Michael Beach
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Michael Anthony Beach (born October 30, 1963) is an American actor. He has appeared in films Lean on Me (1989), One False Move (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Waiting to Exhale (1995), A Family Thing (1996), Soul Food (1997), Aquaman (2018), and Saw X (2023). On television, he played Al Boulet on the NBC medical drama ER from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 2005, Beach was a regular cast member in another NBC drama series, Third Watch, as Monte Parker, and as T.O. Cross in FX's Sons of Anarchy.
Filmography
Aquaman
as Jesse Kane (Manta's Father)
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Detective Sendal
The Abyss
as Barnes
True Romance
as Wurlitzer
Patriots Day
as Gov. Deval Patrick
Saw X
as Henry Kessler
Red Dawn
as Mayor Jenkins
Broken City
as Tony Jansen
If Beale Street Could Talk
as Frank Hunt
The Harder They Fall
as Nat's Father (uncredited)
Rim of the World
as General Khoury
Inheritance
as Harold Thewlis
Short Cuts
as Jim Stone
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
as Col. Abe Ellis
Deep Blue Sea 2
as Carl Durant
Midnight in the Switchgrass
as Detective Yarbrough
Internal Affairs
as Dorian Fletcher
Superintelligence
as Saul Gomez
Lean On Me
as Mr. Darnell
First Sunday
as Deacon