Acting credits
25
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Amiri Baraka
Writing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 27Series: 2Crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 545358
IMDb ID: nm0052893
Known for: Writing
Born: October 7, 1934
Died: January 9, 2014
Age: 79
Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1966 - 2026
Years active: 61
Average TMDB rating: 6.11
Wikidata: Q354783
Also known as
Everett Leroy Jones • LeRoi Jones • Imamu Amear Baraka • LeRoy Jones-Baraka • Ameer Baraka
Other jobs
Writer (4)Director (1)Original Story (1)Screenplay (1)
Biography
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Amiri Baraka.
4.5
The Dutchman
Original Story
2026 Movie
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
as Self - poet
2025 Movie
5.0
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
2009 Movie
4.4
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
as Self
2008 Movie
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
as Himself
2008 Movie
9.0
Return to Gorée
as Self
2007 Movie
Turn Me On
as Self
2007 Movie
Poets at the Living Theater
as Self
2006 Movie
6.4
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
2006 Movie
The Pact
as Self
2006 Movie
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
2005 Movie
6.3
Bulworth
as Rastaman
1998 Movie
5.2
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
1997 Movie
5.0
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
as Self
1996 Movie
1.3
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self
1989 Movie
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
as Himself
1987 Movie
Speaking in Tongues
1982 Movie
7.0
Poetry in Motion
as Self
1982 Movie
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
as Self
1982 Movie
4.1
Death of a Prophet
1981 Movie
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
as Self
1978 Movie
Medea
Writer
1973 Movie
8.0
Nationtime
as Self
1972 Movie
5.8
1 P.M.
as Self
1971 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Amiri Baraka.
