Jesse Jackson
Acting
Born 1941-10-08
Died 2026-02-17
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
85 credits
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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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Filmography
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Acting
55 credits
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
Baseball
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
A Different World
Dinah!
Explained
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Robins
The Chris Rock Show
Velshi
Hollywood Black
Not Necessarily the News
Tanner '88
Shut Up and Dribble
Obama
Tanner on Tanner
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
University, Inc.
We Are Many
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Nationtime: Gary
Uptight
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
4 Little Girls
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
A Man's Story
LA 92
Fantastic Lies
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Operation Breadbasket
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Michael Jackson Memorial
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
BaadAsssss Cinema
The Road to Mass Incarceration
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Route One/USA
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Last Party 2000
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
The Day the Troubles Began
I Am MLK Jr.
Wattstax
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Save the Children
In Remembrance of Martin
Other credits
5 credits
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
World in Action
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Anecdotes about Fidel
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