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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 1, 1927
Died
April 25, 2023
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.
Harry Belafonte
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
2025
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Following Harry
2024
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
7.9
Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
8.0
Self
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
2023
0.0
Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
8.2
Self - Inductee (archive footage)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
6.6
Self
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
7.6
Self
Sidney
2022
8.2
Self - Subject (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
2022
Credits
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
2025
10.0
Following Harry
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.8
The Greatest Night in Pop
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.9
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
as Self
2023
8.0
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self
2023
0.0
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self - Inductee (archive footage)
2022
8.2
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
as Self
2022
6.6
Sidney
as Self
2022
7.6
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
2022
8.2
The One and Only Dick Gregory
as Self
2021
7.8
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
as Self
2020
3.0
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
as Self
2020
6.2
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
as Self (archive footage)
2020
6.0
TV Story Superstar
as Self (archive footage)
2020
0.0
The Man Behind the White Guitar
as Self
2019
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BlacKkKlansman
as Jerome Turner
2018
7.5
Bobby Kennedy for President
as Self
2018
7.8
Mr. SOUL!
as Self
2018
7.0
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
2018
0.0
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
as Self - Singer
2018
0.0
King in the Wilderness
as Self
2018
6.9
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
2017
6.2
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JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
as Self
2017
0.0
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
Jackie Robinson
as Self
2016
7.9
Året var 1966
as Self (archive footage)
2016
0.0
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
as Self
2015
0.0
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
as Self
2014
1.5
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
as Self
2014
7.0
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
as Self
2013
6.7
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Sternstunde Musik
as Self
2013
0.0
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
2013
10.0
JFK: The Private President
as Self
2013
0.0
Hava Nagila: The Movie
as Self
2012
7.0
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
as Self
2012
7.0
Sing Your Song
as Self
2012
6.9
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Rise Like Lions
as Self
2011
0.0
Mama Africa
as Self (archive footage)
2011
6.5
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Hamburg Journal
as self
2011
0.0
The University of Sing Sing
as Self
2011
5.5
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
as Self (voice)
2011
7.6
Motherland
as Self
2010
8.0
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
0.0
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
as Self
2009
0.0
Bobby
as Nelson
2006
6.4
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
2006
7.4
Mo & Me
2006
0.0
Best Ever Muppet Moments
as Self
2006
6.0
The Colbert Report
as Self - Guest
2005
6.9
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The Peace!
as Self
2005
5.0
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
as Self
2005
6.0
🎬
Muppet Music Moments
as Self
2004
0.0
Tanner on Tanner
as Self
2004
0.0
The Legendary Nat King Cole
as Self
2004
0.0
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
6.0
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.1
The World of Nat King Cole
as Self
2004
0.0
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
2004
4.0
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Menschen bei Maischberger
as Self
2003
6.3
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self (uncredited)
2002
2.0
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Gero von Boehm begegnet...
as Self
2002
0.0
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
0.0
Swing Vote
as Will Dunn
1999
5.5
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
1999
0.0
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
PB&J Otter
as The Ice Moose (voice)
1998
7.0
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Sabine Christiansen
as Self
1998
0.0
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Self
1998
7.7
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
as Self
1997
8.0
Jazz '34
as Self - Narrator
1997
6.1
Kansas City
as Seldom Seen
1996
6.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996
3.9
White Man's Burden
as Thaddeus Thomas
1995
5.1
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Magic Man (voice)
1995
6.0
🎬
Willemsens Woche
as Self
1995
0.0
Prêt-à-Porter
as Self
1994
5.2
The World of Jim Henson
as Self
1994
7.3
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
as Self (archive footage)
1993
0.0
The Player
as Harry Belafonte
1992
7.2
🎬
Musik liegt in der Luft
as Self - Singer
1991
0.0
DAS!
as Self
1991
4.2
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
as Self
1990
6.9
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
as Self
1989
0.0
🎬
Flitterabend
as Self - Singer
1988
0.0
🎬
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
7.0
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
as Self
1988
10.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
as Self (archive footage)
1986
7.0
The Muppet Revue
as Self
1985
0.0
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
as Self
1985
8.5
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self - Laudatio
1984
5.7
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Bei Bio
as Self
1983
0.0
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
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Grambling's White Tiger
as Coach Eddie Robinson
1981
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Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Heut' abend
as Self
1980
0.0
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
1979
6.9
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
Auf los geht's los
as Self
1977
0.0
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
as Self
1977
0.0
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Club 2
as Self
1976
0.0
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star
1976
8.0
Numéro un
as Self
1975
6.0
Uptown Saturday Night
as Geechie Dan Beauford
1974
6.1
Free to Be… You and Me
as Self
1974
6.7
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
Nationtime
as Self
1972
8.0
The Julie Andrews Hour
as Self
1972
6.0
Buck and the Preacher
as Preacher
1972
6.3
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Flip Wilson Show
as Self
1970
4.6
The Angel Levine
as Alexander Levine
1970
5.1
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
7.1
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Petula
as Self
1968
0.0
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
1968
6.6
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self
1967
6.9
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self - Cameo
1967
6.9
ABC Stage 67
as Self
1966
6.2
The Strolling '20s
as Self
1966
0.0
The Day of the Oath
as Self
1965
0.0
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self - Guest Host
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
🎬
Harry Belafonte in Concert
as Self
1960
0.0
Odds Against Tomorrow
as Johnny Ingram
1959
6.8
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
as Ralph Burton
1959
6.3
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
1959
7.3
🎬
Aktuelle Schaubude
as Self
1957
6.0
Island in the Sun
as David Boyeur
1957
6.6
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer
1956
5.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
🎬
Was bin ich?
as Self
1955
6.5
Carmen Jones
as Joe
1954
6.1
Bright Road
as Mr. Williams - School Principal
1953
6.3
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Vince
1953
6.4
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
as Self (archive footage)
N/A
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