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.
Personal Details
Movies (32)
The New Yorker at 100
as Self (archive footage)
2025
James Baldwin Abroad
as Self
2023
Brother, Where Are You?
Original Story (Writing)
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Madonna: Madame X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
i ran from it and was still in it
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
2020
If Beale Street Could Talk
Novel (Writing)
2018
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
as Self (archive footage)
2018
I Am Not Your Negro
Writer (Writing)
2017
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Public Speaking
as Self (archive footage)
2011
The James Baldwin Anthology
2003
Where the Heart Is
Original Film Writer (Writing)
1998
Malcolm X
Screenplay (Writing)
1992
Toc Storee
Novel (Writing)
1992
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self (archive footage)
1989
The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Novel (Writing)
1984
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
as Himself
1978
James Baldwin: From Another Place
as Self
1973
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
as Self
1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
Baldwin's Nigger
as Self
1968
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
as Self
1965
Take This Hammer
as Self
1964
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
as Self
1962
