Jesse Jackson
Acting • Born 1941-10-08 – Died 2026-02-17
Biography
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was 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 founded 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'.
Filmography
81 credits
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Movie • 2021
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Movie • 1982
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
Movie • 2002
Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Movie • 2021
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie • 2021
Self
University, Inc.
Movie • 1999
Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Movie • 1999
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Movie • 2009
Self
A Man's Story
Movie • 2011
Self
The Soul of Stax
Movie • 1994
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Movie • 2009
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
Movie • 2019
Self
Uptight
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)
Ballou
Movie • 2008
Himself
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Movie • 2007
Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Movie • 1997
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie • 2013
Self
Operation Breadbasket
Movie • 1969
Self
Crashing the Party
Movie • 2016
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
Movie • 2009
Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Movie • 1983
Self
Uncle Tom
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Movie • 2018
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie • 1970
Self (archive footage)
We Are Many
Movie • 2014
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Movie • 2012
Self (archive Footage)
Loudmouth
Movie • 2022
Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
Movie • 2022
Self
4 Little Girls
Movie • 1997
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
A Matter of Respect
Movie • 1980
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
Movie • 1988
On Screen Narrator
South to Black Power
Movie • 2023
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
Movie • 2009
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Movie • 2016
Self
Save the Children
Movie • 1973
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Movie • 2009
Self
Fantastic Lies
Movie • 2016
Himself (archive footage)
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Movie • 2018
Self
A Decade of Struggle
Movie • 1980
Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Movie • 1993
Self
Route One/USA
Movie • 1989
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie • 2018
Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Movie • 2020
Self
In Remembrance of Martin
Movie • 1986
Self
Decade
Movie • 1989
Self
Nationtime
Movie • 1972
Self
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Movie • 1973
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
Movie • 2018
Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Movie • 2021
Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Movie • 2021
Self
Last Party 2000
Movie • 2001
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Movie • 2021
Himself
Bernie Blackout
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
We Are Universal
Movie • 1971
Dear Mister President
Movie
Self
LA 92
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
The Day the Troubles Began
Movie • 2008
Self
Wattstax
Movie • 1973
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
TV • 2005
Robins
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
TV • 2021
Self
Shut Up and Dribble
TV • 2018
Self - Civil Rights Leader
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
TV • 2009
Tanner '88
TV • 1988
Himself (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The Chris Rock Show
TV • 1997
Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV • 1995
Cocky Locky (voice)
A Different World
TV • 1987
Himself
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV • 2003
Self
Explained
TV • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
Obama
TV • 2020
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)