Stephen McKinley Henderson

Stephen McKinley Henderson

Born: August 31, 1949
in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Stephen McKinley Henderson (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Omar York in the television drama, New Amsterdam, which ran for one season in 2008. His notable film roles include portraying Arthur in Everyday People (2004), Lester in Tower Heist (2011), Father Leviatch in Lady Bird (2017), and Thufir Hawat in Dune (2021).

Movies for Stephen McKinley Henderson...

Civil War
Title: Civil War
Character: Sammy
Released: April 10, 2024
Type: Movie
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
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Beau Is Afraid
Title: Beau Is Afraid
Character: Therapist
Released: April 14, 2023
Type: Movie
A man goes on a journey to visit his mother.
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Between Riverside and Crazy
Title: Between Riverside and Crazy
Character: Pops
Released: January 31, 2023
Type: Movie
City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed—and the Church won’t leave him alone. For ex-cop and recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, the struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum in this Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy from Stephen Adly Guirgis.
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Causeway
Title: Causeway
Character: Dr. Lucas
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: Movie
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
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Dune
Title: Dune
Character: Thufir Hawat
Released: September 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
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Bruised
Title: Bruised
Character: Pops
Released: September 12, 2020
Type: Movie
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out
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Title: RUN
Released: April 12, 2020
Type: TV
Ruby is living a humdrum existence when one day she gets a text inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact, promising true love and self-reinvention, by stepping out of her life to take a journey with her oldest flame.
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Title: Devs
Character: Stewart
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: TV
Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.
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Giving Voice
Title: Giving Voice
Character: Himself
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Every year, thousands of high schoolers enter the August Wilson monologue competition for a chance to perform on Broadway. This film follows these students, examining how Wilson and his characters speak to a new generation, inspiring them to listen to his words and find their own voice.
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The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Title: The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Character: Nicholas
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
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Title: Wu-Tang: An American Saga
Character: Uncle Hollis
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: TV
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.
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Native Son
Title: Native Son
Character: Mr. Green
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: Movie
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
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Title: The Resident
Character: Darryl Phillips
Released: January 21, 2018
Type: TV
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
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Lady Bird
Title: Lady Bird
Character: Father Leviatch
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
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Fences
Title: Fences
Character: Jim Bono
Released: December 16, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
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Manchester by the Sea
Title: Manchester by the Sea
Character: Mr. Emery
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: Movie
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
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All at Once
Title: All at Once
Character: Robert
Released: November 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A young up and coming artist in New York city has his life and dreams forever altered when the tragic events of 9/11 take the lives of his two best friends and he accepts guardianship of the couple's two young daughters. Now eleven years later, and teaching art at an elementary school, he raises the girls as if they were his own, but the financial grind to live in NYC is too much, so he decides to take the girls away from the only place they've ever called home and move back to Buffalo where he grew up. This "non-traditional" family now faced with change, new surroundings, and a new journey, must learn how to adjust to this new life, while trying to find themselves along the way.
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The Romans
Title: The Romans
Character: Birdman
Released: May 27, 2016
Type: Movie
A modern day take on Julius Caeser set in Buffalo, New York that finds mobster Earl Roman running his empire with an iron fist, but a soft heart towards his people. Unfortunately his rivals, C. Murph and the corrupt Councilman Green, threaten his domain and all that he has built. While trying to navigate the underworld, treachery, and a detective who is doggedly on his tail he leaves his poor son, the Reverend and his former protégé Brucey B behind to pick up the pieces of his empire, save his life, and avoid everything blowing to pieces.
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The American Side
Title: The American Side
Character: Stickney
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.
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Title: Fear the Walking Dead
Character: Clayton
Released: August 23, 2015
Type: TV
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Title: Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Character: Deacon Yancy
Released: June 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
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Lincoln
Title: Lincoln
Character: William Slade
Released: November 9, 2012
Type: Movie
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Groundskeeper Edison
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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Red Hook Summer
Title: Red Hook Summer
Character: Deacon Yancy
Released: August 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Newsroom
Character: Solomon Hancock
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Title: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Character: Walt the Locksmith
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
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Tower Heist
Title: Tower Heist
Character: Lester
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Judge Harlan Haywood
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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The Good Heart
Title: The Good Heart
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.
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If You Could Say It in Words
Title: If You Could Say It in Words
Character: Baseball Fan
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: Movie
An unapologetically romantic tale about an adulterous young woman struggling to rebuild her life and a painter suffering from undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome.
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Premature
Title: Premature
Character: Homeless Man
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the Bronx, discovers she's pregnant and receives no support from her community, she has nowhere to turn and is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever make.
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Blood Over a Broken Pawn
Title: Blood Over a Broken Pawn
Character: Uncle Jim
Released: May 10, 2008
Type: Movie
Traumatized by a violent robbery, a Brooklyn coffee shop owner lashes out against an innocent kid, and stumbles into a dangerous confrontation with a chess-master, kingpin.
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Title: New Amsterdam
Character: Omar
Released: March 4, 2008
Type: TV
John Amsterdam is a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, and immortal. In 1642 he saved a Native Indian girl during a massacre of her indigenous tribe. In return, the girl cast an ancient spell that conferred immortality upon him. Amsterdam will not age, she told him, until he finds his one true love.
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Waltzing Anna
Title: Waltzing Anna
Character: Pete
Released: August 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative career turns out to be something very different, thanks to the wacky residents and a beautiful nurse.
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Title: Conviction
Character: Judge Martel
Released: March 3, 2006
Type: TV
A fast-paced character-oriented story, focuses on the lives and loves of the young assistant district attorneys in New York, following their career paths as these passionate but naive ADAs are confronted with tough, emotional cases that challenge their limited experience – and force them to mature quickly or be overwhelmed.
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Keane
Title: Keane
Character: Garage Employee
Released: September 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the missing piece of the puzzle?
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Everyday People
Title: Everyday People
Character: Arthur
Released: January 18, 2004
Type: Movie
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Morris Abernathy
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Judge Bernard
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Mark Kramer
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Marc Kramer
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Judge Gerald Mowat
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Title: A Raisin in the Sun
Character: Bobo
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
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Marie
Title: Marie
Character: Cooper's Husband
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A single mother takes a job with the government where she is confronted with corruption.
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The Killing Floor
Title: The Killing Floor
Character: James Cheeks
Released: April 10, 1984
Type: Movie
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
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Title: All My Children
Released: January 5, 1970
Type: TV
All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network since April 29, 2013 via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont.
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The Dutchman
Title: The Dutchman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set on a New York subway, The Dutchman centers on an encounter between a well-to-do Black man and an enchanting white woman who match wits in a sexualized game of cat and mouse that leads to a violent conclusion.
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Title: A Classic Spy
Character: Calbert
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Charles, a retired man, gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a PI and becomes a mole in a secret investigation.