Andrew Young
Biography
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
Known For
The Colbert Report
The American President
A Man's Story
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
4 Little Girls
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told
All Movies (29)
- Andrew Young: The Dirty Work2025 · as Self
- The Games in Black & White2025 · as Himself
- Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told2024 · as Self (archive footage)
- South to Black Power2023 · as Self
- Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton2023 · as Self
- Rather2023 · as Self - Civil Rights Activist & Politician
- This World Is Not My Own2023 · as Self
- Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story2021 · as Self
- MLK/FBI2020 · as Self
- Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President2020 · as Self
- Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story2020 · as Self
- Backyard Wilderness2018 · as Dad
- Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace2018 · as Self
- Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald2018 · as Self
- King in the Wilderness2018 · as Self
- Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis2017 · as Self
- Martin Luther King and the March on Washington2013 · as Self
- A Man's Story2011 · as Self
- Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy2009 · as Self
- Movin' on Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions2008 · as Self
- Citizen King2004 · as Self
- I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America1998 · as Self
- 4 Little Girls1997 · as Self - SCLC
- The Real Malcolm X1992
- Traveling Hopefully1982 · as Self - Ambassador
- A Decade of Struggle1980 · as Self
- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis1970 · as Self (archive footage)
- I Am Somebody1970 · as Self
- Integration Report 11960 · as Self
All TV Shows (3)
- Downing of a Flag2021 · as self
- The Colbert Report2005 · as Self
- The American President2000 · as Thomas Jefferson