Paul Robeson
Born: 1898-04-08 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1976-01-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was an American concert bass-baritone, athlete, actor and political activist. Born in Princeton, New Jersey he was educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University Law School. After briefly practising as a lawyer he left the trade due to racism and instead pursued his acting and singing career.
Filmography
2017
- Britain on Film: Black Britain as Self (segment "Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11")
2007
- Fred Baker - filmmaker
- Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson as Self (archival footage)
2001
1999
- Paul Robeson: Here I Stand as Self
1998
- Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am as Himself (archive footage)
- Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist as Self (archive footage)
1991
- The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes as Self (speaking in Russian) (uncredited) (archive footage)
1979
- Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist as Himself (archive footage)
1977
- The Tallest Tree in Our Forest as Self
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
1973
- Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1954
- Song of the Rivers as Voice of Singer
1951
- South Africa Uncensored as Narrator
1949
- Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 as Himself
1947
- Easy to Get as Self
1942
- Native Land as Narrator
- Tales of Manhattan as Luke
1940
- The Proud Valley as David Goliath
1938
- Big Fella as Joe
1937
- Jericho as Cpl. Jericho Jackson
- King Solomon's Mines as Umbopa
- My Song Goes Forth as Self
1936
- Show Boat as Joe
- Song of Freedom as John 'Johnny' Zinga
1935
- Sanders of the River as Bosambo
1933
- Emperor Jones as Brutus Jones
1932
- Black and White ... (Music)
1930
- Borderline as Pete Varond
1926
- Camille: The Fate of a Coquette as Alexandre Dumas fils
1925
- Body and Soul as Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins / His brother Sylvester