Eldridge Cleaver
Birthday
1935/08/31
Day of death
1998/05/01 (62 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
Also know as
Eldridge Leroy Cleaver, Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
Biography
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing".
Acting
(1972) Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
(1990) The FBI's War on Black America
as Self (archive footage)
(1971) 1 P.M.
as Self
(1968) Black Panthers
as Self
(1968) Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
as ---
(1970) Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
as Self
(1971) Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back)
as ---
(2001) A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1980) A Decade of Struggle
as Self
(1969) Repression
as ---
(1970) Around South Central
as ---
(2015) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
(1999) Leaving Cleaver
as Self
(1996) All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)