Acting · geboren 1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA

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'.

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• The Daily Show (1996) – Self
• Saturday Night Live (1975) – Self - Host
• Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) – Self
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) – Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) – Self
• Los Angeles: Die Aufstände von 1992 (2017) – Self (archive footage)
• Explained (2018) – Self (archive footage)
• Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982) – Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• Crack: Kokain, Korruption und Konspiration (2021) – Self (archive footage)
• College Fieber (1987) – Himself
• Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013) – Self
• Vier kleine Mädchen (1997) – Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
• Baseball (1994) – Various (voice)
• Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) – Self (archive footage)
• BaadAsssss Cinema (2002) – Self
• Fantastic Lies (2016) – Himself (archive footage)
• Wattstax (1973) – Self
• Black Power (1968) – Self (archive footage)
• Michael Jackson Memorial (2009) – Self
• Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999) – (archive footage)
• Wir sind viele (2014) – Self
• Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Aktivist und Rebell (2009) – Self
• Dann war mein Leben nicht umsonst – Martin Luther King (1970) – Self (archive footage)
• Route One/USA (1989) – Self
• Last Party 2000 (2001) – Self
• The Chris Rock Show (1997) – Self
• Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009) – Self
• 13 auf einen Streich (1995) – Cocky Locky (voice)
• Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (2021) – Self
• Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002) – Self (archive footage)
• A Man's Story (2011) – Self
• '85: The Greatest Team in Football History (2016) – Self
• The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (2005)
• Tanner '88 (1988) – Himself (uncredited)
• Save the Children (1973) – Self
• Not Necessarily the News (1983) – Self (archive footage)
• Democracy Now! (2001) – Self (archive footage)
• Der mysteriöse Mord an Martin Luther King - Protokoll eines Attentats (2012) – Self (archive Footage)
• Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham (1993) – Self
• The Nine Lives of Marion Barry (2009) – Self