Captain Davenport — A Soldier's Story Character Profile

About Captain Davenport

Black JAG officer assigned to investigate the murder of Sgt. Waters. He systematically interrogates soldiers and officers, uncovers racial tensions, a planted gun frame-up involving C.J. Memphis, and identifies the actual shooters.

Captain Davenport — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Howard Rollins

Appears in

A Soldier's Story (1984)

Role

Protagonist

More characters from A Soldier's Story

• 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)
• Private Smalls (David Harris)
• Captain Wilcox (Scott Paulin)
• Private Henson (William Allen Young)