Cast
Amiri Baraka
Writing
Cast
Amiri Baraka
Known for
Writing
Born
1934-10-07
From
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died
2014-01-09
Also known as Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka
Biography
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
★8.0
MOVIE1972
Nationtime: Gary
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Bulworth
as Rastaman
MOVIE2006
The Pact
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1996
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2025
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
as Self - poet
MOVIE1969
The New-Ark
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2007
Return to Gorée
as Self
MOVIE2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
MOVIE1983
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
as Himself
MOVIE1982
Speaking in Tongues
★4.5
MOVIE1981
Death of a Prophet
MOVIE2006
Poets at the Living Theater
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1982
Poetry in Motion
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
★7.7
MOVIE1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
as Self
MOVIE1970
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1978
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
as Self
MOVIE2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
★4.4
MOVIE2008
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
as Self
MOVIE1987
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
as Himself
MOVIE2007
Turn Me On
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
as Self
★3.0
MOVIE1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self
MOVIE2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1971
1 P.M.
as Self
MOVIE2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
as Himself