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.

KNOWN FOR

The Colbert Report
2008
The American President
2000
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
2025
A Man's Story
2011
Backyard Wilderness
2018
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told
2024
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Traveling Hopefully
1982
4 Little Girls
1997
King in the Wilderness
2018

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
33
Producing
1
Crew
1
2025
The Games in Black & White
as Himself
2025
Andrew Young: The Dirty Work
as Self
2025
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
as Self
2024
Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told
as Self (archive footage)
2023
This World Is Not My Own
as Self
2023
Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton
as Self
2023
Rather
as Self - Civil Rights Activist & Politician
2023
South to Black Power
as Self
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
as Self
2021
Downing of a Flag
as self
2020
Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story
as Self
2020
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
as Self
2020
MLK/FBI
as Self
2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
as Self
2018
Backyard Wilderness
as Dad
2018
Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
as Self
2018
King in the Wilderness
as Self
2017
Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis
as Self
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
2011
A Man's Story
as Self
2009
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
as Self
2008
Movin' on Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions
as Self
2008
The Colbert Report
as Self
2004
Citizen King
as Self
2000
The American President
as Thomas Jefferson
1998
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
as Self
1997
4 Little Girls
as Self - SCLC
1992
The Real Malcolm X
1982
Traveling Hopefully
as Self - Ambassador
1980
A Decade of Struggle
as Self
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
I Am Somebody
as Self
1960
Integration Report 1
as Self