Martin Luther King Jr.

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1929-01-15

Place of Birth

Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Martin Luther King Jr.

Biography

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

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Acting History

2025
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc. as Self (archive footage)
2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump as Self (archive footage)
2024
America's Woman as Self
2024
The Beach Boys as Self (archive footage)
2024
Zeitgeist: Requiem as Self (archive footage)
2024
Becoming King as Self (archive footage)
2023
Origin as Self (archive voice)
2023
Four Died Trying: Prologue as Self (archive footage)
2023
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
La Californie ! as Self (archive footage)
2023
Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America
2023
Bill Russell: Legend as Self (archive footage)
2023
Stand as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Universe as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Century of Icons as Self (archive footage)
2022
Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Self (archive footage)
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self (archive footage)
2022
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
2022
The Janes as Self (archive footage)
2022
A History of the World According to Getty Images as Self (Archive Footage)
2022
A History of Antisemitism as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2022
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's as Self (archive footage)
2022
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Art of Dissent as Self - Subject (archive footage)
2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror as Self (archive footage)
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self (archive footage)
2021
This Is Pop as Self (archive footage)
2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr. as Self
2020
The Soul of America as Self (archive footage)
2020
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2020
First Ladies as Self (archive footage)
2020
MLK/FBI as Self (archive footage)
2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade as Self
2020
Helter Skelter: An American Myth as Self (archive footage)
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble as Self (archive Footage)
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble as Self (archive footage)
2020
Uncle Tom as Self (archive footage)
2020
Da 5 Bloods as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
Killing John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage)
2020
History 101 as Self (archive footage)
2020
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show as Self (archive footage)
2019
England 79
2019
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind as Self (archive footage)
2019
Mike Wallace Is Here as Self (archive footage)
2019
Geek, and You Shall Find as Self (voice)
2019
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation as Self
2019
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali as Self (archive footage)
2019
Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2019
Hesburgh as Self (archive footage)
2019
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook as Self (archive footage)
2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2018
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening as Self (archive footage)
2018
The Corporate Coup D'État as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Basketball: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
2018
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond as Self (archive footage)
2018
Explained as Self (archive footage)
2018
Bobby Kennedy for President as Self (archive footage)
2018
Elvis Presley: The Searcher as Self (archive footage)
2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man as Self (archive footage)
2018
I Am MLK Jr. as Self
2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald as Self (archive footage)
2018
King in the Wilderness as Self (archive footage)
2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People as Self (archive footage)
2017
Burn Motherfucker, Burn! as Self (archive footage)
2017
Chasing Trane as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2016
13th as Self (archive footage)
2016
O.J.: Made in America as Self (archive footage)
2016
Great Literary Tour as Self (archive footage)
2016
O.J.: Made in America as Self (archive footage)
2016
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes as Self (archive footage)
2016
Race for the White House as Self (archive footage)
2016
Året var 1966 as Self (archive footage)
2015
Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa as Self (archive footage)
2015
Imminent Threat as Self (archive footage)
2015
In Their Own Words as Self (archive footage)
2015
Klansville U.S.A. as Self (archive Footage)
2014
Emancipation Road as Self
2014
Freedom Summer as Self (archive footage)
2013
Speeches That Shook the World as Self (archive footage)
2013
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia as Self (archive footage)
2013
Året var 1963 as Self (archive footage)
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington as Self
2012
The House I Live In as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
Infamous Assassinations as Self (archive footage)
2012
MLK: The Assassination Tapes as Self (archive footage)
2012
Ethel as Self (archive footage)
2012
Picture Me Rollin' as Self (voice)
2011
J. Edgar as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
Mentiras verdaderas as Self (archive footage)
2010
2012: Time for Change as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010
COINTELPRO 101 as Self (archive footage)
2010
Roads to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
2010
When You're Strange as Self (archive footage)
2009
Capitalism: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
2009
Stand as Self (archive footage)
2008
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston as Self (archive footage)
2008
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene as self - archival footage
2007
L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK? as Self (archive footage)
2007
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy as Self (archive footage)
2007
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War as Self (archive footage)
2006
...So Goes the Nation as Self (archive footage)
2006
Bobby as Self (archive footage)
2006
Folk Britannia as Self (archival footage)
2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self (archive footage)
2004
Citizen King as Self (archive footage)
2003
Days That Shook the World as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Corporation as Self (archive footage)
2002
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks as Self (archive footage)
2002
Naqoyqatsi as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
The Year That Trembled as Self (archive footage)
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
The American Nightmare as Self
1999
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games as Self (archive footage)
1997
4 Little Girls as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
Blue Eyed
1996
All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage)
1995
Kulturzeit as Self (archive footage)
1994
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective as Self (archive footage)
1992
The Real Malcolm X
1992
Death Scenes 2 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
The Doors as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
American Experience as Himself (archive footage)
1987
21 Jump Street as Himself (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1986
In Remembrance of Martin as Self
1985
Disasters of the Century as Self (archive footage)
1985
Good Intentions as Self (Archival Footage)
1979
The War at Home as Self (archive footage)
1978
James Brown Soul Brother No. 1
1973
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973
Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective) as Self (archive footage)
1970
Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра» as Self (archive footage)
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
1969
Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis as Self
1968
LBJ as Self
1967
Martin Luther King at Newcastle University as Self
1967
Omnibus as Self
1967
After Civil Rights... Black Power as Self
1967
I Am Curious (Yellow) as Himself
1966
Anno Domini MCMLXV as Self (archive footage)
1965
The Bus
1964
The March as Self
1964
Wealth of a Nation as Self
1963
I Have a Dream as Self
1963
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr as himself
1963
The Negro and the American Promise
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1960
Integration Report 1 as Self
1959
The David Susskind Show as Self