Al Sharpton
Acting
Born: October 3, 1954 (age 72) · New York City, New York, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
Photos (10)
Movies (6)
TV Shows (8)
Anderson Cooper 360°
4 eps
Boston Legal
Reverend Al Sharpton · 2 eps
Empire
Rev. Al Sharpton · 1 eps
Rescue Me
1 eps
Girlfriends
Al Sharpton · 2 eps
My Wife and Kids
1 eps
Star
Rev. Al Sharpton · 1 eps
The Chris Rock Show
2 eps
Self / Appearances (87)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Himself · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Daily Show
Self - Guest · 7 eps
Raw
Self · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 2 eps
The Colbert Report
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · 6 eps
Sherri
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Meet the Press
Self - Panelist · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self · 1 eps
Steve Harvey
Self · 1 eps
The Joy Reid Show
Self · 1 eps
New York Undercover
Self · 1 eps
Fox News Sunday
Self · 1 eps
Basketball: A Love Story
Self · 3 eps
The Chris Rock Show
Self · 1 eps
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
Self · 10 eps
America: The Story of Us
Self · 6 eps
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Himself · 2 eps
JANET JACKSON.
Self · 1 eps
Tanner on Tanner
Self · 2 eps
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Self · 4 eps
MS NOW Reports
Self · 1 eps
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Self · 1 eps
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self · 4 eps
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self · 3 eps
Madea Goes to Jail
Self
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Self · 4 eps
Bamboozled
Himself
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self - Minister & Activist
Good Hair
Self
Get Me Roger Stone
Self (archive footage)
The Central Park Five
Self (archive footage)
The Last Party
Self
Satan & Adam
Self
James Brown: Say It Loud
Self · 4 eps
Street Fight
Self
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
The Black List: Volume One
Self
The Black Godfather
Self
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
Self (archive footage)
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Self
South to Black Power
Self
Maynard
Self
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Self
A Tale of James Brown
Self
PoliticsNation
Self · 7 eps
One Night in Vegas
Self
Woman in Motion
Self
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Self
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Self
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
self
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
Self
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Self
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Self (archive footage)
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Self
Rudy! A Documusical
Self
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Self
The First Wave
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Self
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Self (archive footage)
Pursuit of Equality
Self
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self
Looking for Lenny
Self (archive footage)
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Self
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Self
Koch
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Atrocity Inc.
Self - Civil Rights Activist
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Self
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Self
Run For Cover
Himself
Race
Self
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Self
Abraham Obama
Self
91 Bullets in a Minute
Self
Loudmouth
Self
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Self - National Action Network
The Jena 6
Self