
Harry Belafonte
Born March 1, 1927 · New York City, New York, USA
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which 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 screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies

BlacKkKlansman

The Player

Jim Henson Idea Man

Prêt-à-Porter

Sidney

The Greatest Night in Pop

White Man's Burden

Carmen Jones

Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan

Night of 100 Stars

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Buck and the Preacher

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

Island in the Sun

The One and Only Dick Gregory

Bobby

Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!

Mo & Me

CIRILO, A Legacy Untold

The World of Jim Henson

Altman on His Own Terms

Nationtime: Gary

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

Odds Against Tomorrow

Mama Africa

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Free to Be… You and Me

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Kansas City

The World of Nat King Cole

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

King in the Wilderness

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
TV Shows

The Merv Griffin Show

Great Performances

Sacrée soirée

CBS News Sunday Morning

What's My Line?

Champs-Elysées

Vivement dimanche

The Dick Cavett Show

Tony Awards

Wetten, dass..?

The Oscars

The Steve Allen Show

Le Grand Échiquier

Numéro un

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Kulturplatz

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Danny Kaye Show

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Muppet Show

The Flip Wilson Show

Heut' abend

PB&J Otter

The Bell Telephone Hour

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

ABC Stage 67

Auf los geht's los

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Aktuelle Schaubude

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Hollywood Black

Tanner on Tanner

The Julie Andrews Hour

TV Story Superstar

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

General Electric Theater

Bobby Kennedy for President

Jackie Robinson
More Movies

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Uptown Saturday Night

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years

Best Ever Muppet Moments

The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert

Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky

Petula

Swing Vote

Jim Henson's Memorial Service

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark

Following Harry

Hava Nagila: The Movie

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

Sing Your Song

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist

Mr. SOUL!

Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

The Legendary Nat King Cole

Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens

The Angel Levine

The Unforgettable Nat King Cole

The Strolling '20s

Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

The Madding Crowd

The Day of the Oath

The Muppet Revue

Bright Road

The Man Behind the White Guitar

JFK: The Private President

The Tallest Tree in Our Forest

The University of Sing Sing

Anecdotes about Fidel

Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

Dom Salvador & The Abolition

Motherland

Året var 1966

Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice

Jazz '34




