O.L. Duke

O.L. Duke was born on Aug 12, 1953 in USA. O.L. Duke's big-screen debut came with Seize the Day directed by Fielder Cook in 1986, strarring Funeral Home Attendant (uncredited). O.L. Duke is known for Man on Fire directed by Tony Scott, Denzel Washington stars as John W. Creasy and Dakota Fanning as Lupita Ramos. The upcoming new movie O.L. Duke plays is Coalition which will be released on Nov 07, 2006.

O.L. Duke's acting career breakthrough occurred when he replaced Denzel Washington in Charles Fuller 's Pulitzer Prize-winning original production of "A Soldier's Play" (later made into the film Soldier's Story (1984). He was a member of both the renowned Actors Studio and the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). He appeared in numerous off-Broadway plays and on other well-known stages throughout the US and abroad, including The Kennedy Center and Ford Theater in Washington, D.C.; Connecticut's Hartford Stage and The Long Wharf Theater; The Geva in Rochester, New York; The Guthrie in Minnesota; The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The ACT Theater in Seattle, Washington; and The Royal Lyceum Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland. Duke guest-starred and co-starred in award-winning television productions, such as Homicide (1993), New York Police Blues (1993), New York - Police judiciaire (1990), New York Undercover (1994), HBO's original series Oz (1997), and the PBS documentary _"This Far by Faith" (2003) (mini)_. Some of his theatrical film credits include Out of Time (2003), Antwone Fisher (2002), Piñero (2001), The Keeper (1995), Sugar Hill (1993), Malcolm X (1992) and The Five Heartbeats (1991).