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Harry Belafonte

Known for: Acting

Born 01/03/1927

Died 2023-04-25

Place of birth New York City, New York, USA

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Series ★ 7,5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self - Guest Host

1962

Series ★ 7,5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

1962

Series ★ 7,5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1962

Series ★ 5,6

Wetten, dass..?

Self

1981

Series ★ 6,9

The Colbert Report

Self - Guest

2005

Series ★ 5,8

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

1961

Series ★ 6,8

CBS News Sunday Morning

Self

1979

Series ★ 6,1

Great Performances

Self

1971

Series

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

1956

Series ★ 6,8

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

1962

Series ★ 4,7

DAS!

Self

1991

Series ★ 6,8

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

1968

Series ★ 5,7

Sacrée soirée

Self

1987

Series ★ 6,8

Champs-Elysées

Self

1982

Series ★ 3,6

Vivement dimanche

Self

1998

Series ★ 7,0

What's My Line?

Self

1950

Series ★ 6,2

The Steve Allen Show

Self - Singer

1956

Series ★ 6,9

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Self

1950

Series ★ 7,0

The Oscars

Self

1953

Series

Sternstunde Musik

Self

2013

Series ★ 8,0

Le Grand Échiquier

Self

1972

Series ★ 6,8

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

1948

Series ★ 8,0

The Muppet Show

Self - Special Guest Star

1976

Series ★ 5,7

Goldene Kamera

Self - Laudatio

1984

Series ★ 7,5

Numéro un

Self

1975

Series ★ 6,8

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Self (uncredited)

1968

Series ★ 7,3

Was bin ich?

Self

1955

Series ★ 7,4

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self

1978

Series ★ 6,3

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Magic Man (voice)

1995

Series ★ 7,3

Menschen bei Maischberger

Self

2003

Series ★ 6,0

Kulturplatz

Self

2004

Film ★ 7,5

BlacKkKlansman

Jerome Turner

2018

Series ★ 7,0

The Danny Kaye Show

Self

1963

Series ★ 4,9

The Flip Wilson Show

Self

1970

Series ★ 7,0

PB&J Otter

The Ice Moose (voice)

1998

Series ★ 7,5

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Self

1967

Series ★ 7,5

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Self - Cameo

1967

Series ★ 10,0

Sabine Christiansen

Self

1998

Series ★ 8,0

V.I.P. Schaukel

Self

1971

Series ★ 7,0

Heut' abend

Self

1980

Series ★ 8,0

Aktuelle Schaubude

Self

1957

Film ★ 7,2

The Player

Harry Belafonte

1992

Series ★ 6,3

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self

1973

Series ★ 3,0

Hollywood Black

Self (archive footage)

2024

Series ★ 8,0

Auf los geht's los

Self

1977

Series ★ 8,0

The Bell Telephone Hour

Self

1959

Series ★ 6,8

ABC Stage 67

Self

1966

Series ★ 8,0

The Julie Andrews Hour

Self

1972

Film ★ 7,0

Sidney

Self

2022

Series

Gero von Boehm begegnet...

Self

2002

Series ★ 8,5

Club 2

Self

1976

Film ★ 5,2

Prêt-à-Porter

Self

1994

Film ★ 7,9

Jim Henson Idea Man

Self (archive footage)

2024

Series ★ 4,1

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Self

1996

Film ★ 7,9

The Greatest Night in Pop

Self (archive footage)

2024

Series

Musik liegt in der Luft

Self - Singer

1991

Film ★ 6,2

Carmen Jones

Joe

1954

Series

Hamburg Journal

self

2011

Series ★ 7,0

Flitterabend

Self - Singer

1988

Series

TV Story Superstar

Self (archive footage)

2020

Series ★ 7,8

Bobby Kennedy for President

Self

2018

Series ★ 10,0

Tanner on Tanner

Self

2004

Film ★ 6,4

Bobby

Nelson

2006

Series ★ 7,5

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Self

2006

Film ★ 6,3

Buck and the Preacher

Preacher

1972

Film ★ 6,2

Uptown Saturday Night

Geechie Dan Beauford

1974

Series

Bei Bio

Self

1983

Film ★ 6,0

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Self

2022

Film ★ 8,0

Nationtime: Gary

Self

1972

Film ★ 6,8

Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan

Self

2023

Series ★ 7,5

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

1988

Series ★ 6,8

General Electric Theater

Vince

1953

Film ★ 8,2

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Self - Inductee (archive footage)

2022

Film ★ 5,8

Night of 100 Stars

Self

1982

Film ★ 7,4

The World of Jim Henson

Self

1994

Series ★ 9,0

Willemsens Woche

Self

1995