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