---
name: "Big Daddy Kane"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/big-daddy-kane"
fi1m_id: "big-daddy-kane"
imdb_id: "nm0437263"
tmdb_id: 115255
wikidata_id: "Q535972"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 September 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:35:46.592576+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."
---

# Big Daddy Kane

## Identity

Big Daddy Kane

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/big-daddy-kane
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** big-daddy-kane
- **IMDb ID:** nm0437263
- **TMDB ID:** 115255
- **Wikidata ID:** Q535972
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Daddy_Kane, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q535972, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437263/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115255

Actor. Born 10 September 1968 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 September 1968, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Antonio Hardy
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 58 (1), 2000s 75 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Daddy_Kane, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q535972, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437263/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115255

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Posse*](https://film.one/film/posse.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Big Daddy Kane, born Antonio Hardy on 10 September 1968 in Brooklyn, New York City, is an American rapper, producer and actor. He began his career in 1986 as a member of the Juice Crew and is regarded as one of the most influential MCs in hip-hop.

Kane made his acting debut in the 1993 western *Posse*, playing Father Time. His other screen credits include *The Meteor Man* (1993) as Pirate, *Exposed* (2016) as Black, and a guest role as Ray 'Four Stroke' Willis in *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (2018).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *Posse* (1993), Fi1m 58, as Father Time — [page](https://film.one/film/posse.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Dave Chappelle's Block Party* (2005), Fi1m 75, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/dave-chappelles-block-party.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *ElemenTory* (2024), as Chris Cunningham
- *CHAAW: Chapter 1* (2023), as Renaissance Man
- *Stomach People* (2022), as Zac Hanson
- *Bad Dad Rehab: The Next Session* (2021), as Owen
- *Movie Madness* (2016), as Captain · Director
- *Exposed* (2016), as Black
- *Real Blood: The True Beginning* (2015), as News Reporter
- *My Name is Nobody* (2014), as Phil Sr.
- *Just Another Day* (2009), as Clay
- *Dead Heist* (2007), as Hunter
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Ray 'Four Stroke' Willis
- *The Meteor Man* (1993), as Pirate
- *Gunmen* (1993), as Big Daddy Kane
- *Posse* (1993), as Father Time — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/posse.md)
- *Public Enemy - Burn Hollywood Burn feat. Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane* (1990), Writer

## Gallery

- ![New York 1998](https://film.one/media/person/1281682/gallery-3fd0811c6312.jpg) New York 1998 — Mika Väisänen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Big_Daddy_Kane-03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Big Daddy Kane on the 85 South Show Podcast in 2023](https://film.one/media/person/1281682/gallery-58ba2c3da6f0.png) Big Daddy Kane on the 85 South Show Podcast in 2023 — The 85 South Comedy Show, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Big_Daddy_Kane_The_85_South_Show_Podcast_1.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Big Daddy Kane on the 85 South Show Podcast in 2023](https://film.one/media/person/1281682/gallery-850d9a1f692c.png) Big Daddy Kane on the 85 South Show Podcast in 2023 — The 85 South Comedy Show, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Big_Daddy_Kane_The_85_South_Show_Podcast_2.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Big Daddy Kane performing at the Hip-Hop Kemp in Hradec Kralove in 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/1281682/gallery-f038bf1e865a.jpg) Big Daddy Kane performing at the Hip-Hop Kemp in Hradec Kralove in 2013. — RustyShack, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Big_Daddy_Kane_at_Hip_Hop_Kemp_2013.jpg/1280px-Big_Daddy_Kane_at_Hip_Hop_Kemp_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Big Daddy Kane](https://film.one/media/person/1281682/gallery-f8de38024ce7.jpg) Big Daddy Kane — Image via TMDB
- ![Big Daddy Kane](https://film.one/media/person/1281682/gallery-a60960b66e35.jpg) Big Daddy Kane — RustyShack, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Big_Daddy_Kane_at_Hip_Hop_Kemp_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Big_Daddy_Kane_at_Hip_Hop_Kemp_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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