Dellums had minor appearances in several Spike Lee films early in his career, such as "She's Gotta Have It" (1986) and "Do the Right Thing" (1989). He was portrayed (as a child) by Travis Kyle Davis in a Disney Channel Original Movie entitled "The Color of Friendship" (2000), which was based on what happened when his family hosted a foreign exchange student from South Africa during the Apartheid era; Dellums had a cameo role as himself. He provided the voice of the character Koh the Face Stealer in the animated Nickelodeon series "", as well as the narration for "Key Constitutional Concepts", a documentary produced in 2006 by the Annenberg Foundation.