Acting
Harry Belafonte
1927-03-01 · 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.
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BlacKkKlansman
The Player
Bobby
The Muppet Show
The Greatest Night in Pop
The Colbert Report
Prêt-à-Porter
Carmen Jones
Kansas City
Odds Against Tomorrow
Beat Street
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
White Man's Burden
The Oscars
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
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Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
Following Harry
Jim Henson Idea Man
The Greatest Night in Pop
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Sidney
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
The Man Behind the White Guitar
BlacKkKlansman
Mr. SOUL!
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
King in the Wilderness
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
The Madding Crowd
Året var 1966
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
JFK: The Private President
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Sing Your Song
Rise Like Lions
Mama Africa
The University of Sing Sing
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Motherland
Anecdotes about Fidel
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Hollywood Black
TV Story Superstar
Bobby Kennedy for President
Jackie Robinson
Sternstunde Musik
Hamburg Journal
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
The Colbert Report
Tanner on Tanner
Kulturplatz
Menschen bei Maischberger
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Vivement dimanche
PB&J Otter
Sabine Christiansen
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Willemsens Woche
Musik liegt in der Luft
DAS!
Nase vorn
Flitterabend
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Sacrée soirée
Goldene Kamera
Bei Bio
Champs-Elysées
Wetten, dass..?
Heut' abend
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Kennedy Center Honors
Auf los geht's los
Club 2
The Muppet Show
Numéro un
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Julie Andrews Hour
Le Grand Échiquier
V.I.P. Schaukel
Great Performances
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