Martin Luther King Jr.
Known for Acting · 170 credits
- Born
- 1929-01-15
- Died
- 1968-04-04
- Place of birth
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Also known as
- MLK · Dr. King · Martin Luther King · Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Biography
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
Known For
TV Shows (37)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
American Experience
1988
as Himself (archive footage)
Mentiras verdaderas
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Omnibus
1967
as Self
Kulturzeit
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Explained
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Dispatches
1987
History 101
2020
as Self (archive footage)
America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset
2026
as Self (archive footage)
World in Action
1963
Days That Shook the World
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Race for the White House
2016
as Self (archive footage)
O.J.: Made in America
2016
as Self (archive footage)
This Is Pop
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The David Susskind Show
1959
as Self
Hollywood Black
2024
as Self (archive footage)
First Ladies
2020
as Self (archive footage)
First Tuesday
1983
Assassinations That Changed the World
1996
I Am
2012
as Self
Emancipation Road
2014
as Self
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Bill Russell: Legend
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Infamous Assassinations
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
2018
as Self (archive footage)
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017
as Self (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In Their Own Words
2015
as Self (archive footage)
A History of Antisemitism
2022
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
La Californie !
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
2020
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Folk Britannia
2006
as Self (archival footage)
Great Literary Tour
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Movies (133)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
2009
as Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
2003
as Self (archive footage)
L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK?
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The Doors
1991
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
J. Edgar
2011
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blue Eyed
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Invasion
2011
as archive footage
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Da 5 Bloods
2020
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
13th
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Citizen King
2004
as Self (archive footage)
England 79
2019
O.J.: Made in America
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Origin
2023
as Self (archive voice)
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Nixon
1995
as (Archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream
2026
as Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Stand
2009
as Self (archive footage)
LBJ
1968
as Self
Zeitgeist: Requiem
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Bobby
2006
as Self (archive footage)
The American Nightmare
2000
as Self
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009
as Self (archive footage)
The House I Live In
2012
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Becoming King
2024
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Malcolm X
1992
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Killing of America
1981
as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
1997
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
When You're Strange
2010
as Self (archive footage)
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Geek, and You Shall Find
2019
as Self (voice)
We Have A Dream
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019
as Self
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis
1969
as Self
Chasing Trane
2017
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
The Universe
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
as Self (archive footage)
...So Goes the Nation
2006
as Self (archive footage)
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
as Self (archive Footage) / Self (archive footage)
I Am Curious (Yellow)
1967
as Himself
Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America
2023
The Year That Trembled
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King in the Wilderness
2018
as Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Good Intentions
1985
as Self (Archival Footage)
Death Scenes 2
1992
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Naqoyqatsi
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997
as Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Children of the Civil Rights
2015
as Self (archive footage)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
13 November 1967: Martin Luther King Interview
1967
Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра»
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
Stand
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Janes
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Imminent Threat
2015
as Self (archive footage)
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Union and Freedom
1964
as Himself
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
2008
as self - archival footage
The Corporate Coup D'État
2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Soul of America
2020
as Self (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
as Self
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
as Self
2012: Time for Change
2010
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Four Died Trying: Prologue
2023
as Self (archive footage)
I Have a Dream
1963
as Self
Wealth of a Nation
1964
as Self
All Power to the People!
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The War at Home
1979
as Self (archive footage)
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
as Self
Anno Domini MCMLXV
1966
as Self (archive footage)
King vs. the United States of America
as Self (archive footage)
Speeches That Shook the World
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Året var 1966
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Integration Report 1
1960
as Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Klansville U.S.A.
2015
as Self (archive Footage)
COINTELPRO 101
2010
as Self (archive footage)
America's Woman
2024
as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MLK/FBI
2020
as Self (archive footage)
A History of the World According to Getty Images
2022
as Self (Archive Footage)
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
2022
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl
2019
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Hesburgh
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Året var 1963
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Art of Dissent
2021
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Ethel
2012
as Self (archive footage)
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
2007
as Self (archive footage)
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
1963
as himself
Freedom Summer
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The March
1964
as Self
James Brown Soul Brother No. 1
1978
The Bus
1965
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Picture Me Rollin'
2012
as Self (voice)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Disasters of the Century
1985
as Self (archive footage)
About Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 19… With 170 credits spanning from 1959 to 2026, Martin Luther King Jr. has appeared in 133 films and 37 TV shows.
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- Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009) — as Self (archive footage)
- The Corporation (2003) — as Self (archive footage)
- L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK? (2007) — as Self (archive footage)
- The Doors (1991) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- J. Edgar (2011) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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