Jesse Jackson

Career Overview

Jesse Jackson has 70 screen credits in a career dating back to 1968. Signature works include Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America, Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, Stax, le label soul légendaire. 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

70

Birth Date

1941-10-08

Birth Place

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Known For

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  Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
• 

  Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
• 

  Stax, le label soul légendaire
• 

  Fantastic Lies
• 

  The Subtext of a Yale Education
• 

  Route One/USA

Frequent Collaborators

• Bill Clinton (1 collaborations)
• Cory Booker (1 collaborations)
• Harry Belafonte (1 collaborations)
• Doug Jones (1 collaborations)
• Keith David (1 collaborations)
• Al Bell (1 collaborations)
• Bettye Crutcher (1 collaborations)
• William Bell (1 collaborations)
• Steve Cropper (1 collaborations)
• Sam Moore (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (70 credits)

  • Dear Mister President

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • South to Black Power

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Loudmouth

    Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • El otro Rey de Chicago

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Punch 9 for Harold Washington

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

    Self

    actor

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

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • September First, Twenty-Twenty

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Bernie Blackout

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Stax, le label soul légendaire

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Chicago at the Crossroad

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • The Road to Mass Incarceration

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • I Am MLK Jr.

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • LA 92

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • '85: The Greatest Team in Football History

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Crashing the Party

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Fantastic Lies

    Himself (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • We Are Many

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • MLK: The Assassination Tapes

    Self (archive Footage)

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • A Man's Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Michael Jackson Memorial

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Anecdotes about Fidel

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • The Day the Troubles Began

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Ballou

    Himself

    actor

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

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Real Time with Bill Maher

    - Jesse Jackson; Frank Bruni; Paul Begala; Nayyera Haq; Matt Welch (2017) ... Self actor actors

    - April 01, 2005 (2005) ... Self actor actors

    - October 15, 2004 (2004) ... Self actor actors

    - March 14, 2003 (2003) ... Self actor actors
    2003
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    - Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Bennett, Nick Lachey (2006) ... Self actor actors
    2003
  • Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • BaadAsssss Cinema

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Last Party 2000

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

    (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • The Subtext of a Yale Education

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • University, Inc.

    Self (Archive Footage)

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • 4 Little Girls

    Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • The Journey of the African-American Athlete

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • The Daily Show

    - Rev. Jesse Jackson (2004) ... Self actor actors
    1996
  • The Soul of Stax

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • America's Political Parties: Power and Principle

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Decade

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Route One/USA

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

    On Screen Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • A Different World

    - Citizen Wayne (1989) ... Himself actor actors
    1987
  • In Remembrance of Martin

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

    Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • A Decade of Struggle

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • A Matter of Respect

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Saturday Night Live

    - Michael Jordan/Public Enemy (1991) ... Self (uncredited) actor actors

    - Jesse Jackson/Andrae Crouch, Wintley Phipps (1984) ... Self - Host actor actors
    1975
  • Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

    Self/Cameo (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Save the Children

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Wattstax

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Nationtime: Gary

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • We Are Universal

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Operation Breadbasket

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Uptight

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1968