James Baldwin

James Baldwin

ActorWriter Aug 2 (died age 63) Harlem, New York, USA 1962–2025 (63 year career)

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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.

Known For

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Screenplay

If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk

Novel

I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

Writer

Public Speaking

Public Speaking

Self (archive footage)

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Self

Madonna: Madame X

Madonna: Madame X

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bobby Kennedy for President

Bobby Kennedy for President

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Self (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (32)

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Movies (25)

The New Yorker at 100

The New Yorker at 100

as Self (archive footage)

James Baldwin Abroad

James Baldwin Abroad

as Self

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

as Self (archive footage)

Madonna: Madame X

Madonna: Madame X

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

i ran from it and was still in it

i ran from it and was still in it

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

as Self

Mr. SOUL!

Mr. SOUL!

as Self (archive footage)

Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

The Madding Crowd

The Madding Crowd

as Self (archive footage)

A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

as Self (archive footage)

Public Speaking

Public Speaking

as Self (archive footage)

The James Baldwin Anthology

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

as Self (archive footage)

The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty

as Self - Writer

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

as Himself

James Baldwin: From Another Place

James Baldwin: From Another Place

as Self

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

as Self

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

as Self (archive footage)

Baldwin's Nigger

Baldwin's Nigger

as Self

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

as Self

Take This Hammer

Take This Hammer

as Self

The Negro and the American Promise

The Negro and the American Promise

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

as Self

Television (7)

Explained

Explained

as Self (archive footage)

Bobby Kennedy for President

Bobby Kennedy for President

as Self (archive footage)

I Remember Harlem

I Remember Harlem

as self

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Soul!

Soul!

World in Action

World in Action

Assignment America

Crew (9)

Movies (9)

James Baldwin Abroad

James Baldwin Abroad

Writer

Brother, Where Are You?

Brother, Where Are You?

Original Story

If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk

Novel

I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

Writer

Where the Heart Is

Where the Heart Is

Original Film Writer

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Screenplay

Toc Storee

Toc Storee

Novel

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Novel

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Writer