Paul Robeson

Robeson, Paul Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Out of My Dreams: Oscar Hammerstein II

  2012, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen Sing Your Song

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

  2004, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen La neuvième

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

  2004, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Universal Story

  1995, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen Bolshoi kontsert narodov, ili Dykhanie chein-stoksa

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen That's Black Entertainment

  1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Show Boat Story

  1989, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen Musical Comedy Tonight III

  1985, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brother Can You Spare a Dime

  1975, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Black Shadows on the Silver Screen

  1975, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Das Lied der Ströme

  1954, role: actor , character name: Voice of Singer
• Play in Full Screen Tales of Manhattan

  1942, role: actor , character name: Luke
• Play in Full Screen Native Land

  1942, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Native Land

  1942, role: actor , character name: Vocalist
• Play in Full Screen The Proud Valley

  1940, role: actor , character name: David Goliath
• Play in Full Screen Land of Liberty

  1939, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen Canciones de Madrid

  1938, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Big Fella

  1937, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen King Solomon's Mines

  1937, role: actor , character name: Umbopa
• Play in Full Screen Jericho

  1937, role: actor , character name: Cpl. Jericho Jackson
• Play in Full Screen Show Boat

  1936, role: actor , character name: Joe
• Play in Full Screen Song of Freedom

  1936, role: actor , character name: John 'Johnny' Zinga
• Play in Full Screen Sanders of the River

  1935, role: actor , character name: Bosambo
• Play in Full Screen The Emperor Jones

  1933, role: actor , character name: Brutus Jones
• Play in Full Screen Borderline

  1930, role: actor , character name: Pete - a Negro
• Play in Full Screen Camille

  1926, role: actor , character name: Alexandre Dumas fils
• Play in Full Screen Body and Soul

  1925, role: actor , character name: Rev. Isaiah T. Jenkins
• Play in Full Screen Body and Soul

  1925, role: actor , character name: His Brother Sylvester

Famous quotes by Paul Robeson:

"[Singer Marian Anderson was investigated in 1958 when the State Department considered her for] a top level position. ... typical temperamental musician."

"The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. [on the children of Little Rock]"

"I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead--peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously"

"Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech."

"Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near."

"As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this."

"In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African."

"I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own."

"Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man."

"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility."

"You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too."

"In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East."

"But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people."

"This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America."

"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."

"Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace."

"You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction."

"And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists."

"Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace."

"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler."

Paul Robeson

Born: 1898-04-09

Died: 1976-01-23