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Erik Dellums
San Francisco, California, USA
Erik Todd Dellums (born September 23, 1964) is an American actor and narrator. On television, he is known for playing the drug kingpin Luther Mahoney on Homicide: Life on the Stre…
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Erik Todd Dellums (born September 23, 1964) is an American actor and narrator. On television, he is known for playing the drug kingpin Luther Mahoney on Homicide: Life on the Street (1996 - 1998) and Dr. Randall Frazier on The Wire (2002 - 2004). He voiced Koh in Avatar: The Last Aribender (2005) and Aaravos in The Dragon Prince (2018 - 2024). Dellums also has performed voice work in video games, including the roles of radio DJ Three Dog in the Fallout 3 (2008), Nazir in Skyrim (2011), and Prince Arcann, Thexan, and Oggo in Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015). Dellums appeared in minor parts in the Spike Lee films She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), and Do the Right Thing (1989). He is the son of Ron Dellums, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 - 1998 and as the Mayor of Oakland from 2007 - 2011.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2021
The Spoiled
Movie Astaroth
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2018
The Dragon Prince
TV show Aaravos (voice)
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2013
The Storyteller: Fallout
TV show Three Dog
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2012
NASA's Unexplained Files
TV show Narrator
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2011
Homeland
TV show Doctor
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2010
How the Universe Works
TV show Self - Narrator
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2005
Avatar: The Last Airbender
TV show Koh (voice)
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2005
Jonny Zero
TV show Antoine Negasi
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2004
Camp D.O.A.
Movie Watcher
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2002
The Wire
TV show Dr. Randall Frazier
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2001
Boycott
Movie Bayard Rustin
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2000
Blackmale
Movie Victor
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2000
The Beat
TV show
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2000
The Color of Friendship
Movie Oliver
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1998
Doctor Dolittle
Movie Jeremy
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1995
JAG
TV show Charlie Lynch
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1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV show Luther Mahoney
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1991
The Doors
Movie Hairdresser
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1989
Do the Right Thing
Movie Customer in Pizzeria (uncredited)
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1988
School Daze
Movie Slim Daddy
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1986
She's Gotta Have It
Movie Dog 3
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1986
Good to Go
Movie Bam-Bam
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Mysterious Journeys
TV show Narrator
