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Andrew Young

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Mar 12, 1932 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Biography

Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.

Known For

Acting
2025The Games in Black & WhiteHimself
2025Andrew Young: The Dirty Workself
2024Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never ToldSelf (archive footage)
2023This World Is Not My OwnSelf
2023Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman CottonSelf
2023RatherSelf - Civil Rights Activist & Politician
2023South to Black PowerSelf
2021Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel StorySelf
2021Downing of a Flagself
2020Ali's Comeback: The Untold StorySelf
2020Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll PresidentSelf
2020MLK/FBISelf
2018Martin Luther King by Trevor McdonaldSelf
2018Backyard WildernessDad
2018Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry WallaceSelf
2018King in the WildernessSelf
2017Get In The Way: The Journey of John LewisSelf
2013Martin Luther King and the March on WashingtonSelf
2011A Man's StorySelf
2009Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black ComedySelf
2008Movin' on Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and the ImpressionsSelf
2005The Colbert ReportSelf
2004Citizen KingSelf
2000The American PresidentThomas Jefferson
1998I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in AmericaSelf
19974 Little GirlsSelf - SCLC
1992The Real Malcolm X
1982Traveling HopefullySelf - Ambassador
1980A Decade of StruggleSelf
1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to MemphisSelf (archive footage)
1970I Am SomebodySelf
1960Integration Report 1Self
Production
2020Fandango at the WallExecutive Producer