Chuck D
- Born
- August 1, 1960 · Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA
- Actor
- music_department
- Producer
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, better known by his stage name Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.
Filmography · 58 credits
- 2025MIC: Music in the City · Actor (Narrator)
- 2024Following Harry · Self (Self)
- 2023Cover Your Ears · Self (Self - Public Enemy)
- 2023Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter? · Archive footage (Self)
- 2023Freestyle 101: Hip Hop History · Actor (Narrator)
- 2022Use of Force: The Policing of Black America · Actor (Narrator)
- 2021Mr Nelson on the North Side · Self (Self)
- 2020Ricky Powell: The Individualist · Self (Self)
- 2020Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert · Self (Self)
- 2019Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare · Self (Self)
- 2018The Untold Story of Detroit Hip Hop · Self (Self)
- 2018The Untold Story of Detroit Hip Hop · Producer
- 2016Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story · Actor (Narrator)
- 2016A Tale of James Brown · Self (Self)
- 2015Hustlers Convention · Self (Self)
- 2014All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State · Archive footage (Self)
- 2013Swing Lowe Sweet Chariote · Actor (DJ Jonny Specials)
- 2013Grady Tate's Windmills · Self (Self)
- 2013Sama'an Ashrawi's All-Star Tribute to U.G.K. · Actor (Chuck D)
- 2012Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap · Self (Self)
- 2012Let Fury Have the Hour · Self (Self)
- 2012Sample: Not for Sale · Self (Self - Interviewee)
- 2012The Ballot or the Bullet · Actor
- 2012Diary of a Decade: The Story of a Movement · Self (Self)
- 2011On the Shoulders of Giants · Composer
- 2011The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique · Self (Self)
- 2011Third and Long: The History of African Americans in Pro Football 1946-1989 · Self (Self - Narrator)
- 2010The Weird World of Blowfly · Self (Self)
- 2009Copyright Criminals · Self (Self)
- 2009The Quiet Arrangement · Actor (Captain Ambercrombie)
- 2009Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement · Self (Self)
- 2009Founding Fathers · Actor
- 2008The Black Candle · Self (Self)
- 2008The Souls of Black Girls · Self (Self)
- 2008Disappearing Voices: The Decline of Black Radio · Self (Self)
- 2007City Teacher · Actor
- 2007Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome · Self (Self)
- 2006Rock the Bells · Self (Self - Public Enemy)
- 2006Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes · Self (Self)
- 2006Sound Man: WWII to MP3 · Self (Self)
- 2005Fuck · Self (Self)
- 2005There's a God on the Mic · Self (Self)
- 2004Lightning in a Bottle · Self (Self)
- 2004The N Word · Self (Self)
- 2004Money Train and Thenkman a German Hip Hop Summer · Self (Self)
- 2003Paper Chasers · Self (Self)
- 2003Ahead of the Game · Actor ((Narrator))
- 2003Underground Poets Railroad · Actor
- 2001Voice of the Voiceless · Self (Self)
- 1997An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn · Composer
- 1997An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn · Actor (Leon Brothers)
- 1997Rhyme & Reason · Self (Self)
- —To My Rescue It Was the S1Ws (A Public Enemy Story) · Self (Self)
- —Kings of Vegas · Self (Self)
- —Mi Familia: Sen Dog and the American Dream · Self (Self)
- —Check the Rhyme · Actor
- —Trapped in a Culture · Self (Self)
- —When Reagan Killed Roosevelt · Self (Self)