Harry Belafonte
American singer, actor and civil rights activist (1927–2023)
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.
Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 10 films (1953–1983) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 23 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).
| Year ▲ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Bright Road. | Loew’s Incorporated | 68 min. | 35mm | B&W | sound |
| 1954 | Carmen Jones | Films inc. | 107 mi | 16mm | Color | sound |
| 1954 | Carmen Jones. | Carlyle Productions | 107 min | 35mm | Color | sound |
| 1957 | Island In The Sun. | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. & Darryl F. Zanuck Productions Inc. | 14 reels | 35mm | Color | sound |
| 1958 | The World, The Flesh And The Devil. | Loew’s Inc. Sol C. Siegel Productions Inc. & Harbel Productions Inc. | 95 min. | 35mm | B&W | sound |
| 1959 | Odds Against Tomorrow. | Harbel Productions Inc. | 96 min | 35mm | B&W | sound |
| 1970 | King : a filmed record-- Montgomery to Memphis | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sidney Lumet | 135 min | Color & B&W | ||
| 1971 | Buck and the preacher. | Columbia Pictures. | 102 min | 16mm | Color | sound |
| 1972 | Buck and the Preacher ▶ | Sidney Poitier | 102 min | Color | ||
| 1983 | A call for peace : | the military budget and you produced by The Conference on the Fate of the Earth ; producer, Steve Rauch ; director, Anita Casalina. | 31 | 16mm | Color | sound |