Editing Harry Belafonte (section)

=== Later film and theatre involvement (1972–2018) ===
[[File:Harry Belafonte Viennale2011b (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|Belafonte at the 2011 [[Viennale]]]]
Dissatisfied with most of the film roles offered to him during the 1960s, Belafonte concentrated on music. In the early 1970s, Belafonte appeared in more films, among which are two with Poitier: ''[[Buck and the Preacher]]'' (1972) and ''[[Uptown Saturday Night]]'' (1974).<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Obenson |first=Tambay |date=April 25, 2023 |title=Harry Belafonte, the Activist Who Became an Artist, Dies at 96 |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2023/04/harry-belafonte-dead-1234639195/ |access-date=April 25, 2023 |website=IndieWire |language=en}}</ref> In 1984, Belafonte produced and scored the musical film ''[[Beat Street]]'', dealing with the rise of [[hip hop|hip-hop]] culture.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 25, 2023 |title=Harry Belafonte Influenced Hip-Hop – From "Beat Street" To Social Justice In The Genre |url=https://allhiphop.com/features/rip-harry-belafonte-hip-hop-influence-beat-street-activism/ |access-date=April 25, 2023 |website=[[AllHipHop]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Together with [[Arthur Baker (musician)|Arthur Baker]], he produced the gold-certified soundtrack of [[Beat Street (soundtrack)|the same name]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 6, 2019 |title=The Story of How 'Beat Street' Went From a Box Office Failure to One of Hip-Hop's Most Important Movies |url=https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/1984-beat-street-release-story.html,%20https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/1984-beat-street-release-story.html |access-date=April 25, 2023 |website=Okayplayer.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Four of his songs appeared in the 1988 film ''[[Beetlejuice]],'' including "Day-O" and "[[Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)]]".

Belafonte next starred in a major film in the mid-1990s, appearing with [[John Travolta]] in the race-reverse drama ''[[White Man's Burden (film)|White Man's Burden]]'' (1995);<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Holmes |first=Martin |title=Harry Belafonte Dies: Singer, Actor & Activist Was 96 |url=https://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/harry-belafonte-dies-singer-actor-activist-was-96/article_37e912ac-2fed-572d-9479-b3bb991dc2d6.html |archive-date=April 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425220833/https://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/harry-belafonte-dies-singer-actor-activist-was-96/article_37e912ac-2fed-572d-9479-b3bb991dc2d6.html|website=WFMZ.com |date=April 25, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> and in [[Robert Altman]]'s [[jazz age]] drama ''[[Kansas City (1996 film)|Kansas City]]'' (1996), the latter of which garnered him the [[New York Film Critics Circle Award]] for Best Supporting Actor.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 25, 2023 |title=Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies/ |access-date=April 25, 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |first=Adam|last=Bernstein|language=en}}</ref> He also starred as an Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in the TV drama ''[[Swing Vote (1999 film)|Swing Vote]]'' (1999).<ref name=":1" /> In 2006, Belafonte appeared in ''[[Bobby (2006 film)|Bobby]]'', [[Emilio Estevez]]'s ensemble drama about the [[assassination of Robert F. Kennedy]]; he played Nelson, a friend of an employee of the Ambassador Hotel ([[Anthony Hopkins]]).<ref name=":2" />

His final film appearance was in [[Spike Lee]]'s Academy Award-winning ''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'' (2018) as an elderly civil rights pioneer.<ref name = Keepnews/>