Fab 5 Freddy
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fred Brathwaite (born 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s, and later hosted the first hip-hop music video show on TV, "Yo! MTV Raps". Description above from the Wikipedia article Fab 5 Freddy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
47 credits
The Universe of Keith Haring
Movie • 2008
Self
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
Movie • 2023
Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie • 2023
Self
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Movie • 2010
Self
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
Movie • 2013
Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Movie • 2014
Self
Who's the Man?
Movie • 1993
Fab 5 Freddy
Downtown '81
Movie • 2001
Graffiti Artist
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Movie • 2012
Self
Wild Style
Movie • 1982
"Phade"
Juice
Movie • 1992
Self
American Gangster
Movie • 2007
Smalls Patron
Hustlers Convention
Movie • 2015
Self
The Freshest Kids
Movie • 2002
Blank City
Movie • 2011
Self
Barry
Movie • 2016
Rameek
New Jack City
Movie • 1991
Master of Ceremonies
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Movie • 2017
Self
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Movie • 2002
Self (segment "Rapture")
Downtown Calling
Movie • 2009
Self
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Movie • 2004
Self
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Movie • 2009
Self
TV Party
Movie • 2005
Self
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
Movie • 2019
Himself - Presenter
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Movie • 2019
Self
She's Gotta Have It
Movie • 1986
Dog 10
NB80s
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Movie • 2020
Self
Picasso Baby
Movie • 2013
Self
NB90s
Movie • 2013
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Movie • 2018
Self
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
Movie • 2020
Self
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Movie • 2021
Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
Rachel Getting Married
Movie • 2008
Rehearsal Dinner Guest
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie • 2004
Political Pundit
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Movie • 2020
Self
Tupac: Resurrection
Movie • 2003
Self (archival)
Good to Go
Movie • 1986
Mr. Aint
Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster
Movie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
Marvel's Luke Cage
TV • 2016
Fab 5 Freddy
The Andy Warhol Diaries
TV • 2022
Self
The Hip Hop Years
TV • 1999
Self
Yo! MTV Raps
TV • 1988
Self
The Defiant Ones
TV • 2017
Self
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
TV • 2019
Self
TV Party
TV • 1978