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  1. Jun 12, 2024 · The actor produced and starred in 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves,' dramatizing the real-life adventures of a slave turned U.S. deputy marshal from Arkansas who caught frontier outlaws during the ...

    • Hugh Hart
  2. Jun 19, 2024 · David Oyelowo is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor who rose to prominence for portraying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay's film "Selma" and Peter Snowden in the HBO film "Nightingale."

    • Tonya Mosley
  3. Jun 19, 2024 · For some 10 years, British-American actor-producer David Oyelowo has nurtured his obsession with the legendary post-Civil War Deputy U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves — long considered an inspiration...

  4. Jun 18, 2024 · David Oyelowo had never heard of Bass Reeves when he was approached to star as the runaway slave who became the first Black US deputy marshal west of the Mississippi. “I knew nothing,” admits...

  5. Jun 10, 2024 · David Oyelowo had been trying to get a version of “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” made for 10 years. The project about the real-life Black peace officer who worked the U.S. “Indian Territory” in the 1880s...

  6. Jun 11, 2024 · David Oyelowo (‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’) on portraying ‘a man who really moved the needle historically’. David Buchanan. Tue, June 11, 2024, 3:03 PM EDT · 4 min read.

  7. Jun 17, 2024 · David Oyelowo plays the title character in “ Lawmen: Bass Reeves ,” the true story of a man who escaped enslavement and went on to become one of the first U.S. Deputy Marshals. While there is...