Lena Horne

ActorSound Jun 30 (died age 92) Brooklyn, New York, USA 1938–2021 (83 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Returning to her roots…

Known For

Film

The Wiz

Glinda the Good

Film

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

Self - Singer (archive footage)

Film

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage)

Film

Stormy Weather

Selina Rogers

Film

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage)

Film

That's Entertainment! III

Self - Co-Host / Narrator

Film

Cabin in the Sky

Georgia Brown

Film

Ziegfeld Follies

Lena Horne (segment "Love")

Filmography

Acting (88)

Movies (53)

How It Feels to Be Free

2021

as Self (archival footage)

Sid & Judy

2019

as Self (archive footage)

7.4

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

2019

as Self - Singer (archive footage)

7.7

Storm in My Heart

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days

2010

as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)

Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2

2006

as Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland Duets

2005

as Self (archive footage)

Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas

2005

An Evening With Lena Horne

2005

as self

The Harlem Renaissance

2004

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover

2004

The Incomparable Lena Horne

2004

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004

as Self (archive footage)

4.0

It's Black Entertainment

2002

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999

as Self

That's Entertainment! III

1994

as Self - Co-Host / Narrator

7.0

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

1994

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Aretha Franklin: Duets

1993

as Self

8.0

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990

as Self (archive footage)

Sesame Street: Learning About Letters

1986

as Self

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

as Self

8.0

DTV: Golden Oldies

1984

as Self

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

The Wiz

as Glinda the Good

Sesame Street at Night?

1977

as Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

6.9

That's Entertainment!

1974

as (archive footage)

7.4

Death of a Gunfighter

as Claire Quintana

Now!

as Self (voice)

Beyond the Riviera

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies

1960

as Self - Singer

The All-Star Christmas Show

as Self

Meet Me in Las Vegas

as Lena Horne

A.N.T.A. Album of 1955

1955

as Self

Duchess of Idaho

as Lena Horne

Words and Music

as Lena Horne

Mantan Messes Up

as Lene

Swingtime Jamboree

1946

as Herself

Till the Clouds Roll By

1946

as Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne

Studio Visit

as Herself

Ziegfeld Follies

as Lena Horne (segment "Love")

6.0

Harlem Hotshots

1945

as (archive footage)

Boogie-Woogie Dream

1944

Two Girls and a Sailor

as Specialty

Broadway Rhythm

as Fernway de la Fer

Stormy Weather

as Selina Rogers

Swing Fever

as Herself

Cabin in the Sky

as Georgia Brown

Thousands Cheer

as Lena Horne

I Dood It

as Herself

Panama Hattie

as As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited)

4.0

The Duke Is Tops

1938

as Ethel Andrews

6.0

Honor Coles, Le Danseur De Claquettes Distingue

as Self

Television (35)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self

A Different World

as Self

American Masters

as Self

The Cosby Show

as Lena Horne

Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.4

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

as Self

7.4

The Muppet Show

1976

as Self - Special Guest Star / Lola Bramswell

Keep US Beautiful

Sanford and Son

Great Performances

as Self

The Flip Wilson Show

as Self

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self (uncredited)

Film Night

The Dean Martin Show

The Hollywood Palace

as Self

The Judy Garland Show

1963

as Self

8.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Password

The DuPont Show of the Week

1961

as Self

6.0

The Bell Telephone Hour

as Self - Host

Kraft Music Hall

The Twentieth Century

Tony Awards

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Recipient / Performer

The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Singer

The Perry Como Show

MGM Parade

Music 55

Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium

The Oscars

as Self

What's My Line?

as Self

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self

Your Show of Shows

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Now!

1965

Music

6.2