Cast & creator
Andrew Young
Best known for The Colbert Report, The American President, Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
Also known as: Rev. Andrew Young, Andrew Jackson Young Jr.
31
film credits
4
television credits
33
1960–2025 · acting roles
6.8
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (35)
Showing 35 of 35 credits
The Colbert Report
Self
2005
The American President
Thomas Jefferson
2000
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
Self
2024
Backyard Wilderness
Dad
2018
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
1970
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Self
2020
A Man's Story
Self
2011
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Self
2009
4 Little Girls
Self - SCLC
1997
Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told
Self (archive footage)
2024
Traveling Hopefully
Self - Ambassador
1982
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
2013Citizen King
Self
2004
King in the Wilderness
Self
2018
Andrew Young: The Dirty Work
Self
2025
I Am Somebody
Self
1970
Fandango at the Wall
Executive Producer
2020
The Real Malcolm X
1992
South to Black Power
Self
2023
Downing of a Flag
self
2021
This World Is Not My Own
Self
2023
Rather
Self - Civil Rights Activist & Politician
2023
Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story
Self
2020
Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
Self
2018
A Decade of Struggle
Self
1980
Dawn of the Maya
Cinematography
2004
Movin' on Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions
Self
2008
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self
2018
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
Self
1998
MLK/FBI
Self
2020
Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis
Self
2017
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Self
2021
The Games in Black & White
Himself
2025
Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton
Self
2023
Integration Report 1
Self
1960