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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 8, 1941
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
- Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
Jesse Jackson
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader".
Known For
3.5
Self
South to Black Power
2023
6.0
Self
Loudmouth
2022
0.0
Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
0.0
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
6.5
Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
5.3
Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
7.6
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
9.0
Himself
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
0.0
Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Credits
South to Black Power
as Self
2023
3.5
Loudmouth
as Self
2022
6.0
El otro Rey de Chicago
as Self
2022
0.0
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
0.0
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
2021
6.5
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
as Self
2021
5.3
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self
2021
7.6
September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
2021
9.0
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
2021
0.0
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.5
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self
2021
0.0
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.8
Obama
as Self
2020
0.0
Uncle Tom
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.5
Bernie Blackout
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.0
🎬
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
as Self
2020
0.0
Stax, le label soul légendaire
as Self (archive footage)
2019
0.0
Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
2019
4.0
Shut Up and Dribble
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
2018
1.0
The Road to Mass Incarceration
as Self
2018
0.0
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.5
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
2018
9.5
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
2018
0.0
🎬
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
2018
0.0
LA 92
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.7
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
as Self
2016
8.2
Crashing the Party
as Self
2016
0.0
Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage)
2016
7.2
We Are Many
as Self
2014
6.7
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
2013
7.0
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive Footage)
2012
7.4
A Man's Story
as Self
2011
6.9
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
2009
6.8
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
0.0
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
2009
6.0
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
2009
8.0
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
as Self
2009
5.6
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
0.0
🎬
Ballou
as Himself
2008
8.0
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self
2007
8.5
Robins
as Self - Guest
2006
7.8
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
3.0
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
2002
6.4
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
2002
5.9
Last Party 2000
as Self
2001
6.1
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
1999
0.0
University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
1999
0.0
4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
1997
7.2
The Chris Rock Show
as Self
1997
4.2
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
10.0
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
as Self (archive footage)
1996
10.0
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Cocky Locky (voice)
1995
6.0
Baseball
as Various (voice)
1994
7.4
The Soul of Stax
as Self
1994
0.0
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
as Self
1993
6.0
Decade
as Self
1989
7.0
Route One/USA
as Self
1989
7.3
🎬
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
as On Screen Narrator
1988
0.0
Tanner '88
as Himself (uncredited)
1988
6.6
A Different World
as Himself
1987
7.0
In Remembrance of Martin
as Self
1986
9.0
🎬
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
as Self
1983
6.0
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1982
7.3
A Decade of Struggle
as Self
1980
0.0
A Matter of Respect
1980
0.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973
9.0
Save the Children
as Self
1973
6.4
Nationtime
as Self
1972
8.0
🎬
We Are Universal
1971
0.0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
7.1
Operation Breadbasket
as Self
1969
0.0
Uptight
as Self (archive footage)
1968
6.6
🎬
Dear Mister President
as Self
N/A
0.0