Actor profile

James Baldwin

2nd August 1924 Harlem, New York, USA Acting

James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.

26 Movies 7 TV Shows 33 Credits

Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The New Yorker at 100 poster

The New Yorker at 100 29th August 2025 as Self (archive footage)

James Baldwin Abroad poster

James Baldwin Abroad 3rd February 2023 as Self

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues poster

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 8th September 2022 as Self (archive footage)

Madonna: Madame X poster

Madonna: Madame X 23rd September 2021 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

i ran from it and was still in it poster

i ran from it and was still in it 28th January 2021 as Self (voice) (archive footage)

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade poster

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade 11th September 2020 as Self

Robert Penn Warren: A Vision poster

Robert Penn Warren: A Vision 28th October 2018

Mr. SOUL! poster

Mr. SOUL! 27th April 2018 as Self (archive footage)

Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 poster

Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 1st January 2018 as Self (archive footage)

The Madding Crowd poster

The Madding Crowd 1st February 2017 as Self (archive footage)

A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else poster

A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else 1st January 2014 as Self (archive footage)

Off-White Tulips poster

Off-White Tulips 1st January 2013 as Self

Public Speaking poster

Public Speaking 23rd February 2011 as Self (archive footage)

The James Baldwin Anthology 1st May 2003

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket poster

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket 14th August 1989 as Self (archive footage)

The Statue of Liberty poster

The Statue of Liberty 26th October 1985 as Self - Writer

I Heard It Through the Grapevine poster

I Heard It Through the Grapevine 3rd March 1982

The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre poster

The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre 15th November 1978 as Himself

James Baldwin: From Another Place poster

James Baldwin: From Another Place 1st January 1973 as Self

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris poster

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 5th May 1971 as Self

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis poster

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis 24th March 1970 as Self (archive footage)

Baldwin's Nigger poster

Baldwin's Nigger 12th July 1968 as Self

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley poster

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley 12th June 1965 as Self

Take This Hammer poster

Take This Hammer 4th February 1964 as Self

The Negro and the American Promise poster

The Negro and the American Promise 1st January 1963

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village poster

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village 11th October 1962 as Self

Explained poster

Explained 23rd May 2018 as Self (archive footage)

Bobby Kennedy for President poster

Bobby Kennedy for President 27th April 2018 as Self (archive footage)

I Remember Harlem poster

I Remember Harlem 1st February 1981 as self

Soul! poster

Soul! 12th September 1968

The Dick Cavett Show poster

The Dick Cavett Show 6th June 1968 as Self - Guest

World in Action poster

World in Action 1st January 1963

Assignment America