Acting credits
118
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.

Acting
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Acting credits
118
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
TMDB popularity
2.1
Low visibility
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TMDB ID: 2390
IMDb ID: nm0000996
Known for: Acting
Born: February 16, 1957
Age: 69
Place of birth: Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1962 - 2025
Years active: 64
Average TMDB rating: 6.97
Wikidata: Q312570
Also known as
Levar Burton • Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.
Other jobs
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow. His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his accomplishments in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online.



Movie credits linked with LeVar Burton.
as Self
as Self
as Commodore Geordi La Forge
Executive Producer
as Narrator (voice)
as LeVar Burton
as LeVar Burton
as Self
as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
as Self
as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (archive footage)
as Self
as Dr. Dan Halpern
as Self
as Kendrick
as Mike Timbrook
as Black Lightning (voice)
as Nathanial
as Self
Series credits linked with LeVar Burton.
as Flexspecs (voice) • 1 eps
as Self - Host • 23 eps
as (voice) • 1 eps
as Self • 3 eps
as Barclay (voice) • 10 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Undead Thordak (voice) • 2 eps
as Self • 1 eps
Director • 4 eps
as Mr. Blanche • 1 eps
1 eps
as Commodore Geordi La Forge • 5 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
as Dr. Negari • 4 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
as Kwame • 1 eps
as Ephraim • 1 eps
Director • 9 eps
Director • 1 eps
as Himself (voice) • 1 eps
as Paul Haley • 35 eps
as Self • 1 eps