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This is a list of African-American actors by alphabetical order. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is African American and a notable actor. The list is organized chronologically, grouping actors by the surnames.
Pages in category "African-American male actors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 294 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Blaxploitation films, regardless of subgenre, spawned from race movies.These were films that started appearing in the 1930s–1940s. They were meant to segregate films featuring an all black cast from mainstream Hollywood movies.
Image credits: Drew Angerer / gettyimages #2 R. Kelly. Robert Sylvester Kelly, known mainly by his stage name, R. Kelly, was once hailed as an all-time great of the R&B genre before his reputation ...
As one of the most influential Black women celebrities, Oprah Winfrey is an actress, philanthropist, producer and global media leader. She hosted the highest-rated daytime TV talk show, “The ...
11. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019). Who's in it: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold Rating: R Runtime: 121 minutes This heartfelt drama tells the story of Jimmie ...
In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...
Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), pictured in 1963, was the first Black movie star and the first Black male winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), pictured in 1946, was an American tap dancer, actor, singer, perhaps best known today for his Shirley Temple films.