Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American filmmaker and actor. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. His father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature.

Casted

Do the Right Thing

Played Mookie

Average Rating

7.8

1907 votes

Release Date

Jun 14, 1989

37 years ago
Malcolm X

Played Shorty

Average Rating

7.5

1800 votes

Release Date

Nov 18, 1992

33 years ago
Summer of Sam

Played John Jeffries

Average Rating

6.5

508 votes

Release Date

Jun 28, 1999

27 years ago
She's Gotta Have It

Played Mars Blackmon

Average Rating

6.6

346 votes

Release Date

Aug 08, 1986

40 years ago
Clockers

Played Chucky

Average Rating

6.7

339 votes

Release Date

Sep 15, 1995

31 years ago
Hoop Dreams

Played Self

Average Rating

7.6

318 votes

Release Date

Sep 12, 1994

32 years ago
Jungle Fever

Played Cyrus

Average Rating

6.4

303 votes

Release Date

Jun 07, 1991

35 years ago
Mo' Better Blues

Played Giant

Average Rating

6.5

249 votes

Release Date

Aug 03, 1990

36 years ago
When We Were Kings

Played Self

Average Rating

7.6

240 votes

Release Date

Oct 25, 1996

29 years ago
Crooklyn

Played Snuffy

Average Rating

6.8

154 votes

Release Date

May 13, 1994

32 years ago
Girl 6

Played Jimmy

Average Rating

4.9

118 votes

Release Date

Mar 22, 1996

30 years ago
School Daze

Played Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap

Average Rating

5.7

109 votes

Release Date

Feb 12, 1988

38 years ago
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

76 votes

Release Date

Feb 06, 2016

10 years ago
Bad 25

Played Self

Average Rating

7.3

72 votes

Release Date

Nov 22, 2012

13 years ago
4 Little Girls

Played Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Average Rating

7.2

47 votes

Release Date

Jul 09, 1997

29 years ago
Champs

Played Self

Average Rating

6.5

42 votes

Release Date

Mar 13, 2015

11 years ago
Sidney

Played Self

Average Rating

7.7

36 votes

Release Date

Sep 10, 2022

3 years ago
Michael Jordan to the Max

Played Self

Average Rating

7.3

35 votes

Release Date

May 05, 2000

26 years ago
3 A.M.

Played Filmmaker

Average Rating

5.7

32 votes

Release Date

Jul 01, 2001

25 years ago
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks

Played Self

Average Rating

7.7

30 votes

Release Date

Mar 14, 2010

16 years ago
Street Fight

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

27 votes

Release Date

Apr 23, 2005

21 years ago
Red Hook Summer

Played Mr. Mookie

Average Rating

5.5

24 votes

Release Date

Aug 10, 2012

13 years ago
Kobe Doin' Work

Played Self

Average Rating

6.5

20 votes

Release Date

May 16, 2009

17 years ago
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

Played Self

Average Rating

6.8

19 votes

Release Date

Jun 18, 2021

4 years ago
Four Days in October

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

6.5

18 votes

Release Date

Oct 05, 2010

15 years ago
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist

Played Self

Average Rating

8.2

13 votes

Release Date

Apr 17, 2021

5 years ago
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Played Self

Average Rating

7.5

12 votes

Release Date

Jan 27, 2025

1 year ago
Denzel Washington: A Model American

Played Self

Average Rating

7.2

10 votes

Release Date

Oct 15, 2022

3 years ago
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

Played Self

Average Rating

5.2

10 votes

Release Date

Nov 17, 1996

29 years ago
Drop Squad

Played Himself

Average Rating

2.8

10 votes

Release Date

Oct 28, 1994

31 years ago
Lisa Picard Is Famous

Played Spike Lee

Average Rating

4.7

9 votes

Release Date

May 14, 2000

26 years ago
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

Played Self

Average Rating

7.1

9 votes

Release Date

Nov 15, 2018

7 years ago
Guest

Played Self

Average Rating

6.0

8 votes

Release Date

Mar 25, 2011

15 years ago
A Man's Story

Played Self

Average Rating

6.9

8 votes

Release Date

Oct 08, 2011

14 years ago
Brooklyn Boheme

Played Self

Average Rating

6.8

7 votes

Release Date

Feb 27, 2012

14 years ago
The Last Party

Played Self

Average Rating

4.6

7 votes

Release Date

Aug 27, 1993

33 years ago
Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Played Self

Average Rating

6.7

7 votes

Release Date

Nov 03, 1989

36 years ago
Lonely in America

Played Spike Lee (Newsstand Customer) (uncredited)

Average Rating

4.0

6 votes

Release Date

Sep 30, 1990

36 years ago
Birth of a Movement

Played Self

Average Rating

6.4

5 votes

Release Date

Feb 06, 2017

9 years ago
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

Played Self

Average Rating

5.8

5 votes

Release Date

Oct 28, 2004

21 years ago
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

Played Self

Average Rating

5.0

5 votes

Release Date

Oct 28, 2004

21 years ago
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1

Played Self

Average Rating

6.8

5 votes

Release Date

Apr 22, 2018

8 years ago
Through the Fire

Average Rating

6.9

5 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2005

21 years ago
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)

Average Rating

7.0

4 votes

Release Date

Apr 07, 2005

21 years ago
PoliWood

Played Self

Average Rating

6.5

4 votes

Release Date

Jul 03, 2009

17 years ago
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Played Self

Average Rating

7.3

3 votes

Release Date

May 20, 2003

23 years ago
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

3 votes

Release Date

Jun 30, 2009

17 years ago
On the Shoulders of Giants

Average Rating

6.3

3 votes

Release Date

Feb 11, 2011

15 years ago
The Universal Story

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

7.7

3 votes

Release Date

Apr 21, 1996

30 years ago
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

Played Self

Average Rating

5.0

2 votes

Release Date

Jun 07, 2012

14 years ago
It's Black Entertainment

Played Self

Average Rating

8.0

2 votes

Release Date

Feb 08, 2002

24 years ago
A Century of Cinema

Played Self

Average Rating

8.0

2 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1994

32 years ago
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?

Played self

Average Rating

9.0

2 votes

Release Date

Jul 08, 2023

2 years ago
New York at the Movies

Played Self

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jul 07, 2002

24 years ago
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

Played Self

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

Feb 08, 2005

21 years ago
French Cinema Mon Amour

Played Self

Average Rating

0.5

1 votes

Release Date

Jul 06, 2015

10 years ago
Pixote In Memoriam

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Oct 30, 2007

18 years ago
The Making of 'Bamboozled'

Played Self

Average Rating

1.0

1 votes

Release Date

Apr 17, 2001

25 years ago
Decade

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Dec 09, 1989

36 years ago
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella

Played Self

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1990

36 years ago
Below the Rim

Average Rating

8.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1995

31 years ago
Lights, Action, Music

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Aug 06, 2007

18 years ago
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 20, 2008

18 years ago
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Played Self

Average Rating

1.5

1 votes

Release Date

Jun 22, 2014

11 years ago
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'

Played Self

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 09, 2002

24 years ago
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

Played Self

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Aug 01, 2004

21 years ago
Seen It All

Played Mars Blackmon

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

May 16, 2022

3 years ago
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

May 17, 2022

3 years ago
Be Truly Free

Played Narrator (voice)

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Mar 01, 2017

9 years ago
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jun 06, 1991

35 years ago
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

May 18, 2008

18 years ago
Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience

Played Spike Lee

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes
Sous les marches du palais

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Sep 14, 1991

35 years ago
Be A Part of It

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Apr 04, 2024

2 years ago
Number 4

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Aug 08, 2006

19 years ago
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jun 07, 2005

21 years ago
Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Oct 01, 1993

32 years ago
First Works

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Oct 10, 1989

37 years ago
Farewell, Babylon!

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Aug 28, 1993

33 years ago
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Feb 11, 2014

12 years ago
Director Spike Lee's New York City

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Apr 10, 2015

11 years ago
Branford Marsalis: Steep

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 04, 1991

35 years ago
Our Hollywood Education

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

May 28, 1992

34 years ago
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Feb 06, 2015

11 years ago
Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1989

37 years ago
Gold Blooded

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Sep 27, 2022

3 years ago
Plankton Salesmen

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Oct 29, 2017

8 years ago

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