Acting

Jesse Jackson

Born 1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Died 2026-02-17

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'.

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Hollywood Black
as Self (archive footage)
2024
South to Black Power
as Self
2023
Loudmouth
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
as Self
2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
as Self
2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
as Self
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self
2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
as Himself
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Obama
as Self
2020
Bernie Blackout
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
as Self
2020
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
as Self
2020
Stax, le label soul légendaire
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
as Self
2019
Shut Up and Dribble
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
2018
The Road to Mass Incarceration
as Self
2018
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Self
2018
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
2018
Velshi
as Self (archive footage)
2017
LA 92
as Self (archive footage)
2017
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
as Self
2016
Crashing the Party
as Self
2016
Fantastic Lies
as Himself (archive footage)
2016
We Are Many
as Self
2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
2013
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive Footage)
2012
A Man's Story
as Self
2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
as Self
2009
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
as Self
2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
as Self
2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
The Day the Troubles Began
as Self
2008
Ballou
as Himself
2008
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self
2007
Robins
as Self - Guest
2006
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Tanner on Tanner
as Self
2004
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (archive footage)
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
2002
Last Party 2000
as Self
2001
Democracy Now!
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as (archive footage)
1999
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
1999
University, Inc.
as Self (Archive Footage)
1999
4 Little Girls
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
1997
The Chris Rock Show
as Self
1997
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Cocky Locky (voice)
1995
Baseball
as Various (voice)
1994
The Soul of Stax
as Self
1994
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
as Self
1993
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
as Self
1992
Decade
as Self
1989
Route One/USA
as Self
1989
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
as On Screen Narrator
1988
Tanner '88
as Himself (uncredited)
1988
A Different World
as Himself
1987
In Remembrance of Martin
as Self
1986
Not Necessarily the News
as Self (archive footage)
1983
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
as Self
1983
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1982
A Decade of Struggle
as Self
1980
A Matter of Respect
1980
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)
1975
Dinah!
as Self
1974
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973