Jesse Jackson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 8, 1941
- Died
- Feb 17, 2026 (aged 84)
- Place of birth
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Credits
- 88
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'.
Known for
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003TV
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021Movie
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self
LA 92
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
Filmography
Hollywood Black
2024TV
Self (archive footage)
South to Black Power
2023Movie
Self
Loudmouth
2022Movie
Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022Movie
Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021Movie
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021Movie
Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021TV
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021Movie
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021Movie
Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021Movie
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021Movie
Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Obama
2020TV
Self
Bernie Blackout
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
2020Movie
Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020Movie
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019Movie
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019Movie
Self
Shut Up and Dribble
2018TV
Self - Civil Rights Leader
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018Movie
Self
Explained
2018TV
Self (archive footage)
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018Movie
Self
I Am MLK Jr.
2018Movie
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018Movie
Self
Velshi
2017TV
Self (archive footage)
LA 92
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016Movie
Self
Crashing the Party
2016Movie
Self
Fantastic Lies
2016Movie
Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many
2014Movie
Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013Movie
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012Movie
Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story
2011Movie
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009Movie
Self
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009TV
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009Movie
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009Movie
Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009Movie
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009Movie
The Day the Troubles Began
2008Movie
Self
Ballou
2008Movie
Himself
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007Movie
Self
Robins
2006TV
Self - Guest
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005TV
Tanner on Tanner
2004TV
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003TV
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002Movie
Self (archive footage)
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002Movie
Self
Last Party 2000
2001Movie
Self
Democracy Now!
2001TV
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999Movie
(archive footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999Movie
Self
University, Inc.
1999Movie
Self (Archive Footage)
4 Little Girls
1997Movie
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
The Chris Rock Show
1997TV
Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997Movie
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996Movie
Self (archive footage)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995TV
Cocky Locky (voice)
Baseball
1994TV
Various (voice)
The Soul of Stax
1994Movie
Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993Movie
Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992Movie
Self
Decade
1989Movie
Self
Route One/USA
1989Movie
Self
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988Movie
On Screen Narrator
Tanner '88
1988TV
Himself (uncredited)
A Different World
1987TV
Himself
In Remembrance of Martin
1986Movie
Self
Not Necessarily the News
1983TV
Self (archive footage)
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983Movie
Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982Movie
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
A Decade of Struggle
1980Movie
Self
A Matter of Respect
1980Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
Dinah!
1974TV
Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973Movie
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Save the Children
1973Movie
Self
Wattstax
1973Movie
Self
Nationtime: Gary
1972Movie
Self
We Are Universal
1971Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970Movie
Self (archive footage)
Operation Breadbasket
1969Movie
Self
Uptight
1968Movie
Self (archive footage)
World in Action
1963TV
Dear Mister President
Movie
Self