Jesse Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.

About the person

Career:

Acting

Date of birth:

1941-10-08

Place of birth:

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Gender:

Male

Popularity:

Date of death

2026-02-17

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'.

Filmography

Rating by year

Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
2024-08-11
3.73
South to Black Power
Self
2023-11-28
3.52
Loudmouth
Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
2022-12-09
6.02
El otro Rey de Chicago
Self
2022-04-18
0.00
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021-10-13
0.00
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Self
2021-09-11
6.54
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
2021-08-03
5.310
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self
2021-07-02
7.6223
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Himself
2021-05-10
9.01
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
2021-04-23
7.426
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
2021-03-01
0.00
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
2021-01-11
6.892
Obama
Self
2020-11-27
0.00
Bernie Blackout
Self (archive footage)
2020-05-13
7.01
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Self
2020-01-27
0.00
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Self (archive footage)
2019-07-26
0.00
Chicago at the Crossroad
Self
2019-06-01
4.02
Shut Up and Dribble
Self - Civil Rights Leader
2018-11-03
1.01
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Self
2018-06-13
0.00
Explained
Self (archive footage)
2018-05-23
7.5129
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
2018-04-04
0.00
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
2018-04-04
8.84
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
2018-03-24
0.00
LA 92
Self (archive footage)
2017-04-28
7.7141
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Self
2016-10-01
8.28
Crashing the Party
Self
2016-07-21
0.00
Fantastic Lies
Himself (archive footage)
2016-03-13
7.219
We Are Many
Self
2014-06-08
6.715
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
2013-04-23
7.164
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Self (archive Footage)
2012-02-12
7.45
A Man's Story
Self
2011-10-08
6.98
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
2009-10-14
6.711
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
2009-09-12
6.014
Michael Jackson Memorial
Self
2009-07-07
8.019
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Self
2009-06-21
5.64
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009-01-01
0.00
Ballou
Himself
2008-09-11
8.01
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
2007-01-16
8.52
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005-08-08
3.88
Tanner on Tanner
Self
2004-10-05
10.01
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Self (archive footage)
2002-09-21
6.58
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
2002-08-14
6.025
Last Party 2000
Self
2001-11-02
6.812
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
1999-09-24
0.00
University, Inc.
Self (Archive Footage)
1999-09-10
8.01
4 Little Girls
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
1997-07-09
7.252
The Chris Rock Show
Self
1997-02-07
4.612
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997-01-01
10.02
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Self (archive footage)
1996-02-12
10.01
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Cocky Locky (voice)
1995-03-12
6.311
Baseball
Various (voice)
1994-09-18
7.544
The Soul of Stax
Self
1994-01-01
0.00
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Self
1993-01-01
7.04
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
Self
1992-10-16
0.00
Decade
Self
1989-12-09
8.52
Route One/USA
Self
1989-09-10
7.413
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
On Screen Narrator
1988-08-15
7.01
Tanner '88
Himself (uncredited)
1988-02-15
6.98
A Different World
Himself
1987-09-24
7.175
In Remembrance of Martin
Self
1986-02-08
8.02
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Self
1983-01-01
7.02
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1982-03-12
7.499
A Decade of Struggle
Self
1980-06-01
0.00
A Matter of Respect
1980-01-01
0.00
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973-06-02
9.02
Save the Children
Self
1973-05-13
6.56
Wattstax
Self
1973-02-04
6.919
Nationtime
Self
1972-11-01
8.01
We Are Universal
1971-01-01
0.00
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
1970-03-24
7.312
Operation Breadbasket
Self
1969-07-07
0.00
Uptight
Self (archive footage)
1968-12-28
6.819