James Baldwin

Personal Info

Birthday

August 2, 1924

Day of Death

1987-12-01

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Harlem, New York, USA

James Baldwin

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.

Known For

Filmography

2025
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
as Self (archive footage)
2023
James Baldwin Abroad
as Self
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Madonna: Madame X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
i ran from it and was still in it
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
2018
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
as Self (archive footage)
2017
I Am Not Your Negro
as Self (archive footage)
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2014
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Public Speaking
as Self (archive footage)
1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self (archive footage)
1985
The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
1973
James Baldwin: From Another Place
as Self
1971
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
as Self
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Baldwin's Nigger
as Self
1965
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
as Self
1964
Take This Hammer
as Self
1962
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
as Self