Cast

Harry Belafonte

1927 – 2023

Active years (films on this site)

1954–2016

Genres

DramaMusicalRomanceCrimeDocumentary

Schools and movements

Classical HollywoodNew HollywoodCzechoslovak New WaveLatin American Cinema

Biography

Harry Belafonte 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.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Awards and honours

International

• Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical 1954
• Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program 1960
• Paul Robeson Award 1979
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2000
• Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award 2002
• Ambassador of Conscience Award 2013
• NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award
• Order of Jamaica
• Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo

National / local

• Theatre World Award 1954
• Kennedy Center Honors 1989
• honorary degree from Spelman College 1990
• National Medal of Arts 1994
• Marian Anderson Award 1998
• Spingarn Medal 2012
• Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 2014
• Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal 2017
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2022
• Library of Congress Living Legend
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Directors worked with

Otto Preminger1 filmRobert Rossen1 filmRobert Wise1 filmSidney Lumet1 filmJán Kadár1 filmRobert Altman1 filmRaoul Peck1 film

7 films on this site

1. Carmen Jones 1954 · Otto Preminger · IMDb 6.7 · Cast
2. Island in the Sun 1957 · Robert Rossen · IMDb 6.1 · Cast
3. Odds Against Tomorrow 1959 · Robert Wise · IMDb 7.4 · Cast
4. King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis 1970 · Sidney Lumet · IMDb 8.2 · Cast
5. The Angel Levine 1970 · Ján Kadár · IMDb 6.0 · Cast
6. Kansas City 1996 · Robert Altman · IMDb 6.3 · Cast
7. I Am Not Your Negro 2016 · Raoul Peck · IMDb 7.9 · Cast