Private Smalls — A Soldier's Story Character Profile

About Private Smalls

Soldier on guard duty who possessed .45 ammunition. Confesses to Davenport to having witnessed Peterson fatally shoot Waters, framing the act as justice for Memphis and Black soldiers. Arrested alongside Peterson and Wilkie.

Character Facts

Played by

David Harris

Appears in

A Soldier's Story (1984)

Role

Supporting

More characters from A Soldier's Story

• Captain Davenport (Howard Rollins)
• Sergeant Waters (Adolph Caesar)
• Private Wilkie (Art Evans)
• Private First Class Peterson (Denzel Washington)
• Corporal Cobb (David Alan Grier)
• Corporal Ellis (Robert Townsend)
• Captain Taylor (Dennis Lipscomb)
• Lieutenant Byrd (Wings Hauser)
• Big Mary (Patti LaBelle)
• C.J. Memphis (Larry Riley)
• Captain Wilcox (Scott Paulin)
• Private Henson (William Allen Young)