Biography
Jesse Jackson
Acting
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 AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most importa…
Career works
84
Movies
63
Series
21
Career average
6.9/10
Birth date
10/08/1941
Place of birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Date of death
02/17/2026
Filmography highlights
Movies
South to Black Power
2023 · 3.5
Loudmouth
2022 · 6.0
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 · 6.5
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · 7.6
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 · 9.0
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · 7.4
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · 6.9
Bernie Blackout
2020 · 7.0
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019 · 4.0
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Series
Hollywood Black
2024 · 5.0
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 · 5.3
Obama
2020
Shut Up and Dribble
2018 · 1.0
Explained
2018 · 7.5
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Robins
2006 · 7.8
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005 · 3.8
Tanner on Tanner
2004 · 10.0
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · 6.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · 5.3
The Chris Rock Show
1997 · 4.6
The Daily Show
1996 · 6.4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · 6.3
Baseball
1994 · 7.5