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name: "James Kilgore"
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# James Kilgore

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1700949

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*13th*](https://film.one/film/13th.md) (84)

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## Biography

James Kilgore is an American activist, author and university lecturer. He appeared as himself in the 2016 documentary film *13th*, directed by Ava DuVernay, where he is credited as a formerly incarcerated author of the book *Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the New Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time*.

He has also appeared as a guest on the television series *The O'Reilly Factor* in 2005. Kilgore is based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where he has worked as a lecturer at the University of Illinois.

*Sources: imdb.com, smilepolitely.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *13th* (2016), Fi1m 84, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/13th.md)

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