Malcolm X

Career Overview

Malcolm X has 52 screen credits in a career dating back to 1959. Signature works include Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali, I Am Not Your Negro, Malcolm X and the Sudanese. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

52

Birth Date

1925-05-19

Birth Place

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Known For

• 

  Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
• 

  I Am Not Your Negro
• 

  Malcolm X and the Sudanese
• 

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X
• 

  A Tribute to Malcolm X

Frequent Collaborators

• Muhammad Ali (1 collaborations)
• Elijah Muhammad (1 collaborations)
• Al Sharpton (1 collaborations)
• Cornel West (1 collaborations)
• Ilyasah Shabazz (1 collaborations)
• Rahman Ali (1 collaborations)
• Todd Boyd (1 collaborations)
• Maryum Ali (1 collaborations)
• Herb Boyd (1 collaborations)
• Gene Kilroy (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (50 credits)

  • King vs. the United States of America

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Orwell: 2+2=5

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • America's Woman

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Four Died Trying: Prologue

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Stand

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    Self - Activist (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Malcolm X and the Sudanese

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Da 5 Bloods

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Mike Wallace Is Here

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Barney's Wall

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • The Apollo

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • When Tariq Ali Met Malcolm X

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Burn Motherfucker, Burn!

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • I Am Not Your Negro

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • 13th

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Lemonade

    Self (voice) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • COINTELPRO 101

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Motherland

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Black Power Salute

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • A Huey P. Newton Story

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Muhammad Ali The Whole Story

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • All Power to the People!

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • The Real Malcolm X

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Black Women, Sexual Politics and the Revolution

    Himself (archive)

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • The FBI's War on Black America

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • American Experience

    - Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994) ... Self (archive footage) actor actors

    - Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian (1994) ... Self (archive footage) actor actors
    1988
  • Frontline

    - Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court (2023) ... Self (archive footage) actor actors
    1983
  • A Decade of Struggle

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Muhammad Ali, the Greatest

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Malcolm X

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Dynamite Chicken

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • a.k.a. Cassius Clay

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Black Liberation

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • A Tribute to Malcolm X

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Negro and the American Promise

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Walk in My Shoes

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • The Hate That Hate Produced

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1959

• writing (2 credits)

  • Malcolm X

    book

    writing
    1992
  • Malcolm X

    book

    writing
    1972