Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 15, 1929
Place of Birth:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Biography
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. (Wikipedia)
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Zeitgeist: Requiem | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Becoming King | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | America's Woman | Self |
| 2024 | Faye | Self - Civil Rights Leader (archive footage) |
| 2024 | The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | The Beach Boys | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | The Universe | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Stand | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight | |
| 2023 | Four Died Trying: Prologue | |
| 2023 | Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America | |
| 2022 | Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Say Hey, Willie Mays! | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | The Janes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream | |
| 2022 | A History of the World According to Getty Images | Self (Archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The Art of Dissent | Self - Subject (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. | Self |
| 2020 | The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Killing John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Uncle Tom | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade | Self |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | The Soul of America | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | MLK/FBI | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation | Self |
| 2019 | Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Geek, and You Shall Find | Self (voice) |
| 2019 | Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2019 | England 79 | |
| 2019 | Hesburgh | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. | Self |
| 2018 | King in the Wilderness | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | The Corporate Coup D'État | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2018 | 1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Robert Penn Warren: A Vision | |
| 2017 | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Chasing Trane | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2017 | I Am Not Your Negro | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Burn Motherfucker, Burn! | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | 13th | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Året var 1966 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Unity | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Imminent Threat | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Klansville U.S.A. | Self (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | Freedom Summer | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Selma | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2013 | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Self |
| 2013 | Speeches That Shook the World | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Året var 1963 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Picture Me Rollin' | Self (voice) |
| 2012 | MLK: The Assassination Tapes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | The House I Live In | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2012 | Ethel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2011 | J. Edgar | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2010 | COINTELPRO 101 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | 2012: Time for Change | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2010 | Roads to Memphis | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Stand | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | self - archival footage |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | L'altra Dalla - Chi ha ucciso RFK? | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | ...So Goes the Nation | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Bobby | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Citizen King | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | The Corporation | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Self (uncredited archive footage) |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | The American Nightmare | Self |
| 1999 | Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1996 | Blue Eyed | |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! | Self (archive footage) |
| 1994 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective | Self (archive footage) |
| 1992 | Death Scenes 2 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1991 | The Doors | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1986 | In Remembrance of Martin | Self |
| 1985 | Disasters of the Century | Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Good Intentions | Self (Archival Footage) |
| 1981 | The Killing of America | Self (archive footage) |
| 1979 | The War at Home | Self (archive footage) |
| 1978 | James Brown Soul Brother No. 1 | |
| 1973 | Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective) | Self (archive footage) |
| 1973 | Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 | Self/Cameo (archive footage) |
| 1970 | Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра» | Self (archive footage) |
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) |
| 1969 | Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis | Self |
| 1968 | LBJ | Self |
| 1967 | Martin Luther King at Newcastle University | Self |
| 1967 | I Am Curious (Yellow) | Himself |
| 1967 | After Civil Rights... Black Power | Self |
| 1966 | Wealth of a Nation | Self |
| 1965 | The Bus | |
| 1964 | The March | Self |
| 1963 | David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr | himself |
| 1963 | I Have a Dream | Self |
| 1960 | Integration Report 1 | Self |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Bill Russell: Legend | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | La Californie ! | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | A History of Antisemitism | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2022 | The Century of Icons | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | This Is Pop | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Helter Skelter: An American Myth | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | History 101 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Ku Klux Klan: An American Story | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2020 | First Ladies | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | What's My Name | Muhammad Ali | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Basketball: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Elvis Presley: The Searcher | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Bobby Kennedy for President | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Explained | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Great Literary Tour | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Race for the White House | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | In Their Own Words | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Emancipation Road | Self |
| 2012 | Infamous Assassinations | Self (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Mentiras verdaderas | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Folk Britannia | Self (archival footage) |
| 2003 | Days That Shook the World | Self (archive footage) |
| 1995 | Kulturzeit | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | American Experience | Himself (archive footage) |
| 1987 | 21 Jump Street | Himself (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1959 | The David Susskind Show | Self |