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Acting
Birthday
October 3, 1954
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Al Sharpton
0.4 Popularity
Biography
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
8.0
Self
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
2024
10.0
Self - Civil Rights Activist
Atrocity Inc.
2024
🎬
0.0
Self
WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
2024
8.0
Self
James Brown: Say It Loud
2024
6.0
Self
South to Black Power
2023
0.0
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2023
6.7
Self
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
2023
6.8
Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold
2022
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022
4.2
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
Credits
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
as Self
2024
8.0
Atrocity Inc.
as Self - Civil Rights Activist
2024
10.0
🎬
WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
as Self
2024
0.0
James Brown: Say It Loud
as Self
2024
8.0
South to Black Power
as Self
2023
6.0
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2023
0.0
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
as Self
2023
6.7
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.8
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
as Self (archive footage)
2022
0.0
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
4.2
Rudy! A Documusical
as Self
2022
0.0
JANET JACKSON.
as Self
2022
7.7
The First Wave
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.8
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
as Self
2021
7.3
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
as Self
2021
5.8
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
as Self
2021
0.0
Woman in Motion
as Self
2021
6.8
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
as Himself
2020
3.3
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
as Self
2020
6.4
Uncle Tom
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.8
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
as Self
2020
0.0
The Black Godfather
as Self
2019
6.9
Basketball: A Love Story
as Self
2018
7.0
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
as Self
2018
7.2
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self
2018
7.5
Satan & Adam
as Self
2018
7.3
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
2018
9.5
🎬
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
2018
0.0
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
as Self
2018
0.0
🎬
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
as Self - Civil rights activist
2018
0.0
Maynard
as Self
2017
5.2
Get Me Roger Stone
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017
7.0
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
as Self
2017
7.1
Star
as Rev. Al Sharpton
2016
7.9
A Tale of James Brown
as Self
2016
0.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.3
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
as Self - National Action Network
2015
0.0
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
as Self
2014
8.0
91 Bullets in a Minute
as Self
2014
0.0
Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown
as Self
2014
6.9
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
0.0
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
as Self
2013
6.0
Koch
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
4.9
The Central Park Five
as Self (archive footage)
2012
7.0
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton
as Self
2011
2.5
The After Party: The Last Party 3
as Self
2011
0.0
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
6.3
Looking for Lenny
as Self (archive footage)
2011
5.0
Race
as Self
2010
6.8
One Night in Vegas
as Self
2010
6.3
America: The Story of Us
as Self
2010
8.1
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
as Self (archive footage)
2010
6.0
Good Hair
as Self
2009
6.6
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
as Himself
2009
0.0
🎬
If I Die Tonight
as Self
2009
1.0
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
as Self
2009
10.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Madea Goes to Jail
as Self
2009
6.5
Abraham Obama
as Self
2009
0.0
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
as Self
2009
0.0
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
as Self
2008
0.0
🎬
Murder in Black & White
2008
0.0
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
as Self
2008
6.6
The Black List: Volume One
as Himself
2008
6.5
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
2006
7.5
🎬
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
as Self
2006
0.0
The Colbert Report
as Self
2005
6.8
The Colbert Report
as Self (archive footage from Rosa Parks funeral)
2005
6.8
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005
6.4
Pursuit of Equality
as Self
2005
1.0
Street Fight
as Self
2005
7.0
🎬
I Hate My Job
2004
0.0
Celsius 41.11
as Self (archive footage)
2004
5.0
Tanner on Tanner
as Self
2004
0.0
Boston Legal
as Reverend Al Sharpton
2004
7.9
Rescue Me
2004
7.7
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
7.5
Anderson Cooper 360°
2003
5.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Mr. Deeds
as The Rhyme Master
2002
5.9
My Wife and Kids
2001
7.4
Bamboozled
as Himself
2000
6.2
Girlfriends
2000
7.2
Let's Talk
2000
0.0
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
1999
0.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Himself
1999
7.9
🎬
Cold Feet
as The Reverend
1999
1.0
The Chris Rock Show
1997
4.4
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
MSNBC Live
as Self
1996
9.5
🎬
Run For Cover
as Himself
1995
3.5
New York Undercover
as Self
1994
7.1
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
The Last Party
as Self
1993
5.0
Raw
1993
6.8
Malcolm X
as Speaker #2
1992
7.5
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
6.9
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
6.9