn.
Judge Lomax
顧客を多く抱え、信頼も厚い法定後見人のマーラは、実は高齢者から資産を搾り取る悪徳後見人。パートナーのフランと順風満帆に行くかと思えたが、資産家の老女をめぐり、次々と不穏な出来事が発生して……。ロザムンド・パイク主演のクライムサスペンス。
Michael
A little story about making it big, natural disasters, and being a dad.
Melvin
ベトナム戦争からほぼ半世紀。ともに戦った4人の黒人退役軍人が、隊長の亡骸と埋められた金塊を探し出すために戦場へと舞い戻る。スパイク・リー監督作品。
Lester
A love story told in letters that are exchanged by an anonymous public artist and an admirer who wants to know the man behind the murals.
Russ McAllen
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
Lester
Oscar, a young boy, commits a noble murder and is forced to runaway from his rural hometown, leaving behind his best friend, Loux. He escapes to the nearest city, where he is inducted into a gang of child street thieves. His innocence slips away as he is introduced to love, murder, and corruption. 15 years later, he has forgotten his past and become the leader of this band of lost children. When Loux moves to the city in search of work, she takes a job with a struggling private investigator. Stumbling upon Oscar's missing child report, she takes it upon herself to find the boy who saved her life.
Derek
Disaster strikes when the egotistical CEO of an edible cutlery company leads her long-suffering staff on a corporate team-building trip in New Mexico. Trapped underground, this mismatched and disgruntled group must pull together to survive.
Lyman
Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.
Scotty
A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend’s son and gets the bright idea to take bets on his youth league baseball games; only to realize he’s killed what’s pure about the sport as the games turn ugly when money is on the line.
Detective Gene Dentler
1980年代初頭からアメリカ各地で多発した銀行強盗事件の犯人であるフォレスト・タッカーは、15歳で初めて投獄されて以来、逮捕、脱獄を繰り返していた。彼は発砲もしなければ暴力も振るわないという風変わりなスタイルを貫き、粗暴な強盗のイメージとはほど遠い礼儀正しい老人だった。
Mr. Turrentine
差別が色濃く残る時代、コロラドスプリングスで初めての黒人刑事として採用された主人公が、白人至上主義団体「KKK」への潜入捜査を行なう。まさかの実話をスパイク・リー監督が映画化したクライム・サスペンス。
Buster
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
River Scott (voice)
迷い込んだ田舎町ラジエーター・スプリングスで、ドック・ハドソンをはじめとする心優しい仲間との触れ合いを経て、自分勝手だった性格を改めたスポーツカーのライトニング・マックィーン。目覚ましい活躍を見せてきたマックィーンだったが、最新型レーサーが次々と台頭してきて苦戦を強いられる。いつまでも第一線にいたいという焦りに駆られたマックィーンは、ある日レース中にクラッシュ事故に遭遇。運にも世間にも見放され、頭の中に引退という文字がちらつく。
Peterson
ジョン・ベイカーはフリースタイルモトクロスの選手だったが、 怪我のせいで引退することになり、妻にも愛想を尽かされる。ジョンは妻の愛を取り戻すために、警官になることを決意する。しかし、バイクの技術以外、卒業の最低ラインに届かなかった。
Sheriff Gene Dentler
家族旅行中の不慮の事故で両親を失った5歳の少年ピート。森の奥深くに迷い込んだ彼は、緑色の大きなドラゴンに助けられた。それから6年。ピートは人と関わることなく、“エリオット”と呼ぶドラゴンとともに、わくわくする冒険の日々を過ごしていた。だがそんなある日、森を守るため様々な調査を行なっていたグレースとの出会いをきっかけに、伝説でしかなかったはずのエリオットの存在が人間たちに知られてしまう。
Bacchos
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Dr. Connelly
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Yates
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Samuel
The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.
Jack
82 year-old Elena Klein, a retired New York florist, can't stop arranging — only now it's not flowers she's arranging, but people's lives.
Charles
A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon—sex addiction.
Philly
A match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matters most, Nina or Mary Jane.
Dr. Pamuk
木星の第2衛星エウロパの凍結した地表の下に海の存在が確認される。その中には、単細胞生命がいるかもしれないという情報も。そんな中、世界でもトップクラスの6人の宇宙飛行士がエウロパを調査することに。しかし、宇宙船では極めて深刻な故障が生じ、地球との交信も遮断されてしまう。閉塞的かつ危機的な状況下で、宇宙飛行士たちが探索を継続する。
Landers
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Black
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Detective Flood
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.
Officer Thompson
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Mr. Mathias
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Ronald Wilkes
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Mayor
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their quiet town.
Detective Dumont
A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
Investigator #3 (as Isiah Whitlock)
ブルックリンで働く3人の刑事が、人生を犠牲にせざるを得ない状況に疲弊。そして警官による強盗殺人事件をきっかけに、彼らの正義と人生が交錯する……。リチャード・ギア、ドン・チードルらが共演したサスペンス。
Mississippi DJ
1947年、シカゴ。ポーランド系移民の若き野心家レナード・チェスの経営するクラブでは黒人ミュージシャンたちがライブ演奏を行っていた。その中の一人、ギタリストのマディ・ウォーターズは陽気なハーモニカ奏者リトル・ウォルターと組んだ新しいバンド・スタイルで評判を呼んでいた。チェスはさっそくマディにレコーディングの話を持ちかける。やがて彼らの歌声は人種の壁を突き崩し、ついにラジオからも流れ始める。その後も、チャック・ベリーやエタ・ジェイムズら所属アーティストがヒットを飛ばし、その度にチェスは彼らに成功の証としてキャデラックをプレゼントするのだった。
Detective Palmer
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
Himself
A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.
Ethan Banks
魔法の王国《アンダレーシア》のプリンセス、ジゼルは、王子エドワードと運命的に出会って婚約。だが2人の結婚で王位を失うことになるナリッサ女王は実は魔女で、結婚式の日にジゼルをある井戸に突き落としてしまう。ジゼルが着いたのは現実の世界の大都会NY。現実の世界に知り合いがいないジゼルは行くあてもなく困るが、妻と別れた離婚調停専門の弁護士ロバートに偶然救われ、彼とその娘モーガンの自宅に居候することになる。
Hotel Engineer
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Mr. Lebreaux
An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.
Freddie
A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.
William
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Amos Flood
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Mr. Stubbs
Jersey City teen Ray Ray Morales is wasting time in a low paying job until a local loan shark offers him a job — making sure that Ray Ray's friend, an immigrant pawnbroker makes his weekly payments.
Eugene
家出して以来初めて家族を夕食に招待したエイプリル。感謝祭の七面鳥を焼こうとするが、実は彼女は料理をしたことがなかった……。巧みな人物造形で描く感動作。
Agent Flood
新人作家デイヴィッド・ベニオフの感動ミステリーを「ドゥ・ザ・ライト・シング」のスパイク・リー監督が映像化したヒューマン・サスペンス。ベニオフ自ら脚本を担当。25時間後に懲役７年の刑で収監されることが決まっているひとりの男が、後悔と絶望感を抱え過ごす24時間の心の旅を情感を込め繊細に綴る。主演は「アメリカン・ヒストリーＸ」「ファイト・クラブ」のエドワード・ノートン。
ニューヨーク。かつて瀕死の状態から助けた犬と共に公園のベンチに佇む男モンティ・ブローガン。ドラッグ・ディーラーだった彼は、何者かの密告で麻薬捜査局に逮捕され、保釈中の身だった。そして、25時間後には７年の服役のために収監される。その中で彼のような“イイ男”が受ける仕打ちは火を見るより明らかだった。彼は、馴染みの店で最後の夜を明かそうと２人の親友、高校教師のジェイコブと株式ブローカーのフランクに声を掛ける。また、アパートでは恋人ナチュレルが待っていたが、モンティは彼女が密告者ではないかと疑っていた。やりきれない思いを抱えたまま、モンティのシャバでの最後の夜が始まろうとしていた。
Manny
An aspiring opera singer from Harlem teams up with a charismatic busker and a kindhearted hustler to share his voice with the world, and teaches his two newfound friends the importance of taking your destiny into your own hands. Anton (Gabriel Casseus) lives in Harlem with his aunt. He dreams of moving to Italy and becoming a famous opera singer, and though he's been blessed with a magnificent singing voice, his passion has made him an outsider in his neighborhood. Running away from home, Anton meets passionate street pianist Matthew (Christian Carmago) and together the two begin drawing large, appreciate crowds on the street. Working the crowd as they do their thing is Wes (Damon Wayans), whose natural charm always gets the cash flowing. And while life on the streets is never easy, Anton, Matthew, and Wes soon discover that by following their dreams, they may find a means of transforming their lives forever.
Rudy
A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.
Trooper
An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.
Cop
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Rick
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
Doctor
ヘンリー・ヒル、1943年ブルックリン生まれ。大物ギャング、ポーリーのアジトで育った彼は、物心ついた頃からマフィアに憧れていた。やがて念願の"グッドフェローズ"の仲間となり、"強奪"専門のジミー、野心旺盛なチンピラ、トミーと共に犯罪に犯罪を重ねていく。が、麻薬に手を出したことから育ての親、ポーリーに見放され、さらにジミーたちが起こした600万ドル強奪事件を追うCIAの捜査の手もヘンリーに迫る。
Fireman
前作の主人公ビリーと恋人ケイトは二人そろってニューヨークで新生活を送っていた。大富豪クランプの所有するクランプ・センターがその働き口だったが、ビリーはそこで、チャイナタウン再開発のために発見されたモグワイと再会する。しかしまたしても偶然と失敗が折り重なってモグワイの体からグレムリンが発生、しかも今度はセンターの研究所で開発中のバイオ・テクノロジーと融合、新種のグレムリンが大量発生してしまうのだ。
Second Charitable Gentleman / Party Guest
Televised stage performance based on Charles Dickens' novella.
