Harry Belafonte
Known for: Acting
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self - Guest Host
1962
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
The Colbert Report
Self - Guest
2005
Series
DAS!
Self
1991
Series
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
Great Performances
Self
1971
Series
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
1979
Series
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Series
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Series
Democracy Now!
Self (archive footage)
2001
Series
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Series
Numéro un
Self
1975
Menschen bei Maischberger
Self
2003
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Series
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
1956
Sabine Christiansen
Self
1998
Series
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
1968
Was bin ich?
Self
1955
Series
The Flip Wilson Show
Self
1970
Series
PB&J Otter
The Ice Moose (voice)
1998
Series
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
Series
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
1963
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
The Muppet Show
Self - Special Guest Star
1976
Goldene Kamera
Self - Laudatio
1984
Series
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Magic Man (voice)
1995
Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Series
Heut' abend
Self
1980
Series
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959
Series
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
1967
Series
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self - Cameo
1967
Series
Aktuelle Schaubude
Self
1957
Series
Auf los geht's los
Self
1977
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
Musik liegt in der Luft
Self - Singer
1991
Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self
1996
Series
ABC Stage 67
Self
1966
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
2002
Film
BlacKkKlansman
Jerome Turner
2018
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Flitterabend
Self - Singer
1988
Hamburg Journal
self
2011
Club 2
Self
1976
Film
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
2024
Series
The Julie Andrews Hour
Self
1972
Film
The Player
Harry Belafonte
1992
Series
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Sidney
Self
2022
Film
The Greatest Night in Pop
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Self
2023
Series
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
2006
Nase vorn
Self
1988
Series
Tanner on Tanner
Self
2004
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
Film
Prêt-à-Porter
Self
1994
Series
Bobby Kennedy for President
Self
2018
Series
TV Story Superstar
Self (archive footage)
2020
Series
General Electric Theater
Vince
1953
Willemsens Woche
Self
1995
Bei Bio
Self
1983
Film
Bobby
Nelson
2006
Sternstunde Musik
Self
2013
Series
Jackie Robinson
Self
2016
Film
Buck and the Preacher
Preacher
1972
Film
Carmen Jones
Joe
1954
Film
White Man's Burden
Thaddeus Thomas
1995
Film
Odds Against Tomorrow
Johnny Ingram
1959
Film
Island in the Sun
David Boyeur
1957
Film
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self
2022
Film
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
Film
Mama Africa
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
2025
Film
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Uptown Saturday Night
Geechie Dan Beauford
1974
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986
Film
Free to Be… You and Me
Self
1974
Film
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
Film
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Self (voice)
2011
Film
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Self
2021
Film
Nationtime: Gary
Self
1972
Film
Altman on His Own Terms
Self
2000
Film
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Ralph Burton
1959
Film
Following Harry
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self - Inductee (archive footage)
2022
Film
The World of Jim Henson
Self
1994
Film
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Self
1985
The Peace!
Self
2005
Film
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
1970
Film
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
2014
Film
Swing Vote
Will Dunn
1999
The Royal Variety Performance 1977
Self
1977
Film
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Self
2012
Film
Jim Henson's Memorial Service
1990
Film
Kansas City
Seldom Seen
1996
Film
Mr. SOUL!
Self
2018
Film
King in the Wilderness
Self
2018
Film
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self
1988
Film
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Self
2020
Film
Petula
Self
1968
Film
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Self
2013
Film
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
2013
Film
The Angel Levine
Alexander Levine
1970
Film
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self
1999
Film
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
Self
2026
Film
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Self (archive footage)
1993
Film
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
Self
2014
Film
Sing Your Song
Self
2012
Film
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
2018
Film
Motherland
Self
2010
Film
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Self
1990
Film
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Self
2015
Film
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Self
2017
Film
The World of Nat King Cole
Self
2004
Film
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
Self
1977
Film
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Self
2009
Film
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Self
1998
Film
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self (uncredited)
2002
Film
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
Self
1989
Film
Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
Self (archive footage)
Film
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Self
2006
Film
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
The Muppet Revue
Self
1985
Film
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Self
2012
Film
The Strolling '20s
Self
1966
Film
The Day of the Oath
Self
1965
Film
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
Film
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Self
2023
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Self
2017
Film
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self - Singer
2018
Donald McKayle: Heartbeats of a DanceMaker
self
2004
Film
The Legendary Nat King Cole
Self
2004
Film
The University of Sing Sing
Self
2011
Film
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
Self
1988
Film
JFK: The Private President
Self
2013
Film
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
1997
Grambling's White Tiger
Coach Eddie Robinson
1981
Film
Bright Road
Mr. Williams - School Principal
1953
Film
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
Self
2005
Film
The Man Behind the White Guitar
Self
2019
Film
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
Self - Subject (archive footage)
2022
Film
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
Self
2020
Film
Mo & Me
2006
Film
We Shall Overcome
Self - Narrator
1989
Muppet Music Moments
Self
2004
Rise Like Lions
Self
2011
Harry Belafonte in Concert
Self
1960
Film
Året var 1966
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Jazz '34
Self - Narrator
1997
Film
Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something
Self
2020