Heavy D
Born: 1967-05-24 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Died: 2011-11-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dwight Myers (born May 24, 1967), better known as Heavy D, is a Jamaican American rapper, singer and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group which included G-Whiz (Glen Parrish), "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. He has recently ventured into reggae music and can now be described as a reggae fusion artist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heavy D, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2012
- Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D as Self
- Vanilla Ice Archive as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Tower Heist as Court House Guard
2006
- Step Up as Omar
2005
- Bones as Sid Shapiro
- Dallas 362 as Bear
2004
- LArceny as Charles
2003
- The Tracy Morgan Show as Bernard
2002
- Big Trouble as Greer
2000
- Boston Public as Mr. Lick / Big Boy
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Supreme
- Life as Jake
- The Cider House Rules as Peaches
1998
- Pete Rock: Soul Survivor as Heavy D
1997
- Rhyme & Reason
- The Deli as Bo
- B.A.P.S as Heavy D
1995
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Drexel (voice)
- New Jersey Drive as Bo-Kane
- Your Studio and You as Heavy D
- People: A Musical Celebration ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- Living Single as Darryl
- Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films as Self (uncredited)
- Who's the Man? as Heavy D
1991
- Roc as Calvin Hendricks
1990
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Heavy D.
- The Earth Day Special as Self
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Farouche (segment "On a Deadman's Chest")
1988
- Yo! MTV Raps as Self
1987
- A Different World as Himself