Acting credits
77
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Jesse Jackson
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 56Series: 21
TMDB ID: 89289
IMDb ID: nm0413666
Known for: Acting
Born: October 8, 1941
Died: February 17, 2026
Age: 84
Place of birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1963 - 2024
Years active: 62
Average TMDB rating: 6.92
Wikidata: Q310586
Also known as
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
Biography
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Jesse Jackson.
as Self
South to Black Power
2023 • Movie
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
Loudmouth
2022 • Movie
as Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022 • Movie
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021 • Movie
as Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 • Movie
as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 • Movie
as Himself
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 • Movie
as Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 • Movie
as Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Bernie Blackout
2020 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019 • Movie
as Self
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019 • Movie
as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018 • Movie
as Self
I Am MLK Jr.
2018 • Movie
as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018 • Movie
as Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
LA 92
2017 • Movie
as Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016 • Movie
as Self
Crashing the Party
2016 • Movie
as Himself (archive footage)
Fantastic Lies
2016 • Movie
as Self
We Are Many
2014 • Movie
as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jesse Jackson.
as Self (archive footage) • 4 eps
Hollywood Black
2024 • Series
as Self • 3 eps
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 • Series
as Self • 4 eps
Obama
2020 • Series
as Self - Civil Rights Leader • 1 eps
Shut Up and Dribble
2018 • Series
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
Explained
2018 • Series
1 eps
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Robins
2006 • Series
1 eps
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Tanner on Tanner
2004 • Series
as Self • 4 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
The Chris Rock Show
1997 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Daily Show
1996 • Series
as Cocky Locky (voice) • 1 eps
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 • Series
as Various (voice)
Baseball
1994 • Series
as Himself (uncredited) • 1 eps
Tanner '88
1988 • Series
as Himself • 1 eps
A Different World
1987 • Series
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
Not Necessarily the News
1983 • Series
as Self - Host • 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
1975 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Dinah!
1974 • Series
1 eps
World in Action
1963 • Series