Acting
Harry Belafonte
EN, DE, PT, SV cinema · 103 credits
Born
1 March 1927
Died
25 April 2023 (aged 96)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
as Self (archive footage)
King Leopold’s Ghost
Producer
The Greatest Night in Pop
as Self (archive footage)
Following Harry
as Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Sidney
as Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self - Inductee (archive footage)
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
as Self - Singer
BlacKkKlansman
as Jerome Turner
Mr. SOUL!
as Self
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
Året var 1966
as Self (archive footage)
Sing Your Song
as Self
Mama Africa
as Self (archive footage)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
as Self (voice)
Motherland
as Self
Bobby
as Nelson
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
as Self (archive footage)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self (uncredited)
Swing Vote
as Will Dunn
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Self, Thanks
Jazz '34
as Self - Narrator
Kansas City
as Seldom Seen
White Man's Burden
as Thaddeus Thomas
The Affair
Executive Producer
Prêt-à-Porter
as Self
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
as Self (archive footage)
The Player
as Harry Belafonte
We Shall Overcome
as Self - Narrator
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
as Self (archive footage)
Beat Street
Original Music Composer
Grambling's White Tiger
1981
Grambling's White Tiger
as Coach Eddie Robinson
Uptown Saturday Night
as Geechie Dan Beauford
Buck and the Preacher
as Preacher, Producer
Nationtime: Gary
as Self
The Angel Levine
as Alexander Levine, Producer
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
Petula
as Self
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
as Ralph Burton, Producer
Odds Against Tomorrow
as Johnny Ingram, Co-Producer
Island in the Sun
as David Boyeur
Carmen Jones
as Joe
Bright Road
as Mr. Williams - School Principal