Jesse Jackson
Known for Acting · 84 credits
- Born
- 1941-10-08
- Died
- 2026-02-17
- Place of birth
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
Biography
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
Known For
TV Shows (21)
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self (uncredited)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
A Different World
1987
as Himself
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Dinah!
1974
as Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Cocky Locky (voice)
Explained
2018
as Self (archive footage)
World in Action
1963
Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
The Chris Rock Show
1997
as Self
Not Necessarily the News
1983
as Self (archive footage)
Robins
2006
as Self - Guest
Tanner '88
1988
as Himself (uncredited)
Hollywood Black
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Tanner on Tanner
2004
as Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
as Self
Obama
2020
as Self
Movies (63)
LA 92
2017
as Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
as Self
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
as Self
Last Party 2000
2001
as Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A Man's Story
2011
as Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
as Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
as Self
4 Little Girls
1997
as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
Decade
1989
as Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Nationtime
1972
as Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
as Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
as Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
as Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
as Self
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
as Self
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
as Self (archive footage)
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
as Self
Uptight
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Wattstax
1973
as Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
as Self
Fantastic Lies
2016
as Himself (archive footage)
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
as Self
South to Black Power
2023
as Self
Crashing the Party
2016
as Self
Route One/USA
1989
as Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Operation Breadbasket
1969
as Self
Dear Mister President
as Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
We Are Many
2014
as Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992
as Self
Loudmouth
2022
as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
as Self (archive Footage)
University, Inc.
1999
as Self (Archive Footage)
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
as On Screen Narrator
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
as Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
as Self
Save the Children
1973
as Self
Ballou
2008
as Himself
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
as Self
Bernie Blackout
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
as Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
as Self
A Decade of Struggle
1980
as Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
The Soul of Stax
1994
as Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
as Self
A Matter of Respect
1980
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
as Himself
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
as Self
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
as Self
We Are Universal
1971
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
as Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
as Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
as Self
About Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'. With 84 credits spanning from 1963 to 2024, Jesse Jackson has appeared in 63 films and 21 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jesse Jackson Movies
- LA 92 (2017) — as Self (archive footage)
- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) — as Self (archive footage)
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) — as Self
- BaadAsssss Cinema (2002) — as Self
- Last Party 2000 (2001) — as Self
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