Person
Jesse Jackson
Acting · 1941–2026 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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'.
Known for
The Daily Show
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
A Different World
Himself
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
World in Action
1963
Dinah!
Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Cocky Locky (voice)
Explained
Self (archive footage)
Filmography
- 2024Hollywood BlackSelf (archive footage)
- 2023South to Black PowerSelf
- 2022LoudmouthSelf - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
- 2022El otro Rey de ChicagoSelf
- 2021Punch 9 for Harold Washington
- 2021Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me OverSelf
- 2021Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect UnionSelf
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Self
- 2021September First, Twenty-TwentyHimself
- 2021Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel StorySelf
- 2021Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame StreetSelf (archive footage)
- 2021Killing Martin Luther King Jr.Self
- 2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracySelf (archive footage)
- 2020ObamaSelf
- 2020Bernie BlackoutSelf (archive footage)
- 2020Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway StorySelf
- 2019Stax, le label soul légendaireSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Chicago at the CrossroadSelf
- 2018Shut Up and DribbleSelf - Civil Rights Leader
- 2018The Road to Mass IncarcerationSelf
- 2018ExplainedSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Rise Up: The Movement that Changed AmericaSelf
- 2018I Am MLK Jr.Self
- 2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the MediaSelf
- 2017LA 92Self (archive footage)
- 2016'85: The Greatest Team in Football HistorySelf
- 2016Crashing the PartySelf
- 2016Fantastic LiesHimself (archive footage)
- 2014We Are ManySelf
- 2013Richard Pryor: Omit the LogicSelf
- 2012MLK: The Assassination TapesSelf (archive Footage)
- 2011A Man's StorySelf
- 2009Joan Baez: How Sweet the SoundSelf
- 2009Joy Behar: Say Anything!
- 2009Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and RebelSelf
- 2009Michael Jackson MemorialSelf
- 2009The Nine Lives of Marion BarrySelf
- 2009Anecdotes about Fidel
- 2008The Day the Troubles BeganSelf
- 2008BallouHimself
- 2007King: Man of Peace in a Time of WarSelf
- 2006RobinsSelf - Guest
- 2005The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
- 2004Tanner on TannerSelf
- 2003Real Time with Bill MaherSelf
- 2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self
- 2002Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part HarmonySelf (archive footage)
- 2002BaadAsssss CinemaSelf
- 2001Last Party 2000Self
- 1999The Subtext of a Yale EducationSelf
- 1999University, Inc.Self (Archive Footage)
- 19974 Little GirlsSelf - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
- 1997The Chris Rock ShowSelf
- 1997Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
- 1996The Daily ShowSelf
- 1996The Journey of the African-American AthleteSelf (archive footage)
- 1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildCocky Locky (voice)
- 1994BaseballVarious (voice)
- 1994The Soul of StaxSelf
- 1993Crusade: The Life of Billy GrahamSelf
- 1992America's Political Parties: Power and PrincipleSelf
- 1989DecadeSelf
- 1989Route One/USASelf
- 1988Jackie Robinson: An American JourneyOn Screen Narrator
- 1988Tanner '88Himself (uncredited)
- 1987A Different WorldHimself
- 1986In Remembrance of MartinSelf
- 1983Not Necessarily the NewsSelf (archive footage)
- 1983Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a ControversySelf
- 1982Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset StripSelf - Audience Member (uncredited)
- 1980A Decade of StruggleSelf
- 1980A Matter of Respect
- 1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host
- 1974Dinah!Self
- 1973Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2Self/Cameo (archive footage)
- 1973Save the ChildrenSelf
- 1973WattstaxSelf
- 1972Nationtime: GarySelf
- 1971We Are Universal
- 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to MemphisSelf (archive footage)
- 1969Operation BreadbasketSelf
- 1968UptightSelf (archive footage)
- 1963World in Action
- —Dear Mister PresidentSelf
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