Cast
Jesse Jackson
Acting
Cast
Jesse Jackson
Known for
Acting
Born
1941-10-08
From
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Died
2026-02-17
Also known as Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
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'.
★8.0
MOVIE1972
Nationtime: Gary
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★7.6
MOVIE2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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★6.8
MOVIE1968
Uptight
as Self (archive footage)
★6.9
MOVIE2011
A Man's Story
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE2016
Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE2014
We Are Many
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MOVIE2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
★6.8
MOVIE2001
Last Party 2000
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MOVIE1992
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1999
University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
★7.1
MOVIE2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
★7.4
MOVIE1989
Route One/USA
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
★6.0
MOVIE2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1973
Save the Children
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MOVIE1969
Operation Breadbasket
as Self
MOVIE1980
A Matter of Respect
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MOVIE2016
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
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★7.2
MOVIE1997
4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
★6.8
MOVIE2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
★7.4
MOVIE2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
★7.7
MOVIE2017
LA 92
as Self (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
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★8.5
MOVIE1989
Decade
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MOVIE1971
We Are Universal
MOVIE2016
Crashing the Party
as Self
★7.4
MOVIE2012
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive Footage)
★7.0
MOVIE2020
Bernie Blackout
as Self (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1973
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
MOVIE2021
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
MOVIE1999
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2002
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
★8.5
MOVIE2007
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self
★8.8
MOVIE2018
I Am MLK Jr.
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MOVIETBA
Dear Mister President
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MOVIE2008
The Day the Troubles Began
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★3.5
MOVIE2023
South to Black Power
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MOVIE2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1988
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
as On Screen Narrator
★6.7
MOVIE1973
Wattstax
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MOVIE2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
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★4.0
MOVIE2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1983
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1997
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
MOVIE2018
The Road to Mass Incarceration
as Self
MOVIE1980
A Decade of Struggle
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MOVIE1994
The Soul of Stax
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★7.4
MOVIE1982
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
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★8.0
MOVIE1986
In Remembrance of Martin
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MOVIE2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
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★7.0
MOVIE1993
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
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★10.0
MOVIE1996
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2019
Stax, le label soul légendaire
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2022
Loudmouth
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
MOVIE2020
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2008
Ballou
as Himself
MOVIE2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self