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

Hollywood Black
2024
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
King Solomon's Mines
1937
Tales of Manhattan
1942
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006
Show Boat
1936
Sanders of the River
1935
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
38
Writing
1
Sound
1
2024
Hollywood Black
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Britain on Film: Black Britain
as Self (segment "Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11")
2007
Fred Baker - filmmaker
2007
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self (archival footage)
2006
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
as Self
2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Joe
2001
White Sings Robeson
1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am
as Himself (archive footage)
1994
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist
as Self (archive footage)
1991
The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes
as Self (speaking in Russian) (uncredited) (archive footage)
1990
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
1985
Musical Comedy Tonight III
1979
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Himself (archive footage)
1977
The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
as Self
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1973
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
1954
Song of the Rivers
as Voice of Singer
1951
South Africa Uncensored
as Narrator
1949
Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11
as Himself
1947
Easy to Get
as Self
1942
Tales of Manhattan
as Luke
1942
Native Land
as Narrator
1940
The Proud Valley
as David Goliath
1938
Big Fella
as Joe
1937
King Solomon's Mines
as Umbopa
1937
Jericho
as Cpl. Jericho Jackson
1937
My Song Goes Forth
as Self
1936
Show Boat
as Joe
1936
Song of Freedom
as John 'Johnny' Zinga
1935
Sanders of the River
as Bosambo
1933
Emperor Jones
as Brutus Jones
1930
Borderline
as Pete Varond
1926
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
as Alexandre Dumas fils
1925
Body and Soul
as Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins / His brother Sylvester