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Contents 1 Biography 2 Roles 2.1 Starring Roles 2.2 Guest Starring Roles 2.3 Specials and Made-for-TV Movies 2.4 Talk, News and Game Show Appearances 2.5 Notable Film Roles 3 Director 4 Memorable Moments 5 Awards and Accolades 6 Trivia

[edit] Biography

[edit] Roles

[edit] Starring Roles

Series	Role	Year(s)	Season(s)
Reading Rainbow	Host	1983–Present
Star Trek: The Next Generation	Geordi La Forge	1987–1994	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

[edit] Guest Starring Roles

[edit] Specials and Made-for-TV Movies

Title	Role	Airdate	Series/Banner
Almo's a Man	Dave	1976
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid	Billy Peoples	1977
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story	Ron LeFlore	September 26, 1978
Battered	Andrew Sinclair	Septemeber 26, 1978
Dummy	Donald Lang	May 27, 1979
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones	Richard Jefferson	April 15, 1980
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

[edit] Talk, News and Game Show Appearances

[edit] Notable Film Roles

[edit] Director

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Awards and Accolades

[edit] Trivia