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James Baldwin
Born 1924-08-02
Died 1987-12-01
📍 Harlem, New York, USA
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.
Filmography 31
The New Yorker at 100
as Self (archive footage)
2025
James Baldwin Abroad
as Self
2023
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Madonna: Madame X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
i ran from it and was still in it
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
2020
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Bobby Kennedy for President
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
as Self (archive footage)
2018
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Off-White Tulips
as Self
2013
Public Speaking
as Self (archive footage)
2011
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self (archive footage)
1989
The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
1985
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
I Remember Harlem
as self
1981
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
as Himself
1978
James Baldwin: From Another Place
as Self
1973
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
as Self
1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
Soul!
1968
Baldwin's Nigger
as Self
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
as Self
1965
Take This Hammer
as Self
1964
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
World in Action
1963
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
as Self
1962