8.6
/10
Narrator is a real person portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (season 4), they were 54 years old.
They appear in 2 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Narrator is also portrayed by Kenneth Branagh, Susan Sarandon, Denzel Washington, Willem Dafoe, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, Kathy Bates, Benjamin Bratt and Peter Coyote.

Narrator

by Morgan Freeman

character

Episodes2

  • 7
    /10

    The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
    episode S4.E3 october 1991
    A story of the formation and service of the first all-Black military unit in the United States during the Civil War.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Partners of the Heart
    episode S15.E8 february 2003
    During World War II and the era of staunch racial segregation, a Black carpenter's son named Vivien Thomas, who had a talent for surgery, along with a white surgeon named Dr. Alfred Blalock, who defied the medical establishment created a partnership that changed the course of cardiac surgery. With only a high school diploma, Thomas became a leading cardiac pioneer and educator of two generations of the United States' premiere heart surgeons. This moving documentary tells the story of Thomas and his relationship with Blalock, one that ushered in advances in surgery that are still in existence today.