Erik Dellums

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Erik Dellums
Born
Erik Todd Dellums

(1964-09-23) September 23, 1964 (age 59)
Education Brown University (BS)
Occupation(s)Actor, narrator
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Erik Todd Dellums (born September 23, 1964) is an American actor and narrator. He played the drug kingpin Luther Mahoney for two seasons on Homicide: Life on the Street and voiced the roles as the radio DJ Three Dog in the 2008 video game Fallout 3 , Prince Arcann, Thexan and Oggo in Knights of the Fallen Empire , the 2015 expansion to Star Wars: The Old Republic and Aaravos in the animated Netflix series The Dragon Prince .

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Early life

Dellums was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and moved to Washington, D.C. in his teenage years. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Brown University in 1986 and has since worked in Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, D.C. [1] He is the son of Leola Roscoe, a lawyer, and Ron Dellums, the former U.S. representative from California and mayor of Oakland. [2] His sister Piper Dellums is an author. [3] He states that he is a Sac and Fox Nation descendant. [4]

Career

Dellums had minor appearances in several Spike Lee films early in his career, such as She's Gotta Have It (1986) and Do the Right Thing (1989). He was portrayed (as a child) by Travis Kyle Davis in a Disney Channel Original Movie entitled The Color of Friendship (2000), which was based on what happened when his family hosted a foreign exchange student from South Africa during the Apartheid era; Dellums had a cameo role as himself. He provided the voice of the character Koh the Face Stealer in the animated Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender , as well as the narration for Key Constitutional Concepts, a documentary produced in 2006 by the Annenberg Foundation.

Dellums has had parts in television police dramas such as New York Undercover , Homicide: Life on the Street (in which he played drug kingpin Luther Mahoney), and The Wire (in which he played a medical examiner). He also played a doctor one episode of Homeland . Dellums provided voice acting for the 2008 video game Fallout 3 as Three Dog. He provided the voice of Nazir, a character in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim . Dellums narrates the Travel Channel series Mysterious Journeys , as well as the documentary television series How the Universe Works and NASA's Unexplained Files on the Science Channel. Dellums narrates the Science series The Planets – hosted by former astronaut Mike Massimino – which premiered in 2017 and was retitled The Planets and Beyond for its second season in 2018.

Dellums also reprised the role of Three Dog in the YouTube lore series by ShoddyCast, and he also performs the voice for Prince/Emperor Arcann in the game Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion Knights of the Fallen Empire and its sequel expansions Knights of the Eternal Throne and Onslaught . He's also the voice provider of the character Aaravos in the Netflix series The Dragon Prince .

Dellums political and social writings on his personal blog gained notice in 2011, and his criticisms of the presidency of Barack Obama earned him guest appearances on Fox News. [5]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 She's Gotta Have It Dog #3
1986 Good to Go Bam-Bam
1988 School Daze Gammite Slim Daddy
1989 Do the Right Thing Customer in PizzeriaUncredited
1991 The Doors Hairdresser at the Sullivan Show
1997Joe Joe Angel & the Dead GuyThe Man
1998 Dr. Dolittle Jeremy
2000BlackMaleVictor
2003 Brother Outsider Voice of Bayard Rustin
2005Bellclair TimesDevin
2005Camp D.O.A.Watcher
2008PatsyHarry
2022Almost Human: Rise of the ApesNarrator

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996–1998 Homicide: Life on the Street Luther Mahoney6 episodes
1998 New York Undercover MohammadEpisode: "Change, Change, Change"
1998 Walker, Texas Ranger David 'Lucifer' ThompsonEpisode: "The Children of Halloween"
1999 JAG Charlie LynchEpisode: "Goodbyes"
2000 NYPD Blue Inez / Harold CarmichaelEpisode: "A Hole in Juan"
2000 The Color of Friendship OliverTelevision film
2001 Boycott Bayard Rustin
2002–2004 The Wire Dr. Randall Frazier6 episodes
2005 Jonny Zero Antoine NegasiEpisode: "Diamonds & Guns"
2005 Avatar: The Last Airbender Koh2 episodes
2012Narrow Escapes of WWIINarrator4 episodes
2012–2021 How the Universe Works 14 episodes
2013 Golden Boy Pablo VegaEpisode: "Next Question"
2013 Homeland Doctor GrahamEpisode: "Tower of David"
2014–2017 NASA's Unexplained Files Narrator39 episodes
2015 Amnesia Sargent JohnsonEpisode: "Awakening"
2017Great American EclipseNarratorTelevision film
2017–2018The Planet9 episodes
2017–2018 The Planets and Beyond 17 episodes
2018– The Dragon Prince Aaravos15 episodes

Video games

YearTitleRole
2008 Fallout 3 Three Dog
2009 League of Legends Nasus
2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Nazir
2015 Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire Various voices
2015Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne
2017 The Elder Scrolls: Legends Tyr
2017Star Wars: The Old Republic: OnslaughtVarious voices
2022Star Wars: The Old Republic: Legacy of the Sith

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References

  1. Hiaasen, Rob. "Drug lord role: a tough act to follow Actor: Perhaps dogged by a lasting image as Luther Mahoney, Erik Dellums waits for another good part" . The Baltimore Sun . Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  2. "Erik Todd Dellums Biography (1964-)". Film Reference. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
  3. Phillips, Morgan (July 30, 2018). "Ron Dellums, Antiwar Activist-Turned-Armed Services Chairman, Dead at 82". Roll Call . Retrieved October 30, 2022.
  4. ErikToddDellums [@ErikToddDellums] (July 8, 2020). "Love it! I am a Sac and Fox Nation descendant. #ShareLove #NHL" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  5. Williams, Vanessa (October 14, 2011). "Actor Erik Todd Dellums stirs the black political pot with musings on President Obama". The Washington Post .