Jesse Jackson
Acting
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'.
As actor 86
The Daily Show
1996
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Saturday Night Live
1975
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
World in Action
1963
A Different World
1987
Dinah!
1974
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Velshi
2017
Explained
2018
Robins
2006
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Baseball
1994
Hollywood Black
2024
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Tanner '88
1988
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Uptight
1968
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Nationtime: Gary
1972
Obama
2020
Wattstax
1973
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
LA 92
2017
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Fantastic Lies
2016
We Are Many
2014
University, Inc.
1999
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
Operation Breadbasket
1969
4 Little Girls
1997
A Man's Story
2011
Last Party 2000
2001
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
Route One/USA
1989
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
Decade
1989
We Are Universal
1971
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
Crashing the Party
2016
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
A Matter of Respect
1980
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Bernie Blackout
2020
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
The Soul of Stax
1994
Dear Mister President
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
South to Black Power
2023
Save the Children
1973
A Decade of Struggle
1980
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
Loudmouth
2022
Ballou
2008
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020