James Baldwin
Birthday: 1924-08-02 | Place of Birth: Harlem, New York, USAJames 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
Acting
Year
Title
Role
2025
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
as Self (Archive Footage)
2023
James Baldwin Abroad
as Self
2021
i ran from it and was still in it
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2018
Bobby Kennedy for President
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
as Self (archive footage)
2017
I Am Not Your Negro
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Public Speaking
as Self (archive footage)
1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self (archive footage)
1985
The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
1981
I Remember Harlem
as self
1973
1971
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Baldwin's Nigger
as Self
1965
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
as Self
1962
