Biography
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
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Filmography
all 43
Movies 39
self 32
TV Shows 4
Writer 3
Self
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
Movie
Self
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (2023)
Movie
Self
The Long Shadow (2018)
Movie
Self
King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story (2018)
Movie
Self - Writer
Blues America (2013)
TV
Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
Movie
Self
Motherland (2010)
Movie
Self
Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity (2010)
Movie
Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
Movie
Self
Obscene (2008)
Movie
Actor
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture (2008)
Movie
Self
Return to Gorée (2007)
Movie
Self
Turn Me On (2007)
Movie
Actor
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
Movie
Self
Revolution '67 (2007)
Movie
Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006)
Movie
Self
The Pact (2006)
Movie
Self
The Ballad of Greenwich Village (2005)
Movie
Himself
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)
Movie
Self
Hughes' Dream Harlem (2002)
Movie
Rastaman
Bulworth (1998)
Movie
6.17
Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka)
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
Movie
Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996)
Movie
Reid
ER (1994)
TV
5.44
Self
The Beat Generation: An American Dream (1987)
Movie
Himself
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)
Movie
Himself
In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983)
Movie
Self
Poetry in Motion (1982)
Movie
Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
Movie
Death of a Prophet (1981)
Movie
Self
Castelporziano, Ostia dei poeti (1980)
Movie
Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)
Movie
Self
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978)
Movie
Writer
Medea (1973)
Movie
Self
Nationtime (1972)
Movie
Actor
1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie) (1971)
Movie
6
Writer
A Fable (1971)
Movie
Self
Great Performances (1971)
TV
1
Self
The Fall (1969)
Movie
The New-Ark (1968)
Movie
Writer
Dutchman (1967)
Movie
Self (2000)
Like It Is
TV
Original Story
The Dutchman
Movie
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1934-10-07
Deathday2014-01-09 (79 years old)
Birth NameEverett LeRoi Jones
Birth PlaceNewark, United States of America
ReligionIslam
ChildrenRas Baraka, Lisa Jones
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsEverett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka, LeRoy Jones-Baraka
AwardsLangston Hughes Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Book Awards, Black Literary Hall of Fame, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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