Al Sharpton
Actor
Born October 3, 1954 in New York City, New York, USA
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them.
Filmography
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Self
Atrocity Inc.
Self - Civil Rights Activist
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
Self
James Brown: Say It Loud
Self
South to Black Power
Self
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Self
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Self
Loudmouth
Self
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Self (archive footage)
Sherri
Self - Guest
Rudy! A Documusical
Self
JANET JACKSON.
Self
The First Wave
Self (archive footage)
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self - Minister & Activist
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Self
Woman in Motion
Self
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
Self
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Self
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Self
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Self
The Black Godfather
Self
Basketball: A Love Story
Self
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
self
Satan & Adam
Self
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self
Maynard
Self
Get Me Roger Stone
Self (archive footage)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Self
Star
Rev. Al Sharpton
A Tale of James Brown
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Self - National Action Network
Empire
Rev. Al Sharpton
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self
91 Bullets in a Minute
Self
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Self
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Self
Koch
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Steve Harvey
Self
The Central Park Five
Self (archive footage)
PoliticsNation
Self
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Self
On the Shoulders of Giants
Looking for Lenny
Self (archive footage)
Race
Self
One Night in Vegas
Self
America: The Story of Us
Self
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Self (archive footage)
Good Hair
Self
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Himself
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Madea Goes to Jail
Self
Abraham Obama
Self
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Self
The Black List: Volume One
Self
The Jena 6
Self
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
The Colbert Report
Self
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Pursuit of Equality
Self
Street Fight
Self
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
Tanner on Tanner
Self
Boston Legal
Reverend Al Sharpton
Rescue Me
James Brown: Soul Survivor
Anderson Cooper 360°
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Mr. Deeds
The Rhyme Master
My Wife and Kids
Bamboozled
Himself
Girlfriends
Al Sharpton
Let's Talk
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Himself
The Chris Rock Show
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
MS NOW Reports
Self
Fox News Sunday
Self
Run For Cover
Himself
New York Undercover
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
The Last Party
Self
Raw
Self
Malcolm X
Speaker #2
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host