Al Sharpton
Born
October 3, 1954 (70 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change."
(Wikipedia)
Known For
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Self
2024
Atrocity Inc.
Self - Civil Rights Activist
2024
WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
Self
2024
James Brown: Say It Loud
Self · (4 episodes)
2024
South to Black Power
Self
2023
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2023
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Self · (4 episodes)
2023
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold
Self (archive footage)
2022
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Self (archive footage)
2022
Sherri
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2022
Rudy! A Documusical
Self
2022
JANET JACKSON.
Self · (1 episode)
2022
The First Wave
Self (archive footage)
2021
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Self
2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self · (3 episodes)
2021
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Self
2021
Woman in Motion
Self
2021
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Himself · (4 episodes)
2020
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Self
2020
Uncle Tom
Self (archive footage)
2020
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Self
2020
The Black Godfather
Self
2019
Basketball: A Love Story
Self · (3 episodes)
2018
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self · (1 episode)
2018
Satan & Adam
Self
2018
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self
2018
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
Self - Civil rights activist
2018
Maynard
Self
2017
Get Me Roger Stone
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Self · (1 episode)
2017
Star
Rev. Al Sharpton · (1 episode)
2016
A Tale of James Brown
Self
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(1 episode)
2015
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Self - National Action Network
2015
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self
2014
91 Bullets in a Minute
Self
2014
Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown
Self
2014
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Self
2013
Koch
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
The Central Park Five
Self (archive footage)
2012
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton
Self · (7 episodes)
2011
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Self
2011
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
Looking for Lenny
Self (archive footage)
2011
Race
Self
2010
One Night in Vegas
Self
2010
America: The Story of Us
Self · (6 episodes)
2010
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Self (archive footage)
2010
Good Hair
Self
2009
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Himself · (2 episodes)
2009
If I Die Tonight
Self
2009
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Self
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2009
Madea Goes to Jail
Self
2009
Abraham Obama
Self
2009
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Self
2009
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
2008
Murder in Black & White
(4 episodes)
2008
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Self
2008
The Black List: Volume One
Himself
2008
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self · (4 episodes)
2006
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
Self
2006
The Colbert Report
Self · (1 episode)
2005
The Colbert Report
Self (archive footage from Rosa Parks funeral) · (1 episode)
2005
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005
Pursuit of Equality
Self
2005
Street Fight
Self
2005
I Hate My Job
(7 episodes)
2004
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
2004
Tanner on Tanner
Self · (4 episodes)
2004
Boston Legal
Reverend Al Sharpton · (2 episodes)
2004
Rescue Me
(1 episode)
2004
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
Anderson Cooper 360°
(4 episodes)
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (6 episodes)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · (2 episodes)
2003
Mr. Deeds
The Rhyme Master
2002
My Wife and Kids
(1 episode)
2001
Bamboozled
Himself
2000
Girlfriends
(2 episodes)
2000
Let's Talk
2000
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Himself · (1 episode)
1999
Cold Feet
The Reverend
1999
The Chris Rock Show
(2 episodes)
1997
The Daily Show
Self · (6 episodes)
1996
MSNBC Live
Self · (1 episode)
1996
Run For Cover
Himself
1995
New York Undercover
Self · (1 episode)
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1993
The Last Party
Self
1993
Raw
(1 episode)
1993
Malcolm X
Speaker #2
1992
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · (1 episode)
1975
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (2 episodes)
1975