Benjamin Augustus Vereen (born October 10, 1946 in Laurinburg, North Carolina) is an American actor, dancer, and singer best known for All That Jazz (1979), Top Five (2014), and Grey's Anatomy (2007).
He was married to Andrea Townsley and Nancy Bruner and has five children.
Works he has appeared in:
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Film Roles
- 1969: Sweet Charity as Dancer
- 1970: Gas Or It Became Necessary To Destroy The World In Order To Save It as Carlos
- 1975: Funny Lady as Bert Robbins
- 1976: Marys Incredible Dream as Devil/Noah/Man
- 1976: Louis Armstrong Chicago Style as Louis Armstrong
- 1979: All That Jazz as O'Connor Flood
- 1981: Pippin His Life And Times as The Leading Player
- 1983: The Charmkins as Dragonweed (short)
- 1984: The Jesse Owens Story as Herb Douglas
- 1985: The Zoo Gang as The Winch
- 1985: Lost In London as Paul Williams
- 1988: Buy And Cell as Shaka
- 1988: Jennys Song as Joe
- 1990: Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme as Itsy Bitsy Spider
- 1990: The Kid Who Saved Christmas as Morris
- 1993: Once Upon a Forest as Phineas
- 1998: Why Do Fools Fall In Love as Richard Barrett
- 1999: Ill Take You There as Mr. Gwin
- 2001: The Painting as Whistlin' Willie Weston
- 2001: The Feast Of All Saints as Rudolphe Lermontant
- 2006: Idlewild as Percy Senior
- 2007: And Then Came Love as Chuck Cooper
- 2008: Accidental Friendship as Wes
- 2009: Tapioca as Nuts
- 2009: Twenty One And A Wake Up as Gen. Garner
- 2011: Mama I Want To Sing as Horace Payne
- 2013: Khumba as Mkhulu
- 2014: Top Five as Carl
- 2014: Time Out Of Mind as Dixon
- 2016: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again as Dr. Scott
Television Roles
- 1976: The Muppet Show as himself
- 1977: Roots as Chicken George Moore
- 1977: The Carol Burnett Show as various
- 1980: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe as E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner
- 1988: JJ Starbuck as E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner
- 1982-1984: The Love Boat as Bennett Barton/Dr. John Hanson
- 1983-1989: Webster as Uncle Phillip Long/Ben Vereen
- 1984: Ellis Island as Roscoe Haines
- 1985: AD as Ethiopian
- 1985: Faerie Tale Theatre as Puss in Boots
- 1986: Zoobilee Zoo as Mayor Ben
- 1987: CBS Summer Playhouse as Pianist in Bar
- 1990: Booker as Carl McQueen
- 1991: Bordertown as Issac West
- 1991-1993: Silk Stalkings as Captain Ben Hutchinson
- 1992: Intruders as Gene Randall
- 1993: Star Trek: The Next Generation as Dr. Edward La Forge
- 1994: Lois & Clark as Dr. Andre Novak
- 1994: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Lou Smith
- 1994: The Nanny as Ben Vereen
- 1995: New York Undercover as Louie
- 1996: Touched by an Angel as Ulysses Dodd
- 1997: Second Noah as Sweet Billy
- 1997: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Snake
- 1997: American Masters as Narrator
- 1998: Soldier Of Fortune Inc as Sen. Stanford Parks
- 1999: The Jamie Foxx Show as Royal
- 1999: Promised Land (1996) as Lawrence Taggert Sr.
- 2002: Oz as #02W424 A.R. Whitworth
- 2007: Grey's Anatomy as Archie Roche
- 2007: Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Rev. Jeremiah Morris
- 2010: House of Payne as Clarence Sanderson
- 2010-2014: How I Met Your Mother as Sam Gibbs
- 2013: NCIS as Lamar Addison
- 2014: Love That Girl as Judge
- 2014: Hot in Cleveland as Mayor Deacon
- 2017: Making History as Dr. Theodore Anthony Cobell
- 2017-2018: Sneaky Pete as Porter
- 2018: Magnum, P.I. (2018) as Henry Barr
- 2018-2019: Lee Daniels Star as Calvin
- 2019: Bull as Willie Lambert
- 2019: Tales as Harry
- 2021: The Good Fight as Frederick Douglass
- 2021-2022: B Positive as Peter
Theatre Roles
- 1965: The Prodigal Son as Dancer
- 1967-1968: Sweet Charity as Dancer
- 1968-1972: Hair as Hud/Claude
- 1968: Golden Boy as Understudy
- 1971-1973: Jesus Christ Superstar as Judas Iscariot
- 1972-1974: Pippin as Leading Player
- 1985: Grind as LeRoy
- 1992-1993: Jellys Last Jam as Chimney Man
- 1995-1996: A Christmas Carol as Ghost of Christmas Present
- 1999: Chicago as Billy Flynn
- 2001: Fosse as Performer
- 2002: Im Not Rappaport as Midge
- 2003: The Exonerated as Performer
- 2005-2006: Wicked as The Wizard of Oz