James Baldwin

Biography

James 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.

Known For

The Dick Cavett Show

Explained

World in Action

Bobby Kennedy for President

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Public Speaking

The New Yorker at 100

Mr. SOUL!

All Movies (26)

• The New Yorker at 1002025 · as Self (archive footage)
• James Baldwin Abroad2023 · as Self
• Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Madonna: Madame X2021 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• i ran from it and was still in it2021 · as Self (voice) (archive footage)
• De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade2020 · as Self
• Robert Penn Warren: A Vision2018
• Mr. SOUL!2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Target: St. Louis Vol. 12018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Madding Crowd2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Off-White Tulips2013 · as Self
• Public Speaking2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• The James Baldwin Anthology2003
• James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket1989 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Statue of Liberty1985 · as Self - Writer
• I Heard It Through the Grapevine1982
• The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre1978 · as Himself
• James Baldwin: From Another Place1973 · as Self
• Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris1971 · as Self
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis1970 · as Self (archive footage)
• Baldwin's Nigger1968 · as Self
• Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley1965 · as Self
• Take This Hammer1964 · as Self
• The Negro and the American Promise1963
• James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village1962 · as Self

All TV Shows (7)

• Explained2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Bobby Kennedy for President2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• I Remember Harlem1981 · as self
• SOUL!1968
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• World in Action1963
• Assignment America—