Person

Andrew Young

Acting · Born 1932-03-12 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Biography

Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.

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Filmography

2025Andrew Young: The Dirty WorkSelf
2025The Games in Black & WhiteHimself
2024Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never ToldSelf (archive footage)
2023South to Black PowerSelf
2023Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman CottonSelf
2023RatherSelf - Civil Rights Activist & Politician
2023This World Is Not My OwnSelf
2021Downing of a Flagself
2021Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel StorySelf
2020Fandango at the WallExecutive Producer
2020MLK/FBISelf
2020Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll PresidentSelf
2020Ali's Comeback: The Untold StorySelf
2018Backyard WildernessDad
2018Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry WallaceSelf
2018Martin Luther King by Trevor McdonaldSelf
2018King in the WildernessSelf
2017Get In The Way: The Journey of John LewisSelf
2013Martin Luther King and the March on WashingtonSelf
2011A Man's StorySelf
2009Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black ComedySelf
2008Movin' on Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and the ImpressionsSelf
2005The Colbert ReportSelf
2004Dawn of the MayaCinematography
2004Citizen KingSelf
2000The American PresidentThomas Jefferson
1998I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in AmericaSelf
19974 Little GirlsSelf - SCLC
1992The Real Malcolm X
1982Traveling HopefullySelf - Ambassador
1980A Decade of StruggleSelf
1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to MemphisSelf (archive footage)
1970I Am SomebodySelf
1960Integration Report 1Self

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