Biography
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
Acted in 6
2020s
- 2026
My Gender Is Black
Movie
2010s
- 2018
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
Movie
1980s
- 1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Movie
1960s
- 1968
- 1963
The Negro and the American Promise
Movie
Wrote 10
2020s
- 2023
James Baldwin Abroad
Writer
- 2022
Brother, Where Are You?
Original Story
2010s
- 2018
- 2017
1990s
- 1998
Where the Heart Is
Original Film Writer
- 1992
Toc Storee
Novel
1980s
- 1984
- 1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Writer
Appearances26
2020s
- 2025
- 2023
James Baldwin Abroad
Self
- 2022
- 2021
i ran from it and was still in it
Self (voice) (archive footage)
- 2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Self
2010s
- 2018
Mr. SOUL!
Self (archive footage)
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
Self (archive footage)
- 2017
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
- 2014
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
Self (archive footage)
- 2013
Off-White Tulips
Self
- 2011
Public Speaking
Self (archive footage)
1980s
- 1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Self (archive footage)
- 1985
- 1981
I Remember Harlem
self · 4 episodes
1970s
- 1978
- 1973
James Baldwin: From Another Place
Self
- 1971
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
Self
- 1970
1960s
- 1968
Baldwin's Nigger
Self
- 1965
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
Self
- 1964
Take This Hammer
Self
- 1962
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
Self
