Erik Todd Dellums

Erik Todd Dellums is a U.S. actor. He has had parts in television police dramas such as New York Undercover, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire. He was featured on Homicide in a multi-season recurring role as fictional drug kingpin Luther Mahoney; on The Wire he plays a medical examiner.

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 * 1.19 "The Siege of the North, Part 1"
 * 1.20 "The Siege of the North, Part 2"

Television work

 * Jonny Zero
 * The Wire
 * NYPD Blue
 * JAG
 * Walker, Texas Ranger
 * Homicide: Life on the Street
 * New York Undercover
 * A Man Called Hawk
 * Boycott (TV movie)
 * The Color of Friendship (TV movie)

Filmography

 * Patsy (2008)
 * Bellclair Times (2005)
 * Camp D.O.A. (2005)
 * BlackMale (2000)
 * Doctor Dolittle (1998)
 * Joe Joe Angel &amp; the Dead Guy (1997)
 * The Doors (1991)
 * Do the Right Thing (Uncredited) (1989)
 * School Daze (1988)
 * She's Gotta Have It (1986)
 * Good to Go (1986)

Other credits

 * More Headline Attacks (TV movie) (Self/narrator)
 * Take 3 (self)
 * Headline Attacks (TV documentary) (narrator)
 * Peritheosis (short)
 * The New N Word (short)
 * Fallout 3 (video game)

Personal life
Erik was born in the San Francisco bay area and moved to Washington D.C. in his teens. He graduated from Brown University in 1986.

Career
Early in his career he had minor appearances in several Spike Lee films, such as She's Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing. He was portrayed (as a child) by Travis Kyle Davis in the Disney Channel Original Movie, The Color of Friendship which was based on what happened when his family hosted a foreign exchange student from South Africa during the Apartheid era. (He also had a cameo in this movie playing one of Congressman Dellums' aides.)

In addition, he provided the narration for Key Constitutional Concepts, a documentary produced in 2006 by the Annenberg Foundation.

Trivia

 * Dellums is the son of the mayor of Oakland and former U.S. Representative from California, Ron Dellums.

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