
Amiri Baraka
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Known for
Credits

Bulworth (1998)
as Rastaman

Nationtime (1972)
as Self

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
as Self

The Pact (2006)
as Self

1 P.M. (1971)
as Self

Death of a Prophet (1981)
Actor

Poetry in Motion (1982)
as Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)
as Self

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989)
as Self

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)
as Himself

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006)
as Self

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2008)
as Self

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978)
as Self
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
as Self

Return to Gorée (2007)
as Self

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
as Self

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture (2008)
as Himself

The New-Ark (1969)
as Self
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (2005)
as Self
In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983)
as Himself
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
Actor

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)
as Himself

Poets at the Living Theater (2006)
as Self

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
as Self

castelporziano ostia dei poeti (2025)
as Self - poet

Speaking in Tongues (1982)
Actor

Turn Me On (2007)
as Self

W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996)
as Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark (1970)
as Self





