Jesse Jackson

Actor

Born: October 8, 1941
Died: February 17, 2026 (age 84)
From: Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an…

Filmography (63)

South to Black Power (2023)
Self
Loudmouth (2022)
Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
El otro Rey de Chicago (2022)
Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington (2021)
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021)
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty (2021)
Himself
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (2021)
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr. (2021)
Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
Self (archive footage)
Bernie Blackout (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story (2020)
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire (2019)
Self (archive footage)
Chicago at the Crossroad (2019)
Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration (2018)
Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America (2018)
Self
I Am MLK Jr. (2018)
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018)
Self
LA 92 (2017)
Self (archive footage)
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History (2016)
Self
Crashing the Party (2016)
Self
Fantastic Lies (2016)
Himself (archive footage)
We Are Many (2014)
Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes (2012)
Self (archive Footage)
A Man's Story (2011)
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009)
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)
Self