Harry Belafonte

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1927 age 0

   Born

2. 1954 age 27

   CreditCarmen Jones

3. 1992 age 65

   CreditThe Player

4. 1994 age 67

   CreditPrêt-à-Porter

5. 2006 age 79

   CreditBobby

6. 2014 age 87

   CreditSelma

7. 2016 age 89

   CreditI Am Not Your Negro

8. 2018 age 91

   CreditBlacKkKlansman

9. 2023 age 96

   Died

• TRTim Robbins2 titles
• MBMichael Bowen2 titles
• GPGeraldine Peroni2 titles
• MSMartin Sheen2 titles
• KFKatarzyna Figura2 titles
• RSRod Steiger2 titles
• JRJulia Roberts2 titles
• RGRichard E. Grant2 titles
• TGTeri Garr2 titles
• RARobert Altman2 titles

• Children

  • SBShari Belafonte

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• The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

  Harry Belafonte, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On all levels of life and as each day unfolds, respect for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. grows impressively, and the essence of this respect is the fact that he had deeper insights than most of us have appreciated. It is not mere poetry to call him prophetic. The accuracy of his prophecies is almost uncanny. <br> By the early 1950's history had endowed him with a sense of the precise moment that Black people were ready for mass action, ready for its risks, and ready for its responsibilities.

  Harry Belafonte, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

  Harry Belafonte, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I work for the United Nations. I go to places where enormous upheaval and pain and anguish exist. And a lot of it exists based upon American policy. Whom we support, whom we support as heads of state, what countries we've helped to overthrow, what leaders we've helped to diminish because they did not fit the mold we think they should fit, no matter how ill advised that thought may be.

  Harry Belafonte, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Even with all the difficulties and the frustrations that we feel—those of us who have been consistent in this journey—what makes it so remarkably attractive and encouraging are the men and women you meet on the way. I have met some glorious human beings: Eleanor Roosevelt, Fanny Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Dr. King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and Che Guevara, and Cesar Chavez and others not quite so famous—they are the ones who really make the journey rewarding. The work I do with UNICEF. The men and women I’ve met in Rwanda, South Africa, working against HIV/AIDS, and the courageous things that simple, wonderful human beings do for each other.

  Harry Belafonte, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In the face of all the inhumanity, their humanity feeds the capacity to endure and continue to pursue honorable solutions to our pain.

  Harry Belafonte, CC BY-SA 4.0