Acting · Compton, California, USA · Born April 19, 1965
An American record producer, music executive, and a former replacement player as an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knight's incarceration on probation violation charges in September 1996 and went bankrupt in 2006. In February 2015, Knight was charged with murder and attempted murder following a fatal hit-and-run in Compton, California. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Known gang banger of at least two Blood gangs. Was driving the car that Tupac Shakur was shot in on September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tupac died six days later.
TVSean Combs: The Reckoning
2025
as Self - Founder of Death Row Records (archive footage)
MovieTMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
2024
as Self (voice)
MovieWho Killed Biggie and Tupac?
2022
as Self (archive footage)
BODR (Bacc On Death Row)
2022
as Self (archive footage)
MovieLast Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBiggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021
as Self - Co-Founder, Death Row Records (archive footage)
MovieAmerican Dream/American Knightmare
2018
as Self
MovieWho Killed Tupac?
2017
as Self (archive footage)
TVThe Defiant Ones
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Vanilla Ice Archive
2012
as Self (archive footage)
MovieOne Night in Vegas
2010
as Self
Married to the Game: The Real Inside Story of Death Row
2009
as Self
MovieTupac Assassination Conspiracy Or Revenge
2009
as Self
MovieTupac: Live at the House of Blues
2005
as Self
MovieTupac: Resurrection
2003
as Self (archival)
TVLast Call with Carson Daly
2002
as Self
MovieWelcome to Death Row
2001
as Self - CEO, Death Row Records (archive footage)
MovieSuge Knight: On The Real Death Row Story
2001
as Himself
MovieDeath Row Uncut
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
as Self
MovieHopelessly in Love: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Andre Rison
as Self (archive footage)
