Cicely Tyson and Ben Vereen at an event for The 5th Annual TV Land Awards (2007)

LeVar Burton and Ben Vereen at an event for The 5th Annual TV Land Awards (2007)

"Academy Awards: 52nd Annual," Ben Vereen, Dolly Parton.  1980.

Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen in Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980)

Mitzi Kapture, Rob Estes, and Ben Vereen in Silk Stalkings (1991)

Edward Asner, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Tyson, John Amos, Maya Angelou, Lynne Moody, Madge Sinclair, Leslie Uggams, and Ben Vereen in Roots (1977)

Ben Vereen and Betty White in Hot in Cleveland (2010)

Ben Vereen and Laverne Cox in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)

Ben Vereen in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)

Ben Vereen and LaVan Davis in House of Payne (2006)

Katherine Heigl, Eric Dane, Sara Ramirez, and Ben Vereen in Grey's Anatomy (2005)

Wayne Brady and Ben Vereen in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Will Smith and Ben Vereen in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)

Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Wayne Brady, Jason Segel, Ben Vereen, Josh Radnor, Ellen D. Williams, and Sam Gibbs in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Neil Patrick Harris, Ben Vereen, and Cobie Smulders in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Rocky Carroll and Ben Vereen in NCIS (2003)

Neil Patrick Harris, Wayne Brady, and Ben Vereen in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Wayne Brady, Jason Segel, and Ben Vereen in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Neil Patrick Harris, Wayne Brady, Ben Vereen, and Cobie Smulders in How I Met Your Mother (2005)