H. Rap Brown
Known for
Acting
Born
October 4, 1943
Birthplace
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Died
November 23, 2025 (aged 82)
Biography
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist, black separatist, and convicted criminal who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s.
Best known work
Black Panthers
1968
It Felt Like a Kiss
2009
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
2013
Malcolm X
1972
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
2007
All Power to the People!
1996
The Fall
1969
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004Filmography
2018
EasterWriter
2013
The Trials of Muhammad Alias Self (archive footage)
2009
2008
Black Power Saluteas Self (archive footage)
2007
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedyas Self (archive footage)
2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Yearsas Self (archive footage)
2001
A Huey P. Newton Storyas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
All Power to the People!as Self (archive footage)
1994
But... Seriouslyas Self (archive footage)
1990
1972
Malcolm Xas Self (archive footage) (as Rap Brown)
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphisas Self (archive footage)
1969
1968
Black Panthersas Self
1968