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Angela Davis

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1944-01-26 (80 years old)

Biography

Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Filmography

all 50

Movies 46

self 44

Angela Davis

Biography

Filmography

all 50

Movies 46

self 44

TV Shows 4

Narrator 1

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight (2023)

Stamped from the Beginning (2023)

Roberta (2022)

Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields (2022)

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)

Walter Kaufmann - Welch ein Leben! (2021)

The Legacy of Black Wall Street (2021)

Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday (2020)

Between the World and Me (2020)

Toni Morrison: Black Matter(s) (2020)

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

This Is Personal (2019)

13th (2016)

The House on Coco Road (2016)

The Occupation of the American Mind (2016)

Black and Cuba (2015)

Toni Morrison Remembers (2015)

Out in the Night (2014)

Criminal Queers (2013)

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2013)

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal (2013)

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012)

Edit Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco (2011)

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation (2010)

The Black List: Volume Two (2009)

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

The Peace! (2005)

The James Baldwin Anthology (2003)

Fidel: The Untold Story (2001)

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)

Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California (1998)

Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise (1996)

Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994)

Malcolm X (1992)

A Place of Rage (1991)

POV (1988)

La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85 (1985)

Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock (1983)

Salt of the earth US (1981)

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)

Apostrophes (1975)

Wer die Erde liebt (1974)

Malcolm X (1972)

Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary (1972)

George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972 (1972)

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970)

Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know

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Information

Known ForActing

GenderFemale

Birthday1944-01-26 (80 years old)

Birth PlaceBirmingham, United States of America

LifestyleVeganism

FatherBenjamin Frank Davis

CitizenshipsUnited States of America

Also Known AsAngela Yvonne Davis, Анджела Ивонн Дэвис, Анджела Дэвис, Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Angela Davis

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1944-01-26 (80 years old)

Birth Place
Birmingham, United States of America

Lifestyle
Veganism

Father
Benjamin Frank Davis

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Angela Yvonne Davis, Анджела Ивонн Дэвис, Анджела Дэвис, Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Angela Davis