William Greaves
Birthday
1926/10/08
Day of death
2014/08/25 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
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Biography
William Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was a documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of African-American filmmaking. He produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these. Greaves garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations, one of which he won for his work as executive producer on the African-American news program Black Journal. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Greaves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(2017) The Man Who Built Cambodia
as Self
(1948) Miracle in Harlem
as Bert Hallam
(1948) The Fight Never Ends
as ---
(2005) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
as Self
(2006) Discovering William Greaves
as Self
(1968) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
as Self - Director
(1949) Souls of Sin
as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
(1949) Lost Boundaries
as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
(1966) The First World Festival of Negro Arts
as Narrator
(1989) That's Black Entertainment
as Host/Narrator
(2007) Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self
(1986) Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
as Narrator/Interviewer