Paul Robeson
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Paul Robeson

Apr 8, 1898 - Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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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Movie1936Show BoatJoe
Movie1942Tales of ManhattanLuke
Movie1933Emperor JonesBrutus Jones
Movie1937King Solomon's MinesUmbopa
Movie1942Native LandNarrator
Movie1930BorderlinePete Varond
Movie1926Camille: The Fate of a CoquetteAlexandre Dumas fils
Movie1925Body and SoulReverend Isaiah T. Jenkins / His brother Sylvester
Movie1935Sanders of the RiverBosambo
Movie1940The Proud ValleyDavid Goliath
Movie1979Paul Robeson: Tribute to an ArtistHimself (archive footage)
Movie1937JerichoCpl. Jericho Jackson
Movie1936Song of FreedomJohn 'Johnny' Zinga
Movie1990I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
Movie1938Big FellaJoe
Movie1999Paul Robeson: Here I StandSelf
Movie1954Song of the RiversVoice of Singer
Movie1998Scandalize My Name: Stories from the BlacklistSelf (archive footage)
Movie1991The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-StokesSelf (speaking in Russian) (uncredited) (archive footage)
Movie1937My Song Goes ForthSelf
Movie1998Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I AmHimself (archive footage)
Movie1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?Self (archive footage)
Movie2017Britain on Film: Black BritainSelf (segment "Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11")
Movie2007Fred Baker - filmmaker
Movie1994Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & ActivistSelf (archive footage)
Movie1949Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11Himself
Movie2006Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United StatesSelf
Movie1975Black Shadows on a Silver ScreenSelf (archive footage)
Movie1951South Africa UncensoredNarrator
Movie1973Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Movie1985Musical Comedy Tonight III
Movie2007Our Paul: Remembering Paul RobesonSelf (archival footage)
Movie1947Easy to GetSelf
Movie1977The Tallest Tree in Our ForestSelf
Movie2004AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the MoviesJoe
Movie2001White Sings Robeson
Movie2021The Real Charlie Chaplin

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Movie1932Black and WhiteMusicSound
Movie1954Song of the RiversWriterWriting