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James Baldwin

Acting Born Aug 2, 1924 Harlem, New York, USA 24 credits

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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Known for

Film

The Stepford Wives

as Self - Guest

World in Action

1963
Film

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

as Self (archive footage)

Full filmography

  • The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
  • World in Action (1963)
  • Explained (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) as Self (archive footage)
  • Bobby Kennedy for President (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • The New Yorker at 100 (2025) as Self (archive footage)
  • Mr. SOUL! (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • Madonna: Madame X (2021) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Public Speaking (2011) as Self (archive footage)
  • Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Statue of Liberty (1985) as Self - Writer
  • SOUL! (1968)
  • The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre (1978) as Himself
  • Assignment America
  • The Negro and the American Promise (1963)
  • James Baldwin Abroad (2023) as Self
  • James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) as Self (archive footage)
  • Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1971) as Self
  • I Remember Harlem (1981) as self
  • Baldwin's Nigger (1968) as Self
  • The Madding Crowd (2017) as Self (archive footage)
  • James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973) as Self
  • I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)