Jesse Jackson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 8, 1941
- Died
- February 17, 2026 (aged 84)
- Birthplace
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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'.
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Filmography
Dear Mister President
Movie · as Self
Hollywood Black
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
South to Black Power
Movie · as Self
Texas, USA
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Loudmouth
Movie · as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
Movie · as Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Movie
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Movie · as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie · as Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Movie · as Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Movie · as Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Movie · as Himself
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Movie · as Self
Bernie Blackout
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Movie · as Self
Obama
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
Movie · as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Movie · as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Movie · as Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie · as Self
I Am MLK Jr.
Movie · as Self
Shut Up and Dribble
TV · as Self - Civil Rights Leader · 1 ep
Explained
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
LA 92
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Crashing the Party
Movie · as Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Movie · as Self
Fantastic Lies
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many
Movie · as Self
Hate Crimes in the Heartland
Movie
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie · as Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Movie · as Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story
Movie · as Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Movie · as Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Movie · as Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
Movie · as Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
Movie
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Movie · as Self
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
TV · 1 ep
Ballou
Movie · as Himself
The Day the Troubles Began
Movie · as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Movie · as Self
Robins
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
TV · 1 ep
Tanner on Tanner
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
Movie · as Self
Last Party 2000
Movie · as Self
Democracy Now!
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
University, Inc.
Movie · as Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Movie · as Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Movie · as (archive footage)
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Movie
4 Little Girls
Movie · as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
The Chris Rock Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV · as Cocky Locky (voice) · 1 ep
The Soul of Stax
Movie · as Self
Baseball
TV · as Various (voice)
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Movie · as Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
Movie · as Self
Route One/USA
Movie · as Self
Decade
Movie · as Self
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
Movie · as On Screen Narrator
Tanner '88
TV · as Himself (uncredited) · 1 ep
A Different World
TV · as Himself · 1 ep
In Remembrance of Martin
Movie · as Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Movie · as Self
Not Necessarily the News
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Movie · as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
A Matter of Respect
Movie
A Decade of Struggle
Movie · as Self
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host, Self (uncredited) · 1 ep
Dinah!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Save the Children
Movie · as Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Movie · as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Wattstax
Movie · as Self
Nationtime: Gary
Movie · as Self
We Are Universal
Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Operation Breadbasket
Movie · as Self
Uptight
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
World in Action
TV · 1 ep