Jesse Jackson

Known for: Acting
Born: October 8, 1941, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Died: February 17, 2026
Movies: 64

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'.

Best-Known Movies

7.6

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021

7.8

LA 92

2017

7.4

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

1982

6.8

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

2021

7.1

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2013

7.1

4 Little Girls

1997

6.0

BaadAsssss Cinema

2002

7.4

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

2021

7.2

Fantastic Lies

2016

6.8

Wattstax

1973

Filmography

2023	South to Black Power	Self
2022	Loudmouth	Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
2022	El otro Rey de Chicago	Self
2021	Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021	Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over	Self
2021	Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)	Self
2021	September First, Twenty-Twenty	Himself
2021	Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story	Self
2021	Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street	Self (archive footage)
2021	Killing Martin Luther King Jr.	Self
2021	Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy	Self (archive footage)
2020	Bernie Blackout	Self (archive footage)
2020	Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story	Self
2020	Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story	Self
2019	Stax, le label soul légendaire	Self (archive footage)
2019	Chicago at the Crossroad	Self
2018	The Road to Mass Incarceration	Self
2018	Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America	Self
2018	I Am MLK Jr.	Self
2018	Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media	Self
2017	LA 92	Self (archive footage)
2016	'85: The Greatest Team in Football History	Self
2016	Crashing the Party	Self
2016	Fantastic Lies	Himself (archive footage)
2014	We Are Many	Self
2013	Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic	Self
2012	MLK: The Assassination Tapes	Self (archive Footage)
2011	A Man's Story	Self
2009	Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound	Self
2009	Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel	Self
2009	Michael Jackson Memorial	Self
2009	The Nine Lives of Marion Barry	Self
2009	Anecdotes about Fidel
2008	The Day the Troubles Began	Self
2008	Ballou	Himself
2007	King: Man of Peace in a Time of War	Self
2002	Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony	Self (archive footage)
2002	BaadAsssss Cinema	Self
2001	Last Party 2000	Self
1999	Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special	(archive footage)
1999	The Subtext of a Yale Education	Self
1999	University, Inc.	Self (Archive Footage)
1997	4 Little Girls	Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
1997	Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1996	The Journey of the African-American Athlete	Self (archive footage)
1994	The Soul of Stax	Self
1993	Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham	Self
1992	America's Political Parties: Power and Principle	Self
1989	Decade	Self
1989	Route One/USA	Self
1988	Jackie Robinson: An American Journey	On Screen Narrator
1986	In Remembrance of Martin	Self
1983	Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy	Self
1982	Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip	Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1980	A Decade of Struggle	Self
1980	A Matter of Respect
1973	Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2	Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973	Save the Children	Self
1973	Wattstax	Self
1972	Nationtime: Gary	Self
1971	We Are Universal
1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)
1969	Operation Breadbasket	Self
1968	Uptight	Self (archive footage)

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