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Amiri Baraka

Writer | Actor

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Everett LeRoi Jones
in Newark, New Jersey, USA
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1996 W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices (documentary)
 
1995 United States of Poetry (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1973 Madea (short) (as Leroy Jones)
 
1971 A Fable (play / as LeRoy Jones / screenplay / as LeRoy Jones)
 
1968 Nigger (TV movie) (novel)
 
1967 Dutchman (play / as LeRoi Jones / screenplay / as LeRoi Jones)
 
1966 Uhatut (TV movie) (play "Dutchman" / as LeRoi Jones)
 
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1998 Bulworth
Rastaman
 
Show ShowSelf (46 titles)
2013 Dutchman Revisited (documentary) (filming)
Himself (rumored)
 
2011 Democracy Now! (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 19 May 2011 (2011) … Himself
 
2011 The Nature of Existence Companion Series (video documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Motherland (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2010 No Justice, No Peace: A Sharp Talk Special (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2010 The Nature of Existence (documentary)
Himself
 
2009 Corso: The Last Beat (documentary)
 
2009 Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture (documentary)
 
2007 Return to Gorée (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Obscene (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Turn Me On (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Revolution '67 (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (documentary)
 
2006 Literature Alive (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Creation Fire: Part 2 (2006) … Himself
 
2006 Breaking the Rules (documentary)
Himself
 
2006 The Pact (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Independent Lens (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Race Is the Place (2005) … Himself
 
2005 Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 The Ballad of Greenwich Village (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Letter to the President (video documentary)
Himself - Poet / Activist
 
2004 Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photography of Milt Hinton (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 The First Amendment Project: Poetic License (TV documentary)
Himself - interviewee
 
2004 Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (documentary)
Himself (also archive footage)
 
2002 Hughes' Dream Harlem (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Strange Fruit (documentary)
Himself
 
1989-2002 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Ralph Ellison: An American Journey (2002) … Himself
– The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999) … Himself
– James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) … Himself
 
2002 Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode #1.4 (2002) … Himself
 
2001 Piñero
Himself
 
1998 Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 (video documentary)
Himself (Volume II: Warriors)
 
1997 Great Performances (TV series)
Himself
– The Story of Gospel Music (1997) … Himself
 
1995 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #4.52 (1995) … Himself
 
1995 United States of Poetry (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1987 The Beat Generation: An American Dream (documentary)
Himself
 
1982 Poetry in Motion (documentary)
Himself
 
1981 Death of a Prophet (TV movie)
Himself
 
1980 Castelporziano, ostia dei poeti (TV documentary)
Himself (as LeRoi Jones)
 
1979 Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (documentary)
Himself
 
1978 Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (documentary)
Himself
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
Himself
– God's Children: The Beginnings (1977) … Himself (as Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones])
 
1972 1 P.M. (documentary)
 
1971 Black Journal (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 21 December 1971 (1971) … Himself (as Imamu Amiri Baraka)
 
1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #2.128 (1970) … Himself (as LeRoi Jones)
– Episode #2.91 (1970) … Himself (as LeRoi Jones)
 
1965 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #3.5 (1965) … Himself (as LeRoi Jones)
 
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2005 500 Years Later (documentary)
Himself - Poet and Activist (archive sound)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1980) His play, "The Dutchman," was performed at the Chicago Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois with Alexander Cichon and Howard Stratton.

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Alternate Names:

Imamu Amiri Baraka | Imamu Baraka | LeRoi Jones | LeRoy Jones | Leroy Jones | Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones]
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Trivia:

Father of Lisa Jones. See more »

Star Sign:

Libra