Harry Belafonte
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
146
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 Colbert Report
The Mike Douglas Show
DAS!
Tony Awards
Great Performances
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Merv Griffin Show
Champs-Elysées
The Dick Cavett Show
Vivement dimanche
Sacrée Soirée
Wetten, dass..?
What's My Line?
Was bin ich?
Menschen bei Maischberger
The Steve Allen Show
Le Grand Échiquier
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
Goldene Kamera
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Sabine Christiansen
The Muppet Show
Numéro un
Altman on His Own Terms
The Danny Kaye Show
The Kennedy Center Honors
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Heut' abend
Kulturplatz
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
BlacKkKlansman
PB&J Otter
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Sidney
Bobby
Nationtime
The Greatest Night in Pop
The Flip Wilson Show
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Motherland
Kansas City
V.I.P. Schaukel
Carmen Jones
The Bell Telephone Hour
Aktuelle Schaubude
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Auf los geht's los
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
ABC Stage 67
Swing Vote
Musik liegt in der Luft
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Jazz '34
Club 2
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Player
Jim Henson Idea Man
Hamburg Journal
Free to Be… You and Me
Flitterabend
Prêt-à-Porter
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
White Man's Burden
Sing Your Song
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
JFK: The Private President
The Julie Andrews Hour
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
The Angel Levine
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Best Ever Muppet Moments
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
TV Story Superstar
Island in the Sun
Night of 100 Stars
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
The Peace!
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Odds Against Tomorrow
Buck and the Preacher
Bobby Kennedy for President
Mr. SOUL!
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Tanner on Tanner
Grambling's White Tiger
The World of Jim Henson
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Rise Like Lions
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
Petula
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
Mama Africa
The World of Nat King Cole
General Electric Theater
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
Bei Bio
Jackie Robinson
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
The Madding Crowd
Muppet Music Moments
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
The Muppet Revue
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Sternstunde Musik
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Anecdotes about Fidel
King in the Wilderness
Uptown Saturday Night
Willemsens Woche
The Strolling '20s
Following Harry
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
Bright Road
Året var 1966
Harry Belafonte in Concert
The Man Behind the White Guitar
The University of Sing Sing
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Dom Salvador & The Abolition
The Day of the Oath
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
The Legendary Nat King Cole
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
Mo & Me
