MJ
Martin Luther King Jr.
Actor
Born January 15, 1929Died April 4, 1968 (39 years)
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
Featured Videos
Filmography
| 2026 | Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2025 | Starring Dick Van Dyke · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2025 | Starring Dick Van Dyke · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2025 | |
| 2025 | Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2025 | Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |
| 2025 | |
| 2025 | Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2025 | Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc. · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2025 | Hoops, Hopes & Dreams · as Self |
| 2024 | Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2024 | America's Woman · as Self |
| 2024 | Hollywood Black (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Faye · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2024 | America's Burning · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2024 | The Beach Boys · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Power · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2024 | Zeitgeist: Requiem · as Self - Christian Minister |
| 2024 | Becoming King · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | The Greatest Night in Pop · as Self |
| 2024 | Bad Faith · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2023 | Origin · as Self (archive Voice) |
| 2023 | Four Died Trying: Prologue · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2023 | Stamped from the Beginning · as Self |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | Joan Baez I Am a Noise · as Self |
| 2023 | The Hustle of @617MikeBiv · as Self |
| 2023 | Stan Lee · as Self |
| 2023 | Rather · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2023 | The Giants · as Self |
| 2023 | Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |
| 2023 | Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing · as Self |
| 2023 | Bill Russell: Legend (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2023 | Stand · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2023 | My Father Muhammad Ali · as Self |
| 2023 | Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter? · as Self |
| 2022 | Le siècle des icônes (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Loudmouth · as Self |
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| 2022 | Gregory Peck, the Gentleman Actor · as Self |
| 2022 | Who Is Stan Smith? · as Self |
| 2022 | Born Free · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2022 | God Forbid · as Self |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Say Hey, Willie Mays! · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks · as Self |
| 2022 | Denzel Washington: An American Model · as Self |
| 2022 | Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey · as Self |
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| 2022 | The Janes · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | George Carlin's American Dream (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Deconstructing Karen · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2022 | D.I.S.C.O. (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | A History of Antisemitism (TV Series) · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | The Loyola Project · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2022 | Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | The Dream Whisperer · as Self |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | 137 Shots · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |
| 2021 | The Art of Dissent · as Self - Subject (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over · as Self |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | The Price of Freedom · as Self |
| 2021 | The Last Movie Ride · as Self |
| 2021 | The One and Only Dick Gregory · as Self |
| 2021 | Black Woodstock · as Self - Activist |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. · as Self |
| 2021 | MLK: The Conspiracies · as Self |
| 2021 | This Is Pop (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage · as Self |
| 2021 | Martin Luther King Jr: Enough is Enough · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | The Soul of America · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | The Big Scary 'S' Word · as Self - Reverend |
| 2020 | Ku Klux Klan: An American Story (TV Series) · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | First Ladies (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 · as Self |
| 2020 | Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth · as Self |
| 2020 | All In: The Fight for Democracy · as Self |
| 2020 | MLK/FBI · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Aretha Franklin: Soul Sister · as Self |
| 2020 | Helter Skelter: An American Myth (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Uncle Tom · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | Prideland · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2020 | Be Water · as Self |
| 2020 | Killing John F. Kennedy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | History 101 (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | The Oscars · as Self |
| 2019 | Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project · as Self |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Hitsville: The Making of Motown · as Self |
| 2019 | Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Geek, and You Shall Find · as Self (voice) |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | The Black Godfather · as Self |
| 2019 | What's My Name: Muhammad Ali · as Self |
| 2019 | What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Woman in Motion · as Self |
| 2019 | Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Icons (2019) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | The Corporate Coup D'État · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2018 | 1968: The Year Everything Fell Apart · as Self |
| 2018 | Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me · as Self |
| 2018 | Basketball: A Love Story (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King Jr.: Marked Man · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · as Self |
| 2018 | 1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Hesburgh · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Explained (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Mr. Soul! · as Self |
| 2018 | Bobby Kennedy for President (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Mapplethorpe · as Self |
| 2018 | Elvis Presley: The Searcher · as Self |
| 2018 | Through the Banks of the Red Cedar · as Self |
| 2018 | Elvis Presley: The Searcher (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. · as Self |
| 2018 | King In The Wilderness · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey · as Self |
| 2018 | 1968 · as Self |
| 2018 | King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story · as Self |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | The Gospel According to André · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | The Organizer · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2017 | The King · as Self |
| 2017 | Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me · as Self |
| 2017 | Zee Made in America (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | The Summer of Love · as Self |
| 2017 | Free Lunch Society: Komm Komm Grundeinkommen · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Burn Motherfucker, Burn! · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Dolores · as Self |
| 2016 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | I Am Not Your Negro · as Self |
| 2016 | Hidden Figures · as Self |
| 2016 | Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match · as Self |
| 2016 | Loving · as Self |
| 2016 | 13th · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Muhammad Ali: The Greatest · as Self |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Race for the White House (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Året var 1966 · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 | Leif GW Persson: Min Klassresa (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | The Invaders · as Self |
| 2015 | Kareem: Minority of One · as Self |
| 2015 | Imminent Threat · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | In Their Own Words (2015) (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon · as Self |
| 2015 | What Happened, Miss Simone? · as Self |
| 2015 | Soaked in Bleach · as Self |
| 2015 | Mavis! · as Self |
| 2015 | Klansville U.S.A. · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | Emancipation Road (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Life Itself · as Self |
| 2014 | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown · as Self |
| 2014 | Breath of Freedom · as Self |
| 2014 | Spies of Mississippi · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |
| 2014 | Freedom Summer · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | Speeches That Shook the World · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | Muscle Shoals · as Self |
| 2013 | Birth of the Living Dead · as Self |
| 2013 | The March · as Self |
| 2013 | The Trials of Muhammad Ali · as Self |
| 2013 | The Butler · as Self |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | The Battle of the Sexes · as Self |
| 2013 | Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth · as Self |
| 2013 | Destination Planet Negro · as Self |
| 2013 | Året var 1963 · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | B.B. King: The Life of Riley · as Self |
| 2012 | Venus and Serena · as Self |
| 2012 | The House I Live In · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2012 | 20th Annual Trumpet Awards · as Self |
| 2012 | Frost on Interviews · as Self |
| 2012 | Brothers on the Line · as Self |
| 2012 | MLK: The Assassination Tapes · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Elvis Found Alive · as Self |
| 2012 | Ethel · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Runaway Slave · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2012 | Occupy Los Angeles · as Self |
| 2011 | Sing Your Song · as Self |
| 2011 | Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom · as Self |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take? · as Self |
| 2011 | J. Edgar · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2011 | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 · as Self |
| 2011 | Ronald Reagan: An American Journey · as Self - Dr. King Civil Rights Leader |
| 2011 | The Harmony Game · as Self |
| 2011 | Looking for Lenny · as Self |
| 2010 | Norman Mailer: The American · as Self |
| 2010 | I Am · as Self |
| 2010 | Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune · as Self |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | 2012: Time for Change · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2010 | Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2010 | Cointelpro 101 · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | Roads to Memphis · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | When You're Strange · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | Reel Injun · as Self |
| 2009 | Becoming Barack · as Self - Civil Rights Leader |
| 2009 | Precious · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America · as Self |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | Woodstock: Now & Then · as Self |
| 2009 | Facing Ali · as Self |
| 2008 | 68 · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | An American Affair · as Self |
| 2008 | The Secret Life of Bees · as Self |
| 2008 | Gonzo · as Self |
| 2008 | Salute · as Self |
| 2008 | King · as Self |
| 2008 | The Night James Brown Saved Boston · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories · as Self |
| 2008 | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene · as Self - Archival Footage |
| 2007 | Infamous Assassinations (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | 1968 with Tom Brokaw · as Self |
| 2007 | RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Pete Seeger: The Power of Song · as Self |
| 2007 | Talk to Me · as Self |
| 2007 | Hair, Let the Sun Shine In · as Self |
| 2007 | Oswald's Ghost · as Self |
| 2007 | The UCLA Dynasty · as Self |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Classified X · as Self |
| 2006 | The U.S. vs. John Lennon · as Self |
| 2006 | Bobby · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2006 | ...So Goes the Nation · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2006 | Salvador · as Self |
| 2006 | Behind the Mask · as Self |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers · as Self |
| 2006 | Billy Graham: God's Ambassador · as Self |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | We Are Dad · as Self |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | USA the Movie · as Self Archive Footage |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The N Word · as Self |
| 2004 | Something the Lord Made · as Self |
| 2004 | Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show · as Self - Intro |
| 2004 | TV in Black: The First Fifty Years · as Self |
| 2003 | Michael Jackson: Number Ones · as Self (segment: Man In The Mirror) |
| 2003 | The Corporation · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence · as Self |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | Days That Shook the World (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) · as Self |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | National Geographic: The FBI · as Self |
| 2002 | America Beyond The Color Line (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | The Weather Underground · as Self |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Undercover Brother · as Self - Applauding For 'i Have A Dream' Speech |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2002 | The 74th Annual Academy Awards · as Self |
| 2002 | The Year That Trembled · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel · as Self |
| 2001 | Last Party 2000 · as Self |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | We Shall Not Be Moved · as Self |
| 2000 | Hendrix · as Self (at Lincoln Memorial) |
| 2000 | The American Nightmare · as Self |
| 2000 | Steal This Movie · as Self |
| 2000 | Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible · as Self |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | A Force More Powerful · as Self |
| 1999 | Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1999 | Life · as Self |
| 1999 | The Source · as Self |
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin · as Self |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | The Last Days of Kennedy and King · as Self |
| 1997 | George Wallace (TV Series) · as Self - 'how Long' Speech |
| 1997 | Contact · as Self - Voice Through Space |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1997 | Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory · as Self |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi · as Self |
| 1996 | Blue Eyed · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! (the Black Panther Party and Beyond) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1995 | Nixon · as Self |
| 1995 | Kulturzeit (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1995 | Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream · as Self |
| 1994 | Whitewash · as Self |
| 1994 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1993 | The November Men · as Self |
| 1993 | Dangerous: The Short Films · as Self |
| 1992 | Malcolm X · as Self |
| 1992 | Nina Simone: La légende · as Self |
| 1992 | Death Scenes 2 · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1992 | Who Killed Martin Luther King? · as Self (speeches, Lies In State) |
| 1991 | JFK · as Self |
| 1991 | The Doors · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Making Sense of the Sixties (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | Captain America · as Self |
| 1990 | Berkeley in the Sixties · as Self |
| 1990 | Rock Hudson · as Self |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy · as Self |
| 1989 | Adam Clayton Powell · as Self |
| 1989 | Tongues Untied · as Self |
| 1988 | 11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried · as Self |
| 1988 | Everybody's All-American · as Self |
| 1988 | Moonwalker · as Self |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 1986 | X: The Unheard Music · as Self |
| 1986 | In Remembrance of Martin · as Self |
| 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman · as Self |
| 1984 | El balcón abierto · as Self |
| 1984 | Before Stonewall · as Self |
| 1982 | Music Is the Weapon · as Self (english-Language Version) |
| 1981 | The Killing of America · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1981 | Death of a Prophet · as Self |
| 1980 | Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | The War at Home · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1973 | Executive Action · as Self - With Civil Rights Leaders At The White House |
| 1973 | Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 · as Self/cameo (archive Footage) |
| 1972 | Malcolm X · as Self - Remarks After Death Of Malcolm X |
| 1970 | Lords without masks. Harold Hunt - «ultra» apostle · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1969 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1969 | Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America · as Self |
| 1969 | Medium Cool · as Self |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | I Am Curious (Yellow) · as Himself |
| 1966 | Anno domini MCMLXV · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self - Dr. King |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1960 | Integration Report I · as Self |
| 1959 | CBS Reports (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1955 | The Open Mind (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1947 | Meet the Press (TV Series) · as Self |