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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-03-12 (93 years old)

Place of Birth

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Andrew Young

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

2025

The Games in Black & White as Himself

2024

Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told as Self (archive footage)

2023

This World Is Not My Own as Self

Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton as Self

Rather as Self - Civil Rights Activist & Politician

South to Black Power as Self

2021

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story as Self

Downing of a Flag as self

2020

Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story as Self

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President as Self

MLK/FBI as Self

2018

Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald as Self

Backyard Wilderness as Dad

Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace as Self

King in the Wilderness as Self

2017

Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis as Self

2013

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington as Self

2011

A Man's Story as Self

2009

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy as Self

2008

Movin' on Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions as Self

2005

The Colbert Report as Self

2004

Citizen King as Self

2000

The American President as Thomas Jefferson

1998

I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America as Self

1997

4 Little Girls as Self - SCLC

1982

Traveling Hopefully as Self - Ambassador

1980

A Decade of Struggle as Self

1970

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)

I Am Somebody as Self

1960

Integration Report 1 as Self

Production

2020

Fandango at the Wall as Executive Producer