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Contents 1 Roles 1.1 Starring Roles 1.2 Guest Starring Roles 1.3 Specials and Made-for-TV Movies 1.4 Talk, News and Game Show Appearances 2 Director 2.1 Episodes Directed 2.2 Made-for-TV Movies Directed 3 Awards and Accolades 3.1 Daytime Emmy Awards

Roles

Starring Roles

Series	Role	Year(s)	Season(s)
Roots	Kunta Kinte	1977	miniseries
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones	Richard Jefferson	1980	miniseries
Reading Rainbow	Host	1983–2006
Star Trek: The Next Generation	Geordi La Forge	1987–1994	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Guest Starring Roles

Series	Role	Episode	Airdate
Trapper John, M.D.	Luther Peacock	3x22 - A Piece of the Action	April 11, 1982
Fantasy Island (1978)	Edward Ross, Jr.	6x19 - Edward / The Extraordinary Miss Jones	April 9, 1983
The Love Boat	Darnell Hall	7x22 - Love Is Blind / Baby Makers / Lady & The Maid	March 3, 1984
Murder, She Wrote	Dave Robinson	3x16 - Death Takes a Dive	February 22, 1987
Batman: The Animated Series	Hayden Sloane (voice)	2x04 - The Worry Men	September 16, 1993
Gargoyles	Anansi (voice)	2x34 - Mark of the Panther	February 8, 1996
Star Trek: Voyager	Captain Geordi LaForge	5x06 - Timeless	November 18, 1998
Becker	Mr. Haller	3x07 - Beckerethics	November 20, 2000
Boomtown	Marvin Lloyd	2x05 - The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang	December 27, 2003
Family Guy	Himself	4x06 - Petarded	June 19, 2005

Specials and Made-for-TV Movies

Title	Role	Airdate	Series/Banner
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid	Billy Peoples	September 12, 1977	NBC Monday Night at the Movies
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story	Ron LeFlore	September 26, 1978	CBS Tuesday Night at the Movies
Battered	Andrew Sinclair	Septemeber 26, 1978
Dummy	Donald Lang	May 27, 1979
The Acorn People	Rodney	March 2, 1982
Grambling's White Tiger	Charles "Tank" Smith	October 4, 1981
Emergency Room	Ray Walden	July 17, 1983
The Jesse Owens Story	Professor Preston	July 9, 1984
Booker (TV movie)	Davis	October 1, 1984
And the Children Shall Lead	Glenn Scott	1985
The Midnight Hour	Vinnie Davis	November 1, 1985
Liberty	Robert Johnson	June 23, 1986
A Special Friendship	Ben Sumner	March 31, 1987
Roots: The Gift	Kunta Kinte	December 11, 1988
Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland	Fire Chief J. Allan Mather	February 7, 1993
Parallel Lives	Dr. Franklin Carter	August 14, 1994
Yesterday's Target	Winstrom	March 20, 1997

Talk, News and Game Show Appearances

Series	Episode	Airdate
The $25,000 Pyramid		October 4-8, 1982
The $25,000 Pyramid		February 7-11, 1983
The $25,000 Pyramid		May 9-13, 1983
The $25,000 Pyramid		August 22-26, 1983
The $25,000 Pyramid		January 9-13, 1984
The $25,000 Pyramid		August 13-17, 1984
The $25,000 Pyramid		February 25-March 1, 1985
The $25,000 Pyramid		July 29-August 2, 1985
The $25,000 Pyramid		October 7-11, 1985
The $25,000 Pyramid		November 25-29, 1985
The $25,000 Pyramid		February 10-14, 1986
The $25,000 Pyramid		May 19-23, 1986
The $25,000 Pyramid		July 14-18, 1986
The $25,000 Pyramid		September 29-October 3, 1986
The $25,000 Pyramid		November 3-7, 1986

Director

Episodes Directed

Series	Episode	Airdate
Star Trek: The Next Generation	6x24 - Second Chances	May 22, 1993
Star Trek: The Next Generation	7x12 - The Pegasus	January 8, 1994

Made-for-TV Movies Directed

Title	Airdate	Series/Banner
Smart House	June 26, 1999	Disney Channel Original Movie

Awards and Accolades

Daytime Emmy Awards

(2 Wins in 21 Nominations)

• Won: Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series (2001, 2002)

Reading Rainbow