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Known for Acting
Born 1924-08-02 · Died 1987-12-01 in Harlem, New York, USA
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.
The New Yorker at 100 (2025) — Self (archive footage)
James Baldwin Abroad (2023) — Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) — Self (archive footage)
Madonna: Madame X (2021) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
i ran from it and was still in it (2021) — Self (voice) (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020) — Self
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 (2018) — Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL! (2018) — Self (archive footage)
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision (2018)
Bobby Kennedy for President (2018) — Self (archive footage) · 4 episodes
Explained (2018) — Self (archive footage) · 1 episode
The Madding Crowd (2017) — Self (archive footage)
I Am Not Your Negro (2017) — Self (archive footage)
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else (2014) — Self (archive footage)
Off-White Tulips (2013) — Self
Public Speaking (2011) — Self (archive footage)
The James Baldwin Anthology (2003)
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) — Self (archive footage)
The Statue of Liberty (1985) — Self - Writer
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
I Remember Harlem (1981) — self · 4 episodes
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre (1978) — Himself
James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973) — Self
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1971) — Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) — Self (archive footage)
Baldwin's Nigger (1968) — Self
The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest · 3 episodes
SOUL! (1968) · 2 episodes
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley (1965) — Self
Take This Hammer (1964) — Self
The Negro and the American Promise (1963)
World in Action (1963) · 1 episode
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village (1962) — Self
Assignment America · 1 episode