James Baldwin
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Acting Credits
Biography
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
Known For
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
World in Action
Explained
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
Himself
I Am Not Your Negro
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Kennedy for President
Self (archive footage)
The New Yorker at 100
Self (archive footage)
Filmography
The New Yorker at 100
2025
as Self (archive footage)
James Baldwin Abroad
2023
as Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Madonna: Madame X
2021
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
i ran from it and was still in it
2021
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
as Self
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Explained
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Madding Crowd
2017
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Not Your Negro
2017
as Self (archive footage)
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Off-White Tulips
2013
as Self
Public Speaking
2011
as Self (archive footage)
The James Baldwin Anthology
2003
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
as Self (archive footage)
The Statue of Liberty
1985
as Self - Writer
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
I Remember Harlem
1981
as self
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
1978
as Himself
James Baldwin: From Another Place
1973
as Self
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1971
as Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Baldwin's Nigger
1968
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
SOUL!
1968
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
1965
as Self
Take This Hammer
1964
as Self
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
World in Action
1963
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
1962
as Self