James Baldwin

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-08-02 (63 years old)

Deathday

1987-12-01

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.

Acting

2021

Madonna: Madame X

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2018

Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

as Self (archive footage)

1968

1989

2010

Public Speaking

as Self (archive footage)

2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

as Self (archive footage)

1964

1985

The Statue of Liberty

as Self - Writer

2017

The Madding Crowd

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Mr. SOUL!

as Self (archive footage)

2017

I Am Not Your Negro

as Self (archive footage)

2021

i ran from it and was still in it

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

2025

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1992

Toc Storee

as Novel

2017

2022

Brother, Where Are You?

as Original Story

1998

Where the Heart Is

as Original Film Writer

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