Harry Belafonte

Acting

Born 1927-03-01 Died 2023-04-25 New York City, New York, USA 158 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Tony Awards 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award 1 Order of Jamaica 1 Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo 1

Awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

1960 Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Won

Tony Awards 1 won

1954 Best Featured Actor in a Musical Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award 1 won

— NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award Won

Order of Jamaica 1 won

— Order of Jamaica Won

Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo 1 won

— Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo Won

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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.