James Baldwin
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 2, 1924
- Died
- December 1, 1987
- Birthplace
- Harlem, New York, USA
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
Filmography
My Gender Is Black 2026
Actor
The New Yorker at 100 2025
as Self (archive footage)
James Baldwin Abroad 2023
as Self, Writer
Brother, Where Are You? 2022
Original Story
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 2022
as Self (archive footage)
Madonna: Madame X 2021
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
i ran from it and was still in it 2021
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade 2020
as Self
If Beale Street Could Talk 2018
Novel
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision 2018
Actor
Mr. SOUL! 2018
as Self (archive footage)
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 2018
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Not Your Negro 2017
as Self (archive footage), Writer
The Madding Crowd 2017
as Self (archive footage)
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else 2014
as Self (archive footage)
Off-White Tulips 2013
as Self
Public Speaking 2011
as Self (archive footage)
- The James Baldwin Anthology
The James Baldwin Anthology 2003
Actor
Where the Heart Is 1998
Original Film Writer
Malcolm X 1992
Screenplay
Toc Storee 1992
Novel
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket 1989
as Self (archive footage)
The Statue of Liberty 1985
as Self - Writer
Go Tell It on the Mountain 1984
Novel
I Heard It Through the Grapevine 1982
Actor, Writer
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre 1978
as Himself
James Baldwin: From Another Place 1973
as Self
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 1971
as Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis 1970
as Self (archive footage)
Baldwin's Nigger 1968
as Self
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley 1965
as Self
Take This Hammer 1964
as Self
The Negro and the American Promise 1963
Actor
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village 1962
as Self
Credits from TMDB.