JB

James Baldwin

Writer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born August 2, 1924Died December 1, 1987 (63 years)
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.

Known For

  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Malcolm X
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Where the Heart Is
  • Soul!
  • Un étranger dans le village

Filmography

2018
2016
1998
Where the Heart Is · as Original Film Writer
1992
Malcolm X · as Screenplay
1985
1982
1980
American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Novel
1972

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