Harry Belafonte
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
144
Gender
Male
Birthday
1927-03-01
Day of death
2023-04-25 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Harry Belafonte
Biography
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
DAS!
Great Performances
The Colbert Report
Kulturplatz
Tony Awards
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Merv Griffin Show
Wetten, dass..?
Champs-Elysées
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Vivement dimanche
Sacrée Soirée
The Dick Cavett Show
What's My Line?
Menschen bei Maischberger
Numéro un
Le Grand Échiquier
What Am I?
Sabine Christiansen
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Steve Allen Show
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Aktuelle Schaubude
The Flip Wilson Show
The Oscars
Hamburg Journal
The Danny Kaye Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Heut' abend
The Muppet Show
The Kennedy Center Honors
Goldene Kamera
Club 2
The Bell Telephone Hour
V.I.P. Schaukel
PB&J Otter
Bobby
BlacKkKlansman
Auf los geht's los
ABC Stage 67
The Greatest Night in Pop
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Rise Like Lions
Sidney
The Angel Levine
Musik liegt in der Luft
TV Story Superstar
Willemsens Woche
The Player
White Man's Burden
Flitterabend
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
The Julie Andrews Hour
Kansas City
Grambling's White Tiger
Motherland
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Free to Be… You and Me
Carmen Jones
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
JFK: The Private President
Tanner on Tanner
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Swing Vote
The Day of the Oath
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Altman on His Own Terms
Nationtime
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Bei Bio
Prêt-à-Porter
Night of 100 Stars
Sing Your Song
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Jackie Robinson
Jazz '34
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
General Electric Theater
The World of Jim Henson
Buck and the Preacher
Island in the Sun
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Sternstunde Musik
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Petula
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Bobby Kennedy for President
Mr. SOUL!
Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
The University of Sing Sing
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
The Peace!
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Mama Africa
Uptown Saturday Night
The Muppet Revue
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
Odds Against Tomorrow
Bright Road
Anecdotes about Fidel
The Strolling '20s
The Legendary Nat King Cole
The Man Behind the White Guitar
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
The World of Nat King Cole
Following Harry
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
The Madding Crowd
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Harry Belafonte in Concert
Muppet Music Moments
Mo & Me
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Året var 1966
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
King in the Wilderness
