
Known Credits
90
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1957-03-20 (68 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Also Known For
Спайк Лиسبايك لي스파이크 리スパイク・リーสไปค์ ลี史派克·李Σπάικ Λιاسپایک لی Shelton Jackson Lee
Spike Lee
Biography
Spike Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker and actor. He was born Shelton Lee in Atlanta, Georgia. 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. He attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and developed his film making skills at Clark Atlanta University. After graduating, he went to the Tisch School of Arts graduate fi ...
Known For
Acting
2025 --
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
| Self
2025 --
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
| Self (Archive Footage)
2024 --
Be A Part of It
| Self
2023 --
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
| self
2022 --
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
| Self
2022 --
Sidney
| Self
2022 --
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
| Self
2022 --
Seen It All
| Mars Blackmon
2021 --
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
| Self
2021 --
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
| Self
2020 --
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
| Self (archive footage)
2018 --
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
| Self
2018 --
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
| Self
2017 --
Plankton Salesmen
| Self (archive footage)
2017 --
Be Truly Free
| Narrator (voice)
2017 --
Birth of a Movement
| Self
2017 --
Axé: Music of a People
| Self (archive footage)
2016 --
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
| Self
2015 --
French Cinema Mon Amour
| Self
2015 --
Director Spike Lee's New York City
| Self
2015 --
Champs
| Self
2015 --
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
|
2014 --
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
| Self
2014 --
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
|
2012 --
Bad 25
| Self
2012 --
Red Hook Summer
| Mr. Mookie
2012 --
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
| Self
2012 --
Brooklyn Boheme
| Self
2011 --
A Man's Story
| Self
2011 --
Guest
| Self
2011 --
On the Shoulders of Giants
|
2010 --
Four Days in October
| Self (archive footage)
2010 --
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
| Self
2009 --
PoliWood
| Self
2009 --
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
| Self
2009 --
Kobe Doin' Work
| Self
2008 --
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
| Self
2008 --
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
|
2007 --
Pixote In Memoriam
| Self
2007 --
Lights, Action, Music
| Self
2005 --
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
| Self
2005 --
Street Fight
| Self
2005 --
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
|
2005 --
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
| Self
2005 --
Through the Fire
|
2004 --
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
| Self
2004 --
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
| Self
2004 --
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
| Self
2003 --
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
| Self
2002 --
New York at the Movies
| Self
2002 --
It's Black Entertainment
| Self
2002 --
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
| Self
2001 --
3 A.M.
| Filmmaker
2001 --
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
| Self
2000 --
Lisa Picard Is Famous
| Spike Lee
2000 --
Michael Jordan to the Max
| Self
1999 --
Summer of Sam
| John Jeffries
1997 --
4 Little Girls
| Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
1996 --
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
| Self
1996 --
When We Were Kings
| Self
1996 --
The Universal Story
| Self (archive footage)
1996 --
Girl 6
| Jimmy
1995 --
Clockers
| Chucky
1995 --
Below the Rim
|
1994 --
Drop Squad
| Himself
1994 --
Hoop Dreams
| Self
1994 --
Crooklyn
| Snuffy
1994 --
A Century of Cinema
| Self
1993 --
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
|
1993 --
Farewell, Babylon!
| Self
1993 --
The Last Party
| Self
1992 --
Malcolm X
| Shorty
1992 --
Our Hollywood Education
| Self
1991 --
Sous les marches du palais
| Self
1991 --
Jungle Fever
| Cyrus
1991 --
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
| Self
1991 --
Branford Marsalis: Steep
| Self
1990 --
Lonely in America
| Spike Lee
1990 --
Mo' Better Blues
| Giant
1990 --
Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella
| Self
1989 --
Decade
| Self
1989 --
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
| Self
1989 --
First Works
| Self
1989 --
Do the Right Thing
| Mookie
1989 --
Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
|
1988 --
School Daze
| Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap
1986 --
She's Gotta Have It
| Mars Blackmon