Portrait of Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch

Acting

Biography

Taylor Branch is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author, best known for his series on Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights era including Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, (National Book Award) Pillars of Fire and At Canaan’s Edge. He has also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.

Born: January 14, 1947

Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Filmography

2023
Bill Russell: Legend

as Self - Co-Author with Bill Russell, 'Second Wind'

2015
Out of Luck

as Himself

2014
Freedom Summer

as Self - Historian

1997
4 Little Girls

as Self - Author