Badja Djola

Badja Medu Djola (born Bernard Bradley; April 9, 1948 – January 8, 2005) was an American actor from Brooklyn, ^{[citation needed]} New York who worked primarily within black film.^[1][2] He is best known for Mississippi Burning,^[1] Penitentiary,^[3] A Rage in Harlem,^[1] and Who's the Man?.^[4] He was often seen in tough or villainous roles.

Badja Djola
Born	Bernard Bradley (1948-04-09)April 9, 1948 New York City, U.S.
Died	January 8, 2005(2005-01-08) (aged 56) Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–2005
Notable work	Mississippi Burning, Who's the Man?, Penitentiary, A Rage in Harlem

Career

Djola's breakout role was as Leon Isaac Kennedy's cellmate, the villainous "Half Dead" Johnson, in the 1979 movie Penitentiary, which led to many more feature films, including a supporting role in Wes Craven's 1988 movie The Serpent and the Rainbow.^[3][1] He starred alongside Danny Glover in the 1991 film A Rage in Harlem and Doctor Dré in Who's the Man? (1993).^[1][4] In addition to movies, Djola appeared in several television shows, including The X-Files, Nash Bridges, and NYPD Blue.^[5][6][7] He also starred in theatre performances, with shows including Once in a Wife Time (1981),"^[8] Edmond (1984),^[9] 227,^[10] Southern Rapture (1993),^[11] and Dancing on Moonlight (1995),^[12]

Personal life

Djola died of a heart attack on January 8, 2005, in Los Angeles, California.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Ref
1979	The Main Event	Heavyweight in Gym	[13]
	Penitentiary	"Half Dead" Johnson	[14]
1982	Night Shift	Cleon	[15]
1984	The Lonely Guy	Native	[16]
1985	The Lightship	Nate	[17]
1988	The Serpent and the Rainbow	Lieutenant Gaston	[18]
	Mississippi Burning	FBI Agent Monk	[19]
1989	An Innocent Man	IA Detective John Fitzgerald	[20]
1991	A Rage in Harlem	Slim	[21]
	The Last Boy Scout	Alley Thug	[22]
	Christmas on Division Street	Scorpio	[23]
1992	The Waterdance	Decton	[24]
	Eddie Presley	The Drycleaner (uncredited)	[citation needed]
1993	Who's the Man?	Lionel Douglas	[4]
	Marked for Murder		[25]
1994	Knight Rider 2010	Zeke	[25]
1996	Heaven's Prisoners	Batist	[26]
1997	Rosewood	John Bradley	[27]
	The Brave	Rider	[citation needed]
	First Time Felon	Disciple Leader	[28]
1998	Gunshy	Abel	[29]
	The Players Club	The Doctor	[30]
	Butter	Roscoe	[25]
1999	Deterrence	Harvey	[31]
	The Hurricane	Mobutu	[32]
2000	Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel	"Fast Eddie"	[citation needed]
	The Price of Air	Sugar	[33]
2001	Night at the Golden Eagle	Gabriel	[34]
2005	Back in the Day	Grant Brown	[citation needed]
	Slipdream	Sahdu	[citation needed]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Episode/s	Ref
1981	Palmerstown, U.S.A.		"The Threat"	[35]
1982	Tales of the Gold Monkey	Oomupwah	"Legends Are Forever"	[36]
1984	Maximum Security	Prisoner Preacher	"Pilot"	[citation needed]
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Tyrone Blackwell	"Among Friends"	[citation needed]
1990	B.L. Stryker		"Grand Theft Hotel"	[25]
	Wiseguy	Etoile de Joie	"Black Gold"	[37]
1991	The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage	Francoise Benoir	"The Not-So-Great Dictator"	[38]
1993—1994	Roc	William Lawn	"Final Analysis" and "Citizen Roc: Part 2"	[citation needed]
1995	The X-Files	Napoleon "Neech" Manley	"The List"	[5]
1997	Nash Bridges	Jack Archer	"Inside Out"	[7]
	NYPD Blue	Clyde Bell	"Bad Rap"	[6]
	The Last Don	Phil Sharkey	"Part III"	[25]
	Millennium	Lacuna	"Sense and Antisense"	[39]
1998	Brooklyn South	Clude Miller	"Skel in a Cell"	[citation needed]
	ER	Mike Lembreaux	"Shades of Gray"	[40]
	Chicago Hope	Jean Baptiste Marche	"Austin, We Have a Problem"	[citation needed]
	Born Free	Motumbo	"Celebration of Life"	[citation needed]
2001	The Fugitive	Dominick	"Lagniappe"	[citation needed]
	The Lone Gunmen	Spike	"Maximum Byers"	[41]