James Baldwin
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.
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Acting History
2025
The New Yorker at 100 as Self (archive footage)
2023James Baldwin Abroad as Self
2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self (archive footage)
2021Madonna: Madame X as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021i ran from it and was still in it as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2020De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade as Self
2018Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018Explained as Self (archive footage)
2018Bobby Kennedy for President as Self (archive footage)
2018Mr. SOUL! as Self (archive footage)
2018Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 as Self (archive footage)
2017The Madding Crowd as Self (archive footage)
2014A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else as Self (archive footage)
2011Public Speaking as Self (archive footage)
2003The James Baldwin Anthology
1989James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket as Self (archive footage)
1985The Statue of Liberty as Self - Writer
1982I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1981I Remember Harlem as self
1978The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre as Himself
1973James Baldwin: From Another Place as Self
1971Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris as Self
1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
1968Baldwin's Nigger as Self
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1965Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley as Self
1964Take This Hammer as Self
1963The Negro and the American Promise
1962James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village as Self
—Assignment America