Actor
James Baldwin
102 years · Harlem, New York, USA · 27 films
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.
Best known for
Malcolm X
1992 · Screenplay
On YouTube TV
I Am Not Your Negro
2017 · Self (archive footage), Writer
On Plex
Public Speaking
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1971 · Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Self (archive footage)
On Apple TV
The New Yorker at 100
2025 · Self (archive footage)
On Netflix
Filmography 27
The New Yorker at 100
2025 · Self (archive footage)
On Netflix
James Baldwin Abroad
2023 · Self, Writer
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Self (archive footage)
On Apple TV
Madonna: Madame X
2021 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
On Paramount Plus Premium
i ran from it and was still in it
2021 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
On Criterion Channel
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020 · Self
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018 · Actor
On PBS
Mr. SOUL!
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
2018 · Self (archive footage)
I Am Not Your Negro
2017 · Self (archive footage), Writer
On Plex
The Madding Crowd
2017 · Self (archive footage)
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Off-White Tulips
2013 · Self
Public Speaking
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
1992 · Screenplay
On YouTube TV
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989 · Self (archive footage)
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · Self - Writer
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 · Actor, Writer
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
1978 · Himself
James Baldwin: From Another Place
1973 · Self
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1971 · Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Self (archive footage)
On Kanopy
Baldwin's Nigger
1968 · Self
On Criterion Channel
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
1965 · Self