---
name: "Ben Vereen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ben-vereen"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 October 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:01.233046+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ben Vereen

Actor. Born 10 October 1946 in Miami, Florida, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 October 1946, Miami, Florida, USA
- **Active:** 1977–1997
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 83 (1), 1990s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q770841, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893965/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26664

## Biography

Ben Vereen is an American actor, dancer and singer. He graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in New York and made his New York stage debut in the 1960s.

Vereen appeared in the original Broadway productions of *Hair*, *Jesus Christ Superstar* (1971) and *Pippin* (1972), winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the latter. He played Chicken George Moore in the 1977 miniseries *Roots* and appeared in the 1979 film *All That Jazz*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, ibdb.com, encyclopedia.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Oz* (1997), Fi1m 80, as A.R. Whitworth — [page](https://film.one/tv/oz.md)
- *Roots* (1977), Fi1m 83, as Chicken George Moore — [page](https://film.one/tv/roots.md)

## Also known for

- *How I Met Your Mother* (2005), Sam Gibbs
- *NCIS* (2003), Lamar Addison
- *The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air* (1990), Lou Smith
- *The Nanny* (1993), Ben Vereen
- *All That Jazz* (1979), O'Connor Flood
- *Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman* (1993), Dr. Andre Novak
- *Top Five* (2014), Carl Allen
- *Sneaky Pete* (2015), Porter

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