Paul Robeson

★ Acting #40,936

1898 - 1976 (age 77) • Acting

Born: 4/8/1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Died: 1/23/1976 (age 77)

Known for: Acting

Paul Robeson

★ Acting #40,936

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.

Known For

Show Boat

67%

Joe

1936

Tales of Manhattan

64%

Luke

1942

Body and Soul

63%

Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins / His brother Sylvester

1925

King Solomon's Mines

54%

Umbopa

1937

Emperor Jones

56%

Brutus Jones

1933

Borderline

60%

Pete Varond

1930

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

73%

Himself (archive footage)

1979

The Proud Valley

63%

David Goliath

1940

The Real Charlie Chaplin

77%

Self (archive footage)

2021

Britain on Film: Black Britain

Self (segment "Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11")

2017

Fred Baker - filmmaker

2007

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self (archival footage)

2007

Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States

Self

2006

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

83%

Joe

2004

White Sings Robeson

2001

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

80%

Self

1999

Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am

Himself (archive footage)

1998

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

83%

Self (archive footage)

1998

Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist

Self (archive footage)

1994

The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes

80%

Self (speaking in Russian) (uncredited) (archive footage)

1991

I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson

70%

1990

Musical Comedy Tonight III

1985

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

73%

Himself (archive footage)

1979

The Tallest Tree in Our Forest

Self

1977

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

63%

Self (archive footage)

1975

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Self (archive footage)

1975

Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

90%

Self/Cameo (archive footage)

1973

Song of the Rivers

63%

Voice of Singer

1954

Song of the Rivers

63%

Writer

1954

South Africa Uncensored

Narrator

1951

Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11

65%

Himself

1949

Easy to Get

90%

Self

1947

Tales of Manhattan

64%

Luke

1942

Native Land

63%

Narrator

1942

The Proud Valley

63%

David Goliath

1940

Big Fella

73%

Joe

1938