Belafonte’s movies
Belafonte was cast in and produced many popular films.
His first film role was alongside Dorothy Dandridge in the 1953 movie Bright Road.
He went on to be in others with Dandridge and then appeared in two with Poitier: Buck and the Preacher, in 1972 and Uptown Saturday Night, in 1974.
Belafonte went on to become the first black man to win a Tony Award for his acting in John Murray Anderson’s Almanac on Broadway.
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He was also the first black man to win an Emmy, for his first solo TV special Tonight with Belafonte in 1959.
The mid-90s saw Belafonte perform with John Travolta, in White Man’s Burden.
He was also cast in Robert Altman’s film, Kansas City.
His most recent appearance was in 2018’s BlacKkKlansman, a film by Spike Lee, in which he played an elderly Civil Rights pioneer.
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