O.L. Duke

O.L. Duke was an actor whose breakthrough came on stage when he took over for Denzel Washington in Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play. He was a member of the Actors Studio and the Negro Ensemble Company. His stage work took him to off-Broadway productions and to theaters across the United States and abroad, among them the Guthrie in Minnesota, the Geva in Rochester, the Kennedy Center and Ford Theater, Hartford Stage, and the Royal Lyceum Theater in Edinburgh. On television, his credits included Law & Order (1990), NYPD Blue (1993), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), New York Undercover (1994), Oz (1997), and This Far by Faith (2003), a PBS documentary. His films included Malcolm X (1992), The Five Heartbeats (1991), Sugar Hill (1994), Piñero (2001), Antwone Fisher (2002), and Out of Time (2003). He died in 2004.