Harry Belafonte
Acting • Born 1927-03-01 – Died 2023-04-25
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.
Filmography
148 credits
The Player
Movie • 1992
Harry Belafonte
Bobby
Movie • 2006
Nelson
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Movie • 1959
Ralph Burton
Kansas City
Movie • 1996
Seldom Seen
White Man's Burden
Movie • 1995
Thaddeus Thomas
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Movie • 2018
Self - Singer
Buck and the Preacher
Movie • 1972
Preacher
Odds Against Tomorrow
Movie • 1959
Johnny Ingram
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Movie • 1990
Self
Uptown Saturday Night
Movie • 1974
Geechie Dan Beauford
Island in the Sun
Movie • 1957
David Boyeur
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Movie • 2023
Self
Harry Belafonte in Concert
Movie • 1960
Self
Carmen Jones
Movie • 1954
Joe
The Muppet Revue
Movie • 1985
Self
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
Movie • 2005
Self
Sing Your Song
Movie • 2012
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Movie • 2013
Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie • 2023
Self
Rise Like Lions
Movie • 2011
Self
The Legendary Nat King Cole
Movie • 2004
Self
Bright Road
Movie • 1953
Mr. Williams - School Principal
Mama Africa
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
The Peace!
Movie • 2005
Self
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Movie • 2012
Self
Jazz '34
Movie • 1997
Self - Narrator
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Movie • 2013
Self
Prêt-à-Porter
Movie • 1994
Self
The Angel Levine
Movie • 1970
Alexander Levine
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Movie • 1997
Self
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
Movie • 2022
Self - Subject (archive footage)
Sidney
Movie • 2022
Self
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Movie • 2012
Self
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Movie • 2022
Self
Mo & Me
Movie • 2006
Swing Vote
Movie • 1999
Will Dunn
Free to Be… You and Me
Movie • 1974
Self
The University of Sing Sing
Movie • 2011
Self
Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Night in Pop
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Movie • 2022
Self - Inductee (archive footage)
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
Movie • 1988
Self
Muppet Music Moments
Movie • 2004
Self
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
Movie • 1989
Self
The Man Behind the White Guitar
Movie • 2019
Self
Following Harry
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie • 1970
Self (archive footage)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Movie • 2011
Self (voice)
Anecdotes about Fidel
Movie • 2009
JFK: The Private President
Movie • 2013
Self
The Strolling '20s
Movie • 1966
Self
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
Movie • 2014
Self
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Movie • 2017
Self
Grambling's White Tiger
Movie • 1981
Coach Eddie Robinson
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Movie • 2018
Self
King in the Wilderness
Movie • 2018
Self
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Movie • 2002
Self (uncredited)
The World of Nat King Cole
Movie • 2004
Self
Petula
Movie • 1968
Self
BlacKkKlansman
Movie • 2018
Jerome Turner
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Movie • 2015
Self
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
The World of Jim Henson
Movie • 1994
Self
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Movie • 2006
Self
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Movie • 1985
Self
Nationtime
Movie • 1972
Self
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Movie • 2014
Self
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
Movie • 2020
Self
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Movie • 2020
Self
The Madding Crowd
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
Movie • 2018
Self
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Movie • 2017
Self
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Movie • 1999
Self
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Movie • 2021
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
Movie • 1977
Self
Året var 1966
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Movie • 1998
Self
Altman on His Own Terms
Movie • 2000
Self
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Motherland
Movie • 2010
Self
The Day of the Oath
Movie • 1965
Self
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
Movie • 2025
Jim Henson Idea Man
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Movie • 2009
Self
We Shall Overcome
Movie • 1989
Self - Narrator
The Royal Variety Performance 1977
Movie • 1977
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Bei Bio
TV • 1983
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
TV • 1979
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Vince
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Self - Guest
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)
The Flip Wilson Show
TV • 1970
Self
ABC Stage 67
TV • 1966
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Singer
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV • 1967
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self - Guest Host
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Tanner on Tanner
TV • 2004
Self
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
TV • 2006
Self
Jackie Robinson
TV • 2016
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV • 1995
Magic Man (voice)
Bobby Kennedy for President
TV • 2018
Self
TV Story Superstar
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Julie Andrews Hour
TV • 1972
Self
Flitterabend
TV • 1988
Self - Singer
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self
Musik liegt in der Luft
TV • 1991
Self - Singer
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self - Laudatio
Auf los geht's los
TV • 1977
Self
PB&J Otter
TV • 1998
The Ice Moose (voice)
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
TV • 2003
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV • 1967
Self - Cameo
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Sabine Christiansen
TV • 1998
Self
DAS!
TV • 1991
Self
Kulturplatz
TV • 2004
Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV • 2002
Self
Willemsens Woche
TV • 1995
Self
Aktuelle Schaubude
TV • 1957
Self
Club 2
TV • 1976
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Hamburg Journal
TV • 2011
self
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
Was bin ich?
TV • 1955
Self
Heut' abend
TV • 1980
Self
Sternstunde Musik
TV • 2013
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV • 1988