Cast & creator
Al Sharpton
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
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1947–2024 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (111)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Himself
1999
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
1996
Raw
Self
1993
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
The Colbert Report
Self
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Meet the Press
Self - Panelist
1947
Boston Legal
Reverend Al Sharpton
2004
Anderson Cooper 360°
2003
Empire
Rev. Al Sharpton
2015
Girlfriends
Al Sharpton
2000
Rescue Me
2004
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self
2018
The Joy Reid Show
Self
2020
New York Undercover
Self
1994
Steve Harvey
Self
2012
Star
Rev. Al Sharpton
2016
Fox News Sunday
Self
1996
My Wife and Kids
2001
Basketball: A Love Story
Self
2018
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
Self
2020
The Chris Rock Show
1997The Chris Rock Show
Self
1997
Mr. Deeds
The Rhyme Master
2002
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Himself
2009
America: The Story of Us
Self
2010
JANET JACKSON.
Self
2022
Malcolm X
Speaker #2
1992
Tanner on Tanner
Self
2004
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
2006
Madea Goes to Jail
Self
2009
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Self
2017
MS NOW Reports
Self
1996
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Self
2020
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self - Minister & Activist
2021
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Self
2023
James Brown: Say It Loud
Self
2024
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
2021
Bamboozled
Himself
2000
91 Bullets in a Minute
Self
2014
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Self (archive footage)
2022
Get Me Roger Stone
Self (archive footage)
2017
Good Hair
Self
2009
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Self
2008
The Black Godfather
Self
2019
The Last Party
Self
1993
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Self
2021Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
Self
2020
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Black List: Volume One
Self
2008
The Central Park Five
Self (archive footage)
2012
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
One Night in Vegas
Self
2010
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self
2014
PoliticsNation
Self
2011
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
self
2018
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Self
2014
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
2018
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
2018
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Self (archive footage)
2010
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Self
2013
South to Black Power
Self
2023
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Self
2009
Maynard
Self
2017
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Self
2024
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
Self
2024
Looking for Lenny
Self (archive footage)
2011
Satan & Adam
Self
2018
Woman in Motion
Self
2021
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
2004
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Self
2011
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
1999
A Tale of James Brown
Self
2016
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Self
2023Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
Self - Civil rights activist
2018
The First Wave
Self (archive footage)
2021Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
2018
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Self
2021
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
2008
Atrocity Inc.
Self - Civil Rights Activist
2024
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Self
2020
Pursuit of Equality
Self
2005
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Self
2009Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Self
1990
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self
2018
Street Fight
Self
2005
Run For Cover
Himself
1995
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Self
2020
Koch
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
Loudmouth
Self
2022
Rudy! A Documusical
Self
2022
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
Self
2006Cold Feet
The Reverend
1999Murder in Black & White
2008
Race
Self
2010
Abraham Obama
Self
2009
Let's Talk
2000I Hate My Job
2004
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Self - National Action Network
2015Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
Self
2011If I Die Tonight
Self
2009
The Jena 6
Self
2007