Biography
Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.
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Awards & recognition
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame · 2022
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal · 2017
- Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award · 2014
- Ambassador of Conscience Award · 2013
- Spingarn Medal · 2012
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- Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award · 2002
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award · 2000
- Marian Anderson Award · 1998
- National Medal of Arts · 1994
- honorary degree from Spelman College · 1990
- Kennedy Center Honors · 1989
- Paul Robeson Award · 1979
- Emmy Award · 1960
- Theatre World Award · 1954
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actor in a Musical · 1954
- Library of Congress Living Legend
- NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award
- Order of Jamaica
- Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography50+ titles
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
The Muppet Show
Nationtime
The Greatest Night in Pop
Jackie Robinson
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Bobby Kennedy for President
The One and Only Dick Gregory
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
BlacKkKlansman
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Sidney
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
The Player
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Grambling's White Tiger
CBS News Sunday Morning
What's My Line?
King In The Wilderness
Sing Your Song
The Colbert Report
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Beat Street
The Dick Cavett Show
Odds Against Tomorrow
The Ed Sullivan Show
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Bright Road
Island in the Sun
Bobby
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Buck and the Preacher
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Uptown Saturday Night
Carmen Jones
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Kansas City
Great Performances
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Mama Africa
The Angel Levine
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Ready to Wear
Flip
Hollywood Black