Erik Dellums
ActingAlso Known As
Erik Todd Dellums
Biography
Erik Todd Dellums (born September 23, 1964) is an American actor and narrator. On television, he is known for playing the drug kingpin Luther Mahoney on Homicide: Life on the Street (1996 - 1998) and Dr. Randall Frazier on The Wire (2002 - 2004). He voiced Koh in Avatar: The Last Aribender (2005) and Aaravos in The Dragon Prince (2018 - 2024). Dellums also has performed voice work in video games, including the roles of radio DJ Three Dog in the Fallout 3 (2008), Nazir in Skyrim (2011), and Prince Arcann, Thexan, and Oggo in Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015). Dellums appeared in minor parts in the Spike Lee films She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), and Do the Right Thing (1989). He is the son of Ron Dellums, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 - 1998 and as the Mayor of Oakland from 2007 - 2011.
Movies
(11 total)
Doctor Dolittle
as Jeremy
Do the Right Thing
as Customer in Pizzeria (uncredited)
The Doors
as Hairdresser
She's Gotta Have It
as Dog 3
School Daze
as Slim Daddy
The Color of Friendship
as Oliver
Boycott
as Bayard Rustin
Blackmale
as Victor
Good to Go
as Bam-Bam
Camp D.O.A.
as Watcher
The Spoiled
as Astaroth
TV Shows
(12 total)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
as Koh (voice)
The Wire
as Dr. Randall Frazier
Homeland
as Doctor
The Dragon Prince
as Aaravos (voice)
JAG
as Charlie Lynch
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Luther Mahoney
How the Universe Works
as Self - Narrator
How the Universe Works
as Himself - Narrator
NASA's Unexplained Files
as Narrator
Mysterious Journeys
as Narrator
The Storyteller: Fallout
as Three Dog