







| 2024 | Mufasa: Vua Sư Tử | Rafiki (voice) |
| 2023 | Beyond the Light Barrier | Narrator/Self |
| Vụ giết người bí ẩn 2 | Colonel Ulenga | |
| 2021 | Biệt Đội Hải Cẩu | Brick (voice) |
| 2019 | Vua Sư Tử | Rafiki (voice) |
| The Space: Theatre of Survival | — | |
| Vụ Giết Người Bí Ẩn | Colonel Ulenga | |
| 2018 | Chiến Binh Báo Đen | T'Chaka |
| 2016 | Captain America: Nội Chiến Siêu Anh Hùng | King T'Chaka |
| 2014 | 1994: The Bloody Miracle | Narrator |
| 2012 | Jail Caesar | Marius |
| Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard | Self | |
| 2011 | How to Steal 2 Million | Julius Twala Snr. |
| Coriolanus | General Cominius | |
| 2010 | White Lion | Old Gisani |
| 2009 | Nothing But The Truth | Sipho |
| Endgame | Oliver Tambo | |
| 2008 | The Bird Can't Fly | Stone |
| 2001 | Final Solution | Rev. Peter Lekota |
| 1999 | The Tichborne Claimant | Bogle |
| 1997 | Kini & Adams | Ben |
| 1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness | Samuel |
| 1995 | Soweto Green | Dr. Curtis |
| 1994 | In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid | Self |
| 1992 | Sarafina! | School Principal |
| 1990 | The Native Who Caused All the Trouble | — |
| 1989 | Othello | Othello |
| A Dry White Season | Julius | |
| Options | Jonas | |
| 1987 | Saturday Night at the Palace | — |
| An African Dream | Khatana | |
| 1986 | Miss Julie | John |
| 1985 | 'Master Harold'... and the Boys | Willie |
| 1981 | The Grass Is Singing | Moses |
| A Sizwe Bansi Workshop | Himself | |
| 1980 | Marigolds in August | Melton |
| 1978 | Victims of Apartheid | George O'Brien |
| The Wild Geese | Sgt. Jesse Blake | |
| 1974 | Sizwe Bansi is Dead | Styles/Buntu |
| 2009 | Nothing But The Truth | Writer |
| Nothing But The Truth | Director | |
| Nothing But The Truth | Original Story | |
| 1974 | Sizwe Bansi is Dead | Writer |