Harry Belafonte

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 CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
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
1972 Buck and the Preacher ▶ Sidney Poitier 102 min Color
1971 Buck and the preacher. Columbia Pictures. 102 min 16mm Color sound
1970 King : a filmed record-- Montgomery to Memphis Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sidney Lumet 135 min Color & B&W
1959 Odds Against Tomorrow. Harbel Productions Inc. 96 min 35mm B&W 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
1957 Island In The Sun. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. & Darryl F. Zanuck Productions Inc. 14 reels 35mm Color sound
1954 Carmen Jones Films inc. 107 mi 16mm Color sound
1954 Carmen Jones. Carlyle Productions 107 min 35mm Color sound
1953 Bright Road. Loew’s Incorporated 68 min. 35mm B&W sound