🎭 Actor
Jesse Jackson
🎂 Born 8 October 1941 (age 84)✝ 17 February 2026📍 Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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Popularity Score
55
Acting Credits
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'.
Known For
Full Filmography(55 films)
YearTitleRating
1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis★ 7.32021Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story—2002Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony★ 6.52021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)★ 7.62018Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America—2011A Man's Story★ 6.92021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy★ 6.82017LA 92★ 7.72014We Are Many★ 6.71972Nationtime★ 8.019974 Little Girls★ 7.22021Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street★ 7.42002BaadAsssss Cinema★ 6.02009Michael Jackson Memorial★ 8.02001Last Party 2000★ 6.81996The Journey of the African-American Athlete★ 10.01968Uptight★ 6.81973Wattstax★ 6.92009Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel★ 6.01982Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip★ 7.42013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic★ 7.12016Fantastic Lies★ 7.21993Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham★ 7.02018The Road to Mass Incarceration—2021Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over★ 6.51969Operation Breadbasket—2023South to Black Power★ 3.52016'85: The Greatest Team in Football History★ 8.21989Decade★ 8.52020Bernie Blackout★ 7.01973Save the Children★ 6.51989Route One/USA★ 7.42022Loudmouth★ 6.01994The Soul of Stax—2007King: Man of Peace in a Time of War★ 8.52022El otro Rey de Chicago—2018I Am MLK Jr.★ 8.81980A Matter of Respect—2019Chicago at the Crossroad★ 4.01986In Remembrance of Martin★ 8.02012MLK: The Assassination Tapes★ 7.42016Crashing the Party—2021September First, Twenty-Twenty★ 9.02009Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound★ 6.71980A Decade of Struggle—2009The Nine Lives of Marion Barry★ 5.61999University, Inc.★ 8.01997Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory★ 10.02021Punch 9 for Harold Washington—1992America's Political Parties: Power and Principle—1999The Subtext of a Yale Education—2009Anecdotes about Fidel—2021Killing Martin Luther King Jr.—2019Stax, le label soul légendaire—1973Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2★ 9.0