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Harry Belafonte

Actor / Songwriter / Film Producer / Executive Producer | * 03/01/1927 († 96, 04/25/2023) | New York, New York, U.S. (Jamaica)
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final feature film appearance in Spike Lee's ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. ...

BlacKkKlansman

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2018 | 3.8/5 | 2h 15min
Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
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Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear ...

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Certification unknown

1959 | 3.3/5 | 1h 35min
Drama, Science Fiction
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In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. ...

Bobby

R

2006 | 3.2/5 | 2h
Drama
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A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City. ...

Kansas City

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1996 | 3.2/5 | 1h 56min
Thriller, Drama, Music, Crime
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Awards & Nominations for Harry Belafonte

Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical Emmy Awards Paul Robeson Award Kennedy Center Honors Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award National Medal of Arts Marian Anderson Award Library of Congress Living Legend Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award Spingarn Medal Ambassador of Conscience Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal Rock and Roll Hall of Fame NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award Order of Jamaica Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Honorary Degree From Spelman College Theatre World Award
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Movies with Harry Belafonte as Actor(62)

as himself2024 The Greatest Night in Pop
2023 Sunday Best
as Self - Inductee (archive footage)2022 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self - Subject (archive footage)2022 Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
as himself2022 Sidney
as himself2022 Is That Black Enough for You?!?
as himself2021 The One and Only Dick Gregory
as himself2020 The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
as himself2019 JFK - Galakonzert 1961
as himself2018 Mr. SOUL!
as himself2018 Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
as Jerome Turner2018 BlacKkKlansman
as Self - Singer2018 Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
as himself2018 King in the Wilderness
as himself2017 Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self (archive footage)2017 I Am Not Your Negro
as himself2015 Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
as self (archive footage)2014 Selma
as himself2014 Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
as himself2014 Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
as himself2013 Moms Mabley
as himself2012 Hava Nagila: The Movie
as himself2012 Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
as himself2012 Sing Your Song
as himself2011 Rise Like Lions
as himself2011 The University of Sing Sing
as Self (voice)2011 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
as Self (archive footage)2011 Mama Africa
as Nelson2006 Bobby
as himself2006 Best Ever Muppet Moments
as himself2005 The Peace!
as himself2005 Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)2004 Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
as Self (archive footage)2004 TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as Self (uncredited)2002 Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Will Dunn1999 Swing Vote
as himself1999 Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self - Narrator1997 Jazz '34
as himself1997 Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
as Seldom Seen1996 Kansas City
as Thaddeus Thomas1995 White Man's Burden
as himself1994 Ready to Wear
as himself1994 The World of Jim Henson
as himself1992 The Player
as himself1990 The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
as Self (archive footage)1986 The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
as himself1985 We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
as Coach Eddie Robinson1981 Grambling's White Tiger
as himself1977 The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
as himself1974 Free to Be… You and Me
as Geechie Dan Beauford1974 Uptown Saturday Night
as himself1972 Nationtime
as Preacher1972 Buck and the Preacher
as Self (archive footage)1970 King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Alexander Levine1970 The Angel Levine
as himself1968 Petula
as himself1966 The Strolling '20s
as Johnny Ingram1959 Odds Against Tomorrow
as Ralph Burton1959 The World, the Flesh and the Devil
as David Boyeur1957 Island in the Sun
as Joe1954 Carmen Jones
as Mr. Williams - School Principal1953 Bright Road

TV Shows/Series with Harry Belafonte as Actor(48)

as himself2018 Bobby Kennedy for President
as himself2016 Jackie Robinson
as himself2011 Hamburg Journal
as himself2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self - Guest2005 The Colbert Report
as himself2003 Menschen bei Maischberger
as himself2002 Gero von Boehm begegnet...
as The Ice Moose (voice)1998 PB&J Otter
as himself1998 Vivement dimanche
as himself1998 Sabine Christiansen
as himself1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as himself1995 Willemsens Woche
as himself1991 DAS!
as Self - Singer1991 Musik liegt in der Luft
as Self - Singer1988 Flitterabend
as himself1983 Bei Bio
as himself1982 Champs-Elysées
as himself1981 Wetten, dass..?
as himself1980 Heut' abend
as himself1979 CBS News Sunday Morning
as himself1978 The Kennedy Center Honors
as himself1977 Auf los geht's los
as Self - Special Guest Star1976 The Muppet Show
as himself1976 Club 2
as himself1975 Numéro un
as himself1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as himself1972 Le Grand Échiquier
as himself1971 V.I.P. Schaukel
as himself1971 Great Performances
as himself1970 The Flip Wilson Show
as Self - Guest1968 The Dick Cavett Show
as himself1967 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self - Cameo1967 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as himself1966 ABC Stage 67
as Self - Laudatio1966 Goldene Kamera Verleihung
as himself1963 The Danny Kaye Show
as himself1962 The Merv Griffin Show
as himself1959 The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self - Singer1957 Aktuelle Schaubude
as Self - Singer1956 The Steve Allen Show
as himself1955 Was bin ich?
as Vince1953 GE Theater
as himself1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - Mystery Guest1950 What's My Line?
as himself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self (archive footage)1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self - Singer (archive footage)1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self - Singer1948 The Ed Sullivan Show

Movies with Harry Belafonte as Crew(5)

Production/Producer2023 King Leopold’s Ghost
Sound/Original Music Composer1984 Beat Street
Production/Producer1972 Buck and the Preacher
Production/Producer1970 The Angel Levine
Production/Producer1959 The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Born: Tuesday, 03/01 1927 (March) in New York, New York, U.S. (Jamaica)
Died: Tuesday, 04/25 2023 (April) in New York City (aged: 96)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Wolmer's Schools, George Washington Educational Campus, New School
Employer: UNICEF
Member of: Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, The Sanders Institute
Record Label: Jubilee Records, RCA Victor
Children: Shari Belafonte, David Belafonte, Gina Belafonte
Influenced by/Role models: Sir Lancelot
Other names for Harry Belafonte (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Harold George Bellanfanti Jr."
"Harold George Bellanfanti"
"King of Calypso" (Nickname)
"Raymond Bell" (Pseudonym)
Harry Belafonte frequently works together with these people:
Peter Ustinov (19x, Actor)
Kirk Douglas (17x, Actor)
Charlton Heston (16x, Actor)
Jerry Lewis (16x, Actor)
Liza Minnelli (16x, Actress)
Sammy Davis Jr. (16x, Actor)
Lee Marvin (14x, Actor)
Sidney Poitier (14x, Actor)
Tony Curtis (14x, Actor)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (14x, Actress)
Plácido Domingo (13x, Actor)
Mireille Mathieu (13x, Actress)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:12465, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/10/2024