Actor

James Baldwin

Birthday: August 2, 1924

Born in: Harlem, New York, USA

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.

Movie Credits

The New Yorker at 100 (2025) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 101
James Baldwin Abroad (2023) as Self
Age: 98
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 98
Madonna: Madame X (2021) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age: 97
i ran from it and was still in it (2021) as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Age: 96
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020) as Self
Age: 96
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision (2018)
Age: 94
Mr. SOUL! (2018) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 93
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 (2018) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 93
The Madding Crowd (2017) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 92
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else (2014) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 89
Public Speaking (2011) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 86
The James Baldwin Anthology (2003)
Age: 78
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 65
The Statue of Liberty (1985) as Self - Writer
Age: 61
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
Age: 57
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre (1978) as Himself
Age: 54
James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973) as Self
Age: 48
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1971) as Self
Age: 46
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) as Self (archive footage)
Age: 45
Baldwin's Nigger (1968) as Self
Age: 43
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley (1965) as Self
Age: 40
Take This Hammer (1964) as Self
Age: 39
The Negro and the American Promise (1963)
Age: 38
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village (1962) as Self
Age: 38