Harry Belafonte
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
147
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
The Colbert Report
Great Performances
What's My Line?
The Dick Cavett Show
DAS!
Wetten, dass..?
Champs-Elysées
The Merv Griffin Show
CBS News Sunday Morning
Sacrée Soirée
The Oscars
Vivement dimanche
The Steve Allen Show
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Muppet Show
Goldene Kamera
The Kennedy Center Honors
Le Grand Échiquier
Kulturplatz
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Kansas City
Was bin ich?
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Sidney
Bobby
Numéro un
Swing Vote
Carmen Jones
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Player
Mr. SOUL!
Heut' abend
BlacKkKlansman
Menschen bei Maischberger
Motherland
V.I.P. Schaukel
Petula
The Danny Kaye Show
Nationtime
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The World of Jim Henson
Prêt-à-Porter
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Flip Wilson Show
Bobby Kennedy for President
Sabine Christiansen
Auf los geht's los
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Sing Your Song
PB&J Otter
Night of 100 Stars
ABC Stage 67
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
The Julie Andrews Hour
The Greatest Night in Pop
Musik liegt in der Luft
Aktuelle Schaubude
Tanner on Tanner
Jim Henson Idea Man
The Muppet Revue
The Peace!
Club 2
Hamburg Journal
TV Story Superstar
White Man's Burden
Flitterabend
Grambling's White Tiger
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Mama Africa
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Sternstunde Musik
Jackie Robinson
The World of Nat King Cole
Odds Against Tomorrow
Bei Bio
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
General Electric Theater
Willemsens Woche
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Buck and the Preacher
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Altman on His Own Terms
Muppet Music Moments
Bright Road
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Island in the Sun
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
The Madding Crowd
Free to Be… You and Me
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Uptown Saturday Night
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
The Angel Levine
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
Mo & Me
Following Harry
Anecdotes about Fidel
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Rise Like Lions
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
The Strolling '20s
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Jazz '34
Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
King in the Wilderness
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
The Legendary Nat King Cole
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Året var 1966
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
The Day of the Oath
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
The University of Sing Sing
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
The Man Behind the White Guitar
JFK: The Private President
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
We Shall Overcome
Harry Belafonte in Concert
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
