Name
Paul Robeson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1898-04-08
Deathday
1976-01-23 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known For
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A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth inte...
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Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cu...
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White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her...
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When a black couple vacations at a resort in Switzerland, an interracial affair stirs raci...
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A convict escapes to a Southern town and passes himself off as a reverend, giving him the ...
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In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon t...
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This Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated ...
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The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injus...
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By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to p...
- 1936 Show Boat as Joe
- 1942 Tales of Manhattan as Luke
- 1933 Emperor Jones as Brutus Jones
- 1937 King Solomon's Mines as Umbopa
- 1942 Native Land as Narrator
- 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
- 1935 Sanders of the River as Bosambo
- 1940 The Proud Valley as David Goliath
- 1937 Jericho as Cpl. Jericho Jackson
- 1979 Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist as Himself (archive footage)
- 1936 Song of Freedom as John 'Johnny' Zinga
- 1990 I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
- 1938 Big Fella as Joe
- 1999 Paul Robeson: Here I Stand as Self
- 1954 Song of the Rivers as Voice of Singer
- 1998 Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist as Self (archive footage)
- 1991 The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes as Self (speaking in Russian) (uncredited) (archive footage)
- 1937 My Song Goes Forth as Self
- 1998 Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am as Himself (archive footage)
- 1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 Britain on Film: Black Britain as Self (segment "Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11")
- 2007 Fred Baker - filmmaker
- 1994 Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist as Self (archive footage)
- 1949 Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 as Himself
- 2006 Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States as Self
- 1975 Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
- 1951 South Africa Uncensored as Narrator
- 1973 Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
- 1985 Musical Comedy Tonight III
- 2007 Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson as Self (archival footage)
- 1947 Easy to Get as Self
- 1977 The Tallest Tree in Our Forest as Self
- 2004 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies as Joe
- 2001 White Sings Robeson
- 2021 The Real Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 Hollywood Black ( 4 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
