Jesse Jackson
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday8 October 1941
Died17 February 2026 (age 84)
Place of birthGreenville, South Carolina, USA
Known credits86
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'.
Hollywood Black
2024 · Self (archive footage)
South to Black Power
2023 · Self
Loudmouth
2022 · Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022 · Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 · Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 · Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 · Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021 · Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021 · Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Obama
2020 · Self
Bernie Blackout
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020 · Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019 · Self
Shut Up and Dribble
2018 · Self - Civil Rights Leader
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018 · Self
Explained
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018 · Self
I Am MLK Jr.
2018 · Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Self
Velshi
2017 · Self (archive footage)
LA 92
2017 · Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016 · Self
Crashing the Party
2016 · Self
Fantastic Lies
2016 · Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many
2014 · Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012 · Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story
2011 · Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009 · Self
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009 · Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009 · Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009 · Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
The Day the Troubles Began
2008 · Self
Ballou
2008 · Himself
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007 · Self
Robins
2006 · Self - Guest
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Tanner on Tanner
2004 · Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002 · Self (archive footage)
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