Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 01, 1927
Died
Apr 25, 2023
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
158 titles
Harry Belafonte
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
self
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Following Harry
Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Night in Pop
Self (archive footage)
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self - Inductee (archive footage)
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self
Sidney
Self
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
Self - Subject (archive footage)
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Self
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
Self
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Self
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Self (archive footage)
TV Story Superstar
Self (archive footage)
The Man Behind the White Guitar
Self
BlacKkKlansman
Jerome Turner
Bobby Kennedy for President
Self
Mr. SOUL!
Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self - Singer
King in the Wilderness
Self
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Self
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Self
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Robinson
Self
Året var 1966
Self (archive footage)
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Self
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
Self
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Self
Sternstunde Musik
Self
JFK: The Private President
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Self
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Self
Sing Your Song
Self
Rise Like Lions
Self
Mama Africa
Self (archive footage)
Hamburg Journal
self
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Self (voice)
The University of Sing Sing
Self
Motherland
Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
Bobby
Nelson
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
Mo & Me