Acting credits
35
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Paul Robeson
Acting
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Movies: 36Series: 0Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 98568
IMDb ID: nm0732079
Known for: Acting
Born: April 8, 1898
Died: January 23, 1976
Age: 77
Place of birth: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1925 - 2021
Years active: 97
Average TMDB rating: 6.23
Wikidata: Q273233
Also known as
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson
Other jobs
Music (1)Writer (1)
Biography
Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was an American concert bass-baritone, athlete, actor and political activist. Born in Princeton, New Jersey he was educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University Law School. After briefly practising as a lawyer he left the trade due to racism and instead pursued his acting and singing career.
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Movie credits linked with Paul Robeson.
7.5
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
2021 Movie
Britain on Film: Black Britain
as Self (segment "Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11")
2017 Movie
Fred Baker - filmmaker
2007 Movie
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
as Self
2006 Movie
8.0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Joe
2004 Movie
White Sings Robeson
2001 Movie
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
1999 Movie
7.7
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Self (archive footage)
1998 Movie
Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am
as Himself (archive footage)
1998 Movie
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist
as Self (archive footage)
1994 Movie
The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes
as Self (speaking in Russian) (uncredited) (archive footage)
1991 Movie
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
1990 Movie
Musical Comedy Tonight III
1985 Movie
7.2
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Himself (archive footage)
1979 Movie
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
as Self
1977 Movie
6.1
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975 Movie
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1975 Movie
9.0
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1973 Movie
5.0
Song of the Rivers
as Voice of Singer
1954 Movie
South Africa Uncensored
as Narrator
1951 Movie
6.5
Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11
as Himself
1949 Movie
Easy to Get
as Self
1947 Movie
6.3
Tales of Manhattan
as Luke
1942 Movie
6.2
Native Land
as Narrator
1942 Movie