---
name: "Blackberri"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/blackberri"
fi1m_id: "blackberri"
imdb_id: "nm2822009"
tmdb_id: 2347574
wikidata_id: "Q68707525"
roles: []
born: "31 May 1945"
died: "13 December 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:10:56.580537+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Blackberri

## Identity

Blackberri

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/blackberri
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** blackberri
- **IMDb ID:** nm2822009
- **TMDB ID:** 2347574
- **Wikidata ID:** Q68707525
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberri, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68707525, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2822009/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2347574

Actor. Born 31 May 1945 in Buffalo, New York, USA. Died 13 December 2021.

## Details

- **Born:** 31 May 1945, Buffalo, New York, USA
- **Died:** 13 December 2021
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberri, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68707525, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2822009/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2347574

## Biography

Blackberri (born Charles Timothy Ashmore; 31 May 1945 – 13 December 2021) was an American singer-songwriter and community activist. He appeared as himself in the 1990 documentary *Tongues Untied* directed by Marlon Riggs.

Born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Baltimore, Blackberri was drafted into the US Navy in 1965 and discharged the following year for being gay. He moved to San Francisco in 1974, where he performed and released music addressing civil rights, LGBT rights and environmental issues. His work featured in the films *Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives* and *Looking for Langston*.

During the AIDS epidemic he worked in HIV education and prevention in Black communities and served as a death counsellor. He was a Lucumí priest and received a Lifetime Achievement AIDS Hero Award in 2002 and the Audrey Joseph Entertainment Award from San Francisco Pride in 2017.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tongues Untied* (1990), Fi1m 82, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/tongues-untied.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Affirmations* (1990), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Blackberri](https://film.one/media/person/3928692/gallery-2a95e1bfd224.png) Blackberri — Bob Ostertag, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Blackberri_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/3928692/gallery-a2c40b07f7c4.jpg) Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2015) — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Blackberri_20150911-9017.jpg/1280px-Blackberri_20150911-9017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/3928692/gallery-d9b8cbf6972f.jpg) Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2016) — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Blackberri_20161214-9928.jpg/1280px-Blackberri_20161214-9928.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/3928692/gallery-44ffd47676cc.jpg) Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2015) — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Blackberri_20150911-9030.jpg/1280px-Blackberri_20150911-9030.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/3928692/gallery-090873982eb1.jpg) Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2015) — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Blackberri_20150911-9016.jpg/1280px-Blackberri_20150911-9016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/3928692/gallery-dcaf94580ae6.jpg) Blackberri performs at an event in Oakland, California. (2016) — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Blackberri_20161214-9942.jpg/1280px-Blackberri_20161214-9942.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/blackberri