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name: "Danny Bakewell Sr."
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born: "1 January 1946"
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updated: "2026-09-17T05:25:42.315184+00:00"
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# Danny Bakewell Sr.

Actor. Born 1 January 1946 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1946, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- **Also known as:** Danny Bakewell, Sr., Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., Danny Joseph Bakewell
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1922497/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1784778

## Biography

Danny Bakewell Sr. is an American civil rights activist, real estate developer and media owner. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1946 and moved to Los Angeles in 1967.

Bakewell has led the Brotherhood Crusade for over thirty years and co-founded the National Black United Fund. He owns The Bakewell Company and acquired the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper in 2004. He served as chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

He has appeared as himself in several documentaries, including *O.J.: Made in America* (2016), *LA 92* (2017) and *Burn Motherfucker, Burn!* (2017).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *O.J.: Made in America* (2016), Fi1m 91, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/o-j-made-in-america.md)

## Also known for

- *LA 92* (2017), Self (archive footage), Self - Civl Rights Activist (archive footage)
- *O.J.: Made in America* (2016), Self
- *Girlfriends* (2000), Self

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