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Damon Wayans

Born 1960 · American comedian, writer, and actor

Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. A member of the Wayans family of entertainers, Damon performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a brief stint on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He later joined his family on Fox's sketch comedy show In Living Color (1990–1992), and wrote and performed on his own animated series Waynehead (1996–1997) and live-action series Damon (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including Mo' Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Bulletproof, and the sitcoms My Wife and Kids and Poppa's House, the latter featuring his son Damon Wayans Jr. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox television series Lethal Weapon.

Damon Wayans, in order

  1. 1984 Beverly Hills Cop: acted · directed by Martin Brest · critics 84%, audiences 82% · streaming on Philo, AMC+, Kanopy
  2. 1987 Roxanne: acted · directed by Fred Schepisi
  3. 1988 Colors: acted · directed by Dennis Hopper · critics 76%, audiences 71% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  4. 1988 Punchline: acted · directed by David Seltzer
  5. 1989 Earth Girls Are Easy: acted · directed by Julien Temple
  6. 1989 One Night Stand (TV series): wrote
  7. 1991 The Last Boy Scout: acted · directed by Tony Scott · critics 50%, audiences 68% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Tubi
  8. 1992 Mo' Money: wrote, acted · directed by Peter MacDonald
  9. 1993 Last Action Hero: acted · directed by John McTiernan · critics 43%, audiences 48%
  10. 1994 Blankman: wrote, acted · directed by Mike Binder
  11. 1995 Major Payne: produced, acted · directed by Nick Castle
  12. 1996 Bulletproof: acted · directed by Ernest Dickerson
  13. 1996 Celtic Pride: acted · directed by Tom DeCerchio · critics 13%, audiences 32% · streaming on Prime Video
  14. 1996 The Great White Hype: acted · directed by Reginald Hudlin
  15. 1996 Waynehead (TV series): created
  16. 1997 413 Hope St. (TV series): created
  17. 1998 Damon (TV series): acted
  18. 2000 Bamboozled: acted · directed by Spike Lee · critics 54%, audiences 74%
  19. 2001 My Wife and Kids (TV series): acted
  20. 2003 Marci X: acted · directed by Richard Benjamin
  21. 2006 The Underground (TV series): created
  22. 2007 Farce of the Penguins: acted · directed by Bob Saget
  23. 2009 Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy: acted · directed by Robert Townsend
  24. 2011 Herd Mentality: acted · directed by Andy Cadiff
  25. 2016 Lethal Weapon (TV series): acted