Jesse Jackson
Acting
Born: 1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Died: 2026-02-17
Biography
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'.
🎬 Movies (20)
South to Black Power
2023
Self
Loudmouth
2022
Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Self (archive footage)
Bernie Blackout
2020
Self (archive footage)
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
Self
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
Self
LA 92
2017
Self (archive footage)
📺 TV Shows (20)
Hollywood Black
2024
Self (archive footage)
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
Self
Obama
2020
Self
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
Self - Civil Rights Leader
Explained
2018
Self (archive footage)
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Robins
2006
Self - Guest
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Self
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Self
The Daily Show
1996
Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Cocky Locky (voice)
Baseball
1994
Various (voice)
Tanner '88
1988
Himself (uncredited)
A Different World
1987
Himself
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live
1975
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
1975
Self (uncredited)