Brent Jennings
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Brent Jennings | |
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| Born | April 13, 1951 Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Brent Jennings (born April 13, 1951) is an American actor. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is a 1969 graduate of Little Rock Central High School.
He played Oakland Athletics coach Ron Washington in the 2011 film Moneyball, played supporting character Ernie, traveling plumbing salesman in the short-lived, but acclaimed AMC television series Lodge 49 and currently stars in the TV series All American.
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1980 | Brubaker | Mr. Clarence | as Brent N. Jennings |
| 1982 | Alone in the Dark | Ray Curtis | |
| 1983 | Murder in Coweta County | Robert Lee Gates | |
| 1984 | Fear City | Hawker#1 | |
| 1985 | Witness | Sgt. Elton Carter | |
| 1988 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | Louis Mozart | |
| 1988 | Kansas | Buckshot | |
| 1988 | Red Heat | Abdul Elijah | |
| 1990 | Another 48 Hrs. | Tyrone Burroughs | |
| 1992 | Nervous Ticks | Cole | |
| 1992 | Live Wire | Shane Rogers | |
| 1996 | Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering | Donald | direct to video |
| 1997 | Little Boy Blue | Tom | |
| 1998 | Where's Marlowe? | Funeral Director | |
| 1999 | Life | Hoppin' Bob | |
| 1999 | Blue Ridge Fall | Jack Crow | |
| 2004 | Gas | Mr. Garrison | |
| 2007 | Honeydripper | Ned | |
| 2010 | My Girlfriend's Back | Geoff | |
| 2011 | Moneyball | Ron Washington | |
| 2013 | Go for Sisters | Dixon |
Television
[edit]| Year(s) | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | American Playhouse | First Man at Barbecue | Episode : "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" |
| 1983 | Murder in Coweta County | Robert Lee Gates | TV film |
| 1984–1988 | Miami Vice | T-Bone | 3 episodes |
| 1985–1986 | Hill Street Blues | Season 6: 2 episodes | |
| 1986 | The George McKenna Story | Mr. Jackson | TV film |
| 1987–1989 | Hunter | Curtis Brown | 3 episodes[1] |
| 1988 | The Murder of Mary Phagan | Newt Lee | TV miniseries |
| 1990 | The Antagonists | ADA Marvin Thompson | Unknown episodes |
| 1991–1992 | Brooklyn Bridge | Mr Greer | 4 episodes |
| 1992 | A Child Lost Forever | Clayton Robinson | TV film |
| 1993 | Where I Live | 3 episodes | |
| 1994 | Pointman | Peter Dembrowski | TV film |
| 1995 | Shadow of a Doubt | Little Mike | TV film |
| 1996 | Soul of the Game | Frank Duncan | TV film |
| 1996 | American Gothic | Yancy Lydon | Episode : "The Buck Stops Here" |
| 1997 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Absalom | Season 2: Episode : "When She Was Bad" |
| 1997 | Don King: Only in America | Dick Sadler | TV film |
| 1999 | Love Songs | Bunchie | TV film (segment "Love Song for Jean and Ellis, A") |
| 1999 | A Lesson Before Dying | Rev. Ambrose | TV film |
| 1997–2000 | ER | Nat | 3 episodes |
| 2000 | Dancing in September | Matt | TV film |
| 2001 | Boycott | Rufus Lewis | TV film |
| 2005–2007 | Medium | Wayne | 3 episodes |
| 2007 | Grey's Anatomy | Charles Redford | Episode: "Time After Time" |
| 2010 | Meet the Browns | Racist Patient | Episode: "Meet the Racist" |
| 2011–2016 | Shameless | Principal Monroe | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Political Animals | Bill | TV miniseries |
| 2016 | Murder in the First | Hal Woodward / Barber | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Modern Family | Shawn | 1 episode |
| 2018–2019 | Lodge 49 | Ernie | Series regular |
| 2018–present | All American | Willie Baker | Recurring character |
| 2020–2022 | All Rise | Charles Carmichael | 5 episodes |
| 2022 | Young Sheldon | Henry | Episode: "Passion's Harvest and a Sheldocracy"[2] |
| 2023 | Bookie | John Franklin | 2 episodes |
References
[edit]- ^ "The Jade Woman". Hunter. Season 4. Episode 3. Los Angeles, California. 17 October 1987. NBC.
- ^ “Young Sheldon” Passion’s Harvest and a sheldocracy (TV episode 2022). (2022, October 13). IMDb. Retrieved October 14, 2022, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202736/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- Male actors from Little Rock, Arkansas
- Little Rock Central High School alumni
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- American male stage actors
- 20th-century African-American male actors
- 21st-century African-American male actors
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