Acting credits
31
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
James Baldwin
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 32Series: 6Crew credits: 9
TMDB ID: 943183
IMDb ID: nm0049924
Known for: Acting
Born: August 2, 1924
Died: December 1, 1987
Age: 63
Place of birth: Harlem, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1962 - 2025
Years active: 64
Average TMDB rating: 7.19
Wikidata: Q273210
Other jobs
Novel (3)Writer (3)Original Film Writer (1)Original Story (1)Screenplay (1)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with James Baldwin.
6.9
The New Yorker at 100
as Self (archive footage)
2025 Movie
10.0
James Baldwin Abroad
as Self
2023 Movie
10.0
Brother, Where Are You?
Original Story
2022 Movie
6.7
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022 Movie
7.5
Madonna: Madame X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021 Movie
6.0
i ran from it and was still in it
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021 Movie
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
2020 Movie
6.9
If Beale Street Could Talk
Novel
2018 Movie
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018 Movie
7.0
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
7.7
I Am Not Your Negro
Writer
2017 Movie
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017 Movie
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
as Self (archive footage)
2014 Movie
6.0
Off-White Tulips
as Self
2013 Movie
7.0
Public Speaking
as Self (archive footage)
2011 Movie
6.0
Where the Heart Is
Original Film Writer
1998 Movie
7.5
Malcolm X
Screenplay
1992 Movie
Toc Storee
Novel
1992 Movie
1.3
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self (archive footage)
1989 Movie
6.7
The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
1985 Movie
6.4
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Novel
1984 Movie
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 Movie
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
as Himself
1978 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with James Baldwin.
7.5
Explained
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
2018 Series
7.8
Bobby Kennedy for President
as Self (archive footage) • 4 eps
2018 Series
I Remember Harlem
as self • 4 eps
1981 Series
Soul!
2 eps
1968 Series
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
1968 Series
7.0
World in Action
1 eps
1963 Series