Al Sharpton
Known for: Acting
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
Filmography
Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Himself
1999
Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
Series
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
1996
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
Raw
Self
1993
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Series
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Series
The Colbert Report
Self
2005
Series
The Colbert Report
Self (archive footage)
2005
Series
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
Series
Boston Legal
Reverend Al Sharpton
2004
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Series
Empire
Rev. Al Sharpton
2015
Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Series
Rescue Me
2004
Series
Girlfriends
Al Sharpton
2000
Series
Anderson Cooper 360°
2003
Series
New York Undercover
Self
1994
Series
My Wife and Kids
2001
Series
Fox News Sunday
Self
1996
Series
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self
2018
Series
Basketball: A Love Story
Self
2018
Series
Star
Rev. Al Sharpton
2016
Series
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Series
The Chris Rock Show
Self
1997
Film
Malcolm X
Speaker #2
1992
Film
Mr. Deeds
The Rhyme Master
2002
Series
America: The Story of Us
Self
2010
Series
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
Self
2020
Series
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Himself
2009
Series
Tanner on Tanner
Self
2004
Series
JANET JACKSON.
Self
2022
Series
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Self
2020
Series
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Self
2017
Film
Madea Goes to Jail
Self
2009
Film
Rudy! A Documusical
Self
2022
Series
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Self
2023
Film
Bamboozled
Himself
2000
Series
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
2006
Series
James Brown: Say It Loud
Self
2024
Series
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
2021
Film
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self - Minister & Activist
2021
Film
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
2008
Film
Good Hair
Self
2009
Film
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Self (archive footage)
2022
Series
MS NOW Reports
Self
1996
Film
One Night in Vegas
Self
2010
Film
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
The Black Godfather
Self
2019
Film
Get Me Roger Stone
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Self
2008
Film
The First Wave
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Self
2021
Film
The Black List: Volume One
Self
2008
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
Self
2020
Film
The Last Party
Self
1993
Film
The Central Park Five
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Self
2014
Film
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Self
2024
Film
Koch
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
Film
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
Series
PoliticsNation
Self
2011
Film
Maynard
Self
2017
Film
Woman in Motion
Self
2021
Film
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self
2018
Film
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
Film
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Self
2023
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
Self - Civil rights activist
2018
Film
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Film
Street Fight
Self
2005
Film
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
2018
Film
A Tale of James Brown
Self
2016
Film
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Self
2013
Film
South to Black Power
Self
2023
Film
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self
2014
Film
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
self
2018
Film
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Self
2020
Film
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Self
2020
Film
Loudmouth
Self
2022
Film
Pursuit of Equality
Self
2005
Film
Run For Cover
Himself
1995
Murder in Black & White
2008
Film
Atrocity Inc.
Self - Civil Rights Activist
2024
Film
Satan & Adam
Self
2018
Film
Looking for Lenny
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
Abraham Obama
Self
2009
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
Self
2006
Film
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Self
2009
Film
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Self
2009
I Hate My Job
2004
Film
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
2018
Cold Feet
The Reverend
1999
Film
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Self
2011
Film
Let's Talk
2000
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
2018
Film
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005
Film
91 Bullets in a Minute
Self
2014
Film
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
1999
Film
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Self
2021
Film
Race
Self
2010
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
Self
2011
Film
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Self - National Action Network
2015
Film
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
Self
2024
Film
The Jena 6
Self
2007
If I Die Tonight
Self
2009
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Self
1990